Botanical Illustration

I created these illustrations in Adobe photoshop and illustrator. I’ve used a few little Ernst Haeckle botanical illustrations of a fly catcher in there too. He’s one of my favourite characters from history. You can see his collection of drawings here open to the public. They’re early 1900s which is after the invention of photography. I assume the technology wasn’t mobile enough to take out into the field to make scientific records of the plants. Well I’m pleased about this as we now have this huge collection of incredibly detailed illustrations, along with the scientific discoveries he made.