{"id":1402,"date":"2026-05-14T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/?page_id=1402"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:41:00","slug":"illustration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/?page_id=1402","title":{"rendered":"illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\"acideye\"<\/a><\/div>

acideye<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nHappy spooky season, folks! A fun one on the ever-relevant theme of Being Seen. All done with the Shape, Pen & Curvature tools in Illustrator. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"alien<\/a><\/div>

alien cells I<\/a><\/h3>
\n\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/bJayNpo5Ee8\n \n\n\n\nAnother experiment with macro imagery. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"awl\"<\/a><\/div>

awl<\/a><\/h3>
\nSutures and the tools to put them there. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"beetroot\"<\/a><\/div>

beetroot<\/a><\/h3>
\nOne of a series of posters made for putting up on the walls around my home. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"bite\"<\/a><\/div>

bite<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"black<\/a><\/div>

black & white<\/a><\/h3>
\nA few experiments in black and white with repeating shapes\/illustrations. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"blue<\/a><\/div>

blue & red<\/a><\/h3>
\nWas listening to Rezz's album IT'S NOT A PHASE on loop while these were born. Around the same time I prepared for a major medical procedure in 2024. \n\n\n\nOverlooking a wasteland of silty tissue riddled with overgrown microbiota. \n\n\n\n\nThe overturn of...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"blueberry<\/a><\/div>

blueberry eclipse<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"brights\"<\/a><\/div>

brights<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"cnidarian\"<\/a><\/div>

cnidarian<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nA fun experiment with some cnidarian-inspired shapes and colors. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"dart<\/a><\/div>

dart frog<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nSome fun with super-saturated colors and the very cool Fleisch font by Joachim M\u00fcller-Lanc\u00e9. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"decidual<\/a><\/div>

decidual tissue<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nOverlooking a sea of ever-shedding tissue. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"desert<\/a><\/div>

desert plants<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSome more visual meditations on endometriosis. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"eyewall\"<\/a><\/div>

eyewall<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"fall<\/a><\/div>

fall fun<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"feast<\/a><\/div>

feast for the eyes<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nI like to take projects on from a technical approach that isn\u2019t the fastest or most efficient - or even the best, in this case. I can get an effect more truthful to the vision in my head by using brushes in Photoshop or working with physical paints o...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"first<\/a><\/div>

first cast the beam out of your own eye<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nAnother space-creature to add to the bestiary, or perhaps instead to add to a circle of friends. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"flat<\/a><\/div>

flat fruits<\/a><\/h3>
\nA quick exploration of form & color with a lemon, melon & peach. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"flattened<\/a><\/div>

flattened cysts<\/a><\/h3>
\nA quick exploration of form in Illustrator. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"fleshmech\"<\/a><\/div>

fleshmech<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nFrom the skull-cyst's interface, the pilot guides her Body towards the mouth of something hungry enough to make use of its spent mass. \n\n\n\nEndometriosis, migraine, and the associated neuromuscular strangeness has forced me into an understanding...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"floral<\/a><\/div>

floral square<\/a><\/h3>
\nA simple floral pattern made in Illustrator. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"fungal<\/a><\/div>

fungal gallery<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"geometric<\/a><\/div>

geometric flowers<\/a><\/h3>
\nOne of a series of posters made for putting up on the walls around my home. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"geyser\"<\/a><\/div>

geyser<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nAnother meditation on pelvic pain & organ loss ahead of my hysterectomy. Weighing difficult choices. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"girlhate\"<\/a><\/div>

girlhate<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCovers for an imaginary book on the salt circles my younger self poured around themself as protection. Seeing oneself as not-like-the-other-girls is at once born of external terror, of arrogance, and of creeping and vast loneliness. We don't...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"gleichma\u00df\"<\/a><\/div>

gleichma\u00df<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"green<\/a><\/div>

green and purple<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nBrief series of experiments with geometric arrangements of shape & dark stroke. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"hammerhead\"<\/a><\/div>

hammerhead<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nStripped-down mech. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"hearts\"<\/a><\/div>

hearts<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nActive and passive forms. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"independent<\/a><\/div>

independent supply<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nEndometriosis lesions produce their own estrogen, according to current medical literature. How to tell them to lie quiet? \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"javelin<\/a><\/div>

