line art

Line Art

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 [...]

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Cushing Academy Campus Aerial Perspective Map

Cushing Academy is a private coeducational secondary school founded in 1865, and located in Ashburnham, MA. They have partnered with a design firm called Corey, McPherson, Nash to redesign their viewbook. Through a web based search, CMN contacted Randal Birkey Illustration and contracted for a new Campus Map to be produced both for the school viewbook [...]

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Godiva Chocolate Easter Gift Basket

Godiva Chocolate Easter Gift Basket

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.

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Buick Cutaway

Buick Cutaway

Randal created this line illustration of the side view of a Buick to illustrate an computer controlled automotive fuel system. The work was commissioned by a Chicago area ad agency in the 1980′s.

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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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Deering Library

Northwestern University - Deering Library

This is a line drawing of the Gothic style Deering Library on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It was done by Randal for the school to be used on note pads and other printed materials.

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Bicycle Racers

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Randal did this illustration as a conversion from a photo he took at the bicycle racing velodrome in Northbrook, Illinois back in the 80′s when he was doing illustration and design work for Schwinn.

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Tugboat Isometric Cutaway

Tugboat Isometric Cutaway Line Drawing

Randal Birkey completed this isometric line drawing of a tugboat as a part of a series of illustrations for a ship and barge manufacturing company. This cutaway reveals the bulkheads and inner structure of the tugboat.

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Branch Bank Illustration

Branch Bank Architectural Illustration

Randal Birkey was contracted by a Chicago area architectural design firm to create an illustration of one of their branch bank designs to present to their customer. Randal worked from the architect’s scale blueprint drawings to create this perspective view. Once the view was approved, it was rendered in a pen and ink stipple style [...]

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