Infographic Inspiration

 I've collected some images which contain elements I like or would like to include in my own infographic. These are just a few examples. Some of these are illustrations styles, type ideas, or layout inspirations.

Plesiosaur:

. I'd like to replicate a more realistic style like this image when drawing my Plesiosaur. Texturing and colour will involve some creativity as it is currently impossible to tell what Plesiosaurs would have looked like. Most artworks I've seen give them countershading and dolphin or seal skin like textures. Note: Look into colour reconstruction on dinosaurs, how do we know what colours dinosaurs are?

This infographic also has realistic depictions of their dinosaurs. I also quite like the Heading type, and the clean sectioning of text boxes. Could also incorporate the leading lines from text to illustration like this one does.

Again, another example of what I'd like to achieve with my Plesiosaur illustration. Don't particularly like the type choice or layout of elements, doesn't feel very harmonious. No cohesion in colour palette.

Infographic:

This infographic is the main inspiration for my own, showing both the above and below viewpoints of what would be the White Cliff habitat. Could possibly show the underground opals and fossil, with the Plesiosaur swimming above?

 

I enjoy the simplicity of textual elements and the pop of contrasting colours to draw your attention to the middle. The type is easy to read, and the little graphic elements of dinosaurs could also be really useful when describing the processes of opal-solute.

An interesting idea to use a 3D cutaway, would be able to show the Australian landscape above ground as it is in current day. The sides could show the buried fossils and the middle cross-section of water would show a live Plesiosaurus. The 3D model could give the wrong impression that that is what the landscape would have looked like 65 million years ago, an arid outback with a deep lake or ocean in the middle (it was a shallow sea in freezing conditions due to its position on the Gondwana continent). 

I like the overlapping elements and the enlarged map (could be useful as the focus is on the area of White Cliff). May also be useful to show a timeline of events, from sea formation to Plesiosaur birth and extinction, to the date of the White Cliff fossil uncovering. 

Some ideas for dynamism when posing the illustration - have it chasing something, eating, could use the neck/and or leading lines of the body to point to important information on the infographic. (Think about anatomical proportions and individual flipper movement, is there a pattern to their swimming? Like how any quadruped has a particular foot placement pattern when they walk? Will need to research).

(Also think about field of depth when illustrating).