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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]