javelin and aquifer<\/a><\/h3>
\n \nThis image came to me very clearly while listening to Sufjan Stevens' Javelin. \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTunnels: strange and filled with life that does not care to know us, or perhaps knows us well enough not to wish for further acquaintance. This is a comfort....<\/div><\/div>\n
\"just<\/a><\/div>

just a pinch!<\/a><\/h3>
\nSome thoughts on a few words one might hear repeated at the doctor's office. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"knife\"<\/a><\/div>

knife<\/a><\/h3>
\n\nIUDs and pills chase down the symptoms while the disease-self sits invincible within a space too small for it. \n \n\n\n\n \nAn alternative version, pulling a tunnel out in the Z axis with some sharply stepped gradation. \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"lady<\/a><\/div>

lady fishbowl<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nUsed this one to experiment with nesting different picture planes inside each other as characters! The little guy in the Lady\u2019s helmet is one, the Lady herself next, then the nerve\/wire signals jumping from stacked-layered muscle filament t...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"lesionnaire\"<\/a><\/div>

lesionnaire<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nMx. Eater and Spitter, bush that burns but is not consumed. The soul follows the body to that place of comfort and nightmare. the end of everything before, where the road turns into a highway and there are no turnoffs for another twenty miles. ...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"Linum<\/a><\/div>

Linum lewisii Slide Illustrations<\/a><\/h3>
\nMy husband Joseph Barham's  undergraduate thesis project centers on the study of Linum lewisii, a type of blue flax. I designed a few graphics for his thesis presentation deck. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nI started by making a batch of vector assets...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"localsf<\/a><\/div>

localsf zine cover<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nA cover for a sci-fi\/weird fiction zine idea I had while living in Fargo. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"mammalfruit\"<\/a><\/div>

mammalfruit<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nMoment of calm during follicular phase. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"mandibles<\/a><\/div>

mandibles on the horizon<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nFun in Illustrator with a crablike face, inspired by Atergatis integerrimus (red egg crabs). Started as another pen sketch. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"milkvein\"<\/a><\/div>

milkvein<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nThis visual is about estrogen. Make of that what you will. Several hours in Illustrator, just having the time of my life. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"mirrorbeast\"<\/a><\/div>

mirrorbeast<\/a><\/h3>
\nOne of a series of posters made for putting up on the walls around my home. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"oh,<\/a><\/div>

oh, honey.<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nAlien comfort for an astronaut down to her last few sips of O2. \n\n\n\nThanks to Hidetaka Yamasaki for the awesome Luke font (licensed via Adobe Fonts), which I used here! \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"orzo<\/a><\/div>

orzo and shrimp<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nA poster of our beloved kitty Orzo thinking about one of his favorite foods - poached shrimp. Made to put up in our kitchen. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"painpearl\"<\/a><\/div>

painpearl<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nAdhesions, cysts, pathology, psychology. A couple more visual tunnels through the theme of pelvic pain. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"patterns:<\/a><\/div>

patterns: brights<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"peach<\/a><\/div>

peach planets<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nFurther experiments with form, shape & composition in Illustrator. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"pink<\/a><\/div>

pink & blue<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"pink<\/a><\/div>

pink diamonds<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nA flat illustration inspired by recent experiments I've been doing with colorful paper & stick glue. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"pink<\/a><\/div>

pink frog<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSome froggy fun in Illustrator. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"pomigrainate\"<\/a><\/div>

pomigrainate<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nI have recently discovered an emphasis on process in my own workflowthat sometimes proves counter-intuitive.The glossy shine of this thing\u2019s eye-seeded body and the drops of its venom are rendered first with sharp lines.I change my mind l...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"pondbird\"<\/a><\/div>

pondbird<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nWent for something approaching the look of hot foil stamping with this one. Simple shapes called a bird out of the foreground, unplanned. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"pre-trendelenburg\"<\/a><\/div>

pre-trendelenburg<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSimple sketch visualizing some thoughts on the mental & physical experience of waiting for surgery dates. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"prisms\"<\/a><\/div>

prisms<\/a><\/h3>
\nThree of a series of posters made for putting up on the walls around my home. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"puddlemonsters\"<\/a><\/div>

