Schweizer Familie / Childhood Fears

In February I illustrated another article for Schweizer Familie magazine, I've been lucky to draw such fun things for them! This article was about childhood fears - obviously fears are not fun, but drawing these illustrations definitely was!

I love seeing other artists' process so here's another behind the scenes peek. Here are some sketchbook drawings I did for my initial research, the roughs I sent to the art director, my inked drawing (I ink all my illustrations on paper) and the digitally coloured versions - as well as how it looked in the final layout of the online version of the magazine.

Cincinnati Gives / Raising Generous Kids

I love doing editorial illustrations, and I think this is one of the sweetest ones I got to draw so far! Cincinnati Gives is an annual magazine produced by Cincinnati magazine and the article is about getting children involved in helping with charity work. Here's a peek into my process: As you can see, I initially submitted two different pencil sketches for the art director to choose from. Then I inked the illustration on paper, scanned it and coloured it digitally. (The last image is a screenshot from the article on the Cincinnati Magazine website , you can read it here!). Cincinnati Gives  is out now.

Schweizer Familie / Kids Protest

Another really fun editorial illustration for Schweizer Familie magazine. I love that commissions get me to draw things I may have never drawn otherwise - like this fun children's demonstration/protest!
Here's another peek into my process as well, showing the pencil sketch that I sent off for approval, the ink-on-paper illustration, and the final version (digitally coloured in Photoshop). The image at the bottom shows what the final illustration looks like in the layout. If you're interested in reading the whole article, there's an option to subscribe to the e-paper version of the magazine here: https://www.schweizerfamilie.ch/e-paper-lesen/

Arlington Magazine / The Thing About CSAs

Hello & happy Monday! If you know me, you know that I LOVE vegetables, so drawing this illustration for the current issue of Arlington Magazine made me feel so lucky to be doing this as a job. My illustration is accompanying an article about the advantages and disadvantages of CSAs (weekly veg boxes), written by Holly Scudero.

The first image is the finished illustration, followed by the initial pencil rough I sent off to the art director. There was only one change I was asked to make, which was to change the cucumbers in my sketch to okras. I definitely think it's much better with the okras! All my illustrations are inked by hand on paper and I work pretty neatly, so the third image is just a scan of my ink drawing. Once the drawing is scanned, I colour it digitally and in this case I also added some hand-made watercolour texture to the big lettuce leaf. Finally, at the bottom you can see how the illustration looks in the layout of the magazine. Here's a link to the article as well, if you're curious!

I've already shared the illustration on my Instagram, but a blog is such a nice platform to share a bit about the process behind it and since I am determined to get back into blogging, this is one thing I am planning to share more of. Do you enjoy this kind of post? Suggestions are always welcome!