Illustration | Artwork by Karl Gude

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Art by Karl Gude

Welcome to my archive! You'll find a variety of personal and professional artwork here, including many in-progress images.

(I am currently seeking gallery representation. Please contact me using the email address on my About page. Thank you for exploring my work!)

Illustrations

Many were drawn to illustrate news stories during his career as a visual journalist and for other clients, some using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Drawing of people attending a workshop/conference

Erik portrait drinking coffe drawing.jpg

Karl's son Erik Drinking Coffee

=Adobe Illustrator

Love

-Adobe Illustrator (drawn by an MSU student, Travis Root, from one of Karl's sketches)

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Karl's Wife Dorsey Reading The Morning Paper

Marker and color pencil

Witches Ceramic Bowl (2006)

Made for a Shakespeare on the Sound auction
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Witches Karl bowl all together

Swan (1978)

-Crayons an acrylics

Time-change drawing

For the Associated Press. -Aldus Freehand

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Computer doctor (1983)

-Aldus Freehand software

View of my dentist from memory. (2017)

Caricature of Retiree

Drawn while at at United Press International.
-Color pencil.

Caricature of Retiree

Drawn while at at United Press International.
-Color pencil.

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Caricature of fellow Newsweek artist and surfer, Kevin Hand (2002)

-Marker and color pencil

Caricature of Retiree

Drawn while at at United Press International.
-Pen and ink

Caricature of my friend Rod (2016)

-Marker

Caricature

Drawn while at at United Press International.
-Pen and ink

Caricature

Drawn while at at United Press International.
-Pen and ink

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Spring Training drawings (1991)

"The National Sports Daily", where Karl was Graphics Director, sent him out to sketch the "look and feel of Spring Training".
--Color pencil.

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Drawing a ball player, Giants' Matt Williams (1991)

Karl was sent by the National Sports Daily to cover the "look and feel" of Spring Training in Arizona

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Willie Mays commenting on a drawings (1991)

Mays wouldn't let Karl draw him!!

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Matt Williams batting at Spring Training (1991) )1991 (1989)

For the National Sports Daily. --Color pencils

Spring Training drawing (1991)

Marine and trumpet player for the National Anthem. For the National Sports Daily.
-Color pencils

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Shakespeare Poster (1994)

Poster for "Shakespeare on the Sound", Rowayton, CT. "Much Ado About Nothing"
-Drawn with Aldus Painter

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"Abracadabra Tut" book cover

Author: Page McBrier.
-Adobe Illustrator

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Courtroom drawing for General Westmorland vs. CBS (1982)

Assigned by United Press International to cover the libel trial pitting Gen. William C. Westmoreland against CBS at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City.

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