Alan won the British Birds magazine 'Bird Illustrator of the Year' award in 1982 and has been joint Art Consultant to that magazine since 1988. Summer nature vector graphic elements Set of nature vector design elements isolated on white background. I also encourage you to have a look through the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s 250,000+ images on their Flickr.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Originally painted in gouache and pen, this hand drawn illustration has been printed on lightly textured 300gsm watercolour paper, and signed in the bottom corner with permanent ink.This meant that when it started to train, it initially produced images which looked like a mixture of faces and my illustrations.

Later, when working for the RSPB, Mike met Richard Porter who offered him a job illustrating a poster and book on birds for children in North Yemen. I finally managed to set some time aside and work on these drawings and I’m really happy with the final result. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.I watched Derrick’s tutorials on training a StyleGAN Neural Network and the things he was saying made a degree of sense to me, plus he had published a handy Google Colab notebook with step-by-step code, so I decided it was something I might be able to have a go at.