Hemp Illustration

The Short Talk story about Hemp only has half of a page to work with, so it is a challenge to come up with an art solution that won't take away too much of the space. The story talks about different products made from hemp, and the editor and I discussed illustrations of each of the products. I thought about the different ways I could conceptualize the story, and I knew that I wanted to really show that the products came from the resources of a plant. So, I want to show them literally growing off of a hemp stalk. At first I was just going to draw them in illustrator, but then decided that the digital medium was not the best choice in meshing with the content. Because the focus is on an organic resource and organic products, I wanted the art to be more organic, so I used paper cutouts to illustrate the products. This was also a good way to add more variety to my illustrations.