Jomaro Kindred




 * "Art is Life" - Jomaro Kindred

Jomaro Kindred is a former Senior Concept Artist on the Team 5 Hearthstone development team, as well as artist for the cards listed here.

Kindred shared 2D art duties with Lead Artist Ben Thompson, and created the chalkboards used in Tavern Brawls. Before joining the team, the first Thompson saw of Kindred's art were two card backs shared on his personal site, themed after the and the.

Kindred joined the team on June 10th, 2014. Prior to joining Team 5, Kindred was Senior Concept Artist with Nerve Software. His previous credits include the 2010 Xbox port of DOOM II, as well as Call of Duty: Black Ops and Aliens: Colonial Marines.

Kindred worked for Blizzard until August 7, 2018. He joined Second Dinner officially on August 15, 2018 as its Art Director.

Other art

 * Kindred created the chalkboard art for Tavern Brawls.
 * Kindred was responsible for the pop-out Kel'Thuzad art presented when first defeating the boss in Curse of Naxxramas.
 * The Grand Tournament battlefield was painted by Kindred. Kindred also worked on the Goblins vs Gnomes battlefield together with Ben Thompson.
 * Kindred created the Cupcake card back, which as of 2017 is also his favourite card back.
 * Kindred created initial designs for the death knight versions of each of the nine classic Hearthstone heroes in Knights of the Frozen Throne.

Trivia

 * Kindred plays World of Warcraft, as well as Overwatch. As of 2017 Kindred has at least one character of each World of Warcraft class at max level, and is one of several players on Team 5 who plays regular games of Overwatch on their lunch break.
 * While creating the card art for the Lone Champion in Kobolds & Catacombs, Kindred took the opportunity to "put himself in the game" by modeling the Lone Champion's appearance after himself. As a result, Lone Champion is also Kindred's favorite character from the set.
 * Kindred sometimes streams himself creating art on his Twitch account.

Card art
The art for Kindred's credits card was created by and depicts Grommash Hellscream wielding Gorehowl.

Patch changes

 * Some time between November, 2016 and March, 2017: Title changed from Concept Artist to Senior Concept Artist.
 * Added to the game's credits with the 2015 update. Credits card added.
 * (2014-06-10): Joined Team 5.