IllustrationGRAPHICS

IllustrationGRAPHICS

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 their whitepaper entitled
“It’s All About Me – Personalized Health System”.
Woman trapped inside a glass whiskey flask, trying to escape.
Real Women Magazine – illustration (created using photo manipulation) for an addiction-themed cover.
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 – stylized illustrations for an article on women’s fashions over the past century.


The Grand Theatre – digitally augmented photo-based images for the 2002-2003 season.
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.
Banner photo collage for Karen Schuessler Singers' Raisin' the Roof convert. Depicts a fiddle superimposed over a mountain range.
Karen Schuessler Singers – photo collage banner for their “Raisin’ the Roof” concert (2022)
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.
The Grand Theatre – proposed pre-season illustrations for “Little Shop of Horrors”
and “The Turn of the Screw” (c. 2003 – 2004)
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 for 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 design and product illustration for a custom-tailored collectible stuffed toy.
Vector illustration of a red balloon falling toward a red push pin.
Created for a realty marketing campaign.
Theatre Aezir presents "That Summer" by David French. Moon rising over a lake with an empty boat and pier.
Theatre Aezir – design for the 2025 production of “That Summer” by David French
The Grand Theatre – proposed pre-season illustrations for the 2003-2004 season.
Dynarack Inc. – an information graphic explaining the differences between
First In – First Out (FIFO) and Last In – First Out (LIFO) shelving systems.
2016 Year of the Monkey illustration, styled to look like a Chinese paper cut, showing a monkey on a branch.
Facebook banner design 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.
Illustrative cartoon – 1950’s style sci-fi character.

Cover designs for the ebook “The Crowning Day: An American Love Story”. The client selected the photo-based design (right).


Lanie and Friends – animated character design for their YouTube channel (animation by Leah Morise)

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Self-promotional fold-up paper toy featuring the Renaissance Monkey mascot.

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Paper toy of a Hobbit
The Grand Theatre – fold-up paper toy for their 2010/2011 production of “The Hobbit”.
Monkey wrapped in bandages like a mummy, hanging from a large jack-o-lantern.
Facebook self-promotional banner for Halloween.
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.
Facebook self-promotional illustration based on a Christmas sweater theme.
An illustration of Leonardo DaVinci made up of various sized dots.
An experimental illustration, called “Leonardo DotVinci”.
This illustration is made up exclusively of dots.
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 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”.