Randal Birkey Illustration Portfolio
Aerial Perspective Illustration
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Architectural Illustration
Corinthian Column Diagram
Randal Birkey created this line drawing of a Corinthian-style Greek column, as a diagram for a book on architecture. The original was done by hand with Rapidograph ink pens on drafting mylar film using architectural drafting techniques.
Citibank Center Bank Entrance
Randal Birkey was commissioned to render an updated design for the Citibank branch location in Oakbrook, Illinois. The perspective view below was developed from architectural blueprints using 3D modeling software on an Apple Macintosh computer. The perspective view...
Fulton House, Chicago Illinois
In the 1980's, a cold-storage building located on the Chicago River across from the Apparel Center was converted into condominiums. The project was called Fulton House. This view of the project is from the southeast, at 333 W. Wacker Dr., where Headstand Media is...
Chicago Bears Stadium Rendered Elevation
In the 1980's, Randal Birkey was commissioned to assist in the production of large 40" x 60" presentation boards of a proposed architectural design for a new Chicago Bears stadium competition. The architect and engineering design team were able to export their CAD...
Dearborn Street Mansion, Chicago, Illinois
This is a watercolor architectural illustration of a renovation project on N. Dearborn Street in Chicago. It was commissioned early in the 1980s as Randal was starting his freelance illustration career. A real estate developer was rehabbing this mansion into a...
Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago, Illinois
I have a friend named Linda VanderWeele, who did a lot of graphic design in the 1980s for various Chicago area firms. One of her clients was the Chicago Board of Trade. They commissioned her to design a coffee table piece on the architectural history and interest of...
Automotive Illustration
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Cartoon Illustration
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Cutaway Illustration
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Digital Illustration
Mita Copier Technical Product Illustration
Chicago is a very commercial, product-driven town when it comes to advertising and design work. Randal did this product illustration in Adobe Illustrator for an ad featuring a Mita copier. This technical line art style lends itself well to newspaper and magazine...
Conceptual Globe Line Illustration Series
A business story-parable was written by a client of Randal Birkey's in the 1980's. Randal sketched a series of globes in various circumstances to visually illustrate the story. The story and illustrations were used in a brochure promoting the client's design firm and...
Chicago Bears Stadium Rendered Elevation
In the 1980's, Randal Birkey was commissioned to assist in the production of large 40" x 60" presentation boards of a proposed architectural design for a new Chicago Bears stadium competition. The architect and engineering design team were able to export their CAD...
Exelon Corporate Communications
Back in the 1990's, I did a series of illustrations for a designer friend of mine, who was designing some print brochures for Exelon, the energy company. The illustrations had to communicate about business, energy, technology, manufacturing, building relationships,...
Editorial Illustration
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Graphs | Charts | Diagrams
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Map Illustration
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Master Plan Drawings
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Pen & Ink Drawings
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Pencil Illustration
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Product Illustration
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Technical Illustration
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Vector Illustration
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Watercolor Painting
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