Thanks for the support guys. I tried making a transparent QPixmap image using Qt::transparent fill for the axis and overlaying it onto my other QPixmap, however it didn't work properly. So I ended up just drawing directly onto the image itself. Not the most efficient method but it seems to work...

@houmingc You took that example straight from the documentation page for Rotation, which shows a picture of exactly what will happen. What more do you need? "Default angle" makes no sense. If you don't specify one there will be no rotation. It rotates around the origin along the axis. If you still don't understand, make a quick example and play around with it.