Ryan Reid Illustration + Design

Drawings

Blog posts about drawings, sketches, design, and other art that wasn’t created for a book or a zine. It’s mostly fun drawing practice.

Plan for stops

Plan for stops

March 30, 2025 | Miscellany

As a mid-century man it has become obvious that knowing where the public washrooms are on any given route I am required to take through the city is a necessity.

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Robot is stranded on a floating rock.

Floating

March 17, 2024 | Miscellany

Exhaustion, a minor pity party, and a brief divergence into the importance random experiences have on the creative process.

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Crow chewing gum and blowing a big bubble.

Chew chew chew

February 11, 2024 | Miscellany

An ink and watercolour sketch of a crow blowing a bubble gum bubble, and a wee update on life, family, and reading.

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Francis the sheep sitting on a rock enjoying a sandwich.

Enjoy a break now and then

February 3, 2024 | Miscellany

An ink and watercolour drawing of Francis the sheep enjoying a sandwich and some fresh air, plus a totally untrue discarded Radiohead lyric.

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Goldfish in a bowl atop a small tower of rocks

Fish atop a tower of rocks

December 3, 2023 | Miscellany

Still digging through some old doodles.

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Robot wearing a Napoleon style hat

Robot with a Napoleon complex

November 5, 2023 | Miscellany

It’s not that robot thinks he’s better than you. He doesn’t think about you at all.

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Crow in an army helmet smoking a cigarette.

Yes, and…it’s a crow in an army helmet

October 3, 2023 | Miscellany

Enjoy this ink and watercolour sketch of a crow in an army helmet as I pretend I have any authority to talk to you about the creative process of illustration.

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An alien satellite spies on a tiny bug on a mushroom.

Little voices can suck it

September 9, 2023 | Miscellany

It’s amazing how convincing those little voices can be. They don’t even exist! How do they have so much control over my creative output?

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Weird cat stalking you over the blanket.

Art and sausages and probably aliens

August 28, 2023 | Miscellany

This year for my birthday I decided to not be a depressing sack of gravel and actually enjoy life.

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Francis the sheep in her astronaut suit holds a ridiculously oversized laser gun on her shoulder.

Firing on one cylinder

August 12, 2023 | Miscellany

Creative block sneaks up when you aren’t looking and squats in your brain and maybe the only way to get free is to tell yourself it’s okay to kill it with fire.

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