Thursday, December 13, 2018

Artist of the day, December 13: Roberto Parada, American illustrator

Roberto Parada (1969) is a freelance illustrator who has been creating paintings for major American magazines for over 20 years. Some of the publications include TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated and Esquire.

Roberto graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY where he studied fine arts and illustration. Upon graduating in 1991, Roberto started working in the editorial illustration market.

He has created a vast array of portraits from the caricatured to the thought provoking which have captured the interests of Art Directors throughout the world. Roberto has created several cover illustrations for publications, including an Eminem cover for Rolling Stone. He illustrated the TIME Magazine cover of Suddam Hussein which had a bloody X through his face, a revival reminiscent of the cover in which TIME magazine put an X on the face of Hitler.

Over the last decade, Roberto has advocated for studio safety, with regards to, artist materials and the health repercussions related to some of those products. In 2003, Roberto was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, possibly as a result of contact with studio materials.  Roberto was successfully treated and cured with a bone marrow transplant through the generosity of his donor, Hector, in 2004.

© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Roberto Parada. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.


Mr Roberto Parada

American Pie

 Gorilla With a Pearl Earring, Mad Magazine

California Burning

 Leave the Church, Follow Jesus, Newsweek Magazine

 The Crucifixion of K-Fed and Bobby Brown, Details Magazine

Mormons and Money, Harpers Magazine

Napoleon's Privates, Harper Collins

The Future of GMO's

Lunch Break, Mother Jones Magazine

Bank Robber Mobile App

The Shoplifters, Arena Stage

AI Will Take All Our Jobs, Mother Jones Magazine

President Re-elect Obama, Newsweek Magazine

Saving the World, Der Spiegel Magazine

Sibling Rivalry, The New Republic

Caligula Trump The New Republic

Donald Trump as Andrew Jackson, The New Republic

Donald Trump as Stalin, The New Republic

 The Birther King”- A MAD Political Poster

Children at Play, Vanity Fair

Jeb Bush

Putin Smoke

Putin Turns To The East, Wall St. Journal

Border Patrol With Newt

Brownback running for governor

Texas Govenor, Rick Perry

Dick and Rummy, Mother Jones Magazine

Larry Summers

A Touch of Evil, Esquire

AC-DC, Rolling Stone

 Adele, Entertainment Weekly

Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone

Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone

Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan, Entertainment Weekly

Elvis, Dylan and Springsteen, Rolling Stone

 Jerry Garcia

 Ahmet Ertegun, Billboard Magazine

Anne Rice, AARP Magazine

Bill Gates, Rolling Stone

Clint Eastwood, Time Magazine

Jon Stewart, Time Magazine

Kermit, Portrait of an Artist, Entertainment Weekly

Lin Manuel, creator of Hamilton, Entertainment Weekly

Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller), Associations Now Magazine

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote, AARP Magazine

Stephen King

The Night Steve Jobs Met Andy Warhol, Playboy Magazine

The Real Homer, Esquire Magazine

Xi Jinping's Push for China's Solar Dominance, Mother Jones Magazine

Racism in the Serie A, ESPN.com

 Rex Ryan and The Jets, Mens Journal

The Fight for Junior Seau's Brain, ESPN.com

Tom Brady, ESPN the Magazine

French Poodle, Fromm Gourmet Dog Food

Italian Greyhound, Fromm Gourmet Dog Food

Napoleon Cat, Fromm Gourmet Cat Food

Oktoberfest Dog, Fromm Gourmet Dog Food

The English Dog Hunter, Fromm Gourmet Pet Food

Allstate Insurance

Terminated, Mother Jones Magazine

The Kick- Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk Books

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