Architectural

Great Pyramids, Egypt

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Randal did a series of ancient structure illustration for a textbook publisher in the 1980’s. The series included this wax pencil on croquil board line art illustration of the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt.

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Fulton House

Fulton House - Chicago River

Back in the 1980′s a Chicago developer bought the old ice cold storage building at 345 North Canal Street on the Chicago River. The building was converted to condominiums based upon a plan and design by Chicago architect Harry Weese. Randal did this line and color pencil rendering of the building just after it was [...]

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First Bank Place Interior Lobby

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Randal was commissioned to produce this 3D wireframe illustration for a fellow architectural perspectivist in the 1980′s. The view is of the interior rotunda lobby of First Bank Place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The address of the completed building is 201 6th Street South, Minneapolis, MN, and it was designed by the world famous architect, I.M. [...]

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Quantum Graphics Aerial Perspective Cutaway

Quantum Graphics Aerial Perspective Cutaway

Randal was commissioned by Rich Nickel Design to create an aerial perspective cutaway illustration of a client printing facility. The client was Quantum Graphics, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois.  Randal first worked from architectural blueprint drawings to construct a 3D perspective wireframe of the building and the interior components that were to be revealed in [...]

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Loft Lobby Interior

Loft Lobby Interior

Randal was commission by a real estate development company in Chicago called Loft, to illustrate the lobby of an industrial building being converted to residential “loft” condos in the 1980′s. There was no way to take reference photos of the site, so Randal worked from architectural blueprints to construct a 3D wireframe model of the [...]

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Stonehenge, England

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Randal did a series of ancient structure illustration for a textbook publisher in the 1980′s. The series included this wax pencil on croquil board line art illustration of Stonehenge, England. View Larger Map

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Oak Park Township Offices

Oak Park Township Offices

Randal lives in Oak Park, Illinois, home of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Kroc and many other famous Americans. The local Oak Park Township community officials contacted Randal in the 1980′s to do an illustration of their new offices at 108 S. Oak Park Avenue. The line drawing below was the result. It has [...]

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Chicago River Bridges at Night

Chicago Bridges at Night

Randal did this white ink and pencil illustration of Chicago bridges at night for a project funded by the Open Lands nature conservancy project. The illustration was used in a report designed to highlight how the Chicago River could be developed and turned into an amenity for Chicago, rather than the eyesore that it was [...]

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Office Building Lobby

Office Building Lobby

Randal did this commercial office building interior original illustration using color pencil on cold-press illustration board. He then converted the illustration to a digital “watercolor” version using Adobe Photoshop filters.

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Greek Island Chapel

Greek Island Chapel

Randal did this watercolor of a chapel on the Greek Island of Santorini, from a photo taken in the summer of 1980.

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