Custom Digital Illustration

Original vector illustrations & drawings for digital, printing & publishing uses. Creative illustration creation for stencils, branding / logo designs, large format installations, printing projects, children’s books, infographic designs & small format / digital icons for websites or Apps. Freelance illustration designer in Swansea, South Wales.

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Illustration Examples

Many of my illustrations are intended to be extremely simplified, using the minimum amount of shapes & sharp corners to aide in print production (when used for vinyl cutting for example).

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Design Projects

Cat Stencil Vector Illustrations

A series of cat illustrations designed for small tattoo stencils. Created for glitter tattoos, they needed to be extremely chunky and simplistic to be easily visible in small format....

E50 Social Media Graphic Designs

A couple of graphic designs created for E50 Exosomes, designed for two purposes, one for B2B advertising and the other for B2C marketing. One for the upcoming Valentine's Day...

Historical Location Illustrations

One of my recent illustration projects was to supply the artwork for a large format installation that informed visitors about the notable or historic locations in the area. The...

Boxing Academy Logo Design

A local group was created in Swansea, South Wales to provide sporting activities for children in the area, starting with a boxing academy. They approached us with a specific...

Wildside Scents Logo Design

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This was quite a complex logo design project for a Swansea based company, which involved a number of processes & techniques to achieve what the client visualised. We were...

Welsh Padel Centre Logo Design

The Welsh Padel Centre required a logo design that reflected their sport & their Welsh heritage. They asked for us to use their full name & web address in...

Illustrated Icon Designs

Obviously web design & website browsing is going more & more towards responsive web design / mobile friendly websites, so a good set of icons is becoming essential to...

Beer Crest Label Designs

After creating the logo, branding & beer bottle labels for Two Drifters Brewery, they then required the label designs converted into small circular labels for beer pumps... like you...

More Beer Label Designs

Another couple of new ales from Two Drifters Brewery, both requiring bottle label designs, including Drifters Sunrise & Drifters Sundown. To continue along the same style as all the...

Series of Cartoon Illustrations

These cartoon style characters were drawn using Adobe Illustrator as vector graphics, to be used as glitter tattoo stencils. The finished products needed to be fairly small, so the...

World Map Infographic Design

Large format infographic design, featuring an illustrated World Map with map marker icons to visualise the companies global locations. The map is split into areas of colour to show...

Range of Beer Label Designs

Two Drifters Brewery required a complete branding exercise... creating the corporate logo, and several product labels. Each label needed an illustrated background to convey the taste & type of...

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Cartoon Illustration

One of my early jobs was to design children’s tattoo stencils, which were drawn as vector illustrations so they could be produced as vinyl cut stencils. Each drawing had to be small enough for a children’s arm, which meant the drawings had to be very simple yet recognisable in small format.

The drawings also had to have no sharp corners, which assisted the cutting machine in production. And each shape had to be self-contained, with no overlapping objects – this is also essential for vinyl cutting, as the blade will follow the outside line of each shape. View some Illustration Examples.

Illustration & Branding

For a number of logo design projects, I am required to draw certain elements of a logo, whether it is a simple star, or an elaborate floral pattern. The majority of logo designs are required to be supplied as EPS / vector graphics, so they will be suitable for any printing usage, small or large format, or vinyl printing if necessary.

Infographics

Infographics Illustration

One of my main clients produce large format installations for various companies and institutions around the UK. I provide the artwork for a number of these installations, which often require infographics designs to present information in a simple & fun way.

The infographics illustration designs will be created using Adobe Illustrator as Vector / EPS graphics, as they will be used in very large format in most cases.

Industry Experience

Professional illustration experience.

When I first became a freelance designer in 2010 in Swansea, South Wales, I took on a few part time jobs to generate income. One of my jobs was working with a Glitter Tattoo company where I created illustrations for their products.

This involved producing vector drawings for their tattoo stencils, where each design needed to be suitable for vinyl cutting. As the tattoo stencils were mainly aimed towards children, the designs needed to be very compact and chunky, yet the designs needed to instantly be recognisable.

Each week I would spend one day at their company premises and they would give me a list of design ideas, I then created a unique, original drawing that fitted the design brief. For example, one week they would ask me to draw a mermaid or a fairy, another week they would ask me to draw a cartoon style octopus or cat.

Illustration applications.

After around five years of creating illustrations for tattoo stencils, I found that this illustration style could be applied to many other areas, including logo design and icons for web design projects or mobile apps, where a small scale illustration is often used to generate a visually informative icon.

I have utilised vector illustration for numerous projects as a freelance designer, many large format design installations have required custom drawings, where a cartoon style illustration is needed for an infographic exhibition.

Vector illustration is ideal for print projects because the artwork will be scaleable infinitely without losing any quality when printed. So you can drastically reduce the file size of a print PDF if you utilise EPS or vector graphics.

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How I work

I charge a reasonable hourly rate for custom design services, but always provide a detailed quote and plan of action before undertaking any work. I provide design previews of my work before asking for any payments, so there are no disputes about the finished product.

For digital illustration projects, when the finished design is agreed upon, I can supply the artwork in several formats and sizes for all digital uses and print production.