Portfolio Archives: Illustration

Merchandise Design and Illustration

Giving the Ordinary an Extraordinary Message Marketing isn't marketing without give-aways. So how do you decide what to merchandise? A good design is the difference between branded merchandise being tossed into the trash or faithfully used for years to come. The task was: Create branded merchandise for events. Create a design that gives that merchandise…

Traditional Illustration – Sketch

No electricity? No problem! All we need is a sheet of paper and a pencil to make your ideas come to life. Often times opening a laptop, starting a program, selecting a file, and going through the motions takes more time than whipping out a piece of paper and a pencil. At Narrative Graphics our staff have…

Medical Illustrations

Layers of Detail Illustrations using multiple anatomical layers, from an animation, are repurposed for trial slides. The task was: Create an outline based on an individual. Illustrate different anatomical layers within that outline. Illustrate the advance of a degenerative condition. Changing Details Within Details: We were able to educate a jury about human anatomy and the advancement of a…

Architectural Illustration

Perspective is more than a point of view. Three dimensional renderings have a great many advantages however, sometimes the ability to render a location, a feeling, or specific point of view is best accomplished through traditional technical architectural illustration. The task was: Create multiple illustrations of the same building. Create different perspectives. Give the illustrations a…

Illustrating Injuries

Illustrating an Injury and the Subsequent Surgery Creating a series of illustrations that demonstrated a femoral fracture and hip replacement. The task was: Create illustrations following X-Rays and MRI's. Illustrate different steps that show a procedure. Repurpose these illustrations so they could be animated within a presentation. Creating illustrations based on X-Rays and MRI's. By…

Traditional and Digital Skills

Classically Trained Fine Art Skills paired with Digital Proficiency This client needed a new presentation that would be second-to-none and in order to have the clarity and detail for a detailed presentation we had to re-illustrate the two primary images. The task was: Re-illustrate and sharpen images to be enlarged. Create a presentation theme. Set up all…

Litigation Illustration

Concepts vs. Elaborate Details An illustration based on testimony is tricky and can often be scrutinized. A simple solution is a simple illustration that conveys the idea without going into elaborate detail. The task was: Take the details from an event and create an illustration. Create the illustration in frames to relate action. Keep the illustration simple. Unique solution:…