Welcome to Keith Hardy’s Website

A Technical Author, Illustrator and Photographer, I use this web space to display some of my work and promote my products and services.

Technical Writing and Illustrating

Originally a telecommunications and electronics engineer, I spent over 10 years as a technical lecturer and training manager before entering sales and marketing. In my later career, I became a freelance/in-house technical author and illustrator, and have been creating user manuals, data sheets, case studies, catalogues, presentations and web content for many years. I am currently acting as a freelance consultant on a part time basis. I’m willing to take on small jobs for clients that need the services of a technical author/document creator or illustrator.

Photography

I carry out product photography and perform post production image processing.

As a keen wildlife and landscape photographer, I have accumulated a large portfolio from around the world. I have selected some of my favourites to share online. Some can be found in my Redbubble shop ‘ChimaGraphics‘.

Technical Illustration

I create product illustrations that vary from photorealistic images and visual assembly instructions to isometric and exploded views. you can see examples of my work here.

Digital Art and Graphic Design

I have a passion for Celtic design and indigenous art, and have created several collections of my own creations in the Celtic style together with illustrations inspired by Celtic designs found in ancient manuscripts and architecture. I have adapted many of my designs to products for arts and crafts at ChimaArt on Etsy and consumer products at ChimaGraphics on Redbubble.

Mindfulness

Several years back, I started a collection of mandala illustrations in outline for adult colouring, and presented them on a dedicated website ‘Mandaladesigns’. I have now closed the site down but many of the designs are available in my shop ‘Chima Art’ on the Etsy website here.

Artwork for Creatives

Having created many page border designs as part of my Celtic collection, I recently ventured into designing a broad range of borders for gift cards, greetings cards, menus, calendars, certificates, etc. These can also be found in my shop ‘Chima Art’ on the Etsy website here.

Designs for Consumer Products

I am a contributing designer to Redbubble. My work includes individual designs and photo imagery for t-shirts, stickers, mugs, cushions, magnets, etc. as well as seamless continuous patterns for fabric and ceramic products.

At the time of editing this blog, I have over 100 designs in my Redbubble portfolio. Take a look at my designs in my Redbubble shop ‘ChimaGraphics’ here.

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