Reid Schwartz accredits his drive to become an illustrator with a ‘youthful obsession with Batman’ that arose during his childhood spent living on a New Hampshire farm. After spending many laborious hours copying from his comic books, Schwartz happened across his father’s collection of Renaissance art books. Schwartz remembers how this discovery ‘blew Batman out of the water and provided new heights to strive for and to copy from’.
It is this craft of drawing and technicality that inspires Schwartz, who feels that he ‘works from a very traditional and historical canon, pulling from both east and west to develop a working methodology and hierarchy of technique’.
His detailed illustrations are both realistic and bordering on the surreal, combining the line and spatial sensibility of 14th-century Dutch painting with bizarre subject matter, from images taken from the tabloids to a picture he captures on his digital camera.
Would most like to work with:
'I am willing to work with anyone, but I am particularly excited by imagery that provides a challenge.'
INFORMATION
School
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Graduated
2006
- Website
- http://www.reidschwartz.net
