About

Emily Hurst Pritchett is a lifelong fantasy fan who loves making the magic of fantasy a little more real with her art. Emily started her professional artistic career in the Illustration program at Brigham Young University, where her senior project developed visual stylings for an imagined animated adaptation of Diane Duane’s So You Want to Be a Wizard. Since finishing school and moving to Boston, Emily has worked on art and visual development for fantasy and gaming outlets, including art in Pathways Magazine, and character illustration for The Glass Cannon and The Critshow podcast. She has also contributed background art for video games like The Lost Legends of Redwall: The Scout and for Evermore fantasy park in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Emily’s work is notable for using a skillful attention to light and color to bring fantasy landscapes and characters to life. Her work has been selected for exhibition multiple times in the fantasy-art anthology Infected by Art and her painting Stitch Witch won the Art Show Chair’s Choice Award at Boskone 60 in 2023. She was invited back to present as the Guest Artist at Boskone 61 in 2024.

Outside the fantasy genre, Emily spends much of her professional time illustrating for children’s books and young adult novels. She has illustrated nine

published children’s books and five middle-grade book covers, with more on the way. She uses her same imaginative but grounded style to give life to characters from plucky dogs, to evil pirates, to families at Christmas time. Emily works both digitally and in acrylic paint. When she is not working professionally, she works on craft projects, plays video games and D&D, and plays and draws with her two children. 

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