Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Instruction illustration: Inspiration

In looking up instructional illustrations, I found that there are fewer artists out there who do it, or who at least advertise it on their portfolios. Understandably, vector drawings with a very crisp, outlined style is very popular; particularly a bold outline around objects and thinner lines for details. Here are two examples below, by Bryon Thompson (top) and Colin Hayes (bottom).


 

Here are some more by David Preiss, who I think has a little bit more creative coloring schematic in some of his work (or, he has the freedom to do so).


1 comment:

  1. OK, not so much for illustration's sake, but still great inspiration for that dark comedy side of instruction. McSweeny in general may be good for the illustration inspiration, or for a good laugh.

    http://www.amazon.com/Giraffes-HOW-Doris-Haggis---Whey/dp/1932416978/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317053747&sr=8-2

    (down the page a bit you can "buy all 3"—there's actually four books in this vane, all worth looking at, for what it's worth.)

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