Over the years, Randal Birkey has created hundreds of line art drawings in pen and ink style using actual pen and ink in the early days, then graduating to digital pen and ink using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel (Fractal) Painter. These are just some of the many line illustrations done over his illustration career.

Commercial Jet Airliner	Camera
Business Woman	Concert Tickets
Dice	Grocery Shopping Cart
Sunglasses	Travel Luggage

Through his New York artist rep, Randal was commissioned to illustrate this Godiva Chocolate Easter gift basket for use in a newspaper ad, by a New York City ad agency. The illustration was done by hand using a Rapid-o-graph ink pen on illustration board in a “stipple” style, which reproduces very well in newsprint.

Godiva Chocolate Easter Gift Basket

Before the advent of digital and video photography, one of the standard workhorse cameras of the motion picture industry was made by the German company Arri and called an Arriflex. This hand-drawn sketch illustration was done by Randal for a client whose business was in the film industry, and was used in some print communications.

Arriflex Film Camera

Arri still makes motion picture cameras in Switzerland and Germany which are used for such films as Quantum of Solace and Valkyrie.

This is another illustration I did for IGA back in the early 1990′s using Fractal Painter software. It is a digital illustration in pencil style of a glass award trophy that IGA gave away at an international event, of a human hand holding a globe. The IGA logo is reflected in the base of the glass.

Glass Hand and Globe for IGA

Randal Birkey put together this self-promotional ad for the 1997 Black Book.

It features:

• Pharmaceutical Product Logo
• Globe – Product Illustration
• Retouched and digitally altered 5 dollar bill with 2 Abe Lincoln’s
• Close-up diagram of a chain product used in a road grader
• Watercolor boot
• Watercolor tractor
• Nascar line drawing sketch
• How to measure for a swimsuit diagram
• 3D clock tower projecting from a 2D blueprint
• 2 whimsical vector art graphs

1997 Black Book Ad

Randal Birkey put together this self-promotional ad for the 1998 Black Book.

It features:

• A series of vector line art icons
• A Nuclear Fission Reactor Core Vessel
• An Atomic Level Fission Nuclear Reaction Diagram
• A Medical Doctor Digital Vector Illustration
• Youth Science Fair Project
• Automotive Engine Turbocharger See-Through Cutaway
• A Harris Branch Bank Architectural Line Illustration

1998 Black Book Ad

Randal had the privilege of being asked by Doris Christopher to design one of The Pampered Chef’s earliest printed brochures featuring the kitchen products they were selling in the early 1980′s. This line illustration was done by hand based upon photos the illustrator took of the actual kitchen products. It was used on an interior brochure spread with product names and descriptions located around it. Randal also cleaned up the Pampered Chef logo art and added a more contemporary typeface to the piece. It was printed in 2 colors on heavy brown Kraft style paper.

Pampered Chef Kitchen Products

An automotive aftermarket manufacturer required a diagram illustration to show how a new type of cellulose fiber could filter automotive oil better than previous competitive products. This is a sepia line art drawing on D’Arches watercolor paper, with Windsor & Newton watercolor washes added by hand.

Oil Filter Diagram

Ocean Cargo Insurance

This digital watercolor illustration was done for Kemper Insurance, to illustrate the cover of a brochure on their Ocean Cargo Insurance products. The idea was that their insurance is a safety net for shipping cargo overseas.

Along the same lines as the “How to Build a Better Sportshirt” illustration I did for Lands End, they also asked me to illustrate a woman’s body for a diagram on “How to Measure for a Swimsuit.”

How to Measure for a Swimsuit - Lands End Catalog