Portfolio Smiling Chipmunk Item 8 Description Chipmunk Item 8 Description Drifting on a Tube Item 8 Description Soar Item 8 Description Lemur Item 8 Description Rhinos Tango Item 8 Description Fairy Cat Item 8 Description Koala Hugs Item 8 Description Lioness Item 8 Description Mantis Displays Warning Item 8 Description Nurse Bobbi Item 8 Description Pied Piper of Hamelin Item 8 Description Red Breasted Robin Item 8 Description Sallowtail Catepillar Item 8 Description Sallowtail Chrysalid Item 8 Description Sallowtail Butterfly Item 8 Description

This is a technique I've been experimenting with lately. I will spend a lot of time developing a tonal drawing with graphite pencils, making sure there's a lot of lights, darks and in-between shading. Then I super-impose the drawing over a photograph or abstract coloured background. I look for images that have a lot of the same tone throughout, like landscapes or sunsets. Having a lot of the same colour unifies the image. A little bit of randomness from the photo reusluts in some delightful surprises, providing a fres look for the graphite illustrations. A range of unrelated illustrations are unified by using the same photographs to add colour to them.

Above: The life stages of the swallowtail butterfly, from catapillar to chrysalis to butterfly.

Below: Timberlane Athletic Club (TAC)
Designs created for children's t-shirts, one for boys, one for girls.