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Tim Jacobus (built-in April 21, 1959) is an American artist who was the master illustrator of the Goosebumps books from 1992 - 2000. He is all-time known for his work on the original series, where he painted 60 of the lx-two original covers.

Many of his Goosebumps covers were created using traditional painting techniques. In contempo years, Jacobus has begun using computers to create digital art.

1 Personal life
two History with Goosebumps
iii Works
iv Art gallery
- iv.ane Goosebumps
- 4.2 Tales to Give You Goosebumps
- 4.3 Give Yourself Goosebumps
- iv.4 Monster Edition
- four.five Series 2000
- four.6 Triple Header
- 4.7 Biographies
- 4.viii Goosebumps Gold
- 4.nine Curly the Skeleton
- 4.10 Live shows
- 4.eleven Goosebumps (film)
- four.12 Concept art
  - 4.12.1 Goosebumps (original serial)
  - four.12.two Series 2000
  - 4.12.three Triple Header
- 4.thirteen Website sketches
five References

Personal life

Jacobus was built-in on April 21, 1959, in New Jersey. Jacobus and his wife, Laura, accept one son, who was born in 1998. Jacobus currently resides in Budd Lake, New Jersey. He has two sisters, named Karen and Patti.

History with Goosebumps

Scholastic had two artists in mind to do the Goosebumps covers: Tim Jacobus and Jim Thiesen. Jacobus created the art for the first Goosebumps volume Welcome to Expressionless Business firm, and Thiesen created the cover art for Stay Out of the Basement. Scholastic chose Jacobus to do the art for the Goosebumps serial considering they liked his utilize of saturated colors.

Before designing the covers, Jacobus would be given a brusk story synopsis and accept discussions with art directors at Scholastic to give an idea of what should be on the cover, to which Stine had no input on. Jacobus would employ various colour combinations to each cover and tried not to repeat whatsoever combinations from previous covers.^[1]

Allow'southward Get Invisible!: After Jacobus turned in the artwork for Let's Get Invisible!, Scholastic fine art directors wanted to transport it back to him, telling him to make it "scarier" by adding in cobwebs and spiders. Yet, things were going a lilliputian behind schedule, so an unknown artist from Scholastic added in the additional elements themselves. Jacobus has gone on tape proverb "That's the one thing that bewitched me about that piece, is that somebody drew on my painting."
A Night in Terror Tower: Jacobus claims it took thirty hours to complete a Goosebumps cover. He would have a 1-month deadline to complete a comprehend. This caused complications at one point, specifically with A Night in Terror Belfry. He had 24 hours to turn in the painting, but information technology wasn't finished all the same. And so he worked on it in the morning, and finished it late at dark. The side by side day he turned it in to Scholastic on time.
Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes: Jacobus originally had the gnome on the left picking its nose. Despite the art directors at Scholastic finding it to be funny, they besides found information technology "gross". Then they asked Jacobus to repaint it to where it was no longer picking its olfactory organ. The final embrace has the left gnome scratching its head instead.
The Incredible Shrinking 5th Grader: Despite the fact that the book was never released, Jacobus did create encompass art for information technology. The artwork features a tiny sized child belongings a pencil, warding off a white rat on a desk in a classroom. After he finished the fine art, a Scholastic representative contacted Jacobus and told him not to turn it in, and it would be his last Goosebumps artwork. The artwork was revealed for the beginning time on March 9th, 2017, as Jacobus sent ane of admins of the Goosebumps Wiki an image of the original artwork.
Many of Jacobus' Goosebumps covers feature Converse sneakers. Here are the books that have them on the cover:
- Say Cheese and Die!: The kid sitting on the bench is wearing them.
- The Ghost Next Door: The ghostly figure is wearing them.
- Monster Blood III: Evan Ross is wearing them.
- The Haunted Mask Ii: Steve Boswell is wearing them.
- How I Got My Shrunken Head: They are next to the dresser.
- Say Cheese and Dice — Again!: The kid skeleton on the left is wearing them.
- Ghost Army camp: All the camp members are wearing them.
- Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns: All the kids are wearing them
- How I Learned to Wing: Jack Johnson is wearing them.
- The Haunted School: They are falling out of the locker.
- Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part 2: The kid on the right is wearing them.
- Ghost in the Mirror: Ane sneaker is leaning on its side near the base of the mirror.
- The Incredible Shrinking Fifth Grader: The child warding off the rat is wearing them.
Goosebumps motion picture: After a long hiatus from Goosebumps, Jacobus was brought dorsum for the Goosebumps film. He did the artwork for the "The Invisible Boy's Revenge" book cover that was shown almost the end of the moving picture. He had no involvement with the animated Goosebumps covers during the credits, however. In fact, he was completely unaware about it. He missed it at the get-go screening, due to him having to sign material and encounter with the bandage of the pic. It wasn't until he saw the film in theaters for a second fourth dimension is when he saw the animated credits. Jacobus has gone on tape maxim the film is a "ten/x", only he says that'due south by and large due to the film including his artwork, and the cease credits homage to his art. Jacobus as well did the artwork for the Goosebumps Original Motility Picture Soundtrack. During the film, the character Will Blake can be seen wearing Converse sneakers, which is probable a reference to Tim Jacobus' artwork.

Works

Goosebumps
- All the original covers, except for Stay Out of the Basement and Be Careful What Y'all Wish For.... Still, Jacobus did create comprehend artwork for reprints of both books.
Tales to Give You Goosebumps
Goosebumps Monster Edition
Requite Yourself Goosebumps
- Escape from the Carnival of Horrors only.
Goosebumps Serial 2000
Goosebumps Triple Header
Information technology Came from Ohio!
It Came from New Jersey!
Goosebumps (film)
- The Invisible Boy's Revenge encompass, a vinyl record encompass for the soundtrack, and extended artwork featured in the vinyl record.