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

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    Illustrations for Bay Area News Group:

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

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    Illustrations for Global Press Journal

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    Truth and Memory

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    Image and Perception

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    Source Seeker

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    Desperate Migration

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    Threats to Photo Journalists

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    Translation in news reporting

    Manic Depression

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

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    From the Ashes

    Self portrait, mixed media on cardboard

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    Cancer Journey Series:

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

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    Red-tailed Hawk for Los Angeles Magazine.

    Albert Einstein for a Kaiser employee magazine

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

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    Artwork for poster and CD cover

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    Jazz Blast. Mixed media

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

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    Chadwick Boseman from Marvel's The Black Panther

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    THE BATMAN Robert Pattinson Illustration by Chuck Todd

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    Birth of the Bat. Illustration for Batman orgin story.

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  • Children's books illustrated by Chuck Todd
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    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.

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    "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.

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    CHILDREN'S

    BOOKS

    Artwork from children's
    nature books
    with
    author Gary Bogue.

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    WILDLIFE

    ARTWORK

    Chuck Todd's wildlife
    and nature illustrations
    have been featured in exhibits, posters, newspapers, books
    and in
    museum displays.

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    GRAPHIC

    NOVEL

    &

    COMICS

    ART

    My sequential art projects

    showcasing cinematic and illustrative approaches to storytelling.

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    INFOGRAPHICS
    & VISUAL

    JOURNALISM

    I'm also an award-winning

    Visual Journalist and

    Infographics Designer.

    Check out

    www.chucktoddinfographics.com

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    ARTIST
    FOR
    HIRE

    Create and collaborate!

    Contact Chuck to bring

    your visual story to life:

    925 818-7365

    chucktoddartist@gmail.com

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    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.