Finding your illustration specialty can be as challenging—and as rewarding—as finding your voice and style. Swedish designer Emma Hanquist has found hers in Editorial Illustration, a branch that revolves around creating idea-driven illustrations that complement and enhance a written piece. Through it, she has worked for every major news outlet and magazine in Sweden, as well as companies like Spotify and Airbnb. In this course, Emma shows you ways to come up with illustration ideas by creating an efficient way to find inspiration and guides you through the process of creating an editorial illustration for a magazine, from the sketch to the presentation.

Contributors page of this months Wallpaper* magazine by Sam Kerr

Pietro Soldi is a Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist based in London, UK. Massively inspired by the newspaper comic strips universe, his work is

So for the third in my series of lady portrait-type assignments, I've got this more realistic one for the LA Times! No sassy bra-ladies this time ;). Joey Santos came to me with an article in the weekend issue about spring tips and trends in makeup as told by Carmandy of What Not To Wear fame (I used to watch What Not To Wear all the time, to Sam's chagrin). The general theme was out with the old and in with the new and fresh, with a particular emphasis on floral colors like corals, pinks, and reds. I was feeling the zest of spring and wanted to do something light and airy with plants and flowers to signify the season. The assignment turnaround was just 4 days from start to finish, so my sketches were necessarily brief. I had a little trepidation about doing the sketch that was chosen because I wanted the girl to look dreamy but not too silly, though I'm very happy with how it turned out. Joey also suggested adding her other hand putting makeup on, and toning down the floral wreath-- a good call on both counts! I've been trying to expand my color palette to include some more neutral colors, so I wanted to limit my brights to just the pinks and reds spoken of in the article. Because the emphasis is on the face and the "prettiness" of it all, I really enjoyed going with a more realistic fashiony style. It turned out to be one of my new favorite pieces, I hope you like it too! :)

Here is a selection some of my recent editorial Illustration work commissioned by magazines, newspapers and design companies. The conceptual nature of my editorial artworks are my main focus when creating commissioned pieces.

Illustration by Conor Nolan

My illustrations for Vioro Magazine

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Clever conceptual illustrations by Francesco Bongiorni, an Italian artist who splits his time between Milan, Madrid and London. More illustrations via Ufunk

Clever conceptual illustrations by Francesco Bongiorni, an Italian artist who splits his time between Milan, Madrid and London. More illustrations via Ufunk

Stunning illustrations created in 2016 by Karolis Strautniekas. Karolis Strautniekas definitely belongs to the list of my favorite illustrators. In 2016

Brad Yeo - Illustration

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