I’m working hard on my final school project, but thought I might show a few of my illustrations. Basically they’re all article illustrations, but specifically for the internet newspaper pol.dk (Danish). I’ll post more when I get the time

One of the last illustrations from my school project that ends this friday. It’s from an article about how your boss should be tough enough to fire employees when necessary, but also be considerate and caring.

I’m attending a course in school where we’re dabbling with the fantastic world of article illustration. For many illustrators this seems to be the main line of work, so It’s not something to ignore.
I rather like the idea of having to sum up an entire article with just one picture (I know, of course that you could just as easily build your illustration with many different pictures). It’s different from the experience I’ve had with infographics in the sense that most infographics are there exclusively to shed light upon a subject and to objectively explain. The cartoonist is more likely to project a statement or point of view into the illustration.

The article behind this illustration is about how suburban homeowners buy an increasingly amount of motorised garden tools, even with the most diminutive of gardens and lawns (originally from the Danish newspaper Politiken, and written by Claus Bøje). It has a certain focus on the noise that the machines make, and how you’re no longer able to hear the birds. I thought it would be funny to show the sounds of the machines, and not showing them at all. The deafening noises are shown competing with loud typography and colours that battle fiercly.