Archetype: The Art of Timothy Bradstreet

    (Desperado, 2009)

For over 20 years, Tim Bradstreet has been sharpening the edge of fantastic illustration, mesmerizing legions of fans and critics alike with his seductively hip style and darkly alluring characters. Blending together equal parts classical portraiture, cinematography and graphic design, Bradstreet takes a uniquely post-modern approach to archetype, or "character" illustration, deconstructing the familiar icons of speculative imagery and reassembling them into mysterious and gothic tableaus of intimacy, strength, hostiity, eroticism and despair. His predatory characters pose with languid grace, powerfully self-confident. The denizens populating this harshly lit imagination range from Street Samurai, Assassins, Urban Ghouls, and Vampires, to established characters such as The Punisher, John Constantine, and Batman. Within the context of this diverse subject matter, Bradstreet unleashes his considerable technical skill for illustration and a singular eye for the iconic.

This second volume retrospective of "Iconic Imagery And Cinematic Illustration" collects together two decades of work from his early days illustrating RPG's such as Shadowrun, and White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade, to his comics work as regular cover artist of Marvel's The Punisher, DC/Vertigo's Hellblazer, and Steve Niles' Criminal Macabre, as well as excerpts from rare sequential work, never before published thumbnails and sketches, film work, and Bradstreet's own masterpiece in the making, Red Sky Diary.
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