Randal sketched this cartoon car in his sketchbook during an airplane ride from Chicago to Denver. It was done analog… pencil on sketchbook paper… then scanned and imported on a Mac and saved with Adobe Photoshop.
Interestingly, a young man named Ani recently contacted him from California and asked if he could use this sketch on the website he is building. He said, “Yes!”
Based upon a web search and other aerial map samples posted online, Belhaven College contacted Randal Birkey to create a custom map featuring their various campus locations in: Memphis, Tennessee, Orlando, Florida, Houston, Texas, and Jackson, Mississippi. To help give the map a sense of orientation and scale, stylized skylines of Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois and New York City were placed in the background.
This illustration was done on a Mac using Painter and Adobe Photoshop software, and a Wacom Tablet. The final digital file was delivered via email to the customer.
Belhaven College - Aerial Perspective Map
Randal also enjoys doing cartoon style illustrations that introduce a bit of humor, fun or whimsy into what would otherwise be somewhat boring and dry content or communication. Here is a banker on a road to greater profits helping to illustrate a banking conference entitled “Pathways to Profitability.”
Banker on Road to Greater Profits
This illustration was created by Randal in Fractal Painter software on an Apple Macintosh using a Wacom Tablet.