Text book illustration

Most of the time text books require drawings of things in everyday life, such as plates of peas, or someone doing the washing up. Occasionally I get something a little different, an example being the three witches from Shakespeares play.

ELT Student book

A large selection of people to be used in an ELT setting showing all sorts of different things, i.e. a tall man, with long hair, red trousers and a ruffled shirt, or an artist with a beret and a drawing board thinking about the Eiffel Tower, and the such like.




And this chap's counting!

Science illustration - Harper Collins

A fun drawing to show the effects of bending light in a reflection, a la 'hall of mirrors' in a circus.

Student ELT Textbook

How's about this for as many animals as you can shake a translated stick at!


And here's some more, and some are playing instruments too!

English Language Workbook

Here's a selection of characters doing their thing for a Language book.

AQA Science Books - Harper Collins - Part 2

A fairly random selection of drawings - or so you'd have thought. They're all actually showing different physical forces.

Citizenship Textbooks for schools.

It's not all rock and roll party party party being an illustrator. True, I do get to spend an inordinately large proportion of my time surrounded by doting fans whilst living a life of constant excess, but from time to time I'm brought back down to earth by a realistic commission. This is one such example. I think all in all there were 252 drawings to do in a series of Citizenship textbooks for secondary school classrooms. These ranged from drawing pretty much every vegetable available in the UK (as evidenced by the illustrations) along with a number of sauces and condiments, through to drawings to teach students about contraception, (also shown), and many other things too (not shown as there's about another 200 of them!) As you can see, these drawings are pretty dry, so I tried to make them as colourful and interesting to the reader as possible.

AQA Science Books - Harper Collins

A series of illustrations of flowers showing how they "work", i.e. how they like the sunshine, how they don't like the cold, and how they get pollenated via bees. All good wholesome stuff.

GCSE Science textbook illustrations - Future Travel

Continuing on from the previous post, here's an example of how we'll be getting to school in the future.

GCSE Science textbook illustrations - Vehicles!

These various vehicles were for a chemistry science textbook. I don't recall their relevance, and why a chemistry book would need so many illustrations of cars and the such like, possibly something to do with fuel and energy expendeture or something?







And continuing on the same theme, here's another vehicle - again crashed - for another Science book.

GCSE Science textbook illustration - Pyramids!

If I remember correctly this image was to illustrate the principles of friction, and what better way to do it than via a drawing of slaves dragging a giant rock up the side of one of the pyramids.

Black and White ELT textbook

Presenting a veritable feast of various foodstuff line drawings for an ELT textbook.

How many ways can YOU draw a sandwich?

Pixel Twins - Ilex Publishing.

I don't do comic work that often so this was quite an interesting challenge for me. 3 lots of 2 pages for a book on digital technology for kids featuring "Meg" and "Gig" two characters that the yoof of today would be down with. I've heard on the grapevine that this was made into a press release pack, but was sadly never published as whole book which is a shame.

Heinemann English Textbook

This was an usual piece, as it illustrates a bit of text from a poem about a drunk piggy. It's for a language education book for Heinemann.

Small job for textbook

Every so often I get to draw something fun for a textbook. Here's a magician about to cut someone in half. It doesn't look like the audience is that confident in his abilities...

Science textbook - Migrating Buffalo

Every so often I get to draw a picture for a geography or science book that has to be more factual than my usual interpretive
drawings. Here's an example of Wildebeest crossing a river.