Process: Media Genesis Newsletter illustrations

One of my favorite things to work on at Media Genesis in the last year or so has been the newsletter. We have a number of Project Managers with writing backgrounds, so every month or so we put together a newsletter of roughly four to five articles on the latest internet news, specifically geared towards clients of ours. As a founding member of the newsletter team, it's my job to create all the editorial illustrations.

Sometimes these come to me rather quickly, and the idea is easy enough to execute that just a basic sketch is all that's required before moving into Photoshop:

Other times things don't go quite as smoothly. For this illustration entitled "The Key to Corporate Blogging," I first drew a locked chest and a locked door down a long hallway:

After some work in Photoshop, it became clear that neither of these paths had much merit. The simplest path, just drawing a key, was the best:

Sometimes even the simplest sketch, just a gesture really, is enough of an idea to go on:

Despite what I thought as a child, today I'm not sure I'd really want to be an illustrator full-time. But editorial illustration is a great diversion from having your nose buried in website design all day, and I'm pretty proud of the newsletter we've put together. You can check out all past entries here, and while you're there feel free to subscribe.

Below are a few more of my favorite illustrations that I couldn't find my sketches for:

Tags: illustration, mediag, newsletter

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