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.

1950’s Human and pet brief

November 15, 2011 By Paul Yeatman

I was feeling a little rushed last week. I have an a4 render of a human looking recognizably 1950’s along with a pet due next Wednesday. I spent ages sorting out what to draw, then when I started in class last week, my N2 Copic marker was drying up. On Sunday, I bicycled into an […]

Mascots done / cool jobs

November 15, 2011 By Paul Yeatman

My teacher said that my rabbit needed a nose so the final versions of the rabbit from my previous post now have noses and whiskers. I’ll post those once I have access to my desktop. Saw a graphic artist job advertised at a medical research institute in the city today. Something like that could be […]

Slight change of direction

November 3, 2011 By Paul Yeatman

Originally for my mascot, I was going to draw a beatnik aardvark, mainly because I thought I’s have no way of anthropomorphizing one.  I’ve ditched the James Deanish rabbit for a beatnik and called him Victor, for want of a better name. The four renderings are supposed to be in black and white with greys […]

Class progress made

October 21, 2011 By Paul Yeatman

After two weeks of fluffing around I decided to use an old cartoon rabbit as my 50’s expo cartoon mascot. Now all I need to do is give him a James Dean look. Still pondering what to do for the pet and owner pic. Maybe something like the Doris Day pic where she has all […]

What to call a company???

October 12, 2011 By Paul Yeatman

Back when I was not serious about being arty farty or being a designer, the name I liked to go by was “The Alien’s Niche”. These days, I’ve been thinking of more appropriate names. Or inappropriate ones. Should I use my first or last names or a combination? Should I use words like design or […]