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Brad Alston

@bradalston.bsky.social

Freelance Illustrator in Portland, OR. Interested in making art for books and board games! No A/I ever. Check out my portfolio and print shop bradalston.com

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Oregon Wine Country #illustration.
Painted in @procreate.com

07.11.2025 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Illustration from the OPB podcast timber wars showing an endangered spotted owl sitting in a tree stump while the arms of a logger holding an axe and an environmental protestor holding a protest sign clash above

Illustration from the OPB podcast timber wars showing an endangered spotted owl sitting in a tree stump while the arms of a logger holding an axe and an environmental protestor holding a protest sign clash above

#Illustration I did from the @opb.org Timber Wars podcast about the logging conflict that changed American politics forever. Painted in @procreate.com
#owl #logging #illustrator #artist

14.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is that what that is??

09.05.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely! I'd be honored to have a print made and donate it honestly. I'll send you a message.

01.05.2025 18:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Of course! The show is one of my favorite things in the world

24.04.2025 22:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm assuming pronouncing them correctly would probably do something awful to your sanity anyway

23.04.2025 23:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Agreed, it gets better every time. Saw it at the drive-in this past fall on a gloomy night, it was amazing. And how did they make the fog move like that??

21.04.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great piece as always. That sequence stunned me to my core. The theater was just jaw-dropped, buzzing silence as it unfolded.

19.04.2025 20:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Loved, even

18.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tor or Del Rey. I'm pretty good at it now since I routinely destroy my bookshelves to send my portfolio to the right ADs

18.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Loves the Terror. Did you read the book?

18.04.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oof that last paragraph though.

17.04.2025 01:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Illustration I painted of one of my favorite local personalities here in Oregon, Joanne Rideout who hosts The Ship Report radio show up in Astoria. Oregon Field Guide did a great piece on her a while back on @opb.org. @shipreport.bsky.social

#oregon #portrait #illustrator #astoria

16.04.2025 18:22 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

What!?

10.04.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Considering estrogen is an incredibly important hormone for males too, we should be thanking those HR ladies and lawyers for all the musculoskeletal growth, sperm maturation, and libido they're helping us out with. So butch!

08.04.2025 22:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Illustration of an old astrologer doing calculations at night

Illustration of an old astrologer doing calculations at night

Illustration of a teenage astrologer sleeping on his studies in the afternoon

Illustration of a teenage astrologer sleeping on his studies in the afternoon

Illustration of a cloaked hunter chasing their quarry across the rooftop of a medieval city

Illustration of a cloaked hunter chasing their quarry across the rooftop of a medieval city

Illustration of a science fiction heroine surround adoring aliens

Illustration of a science fiction heroine surround adoring aliens

Happy #PortfolioDay ! I'm Brad, I'm an illustrator working in publishing, I love #youngadult #adventure #fantasy #sciencefiction and #horror the best. Always looking to help writers and ADs bring their stories to life!

#OpenToWork #illustrator #illustration #ya #yaillustration

08.04.2025 20:56 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love this

07.04.2025 21:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So it's probably an early Georgia O'Keefe then

07.04.2025 21:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another illustration I did from the same #YA novel I wrote, drawn and painted in procreate! Painting a lunar eclipse was really challenging and fun.

#illustration #illustrator #yaillustration #bookillustration #bookart #art

07.04.2025 20:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That is incredible

07.04.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Still my favorite since I was a kid. Number 001 in my book.

05.04.2025 00:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Haha do we though?

04.04.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

03.04.2025 20:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Illustration from a #YA #fantasy novel I wrote and have yet to find representation for! Painted on @procreate.com

#illustrator #yaillustrator #bookcover

03.04.2025 20:18 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I love this

27.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hey @redlettermedia.com did you ever frame the BOTW movie poster I sent you?

#redlettermedia #movieposter #illustration #illustrator

20.03.2025 19:07 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here's a spec book cover I painted for William Hope Hodgson's weird horror novel The House On The Borderlands. Not pictured: all the humiliating reference photos of me modeling for the main subject.

#illustration #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #horrorart #weirdfiction

19.03.2025 17:53 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gorgeous work!

19.03.2025 16:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A spec #bookcover I illustrated for Dan Simmons #horror novel The Terror

17.03.2025 22:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi Blue Sky! To get me started, here's an #illustration from one of my favorite #childrensbooks, #TheNeverendingStory.

17.03.2025 22:27 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0