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Illustration
A selection of illustrative work covering a wide range of styles.
Scottish tourism
Illustration to promote Scottish tourism. The scene shows the great outdoors covering a number of activities people may want to take part in.
Second World War illustration
The cover illustration for a Second World war worksheet pack. This covered real life stories from soldiers on the front line, Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), evacuated children and prisoners of war (POW).
Edinburgh Casle illustration
Header illustration for a Maths Week Scotland trail around Edinburgh Castle.
Edinburgh Castle internal building and First World War soldier
First World war soldier within Edinburgh castle as part of the Maths Week Scotland Trail activities. Just one of many illustrations within the First World War trail.
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh's John Hope Gateway building
The original illustrated map for the garden was painted in the 1980s, the illustrator is now retired. I was asked to illustrate the new substantial addition to the garden of the John Hope Gateway building, keeping it the same style as the original map. I did this by drawing it up in Illustrator at the same aerial view, then blending it into the original style in Photoshop once placed over the original artwork file. This is just one of the many additional buildings, sculptures, path updates and planting areas illustrated over the full map as new additions were built and altered.
Viking illustrations
A Viking warrior and a Viking woman with a wool spindle. Two of many illustrations created to show Viking life in a set of educational worksheets.
Viking illustrations
A Viking farmer and a Viking traider. Two of many illustrations created to show Viking life in a set of educational worksheets.
Orienteering group tasks
The brief was to illustrate a teacher and student taking part in an orienteering event. This shows them planning their route with a map and compass.
Beaver's dam
The scene is part of a wildlife leaflet to tell visitors about the river system and the animals they may see.
National Museums Scotland's grand gallery
The illustration shows the grand gallery of the museum from the second floor,. It gives a good view of the scale of the gallery and the bright open space it is. It was part of a mindfulness trail, showing relaxing spaces.
Polar bear and Arctic fox
A freestyle illustration shown the wildlife of the Arctic.
Capuchin monkey
Capuchin monkey to show the wildlife of South America.
Modern architecture
An architecturally creative building with various groups of people shown outside visiting it.
National Museum of Flight Second World War Trail cover
National Museum of Flight's illustrated trail cover. A second world war pilot and WREN looking up at planes flying above the air base during the war.
National Museum of Rural Life's trail headers
Two headers for National Museum of Rural Life. The first showing Sue the friendly sheepdog, and the second showing a very happy Penelope the pig.
Seaside wildlife
The scene is part of a wildlife leaflet to tell visitors about the local seaside and the mammals, fish and various small creatures in rock pools they may see.
Cooking ingredients calculation
A fun illustration for a Maths Week Scotland project. Pupils are to calculate the quantity of various ingredients required to bake the cup cakes.
Roman soldiers
Two of many Roman figures illustrated to show the various aspects of Roman life in educational worksheets.
Landscape gardener
Illustration to show a landscape gardener's drawn up plans for the garden he has created.
Egyptian pyramids construction
The scene of the massive undertaking involved in constructing the Egyptian pyramids. It shows the huge stones being pulled to the site and then taken up the pyramids outer construction as it was built. There’s a finished pyramid in the background to show they were covered in white stone.
Supermarket Special Offer
A Maths Week Scotland trail which had a Supermarket special offer calculation to be worked out by the students.
Wolf, Lynx and bear in the forest
The scene is part of a wildlife leaflet. It tells visitors about the forest and the animals they may see in North America.
Birds of prey
The scene is part of a wildlife leaflet. It tells visitors various information about the local birds of prey.
Edinburgh Castle plan within a grid
Edinburgh Castle illustrated as a plan, showing the direction of travel around the various buildings where different exhibits could be seen. It’s within a grid system and has a key for finding places quickly.
Modern British army
The modern British Army covering a male and female soldier in the illustration.
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