puddlemonsters<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"purple<\/a><\/div>

purple and green<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSome fun with the curvature tool in Illustrator! Inspired by some of the fantasy book covers I like to look at. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"rabbit\u2019s<\/a><\/div>

rabbit\u2019s ear plant<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSome thoughts on waiting - watching mold grow on living tissues, or diatomaceous earth working its way into one's own joints. Aging is just as alien an experience as it is universal. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"radial<\/a><\/div>

radial fruit textures<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nExperiment with color & super-simple radial symmetry\/asymmetry in Illustrator. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"reclining<\/a><\/div>

reclining saprophyte<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSome thoughts on injustice in the medical system (as applicable to my fellow under-insured siblings around the globe, especially here in the US) and Genesis 4:10. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"rivermouth\"<\/a><\/div>

rivermouth<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nA simple visualization of a turtle-headed figure diving for plant matter. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"seathing\"<\/a><\/div>

seathing<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nA thinking, feeling thing beneath the waves. Two colors in Illustrator. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"see\"<\/a><\/div>

see<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nJust some simple fun with blending modes in Illustrator. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"Sensor<\/a><\/div>

Sensor Illustrations<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\nThese little illustrations were created to show off what each of a few Bosch Sensortec sensors can accomplish, for use in a SparkFun blog on these products. The top illustration depicts barometric pressure sensing underwater,...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"singing<\/a><\/div>

singing seabeasts<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nExperimentation with shape, composition & color in Illustrator. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"single-pair<\/a><\/div>

single-pair ethernet explainer<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nUsing verbiage provided by subject matter experts on my team at SparkFun Electronics, I put together these graphics to illustrate how SPE (Single-Pair Ethernet) works. All of the illustration that appears on this page...<\/div><\/div>\n
\"smooth\"<\/a><\/div>

smooth<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"spacebeasts\"<\/a><\/div>

spacebeasts<\/a><\/h3>
\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"SparkFun<\/a><\/div>

SparkFun Qwiic Ecosystem Graphics<\/a><\/h3>
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\"summoning\"<\/a><\/div>

summoning<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nMade over many days in Illustrator, while listening to The Unexplained by the prolific Mort Garson as Ataraxia. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"tiny<\/a><\/div>

tiny beasts in substrate<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSome fun in Illustrator with the shapes one sees among small ocean life. Detritovores making the best of something rotting. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"tomorrow's<\/a><\/div>

tomorrow's well<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nWith care and grief, we draw from tomorrow's well to fulfill today's needs. A visual meditation on the medical wonder and pain of early hysterectomy & all that led to it. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"treeshroom\"<\/a><\/div>

treeshroom<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nSomething huge and luminescent grows from earth pitted with rot. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"tunneling<\/a><\/div>

tunneling wound<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nVisual meditations on decay & growth, specifically on unwanted physical phenomena that self-duplicate (tunneling wound, traveling lesion, etc.) \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"waste<\/a><\/div>

waste heat<\/a><\/h3>
\n \n\n\n\nA fruit-fairy mech, venting vapor from joints and waste heat from the maintenance hatches in its abdomen. \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"web<\/a><\/div>

web crawlers<\/a><\/h3>
\nAggressively hypersaturated vaporwave shapes. \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"wedgwood<\/a><\/div>

wedgwood experiments<\/a><\/h3>
\nA couple of simple experiments in Wedgwood-ish blue & white. \n\n\n\n\nA way out. \n\n\n\nA polycystic body with stretch marks and laparoscopy scars. \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"weeping<\/a><\/div>

weeping sphere<\/a><\/h3>
\nSome further visual experiments on the theme of endometriosis & PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome). \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"weiblich\"<\/a><\/div>

weiblich<\/a><\/h3>
\nFurther experiments with simple vector shape & color. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n \n<\/div><\/div>\n
\"z\u00fcndung\"<\/a><\/div>

z\u00fcndung<\/a><\/h3>
\nIndependent project created in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Sketched in pencil, scanned in and hand-traced in Illustrator, using semicircles to round out flames and refining\/joining edges using the Join and Pen Tools. Paper texture scanned in and...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1402","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1402\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jbarham.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}