Wayne McLoughlin

Wayne "Hardbark" McLoughlin was an illustrator who illustrated most of the original Warriors book covers, as well as the designer of the jackets for most of the books.
==Biography==
:Born in Llanfrechfa, WalesRevealed on Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, page 317 on April 24th, 1944, Wayne McLoughlin developed an early interest in nature. He was an explorer of Hampstead Heath, London, and later of the swamps of northern Florida where he helped out local schools by collecting turtles and lizards. Due to his interest in art, which developed at around this same time, he often recorded his experiences in sketches and paintings.Revealed on blueloonfinearts.com 
:Wayne served in the USMC for three years, before being sent to Vietnam, where he earned a Purple-Heart after spending 6 Months there.Revealed on Field & Stream Vol. 105, No. 11, page 59 He later completed a dual major at San Diego State University in Fine Art and anthropology. He was hired to photograph tribal life from Hawaii to the highlands of New Guinea for the college textbook, 'Anthropology Today' by CRM Books.Revealed inside The Art of Oceania, 1975
:After he spent his 20's and 30's traveling the Pacific with his wife Jackie, while working on television and commercial design overseas,Revealed on en.wikipedia.org he settled down as an illustrator in the early 1970's. Here he began a career creating illustrated humor parodies for national magazines. These included: "Esquire", "Omni", and "Next" among others. Alongside this, he did work for scientific publishing and institutions such as the National Geographic Society. He was also commissioned for pieces for campaigns and projects by major corporations including Adidas, Texaco, MasterCard, Disney, CBS, and AT&T, some of which became award-winning pieces. His paintings have been included in many books and publications on animals and nature in addition to this.
:He has also produced work for the humor magazine, "National Lampoon" and in the past thirty years he has further contributed to other magazines such as 'Field & Stream' for whom he edited for over 14 years and explored humor in sports through both prose and pictures. His vast experience as a hunter, fisher and explorer, and his travels in the United States, Canada and South Pacific - with his wife, Jackie - inspire and inform much of his writing and artwork.
:Prior to his death, he lived in Walpole, New Hampshire.Revealed on sentinelsource.com On Tuesday, July 7th, 2015, at the age of 71, he passed away.Revealed on Vicky's Facebook 
==Works==
===Warriors===
:In the Warriors series, he has illustrated the following content:
===Other works===
:Outside of the Warriors series, Wayne McLoughlin has worked on:
*The HavenRevealed on postmarkedfromthestars.com Revealed on isfdb.org 
*Deeper Than the DarknessRevealed on isfdb.org 
*OmniRevealed on isfdb.org ("Gulf Dream")
==External links==
*Blue Loon Fine Arts: Wayne McLoughlin's personal website 
==Notes and references==
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