Chuck Todd
illustrator & visual journalist
Chuck Todd is an award-winning illustrator
and visual journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
PORTRAITS and ILLUSTRATIONS
Chuck Todd Illustration specializes in portraits, editorial, children's books and comics illustration.
Recent awards for Chuck's illustration work include American Illustration 43 Chosen Winner, Illustration West 62, Illustration West 61, Illustration West 60 and the 2021 Laura Ingalls Wilder Children's Literature Award for Excellence in Illustration.
Contact Chuck at chucktoddartist@gmail.com
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.
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.
Phone
925.818.7365
Instagram:
IMPACT
Illustration with impact:
Chuck Todd creates visual stories with immediacy, emotion and clarity."I IGNITE
CLARITY
IN ALL"
As a visual storyteller,
I welcome the creative journey
and embrace the challenge of taking an idea and honing it into focus.Let's take the journey together.
CHILDREN'S
BOOKS
Artwork from children's
nature books with
author Gary Bogue.WILDLIFE
ARTWORK
Chuck Todd's wildlife
and nature illustrations
have been featured in exhibits, posters, newspapers, books
and in museum displays.GRAPHIC
NOVEL
&
COMICS
ART
My sequential art projects
showcasing cinematic and illustrative approaches to storytelling.
INFOGRAPHICS
& VISUALJOURNALISM
I'm also an award-winning
Visual Journalist and
Infographics Designer.
Check out
www.chucktoddinfographics.com
ARTIST
FOR
HIRECreate and collaborate!
Contact Chuck to bring
your visual story to life:
925 818-7365
chucktoddartist@gmail.com
Editorial and Social Justice
Some of my visual contributions to the legal journal VERDICT. The battle for fairness, access and justice in our complex legal system has many front lines: Immigration, Racial Injustice, Gender Disparity, Health Care, the Pandemic Impact on Tribal Lands, the Freedom of Information Act, Worker Rights, Freedom of Speech and the Right to Assemble.
© Chuck Todd