• Chuck Todd

    illustrator & visual journalist

    Chuck Todd is an award-winning illustrator

    and visual journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    chucktoddartist@gmail.com  

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    Original artwork, portraits and comic covers available at www.chucktoddartist.com

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    Illustration for CONFLUX. A Jazz Metal Band from Chicago.

    Album cover art and character design 

    Illustrations from the children's book: "Is That a Skunk?"

    Illustrations for Bay Area News Group:

    Contra Costa Times (now East Bay Times), Oakland Tribune and San Jose Mercury News

    Illustrations for Global Press Journal

    Truth and Memory

    Image and Perception

    Source Seeker

    Desperate Migration

    Threats to Photo Journalists

    Translation in news reporting

    Manic Depression

    Class demo. Mixed media, coffee, pencil, pastel and watercolor.

    From the Ashes

    Self portrait, mixed media on cardboard

    Cancer Journey Series:

    Chapter 1 (top) and Chapters 1-5 sequence (below), for the Contra Costa Times

    Red-tailed Hawk for Los Angeles Magazine.

    Albert Einstein for a Kaiser employee magazine

    Portrait of Tathagata Sathpathy Client OZY Magazine (OZY.com)

    Artwork for poster and CD cover

    Jazz Blast. Mixed media

    Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong and Chick Webb. Mixed media

    Chadwick Boseman from Marvel's The Black Panther

    THE BATMAN Robert Pattinson Illustration by Chuck Todd

    Birth of the Bat. Illustration for Batman orgin story.

  • Children's books illustrated by Chuck Todd
    Chuck's Graphic Novel and Comics
    Chuck's Black and White artwork
    Chuck Todd artist

    About the Artist

    Chuck Todd: Illustrator

    & Visual Journalist

    Chuck Todd is an award-winning illustrator and visual journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chuck was the 2021 recipient of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Children's Literature Award for Illustration. Chuck has a BFA in Image Production from Missouri State University and an MFA in Illustration from The Academy of Art University. After more than two decades as a newspaper artist and presentation editor, Chuck has turned his focus to creating illustrations for children’s books, magazines, websites and comics.

  • CONNECT, CONTACT, COLLABORATE

    Let's be creative together!

    Contact me about illustration projects.

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    Chuck Todd
    Artist Blog

    chucktoddartist.
    wordpress.com

     

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    Phone

    925.818.7365

     

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    IMPACT

    Illustration with impact:
    Chuck Todd creates visual stories with immediacy, emotion and clarity.