Illustrations
Created in Adobe Illustrator, Micrografx Designer, and hand drawn.
Created in Adobe Illustrator, Micrografx Designer, and hand drawn.
This selection of illustrations were created primarily in Adobe Illustrator. Some include bitmap elements created or modified in Adobe Photoshop. The last two examples are hand drawn.
The source for this example was originally supplied to me as a low resolution line art output from a CAD program. I imported that file into Adobe Illustrator and recreated it as a tonal, color illustration.
This exploded view isometric technical drawing was created in Adobe Illustrator from a mixture of orthographic, isometric, and photographic reference sources. For other drawings I might have a complete set of orthographic views from which to work, or I might have some elements already rendered as isometric line art (exported from a CAD program). Sometimes I had only a physical prototype from which to work. In those cases I shot digital pictures and took measurements of the prototype as my reference sources.
This is a sample of a typical system overview diagram that I produced for Cubic. Originally I created a series of these diagrams for different systems in Micrografx Designer. As I convinced the department to convert to Adobe Illustrator, the diagrams were imported and converted into AI files (with later versions originating as AI files). I utilized an isometric grid for all of these diagrams, so that common elements used in one system overview could be easily copied and pasted into a new diagram, thus saving the time of redrawing them.
This illustration includes a bitmap image of a surrogate training weapon, modified in Adobe Photoshop, and imported into Adobe Illustrator. By reducing the contrast and lightening the bitmap image, an X-Ray View illustion was created. All of the internal components were created in Adobe Illustrator.
This Adobe Illustrator image is comprised of two different illustrations. I had originally created the RQ-8 FireScout UAV Helicopter as a separate illustration. I then used a photo reference of the LHD ship from which to create the main part of the new illustration. The RQ-8 was simply copied, pasted, and resized to work in the new illustration. The ocean surface was created using a couple of the Illustrator image filters.
Just to prove I can still draw without the aid of a computer, this charcoal figure drawing example is approximately 3 x 4 feet in size, and is done on a coarse butcher paper. Since much of the work I create these days is done on a computer and requires significant attention to minute details, I enjoy the occasional opportunity to work big, loose, and dirty, often looking like a coal miner covered in charcoal dust after a few hours in the studio.
As one last example of hand drawn art, here is a cartoon map I created for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
