Multidisciplinary illustrator and writer with over a decade of professional experience, from comics and YA novels to children’s books and podcasts. Confident in ability to collaborate with clients to make their books come to life, meeting deadlines and exceeding expectations. Head of design for a popular fiction podcast. Illustrator for a teen writing contest drawing 50+ winning stories in unique styles. An Adobe Creative Cloud master, a stylistic chameleon able to design in any style that best fits the project brief. Nonstop creative machine, renaissance boy—refreshingly weird and reliably reliable. My name is Reid Faylor and I am a UX designer, novelist, artist, and father living in Cincinnati. In 2010, I left Indiana for New York City, betraying my chemistry degree to perform comedy and make art. I worked in a perfume laboratory by day, and spent nights becoming a fixture in the comedy scene. While I strengthened my writing and performing, I also became a go-to designer for the scene, creating posters and album art for big name comedians, venues, bands, and podcasts. After securing a content creation job with Barnes & Noble, I spent years creating fiction and video series, writing articles, drawing comics, and other one-off gigs: branded content for Microsoft, toy voice actor scripts for Fisher-Price, a failed Comedy Central pilot with Parker Posey, an embarrassingly sincere Weezer cover band. After Covid and fatherhood, my family decided it was time to leave the city so I could focus on my artistic endeavors. My latest project was writing, narrating, and spearheading the design for The Story Must Be Told, a fiction podcast by Post Everything Productions on the Last Podcast Network. We currently reach over 26,000 subscribers, and in 2022, we performed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for over 2000 fans in the Last Podcast Network Country Jamboree. In 2023, I completed my Google UX Design Certification. I focused especially on incorporating accessibility into my designs and color schemes. I created a mobile app for pre-ordering albums, a responsive art tutorial website, and an app and website to unite communities around their neighbors struggling with housing. I am currently releasing weekly chapters of my debut novel Dead Bird Songs as an audiobook podcast, putting out stories and books at The Story Must Be Told, drawing, and freelancing with UX design work and research. Send me an email! Let me write/design/draw for you.

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Multidisciplinary illustrator and writer with over a decade of professional experience, from comics and YA novels to children’s books and podcasts. Confident in ability to collaborate with clients to make their books come to life, meeting deadlines and exceeding expectations. Head of design for a popular fiction podcast. Illustrator for a teen writing contest drawing 50+ winning stories in unique styles. An Adobe Creative Cloud master, a stylistic chameleon able to design in any style that best fits the project brief. Nonstop creative machine, renaissance boy—refreshingly weird and reliably reliable. My name is Reid Faylor and I am a UX designer, novelist, artist, and father living in Cincinnati. In 2010, I left Indiana for New York City, betraying my chemistry degree to perform comedy and make art. I worked in a perfume laboratory by day, and spent nights becoming a fixture in the comedy scene. While I strengthened my writing and performing, I also became a go-to designer for the scene, creating posters and album art for big name comedians, venues, bands, and podcasts. After securing a content creation job with Barnes & Noble, I spent years creating fiction and video series, writing articles, drawing comics, and other one-off gigs: branded content for Microsoft, toy voice actor scripts for Fisher-Price, a failed Comedy Central pilot with Parker Posey, an embarrassingly sincere Weezer cover band. After Covid and fatherhood, my family decided it was time to leave the city so I could focus on my artistic endeavors. My latest project was writing, narrating, and spearheading the design for The Story Must Be Told, a fiction podcast by Post Everything Productions on the Last Podcast Network. We currently reach over 26,000 subscribers, and in 2022, we performed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for over 2000 fans in the Last Podcast Network Country Jamboree. In 2023, I completed my Google UX Design Certification. I focused especially on incorporating accessibility into my designs and color schemes. I created a mobile app for pre-ordering albums, a responsive art tutorial website, and an app and website to unite communities around their neighbors struggling with housing. I am currently releasing weekly chapters of my debut novel Dead Bird Songs as an audiobook podcast, putting out stories and books at The Story Must Be Told, drawing, and freelancing with UX design work and research. Send me an email! Let me write/design/draw for you.

