Janne Harju

In the summer food gets bad quite fast. Be careful! Illustration for health magazine Terveydeksi.

Illustration for a story about how woman realizes that she sometimes drinks too much. Alcohol makes her aggressive.

Here’s a Photoshop painting I started last year as a little experiment (non-commissioned & unpublished). For some reason I left the hand unfinished and forgot about the whole thing. Yesterday I found it again, painted a hand, made some color changes and wanted to post it here right away.

I did it like I normally do my illustrations: first a vector image in Illustrator and then painted in Photoshop. But I tried to make it more 3 dimensional, more painting-like and more better than my normal works. Searching for new ways to do my things.

I was searching for a file in my digital archives of non published works (and loads of other things). I did not find that file but spent almost whole day browsing through my old projects, tests etc. I found some very nice stuff that I had already forgot. Here’s some of them. “Gymstar” is from 2001 and others from 2004. I think I did not have lots of jobs and were trying to create something new. I think I should have gone further with them.

Some of the pictures I found need some editing (they are mostly fh:s or psd:s) before I can post them.

I would like to make more realistic illustrations and have recently tested a new style, I make a collage and paint it with photshop.

First picture is a cover for a book. Actually I’m still working on it, but I think it’s already good enough to show.

Here’s two more with same technique. These I made for Anna magazine (yes, I do a lots of stuff for other clients too and I’ll post them soonish):

Here’s some new illustrations for women’s magazine Anna. One above is about slowing down, taking it easy.

Ecological traveling. I tried a bit more 3d shadowing here:

Short term jobs:

Divorce and children:

These are illustrations for informational children book about medicine for boys wetting their beds at night. In this picture Mika is sad because he has wetted his bed.

Mika’s football team is practising.

Coach tells the team that they are going to a football camp.

Mikas going home after hearing that his football team is going to a camp. He’s worried about wetting his bed in the camp.

Mika has wetted his bed and daddy has changed the sheets.

Mika tells his best friend about his fears and she tells him about the medicine.

Mika tells his parents about the medicine and they deside to go to the doctor.

It’s always nice to draw mythological characters in strange context. Here’s Hermes, the messenger of gods, in a illustration about flight socks.

I tried to strech my style a little bit with this illustration about a death of a mother for Anna magazine. Finnish words on the flag are the beginning of the song “Farewell Waltz”, the favorite song of the mother in the story.

I did this illustration about home security for Osaava Kodinrakentaja -magazine (~”Handy Home builder”) as a first job of year 2009. And I did it totally against their instructions and wishes. They told me that it’s a beautiful picture but do it again and obey the instructions and wishes.

Here’s the result. I like it and so did they. Next time I’ll show the scetches before Photoshopping if I plan do something else than what was asked.