Bert Monroy: Bert was so impressed when he got a Mac in 1984 that he soon started a company to publish clipart called HumanForms, allowing less-skilled artists to quickly assemble professional-looking drawings of people. He was the 7th or 8th person to use Photoshop and co-wrote the first book on it. As one of the first illustrators using Macpaint, he did a lot of work for Mac magazines and produced backgrounds for the first comic drawn on a computer, Shatter. He has been featured heavily in graphic design publications and at Photoshop conventions.
www.bertmonroy.com

Into It
©1987

Objects Out There
©1986

The New World
©1986
 

A Door Somewhere
©1986

Reflection
©1986

Fossils
©1987


Down Under
©1986

MCE
©1987

Rocktown
©1985


Further Out There
©Bert Monroy
Background scanned with a Thunderscan

Objects in SF
©1987

Richie
©1984


1984
©1984
A cover for The Macstreet Journal

The Shaver
An ad for Gillette

Computers
©1985

Bert and his partner at The Reference Corporation produced HumanForms, specialized clipart that allowed the user to quickly create realistic looking human bodies in virtually any position. By choosing the correct angle for the arms, legs, feet, hands and head, accurate drawings of people doing various things were relatively easy to make. It proved popular with hospitals and other medical users. This is a sample of the 26 pages containing over 1,000 body parts that fit on one 400k disk.

©1985

©1985

©1985

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