Author: Paul Yeatman

Microbiologist with >15 years in the pharmaceutical industry with such responsibilities as trainer, team leader, auditor, technical writer, validator, quality assurance and control, viable environmental monitoring and more. I've dabbled with computers since the 80's and am fairly IT savvy, acting as a help desk for my immediate and extended family. After toying with visual design since high school, I qualified as a graphic designer in 2012. For leisure I ride and race my many bicycles, create websites, mange my cycling club's social media and am passionate about increasing everyone's knowledge.

Screwdrivers & Gears

October 18, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

Tongiht it was back to Illustrator.  Thanks to being tired, it was a long night.  Following our how to book, I drew a screwdriver, a ratchet and some gears.  That was pretty much three hours worth, besdies learning about selections art boards.  At present there seems to be alot more reading than doing. Over the […]

Nubian Queen

October 13, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

Okay, given the picture was a bit long and skinny, I decided on a closer view of the sculpture. My previous starts were pen only, but this time around I drew the sculpture in HB and inked the outline.  The next task is to add texture to the piece.  This should be a challenge. Progress […]

Line art Giger

October 13, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

Last night we began experimenting with pen and lines. After some warm up exercises we were instructed to begin to draw the photo we brought in for that purpose. I had several as I was not sure what I wanted to draw. I had photos of a lion, a meerkat, a cicada, a beetle and […]

Toolbars and control boxes

October 11, 2010 By Paul Yeatman

Tonight the diploma was a ‘get to know’ illustrator lesson.  We were handed manuals and let loose on illustrator in a very basic but time consuming click here, do this, move this, show this, hide that, change workspace, zoom here, custom view that. More of it to come next week.  I am thinking of dragging […]