I drew this knee joint for a space suit as it sat on my desk... the thing was huge! It was needed for a slide/vu-graph presentation for SOC at Johnson Space Center. (Note: they didn't have PowerPoint back then.)
An illustration for slides/vu-graphs I did while working at the Johnson Space Center. The originator (rocket scientist with major pocket protector gear) brought this sketch he had done on a cocktail napkin (true story), and I got to interpret it as a hand-inked isometric (rapidograph, anyone?) which portrays the cooling shields used in the SOC (Space Operations Center).
A carefully drafted (inked in rapidograph pen) slide/vu-graph illustration showing the SOC (Space Operations Center) being put into orbit by a space shuttle that I did while working at Johnson Space Center. I got to meet the originator of this project... an actual rocket scientist... right down to the uniform coke-bottle glasses, polyester double-knit suit, pocket protector with major gear and a calculator that looked like it could control the space shuttle. I think the engineers at JSC had a dress code to this effect.
Another isometric drawing I did while at Johnson Space Center. This one is a space shuttle containerized science payload project that was originally done in rapidograph pen for a slide/vu-graph presentation. For the sake of showing a little color, I scanned it and then colored it up in Adobe Illustrator. The original input for this one was actually scribbled on a wrinkled piece of notebook paper (instead of a napkin).
HOW DO YOU MAKE A LACKLUSTER PROPERTY LOOK CLASSY? DRAW A PICTURE! This was yet another 8.5" x 14" brochure done with two ink colors on vellum stock, printed on a Ryobi press with a T-head. Separate floor plan sheets were printed to fit within, and the leasing agent simply added the floor plans to meet the person's needs. The property was under heavy rehab for some months, so this approach worked well... it looked nice. Granted, the property was kind of generic.
HOW TO GET A LOT OF CLASS FOR SMALL BUCKS: a nice line drawing, two colors of ink and a nice vellum stock... printed on a Ryobi press with a T-head for two colors. It was 8.5" x 14" folded over, and then the floor plan sheets were inserted by the leasing agent.
This is a line drawing I did of an apartment complex for a brochure while the property was under rehab, so photos couldn't be used. The drawing wrapped around a brochure printed on legal size paper and folded over to form a folder, the floor plan sheets were sized to tuck into that small folder.
No product in the warehouse to shoot photos of, but I did have a funky drawing I could clean up and tweak to put into a brochure.
An electric powered hydrostatic testing unit. There wasn't going to be any of these coming off the assembly floor for months, so I cleaned up a funky line drawing and added some gradient shading.
An example of my expert in cleaning up ancient crud. This is part of a freelance job for a local marine supplies company with an ancient catalog they finally ran out of and they didn't have any of the production art (probably created in the 1970s). The top image was scanned directly from that old catalog, and the bottom image is what happens after I clean that stuff up in Photoshop, then Streamlined it through Illustrator, added some nice gradient shading and the appropriate call-outs for a higher resolution but smaller memory graphic.
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Technical Illustration
I worked for NASA for several years, and over the years I have done a lot of architectural and technical illustration to go into O&M manuals, catalogs and collateral materials.