After just 3 ½ years Raven Mimura graduated from the internationally regarded Rhode Island School of Design with his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration.  After graduating, he spent a year teaching art and building his portfolio before launching his freelance career, where he focuses primarily in the fantasy gaming field.

Raven continues to work heavily with Wizards of the Coast (including occasional in-house concept work), with the majority of his time focused on Dungeons & Dragons and Star Wars.  His images can also be found in the Hecatomb CCG, D20 Modern, Call of Cthulhu, Dragon Magazine, and a number of other WotC products.  He has also been asked to provide ongoing work for the Anachronism card game from Tri-King Games (in association with the History Channel). Among countless other projects, he's been involved with Vampire: The Requiem (White Wolf), Legend of the Five Rings, Warlord, and Seventh Sea (AEG), Camelot Legends (Z-Man Games), and a wide range of D20 supplements from a variety of publishers.  Raven's cover credits include Complete Psychic and Oriental Adventures for D&D, the Warhamster issue of John Kovalic's Dork Tower comic, as well as Guardians of Order's re-release of the Tekumel novel The Man of Gold. 

Raven builds gritty, atmospheric scenes using palpable light to play off tangible forms.  He is consistently called on for his impressive character and creature work.  In developing credible but fantastic creatures he pays particular attention to musculature and anatomic structure.

Raven is continuing his freelance work as well as intensifying his involvement in national conventions and art shows.  In a slight departure from these, he has also been participating in shows with Seattle ’s Art Walk.