ANTON EMDIN | ILLUSTRATION, DESIGN & ART DIRECTION
ILLUSTRATION, DESIGN & ART DIRECTION / Sydney, Australia
GQ_Himbos_GB.jpg

News, events, and blog

The latest illustration and goings-on from Emdin HQ! Commercial, magazine, editorial, advertising, branding, logos, book, commissions... and more.

Globalisation / Closed Borders

Full page illustration on Globalisation for Australian Penthouse (following an article by Brendan O’Neill).

Here’s how it turned out in print…

IMG_0286.JPG

You can find it in the Winter 2018 issue, pictured below.

IMG_0285.jpeg

And keep scrolling for some of the process!

The brief was globalisation and closed borders. Here are the initial quick thumbnail concepts: A) Trump (and May) walking away from a broken Earth with their countries; B) Building walls; C) Trump hatching from a broken globe/shell clutching the USA; and D) Trump’s ‘hair’ as a wall.

The client chose the first concept, so I moved on to the sketch:

And with that approved I moved on to the finished colour artwork, which you can see at the top of the page.

Thanks for stopping by!