In 1988, I joined the Royal Australian Survey Corps and served six years as an Illustrator-Reprographic. The role covered just about every visual task the military needed at the time—from drawing military symbols on maps to laying out educational OHPs and slides, sign writing, calligraphy and basic photography.
Cartoons or creative artworks for unit publications were rare, and you usually had to compete with the other illustrators in the Drafting Cell to land them. Below are a few examples I managed to save from that period.
