Backgrounds!

I've been experimenting with background concepts for stationery, wallpaper and wrapping paper. They start on paper and I scan them. Trace in Illustrator and start experimenting. It seems some of them are quite popular.


© Photographer: Theblackrhino | Agency: Dreamstime.com

© Photographer: Theblackrhino | Agency: Dreamstime.com

Real Leaf Animation Video

There is art in nature. There's also great ideas right inside the things of nature. Birth, life, death and all the things in between are all explained if we are listening and watching.



This video is available for purchase at Shutterstock.

A Rocky Road to First Place

When I made this drawing, I never imagined it would take first place on Shutterstock for a search on "boulders." Not only is it first place for illustrations, it's first place for photos.

It is a strangely humbling and exciting feeling that people all over the world are buying my rocks! I hope to find out where they are being used.

Black Rhino Animation!

It all starts with one step at a time. In an attempt to give movement to some of my illustrations, I decided to branch off into animation. I hope it works out. Tell me what you think.

Everyone has had a leaky faucet (purchase this in high quality royalty-free formats at Stockfuel):



A sunset has always been something I wanted to embellish (purchase this in high quality royalty-free formats at Stockfuel)!

100 Sales in One Month!

© Illustrator: Theblackrhino | Agency: Dreamstime.com

It seems more and more people are finding Black Rhino Illustration clip art useful! In September alone, we sold over 100 various images. We greatly appreciate your support! Moreover, we thank you for buying our pictures. It's so easy to download samples and work to delete watermarks (theft).

We hope you will share your ideas of concepts we can illustrate. Look for even more useful and interesting illustrations in the future. This includes clip/stock animation and cartoons.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Stamps - Pine Forest Collection

Buy these beautiful stamps made from hand drawn illustrations of a forest. I made them with Speedball ink pens and black India ink. Traced and colored within Adobe Illustrator.

Spring Time Pine by theblackrhino
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Winter Pine by theblackrhino
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Autumn Pine by theblackrhino
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More supplies

The experimental illustration days of yore are resurfacing to my consciousness almost daily. The call of pencil, ink and paper is louder and almost impossible to ignore. My wife bought me a new large sketch pad. I have just about used up all of the pages in my original one from 1985, making more drawings in 90 days than I have in almost 25 years.

She also bought new drawing ink and box to keep my new "tools" in one place. Within the next few days I'll be dipping my old Speedball Artist Pens into new bottle of Higgins ink. It's a shame the new bottles are plastic. Back in the day, they were glass! I still have one, but it's white.