Brian Williamson
VISUAL JOURNALI.ST

Illustration portfolio

I create conceptual illustrations, portraits, and infographics. I use comics journalism to visualize first-person stories and explain complex concepts. I am equally comfortable working with dirty, real-world paint and the virtual equivalent.

Comics journalism

A comic book illustration of a woman in between a family photograph and monument in Iran.

Confronting morality: Women under the Islamic Republic

Editorial Illustrations

I've illustrated everything from abstract stories on the economy to practical how-to stories on exercise. See more.

The Afghan journalists who stayed (VOA)

Foreign wives of ISIS fighters sentenced to death in Iraq (VOA)

China Exodus (VOA)

Secondary Targets (VOA)

Dining out in St. Louis (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Illustrating “Wild Pigeon,” an allegory of government repression (RFA)

Portraits

A collection of traditional and digital portraits. The images range from the abstract to the geometric, from caricature to realism, using a variety of mediums and tools. See more.

Illustrated portrait of Rustem Umerov

Rustem Umerov (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of Willi Dansgaard

Willi Dansgaard (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of Octavio Rojas Hernandez

Octavio Rojas Hernandez (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of Kwity Paye

Kwity Paye (VOA)

Illustrated portrait of William Least Heat-Moon

William Least Heat-Moon (Vox Magazine)

Red Line portraits

Selected pages from a sketchbook of people surreptitiously drawn on Washington, D.C.'s Metro. See more pages.