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Multidisciplinary illustrator and writer with over a decade of professional experience, from comics and YA novels to children’s books and podcasts. Confident in ability to collaborate with clients to make their books come to life, meeting deadlines and exceeding expectations. Head of design for a popular fiction podcast. Illustrator for a teen writing contest drawing 50+ winning stories in unique styles. An Adobe Creative Cloud master, a stylistic chameleon able to design in any style that best fits the project brief. Nonstop creative machine, renaissance boy—refreshingly weird and reliably reliable.

My name is Reid Faylor and I am a UX designer, novelist, artist, and father living in Cincinnati. In 2010, I left Indiana for New York City, betraying my chemistry degree to perform comedy and make art. I worked in a perfume laboratory by day, and spent nights becoming a fixture in the comedy scene. While I strengthened my writing and performing, I also became a go-to designer for the scene, creating posters and album art for big name comedians, venues, bands, and podcasts. After securing a content creation job with Barnes & Noble, I spent years creating fiction and video series, writing articles, drawing comics, and other one-off gigs: branded content for Microsoft, toy voice actor scripts for Fisher-Price, a failed Comedy Central pilot with Parker Posey, an embarrassingly sincere Weezer cover band.

After Covid and fatherhood, my family decided it was time to leave the city so I could focus on my artistic endeavors. My latest project was writing, narrating, and spearheading the design for The Story Must Be Told, a fiction podcast by Post Everything Productions on the Last Podcast Network. We currently reach over 26,000 subscribers, and in 2022, we performed at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for over 2000 fans in the Last Podcast Network Country Jamboree.

In 2023, I completed my Google UX Design Certification. I focused especially on incorporating accessibility into my designs and color schemes. I created a mobile app for pre-ordering albums, a responsive art tutorial website, and an app and website to unite communities around their neighbors struggling with housing.

I am currently releasing weekly chapters of my debut novel Dead Bird Songs as an audiobook podcast, putting out stories and books at The Story Must Be Told, drawing, and freelancing with UX design work and research. Send me an email! Let me write/design/draw for you.

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Skills

Fr
Freehand Digital Illustration
Adobe Photoshop
Gr
Greetings Card
Il
Illustration
Bo
Book Illustration
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Experience Level

Freehand Digital Illustration
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Expert
Greetings Card
Expert
Illustration
Expert
Book Illustration
Expert
Microsoft Word
Expert
Childrens Book Illustration
Expert
Comic Strip
Expert
Narrative Illustration
Expert
Book Cover
Expert
Editorial Illustration
Expert
Banner
Expert
GIF
Expert
Pen and Ink Illustration
Expert
Character Design
Expert
Sticker
Expert
Voiceover
Expert
Adobe InDesign
Expert
T-shirt Design
Expert
Adobe Illustrator
Intermediate
Advert Design
Intermediate
Adobe XD
Intermediate
Logo
Intermediate
App Design
Intermediate
Script
Intermediate
Cartoon
Intermediate
Figma
Intermediate
Magazine
Intermediate
Short Film
Intermediate
Instrumental
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent
Spanish; Castilian
Beginner

Education

Bachelor of Science at Xavier University
June 1, 2010
4.0 GPA, major in Chemistry, minor in Biology

Qualifications

Add your qualifications or awards here.

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Other

Skills

Fr
Freehand Digital Illustration
Adobe Photoshop
Gr
Greetings Card
Il
Illustration
Bo
Book Illustration
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Experience Level

Freehand Digital Illustration
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Expert
Greetings Card
Expert
Illustration
Expert
Book Illustration
Expert
Microsoft Word
Expert
Childrens Book Illustration
Expert
Comic Strip
Expert
Narrative Illustration
Expert
Book Cover
Expert
Editorial Illustration
Expert
Banner
Expert
GIF
Expert
Pen and Ink Illustration
Expert
Character Design
Expert
Sticker
Expert
Voiceover
Expert
Adobe InDesign
Expert
T-shirt Design
Expert
Adobe Illustrator
Intermediate
Advert Design
Intermediate
Adobe XD
Intermediate
Logo
Intermediate
App Design
Intermediate
Script
Intermediate
Cartoon
Intermediate
Figma
Intermediate
Magazine
Intermediate
Short Film
Intermediate
Instrumental
Intermediate
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