Early Technical Line Illustration

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 Posted in Technical Illustration | No Comments »

Randal Birkey started his illustration career in 1980 after 10 years in the architectural and engineering drafting world. One of his first freelance illustration projects was to illustrate a recycling ... Read more..

Residential Rendering for Architectura, Chicago, Illinois

Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in Architectural Illustration | No Comments »

OBJECTIVE A Chicago area custom home builder required a rendering of a new custom residence designed in the Prairie style by Architectura. SOLUTION Randal Birkey first constructed a 3D wireframe model to establish ... Read more..

Automotive Piston Pin Illustration

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Posted in Technical Illustration | No Comments »

Randal Birkey created this quick felt tip ink line sketch showing the location of a "piston pin" in the layout of an automotive V-8 engine. Read more..

111 N. Canal, Chicago, Illinois

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted in Architectural Illustration | No Comments »

I did this pen and ink illustration of the 111 N. Canal Building in 1994 as it was slated to be renovated. The image was to be used as a ... Read more..

Old Man

Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Digital Illustration | No Comments »

Randal was looking through some "pen and ink" art books and decided to try his hand sketching a man in one of the books. This sketch was done 20 to ... Read more..

Frank Thomas House, Oak Park, Illinois

Sunday, March 25th, 2007 Posted in Architectural Illustration | No Comments »

Deb and I got married in 1980, and settled in Oak Park quite by chance. We really did not know much about the community and its history at the time. ... Read more..