Illustrations can enhance every form of printed material: books of fiction and nonfiction, brochures, manuals, newsletters, magazines, and more. They also help to clarify written information in technical books. The media I use to create illustrations are graphite, colored pencil, and digital. I have drawn illustrations for children’s books and produced digital technical illustrations for the water, mining, and veterinary industries.

I love to draw wildlife or domestic animals, but I also enjoy drawing landscapes, people, and inanimate objects. I create my illustrations using either graphite or a drawing pad. I also create illustrations, either technical or realistic, using Illustrator. Technical illustrations of graphs, chemicals, or equipment are generally created in digital form using black and white line art, but they can also be drawn using screens and blocks of color.

If you decide you would like to have illustrations grace your project, be sure to allow extra time in your schedule. Drawings, especially digital drawings, can take hours or days to produce.

To view samples of some of the digital, graphite, or drawing pad illustrations I have created (there are way too many to show them all), use the links on the left column.