Brian Britigan

@brianbritigan.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 Minneapolis-based illustrator 📚 Represented by @morgangaynin.bsky.social 📧 Work inquiries: info@morgangaynin.com 💌 General inquiries: info@brianbritigan.com 🕸️ Portfolio & more: www.brianbritigan.com/links

Digital illustration in blue, brown, and orange. The scene features two figures cooking by a campfire in a mountain landscape and a mule standing in the foreground.
A digital illustration depicting a small dog pissing on a snowman dressed as an ICE agent, with the trail of piss spelling "ICE OUT". The promotional text at the bottom of the image reads "3x3 Annual 23"
Digital illustration of sunlight seen through summer leaves in green and orange halftones.
A pile of books, zines, stickers, cards, & various promotional items from this past weekend's ICON Illustration Conference in Baltimore. Featured folks include Levi Hastings, Josh Trujillo, Katherine Lam, J. Marshall Smith, Greg Kletsel, Dessarae Bassil, James Olstein, Robert Young, Moira Swiatkowski, Kristen Acampora, Andrew Haener, Sarah Anderson Walsh, Mai Ly Degnan, & Rain Wang.
Photo of an ICON mainstage presentation: “Through the Years With Globe Poster Printing Techniques” by Robert Cicero
Photo of an ICON mainstage presentation: “Resistance and Optimism In the Face of AI” by Reid Southen
Photo of an ICON mainstage presentation: “Qreative Evolution” by Louis Henry Mitchell
Photo of an ICON mainstage presentation: “The Power of Creative Voice” by Taylor Le
Photo of an ICON mainstage presentation: “Washington’s Gay General: Baron Von Steuben and Reclaiming Queer History Through Comics” by Levi Hastings & Josh Trujillo
Drumline performance for the opening of ICON Illustration Conference at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Photo of printed ephemera from the ICON 13 Illustration Conference in Baltimore this past weekend. Items include a printed brochure, tote bag, and speaker badge with my name on it.
Looping GIF featuring three photos of my talk at the ICON 13 Illustration Conference in Baltimore this past weekend. The photos show me standing at podium on stage at the Maryland Institute College of Art, with various examples of my illustration work projected on the screen behind me.
Illustrated self-portrait, the text reads "Hello! My name is Brian (he/him), I'm an illustrator, artist, & educator living & working in Minneapolis, MN"
Cover of "The Harpy’s Wrath: A Greta Smalltusk Tale" by Quinn Thomson
A digital illustration depicting a small dog pissing on a snowman dressed as an ICE agent, with the trail of piss spelling "FUCK ICE"
Cover of “Sharp Eye: Issue One” by Daniel Bensen, Artyom Trakhanov, Simon Roy, and Jason Wordie
Digital sketch featuring composite portraits of actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with menacing zombies, cultists, and robots in the background. The placeholder text reads "The Cornetto Trilogy"
"Rough Sketch" — digital poster sketch featuring composite portraits of actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with menacing zombies, cultists, and robots in the background. The handwritten placeholder text reads "The Cornetto Trilogy"
Photo of me (a short white man with glasses, baseball hat, and a beard) posing next to my illustrated poster in the lobby of Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis, MN.
Illustrated film poster featuring composite portraits of actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, with menacing zombies, cultists, and robots in the background. The poster text reads "The 3 Flavours Cornetto Trilogy — June 7-9: Shaun of Dead — June 14-16: Hot Fuzz — June 21-23: The World's End"
Cover of “Where We Meet: Process & Creation” by Shimeng Wei
Digital illustration in red, white, blue, and yellow depicting an American-revolution-era character saluting while holding a hotdog.
Revised sketches, exploring a mix of wildflowers, monarch butterflies, red ribbons, and whistles. The text for each reads “We Keep Us Safe • Healthy • Housed • Fed”
Initial sketches, exploring a range of imagery related to community resistance against the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities earlier this year.
