基思·帕金森出生在West Covina，加利福尼亚。因为父亲的职业生涯在GMAC，帕金森在美国的各个城市，包括度过了他的童年圣迭戈，加利福尼亚，纽约，迈阿密，佛罗里达州和密歇根州兰辛。从幼年起，帕金森采取了兴趣科幻小说，特别是在飞船，并用自己的艺术能力，探索他的兴趣。然而，十二岁的时候，他变得更感兴趣的音乐比艺术; 在接受采访时他说，“我参与，在高中摇滚的乐队，并通过高中，考上大学打了半职业的所有道路。几年来，我带游览周末，我们到重金属和所扮演的东西蓝牡蛎崇拜，拉什，齐柏林飞船和其他重金属的怪物群。“ 有一次演出，帕金森遇见了他未来的妻子玛丽，谁后来成为龙杂志广告协调员。

帕金森毕业于艺术与设计学院肯德尔在1980年他的第一份工作是一家名为广告海报，他在那里的作品曾弹球游戏和早期的街机游戏，包括特隆和克鲁尔。帕金森是深受影响弗兰克弗雷泽塔和罗杰·迪恩在他自己的幻想作品。在广告海报，帕金森引入龙与地下城由同事。帕金森回忆说，“第一天晚上，我打了护林员在B1，保持对无主的，我就迷上了。我们每个星期打了。”

1982年11月，他又在上班TSR公司。“我不喜欢很多艺术我就看到了D＆D游戏产品，而该公司在日内瓦湖，威斯康星州，刚刚越过边境，所以我开车有一天，看看我是否可以做一些自由职业者的工作。埃尔莫尔，杰夫·伊斯利和蒂姆·杜鲁门曾所有刚进公司，以及他们工作的艺术是太棒了。这真的吹我的脑海里。吉姆Roslof，谁是艺术总监，暗示我可以加入的工作人员专职，但我错过了伏笔。几天后，我打电话给他约的工作，他刚刚聘请了别人的前一天，但他会保持我头脑。第二天，他打电话回来，并有一个开口。“ 帕金森还参与了项目，包括书籍封面，游戏盒，杂志和日历。在他的书皮是这样的标题为星前沿，被遗忘国度和伽玛世界。他还以他的龙枪艺术。

经过5年的工作TSR，帕金森左，追求自由职业七年。在此期间，大部分帕金森氏作品是画在纽约出版市场覆盖。他的客户包括矮脚鸡书，钯书籍，企鹅图书和兰登书屋。一些他画的封面上的作者包括特里Goodkind，玛格丽特·魏丝，崔西·希克曼和特里溪。

Keith Parkinson was born in West Covina, California. Because of his father's occupation career at GMAC, Parkinson every city in the United States, including spent his childhood in San Diego, California, New York, Miami, Florida and Lansing, Michigan. From an early age, Parkinson took an interest in science fiction, especially in the spacecraft, and used his artistic skills to explore his interest. However, at the age of twelve, he became more interested in music than art; in an interview he said, "I participate in the high school rock band, and all the way through high school, admitted to university played half of the occupation. In recent years, I took the tour over the weekend, we play to heavy metals and Something Blue Oyster Cult, rush, Led Zeppelin and other heavy metal monsters. "Once on the show, Parkinson met his future wife, Marie, who later became the Dragon magazine advertising coordinator.

Parkinson graduated from Kendall College of art and design in 1980, his first job is an advertising poster, where he works and early Pinball arcade games, including Tron and krugman. Parkinson is deeply influenced by Frank Frazetta and his works in the works of his own fantasy by the works of Roger Dean. In the poster, Parkinson introduces dungeons and Dragons by colleagues. Parkinson recalls, "the first night, I played Rangers at B1, to maintain no master, I was hooked. We played every week."
In November 1982, he went to work at TSR. "I don't love a lot of art I saw in the D & D game products, and the company in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, just across the border, so I drove one day to see if I can do some work of freedom of occupation. Elmore, Jeff Easley, and Tim Truman had all just entered the company, and the art of their work was fantastic. It really blows my mind. Jim Roslof, who is the artistic director, hinted that I can join the staff full-time, but I missed. A few days later, I called him about the job he had just hired someone else the day before, but he would keep my mind. On the second day, he called back and had an opening. Parkinson also participated in the project, including book covers, game boxes, magazines and calendars. In his book is such a title for the star frontiers, the Forgotten Realms and gamma world. He also used his Dragonlance art.
After 5 years of work TSR, Parkinson left, the pursuit of freelance career for seven years. During this period, most of Parkinson's works are painted in New York publishing market coverage. His clients include Bantam Books, palladium books, Penguin Books and Landon house. Some of the authors on the cover of his paintings include Terry Goodkind, Margaret Weis, and the streams of the and the.