Illustrations of Creatures Terrestrial and Aquatic
This time, we look at my illustrations of Creatures Terrestrial and Aquatic, created over the years. I admire the designs of Nature, especially her animal life. To start, let’s view my drawing of an oyster…
Oyster and Pearl
Executed in my standard pen-and-ink technique which I contributed to The Wall Street Journal many years ago, this one was created for a bank or financial institution I’m guessing. As I mentioned the WSJ, let’s have a look at an illustration that ran in that paper in the 80’s, while I was on staff there:
Shark
Above, a striking graphic image. I believe it ran at a one-column width, or about 2-¼” wide in the paper. Back in those times, The Journal was strictly black and white, so my drawing technique suited the paper admirably.
Once, I created a big series of illustrations for a grammar-school textbook. Here is one of those:
Whale
For that series, I incorporated some watercolors beneath my pen work.
Now, switching to land-animals, here is a Great Sunderbans Tiger I created for a client:
Great Sunderbans Tiger
Quite a detailed image of the great cat. Here’s another in the same vein…
Lion
A cool ink-drawing of a striding Lion. I did my best to capture his majestic bearing.
A design firm called Addison hired me to render their brand logo. I made a rendering of their elegant identity image:
Addison identity logo
I thought I might be able to sell them on a color version of this illustration, so I added a color backdrop, Here is the result:
Goldfish
And more terrestrial illustrations… Here is a graphic I created of an avenging Bald Eagle:
Bald Eagle Illustration
To end, I’ll share an animal illustration with a comic twist. Bell Canada hired me for a major campaign of theirs, based on the concept of Fables. I got to do the illustrated version of the television commercials they created using live actors wearing animated puppet-heads. It was a brilliant campaign. I got to do both b&w and full-color illustrations for newspapers and magazines respectively. Here is a rather dramatic Hare character striking a happily surprised pose:
Hare with Telephone
More next time…
