Illustration

Illustration

Illustration is a powerful tool that communicates ideas through visuals like cartoons, digital renderings, drawings, manipulated photographs, paintings, and sketches. With professional-quality design programs digital illustrations can be created that not only emulate traditional mediums, such as pencil, coloured pencil, ink, paint, paper, and charcoal but also opens up all-new possibilities.

Renaissance Monkey Design has created illustrations for advertisements, audio-visual presentations, books, compact discs, infographics, magazines, postcards, posters, promotional campaigns, web sites, whitepapers, and many other forms of marketing.

“I worked with Lionel for over 10 years. He‘s embraced many different roles, including managing a team of designers. He led with patience, integrity and respect.
Lionel possesses an incredible ability to fully understand the clients’ needs and then deliver concepts that communicate the intended message, regardless of the budget.”

Shelly Wilson
Sharpfusion, SW Design
and Real Women Magazine

Self-promotional illustration – 2024 Gingerbread-themed Christmas Facebook Banner
Four toy-like characters from the medical industry and one with a cellphone and a DNA strand on their front.
Ivey Business School – Illustration for whitepaper entitled
“It’s All About Me – Personalized Health System”
Woman trapped inside a glass whiskey flask, trying to escape.
Real Women Magazine – photo manipulation of several images to create a cover illustration representative of addiction
Three cartoon characters, glass of water, juice box and soda bottle, having a race.
Middlesex-London Health Unit – cartoon characters created for their “Think Before You Drink” campaign
Four minimalist female figures wearing outfits from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.
Real Women Magazine – illustrations for an article on women’s fashions over the past century.
Three posters. A woman in a read dress Dancing in Poppies. A woman or Blithe Spirit with a mischievous grim. Black Yorkie named Toto jumping on Dorothy's legs in The Wizard of Oz.
The Grand Theatre – digital illustrations/photo manipulations for the 2002-2003 season posters
Horizontal image showing a saxophone, martini glass, trumpet and clarinet with the words JAZZ AND SPIRITS below them all.
Vector-based illustration for the “Jazz and Spirits” fundraiser
Four illustrations. A teddybear ice fishing. A girl hugging the teddy. The teddy next to a stream. The teddy sitting on a paint can with a paint brush in hand.
Illustrations from a children’s book that follows the adventures of Tripper the teddy bear.
Illustration of a customized Squishmallow toy and an egg shaped name tag reading Unique Tishmallows (Hiccup).
Product name tag and illustration design for a custom-tailored collectable stuffed toy.
Vector illustration of a red balloon falling toward a red push pin.
Created for a realtor’s marketing campaign.
Little Shop of Horrors - a male figure being eaten by a giant plant. The Turn of the Screw - a female figure protecting two children at her feet.
Illustrations for two classic theatrical productions presented by a local theatre.
An information graphic depicting the difference between two shelving systems,
First In – First Out (FIFO) and Last In – First Out (LIFO).
2016 Year of the Monkey illustration, styled to look like a Chinese paper cut, showing a monkey on a branch.
Self-promotional illustration based on Chinese paper cutting,
commemorating 2016 as the Year of the Monkey.
Stylized cartoon of a redhead woman in a space suit standing in front of a 50's style rocket.
Self-promotional illustration – 1950’s style sci-fi character
Self-promotional fold-up paper toy
Monkey wrapped in bandages like a mummy, hanging from a large jack-o-lantern.
Self-promotional banner for the Halloween season.
Orangutan dressed up like the retro Coca-Cola Santa Claus.
Self-promotional illustration for the Christmas season. Pencil crayon on artboard.
A Christmas sweater illustration depicting the Renaissance Monkey icon along with the words Happy Holidays.
Self-promotional illustration – A Christmas sweater themed illustration depicting
the Renaissance Monkey Design icon and a Happy Holidays message.
An illustration of Leonardo DaVinci made up of various sized dots.
An experimental illustration, called Leonardo DotVinci. This illustration was created with dots only.
A polar bear is standing on the ice, before a glacier. In front of the bear, the head of a seal is sticking out of the water.
Illustration inspired by Charley Harper’s mid-century modern graphic depictions of animals.
Vector-based illustration of a not-so-traditional troll doll with piercings and tattoos
An experimental vector-based illustration called “Not Your Mother’s Troll Doll”.