Preliminary sketch and final illustration. Both depict a bouquet of wildflowers bound with a red ribbon attached to a whistle, surrounded by monarch butterflies. The text reads "We Keep Us Safe • Fed • House • Healthy — Aliveness Project 2026
Digital illustration in yellow, orange, and black. It depicts a bouquet of wildflowers bound with a red ribbon attached to a whistle, surrounded by monarch butterflies. The text reads "We Keep Us Safe • Fed • House • Healthy — Aliveness Project 2026"
Photo of Aliveness Project staff and volunteers at Twin Cities Pride in Minneapolis, MN, holding a banner that reads "Aliveness Project — We Keep Us Safe • Fed • House • Healthy" with images of wildflowers, monarch butterflies, a red ribbon, and a whistle.
Screen cap of a news story from Minnesota Public Radio. The headline reads "Minneapolis decriminalizes adult bathhouses, ending AIDS-crisis-era ban". The photo caption reads "Minneapolis City Council members, advocates and Mayor Jacob Frey pose for a photo on Sunday at City Hall."
Illustrated poster depicting a bathhouse steam room scene, with text that reads "Make Space to Explore — Together we REPEALED the Minneapolis bathhouse ban — Safer Sex Spaces Coalition: Learn more & get involved".
Cover of “Sunflowers” by Keezy Young
A selection of artworks I've created for various WOW x WOW exhibitions over the past 8 years.
"Home Security" — Colored pencil on paper, 10" x 10", originally created for WOW x WOW's MicroVisions exhibition in 2018. The drawing depicts a bird perched on a thorny branch, with a clutch of eggs nestled deeper into the thicket.
Cover of “Men at Sea” by Riff Reb’s
Cover of “Head Lopper #1” by Andrew MacLean (variant cover by Alex Horley)
Cover of “The Golden Age: Book 2” by Roxanne Moreil & Cyril Pedrosa
Digital illustration of tulips and spring blossoms in green and orange halftones.
Photo of the Prospect Park water tower in Minneapolis, MN. The projection on the tower reads “ICE OUT Protest Art Projections” — Thank you for coming and FUCK ICE.”
Time-lapse video of the “ICE OUT Protest Art Projections” event at the Prospect Park water tower in Minneapolis, MN on May 5th, 2026. The projections on the tower feature anti-ICE posters designed by Minnesota artists.
Cover of “Spinning” by Tillie Walden
Photo by Sandra Oviedo, showing the exterior of Co-Prosperity with ICE OUT posters from Minnesota on display in the street-facing windows. Large wheat-pasted signs feature phrases like "ABOLISH ICE!" and "WE LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS"
Photo by Chan C. Smith, showing the exterior of Co-Prosperity with ICE OUT posters from Minnesota on display in the street-facing windows.
Top-down photo of my workspace, showing a colored pencil sketch on a square wood panel. Surrounding it are various art supplies: pencil sharpener, various erasers, colored pencils, as well as sketches and color tests.
Digital illustration of Ahsoka Tano from Star Wars, drawn in Procreate
“Sunny Side” — Mixed media on wood panel, 6” x 6”
Cover of “The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel — Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down”. Adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
Cover of “Mika: The Bear Who Didn’t Want to Sleep” by Erik Kriek
Cover of “Hello Sunshine” by Keezy Young
A digital illustration depicting a small dog pissing on a snowman dressed as an ICE agent, with the trail of piss spelling "FUCK ICE"
Cover of “Heartless” by Nina Bunjevac
Cover of “Cannon” by Lee Lai
Cover of “Angelica and the Bear Prince” by Trung Le Nguyen
A colored pencil sketch depicting an assembly of chocolate rabbits and eggs with colorful ribbons.
Digital illustration created with overlapping green and orange linear halftones in Procreate, depicting shoots of grass emerging from drifts of snow.
Cover of “On a Sunbeam” by Tillie Walden
Grayscale digital illustration depicting a paper chain of houses being singed by a burning match.
Cover of "The Short While" by Jeremy Sorese