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Line Art

Over the years, Randal Birkey has created hundreds of line art drawings in pen and ink style using actual pen and ink in the early days, then graduating to digital pen and ink using software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel (Fractal) Painter. These are just some of the many line illustrations done over [...]

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Bean Counter

Bean Counter

Randal did the cartoon sketch line drawing of a proverbial “bean counter” for an Ameritech Mobile Communications piece back in the 1980′s. Randal can’t remember what the reason was for having his ink spilling onto the floor!

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Watercolor Clown Icon

Watercolor Puppet Clown

Randal did this watercolor illustration as a part of the Memphis Arts Council Map project. This is a clown hand puppet that was used as an icon to designate comedy clubs and venues on the Memphis Arts Map. It was done in Fractal Painter software on a Mac, using a Wacom stylus and tablet.

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Memphis Arts Council Map

Memphis Arts Council Map - by Randal Birkey - thumbnail

Randal Birkey was contracted by the Memphis Arts Council in the 1980’s to create a fun map for use in a promotional poster. The map was intended to highlight a number of locations in the city where arts related activities and events were being promoted. Randal worked from maps, drawings and aerial photo references of [...]

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Ameritech Cellular Plan Options

Ameritch Mobile Cellular Plan Options - © Randal Birkey - thumbnail

This cartoon style illustration was done for Ameritech Mobile Communications during the 1980′s. It was used in printed brochures that explained the various options and plans available back then for “cellular” communications. The target audience was business and commercial use. Notice how big the cell phones were back then and the clunky design compared to [...]

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Cartoon Car

Crazy Car Illustration

Randal sketched this cartoon car in his sketchbook during an airplane ride from Chicago to Denver. It was done analog… pencil on sketchbook paper… then scanned and imported on a Mac and saved with Adobe Photoshop. Interestingly, a young man named Ani recently contacted him from California and asked if he could use this sketch [...]

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Belhaven College

Belhaven College Campus Location Map

Aerial Map Illustration Based upon a web search and other aerial map samples posted online, Belhaven College contacted Randal Birkey to create a custom map featuring their various campus locations in: Memphis, Tennessee, Orlando, Florida, Houston, Texas, and Jackson, Mississippi. To help give the map a sense of orientation and scale, stylized skylines of Seattle, [...]

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It’s really very basic

Globe 1

A Parable A long time ago, when wanting meant having, the world of business knew prosperity. Everyone was busy-buying, selling, trading. The work never stopped and many people reaped great rewards. Young and old. Women and men. Success swept through their workplaces. They developed new habits and expectations. This was an enchanted world and everyone [...]

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Branch Banking Conference

Branch Banking

Randal also enjoys doing cartoon style illustrations that introduce a bit of humor, fun or whimsy into what would otherwise be somewhat boring and dry content or communication. Here is a banker on a road to greater profits helping to illustrate a banking conference entitled “Pathways to Profitability.” This illustration was created by Randal in [...]

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