I’ve always been into music but only recently picked up a guitar and started to learn to play. I had seen guitar tablature (or “tabs”) before, but only knew it as some sort of esoteric shorthand musical notation encoded in monospaced gibberish; a specialized language for people who had studied music and practiced guitar to [...]
Some fellow techies and I have started Technical Illustrators.org, a blog and community by and for technical illustrators. We feature portfolios of colleagues and share tutorials, techniques, resources, tips & tricks of the trade.
With more and more of the traditional in-house technical illustration jobs moving overseas, techies are finding themselves out on their own. In [...]
I’ve been receiving questions from a number of people curious about technical illustration. For the benefit of anyone else who’s interested, here’s some of the questions and answers:
What does a technical illustrator do? What is technical illustration?
“Technical illustrators create highly accurate renderings of machinery, instruments, scientific subjects…technology, cartography, or virtually any subject that requires precision [...]
Fellow freelance illustrator and former classmate Cody Walker has been writing some great technical illustration tutorials for Adobe Illustrator over at VectorTuts.com.
So far he’s covered orthographics, isometric projection, one-point, two-point and three-point perspective, as well as some great tips on using Illustrator in general.
These tutorials are a great start for anyone interested in technical illustration, [...]
If you use multiple computers during your day, you know that all monitors are not created equally. A computer monitor uses phosphors or crystals to colourize light as it’s transmitted through the screen. Depending on the manufacturer’s specifications, gradual deterioration of materials and the type of backlight used, the resulting colour can vary significantly. Add [...]
Added a set of instructional illustrations done for Downtown Toyota to the Illustration Portfolio. These illustrations were part of a guide to orient new and returning customers to their newly renovated facilities.
Also new to the site is a Style Pricing Guide to help prospective clients match an appropriate style to their budget.
I’ve added a link [...]