Project Details
Title: Schwarzwaldbauernhof / Black Forest Farmhouse Poster Set – Children’s Illustration
Client: Black Forest Artworks
Type: Commercial Illustration / Poster Design
My Role: Illustration, Visual Concept, Color & Style Development
Status: Completed
Client: Black Forest Artworks
Type: Commercial Illustration / Poster Design
My Role: Illustration, Visual Concept, Color & Style Development
Status: Completed
Scope of the Project
Concept and illustration of three Black Forest farm scenes from a minimal brief
Seek-and-find compositions (in German: Wimmelbild) with small hidden details to discover
Clean digital comic style and exact color matching across all three posters
Print-ready artwork, sold as individual prints and as a complete set
Project Description
The brief
Black Forest Artworks sells children’s posters for children’s rooms, kindergartens and schools. The farm set had to sell individually and as a set, and hang seamlessly next to the client’s other series.
Black Forest Artworks sells children’s posters for children’s rooms, kindergartens and schools. The farm set had to sell individually and as a set, and hang seamlessly next to the client’s other series.
The challenge
The brief was a theme and a few keywords. The three scenes had to match down to the exact hex code and hold a child’s interest beyond a cute animal. For this client, I developed a clean digital comic style with bold outlines and smooth shading.
The brief was a theme and a few keywords. The three scenes had to match down to the exact hex code and hold a child’s interest beyond a cute animal. For this client, I developed a clean digital comic style with bold outlines and smooth shading.
The approach
Each poster is a detailed scene full of small stories: a cat meeting a mouse family on the fence, or my bunny bear playing with the animal feed while a hen gives him an annoyed look. He appears across the series, so children can hunt for him in every scene. Regional details like the cuckoo clock, the shingled farmhouse roof and the spruce forest root the series firmly in the Black Forest.
Each poster is a detailed scene full of small stories: a cat meeting a mouse family on the fence, or my bunny bear playing with the animal feed while a hen gives him an annoyed look. He appears across the series, so children can hunt for him in every scene. Regional details like the cuckoo clock, the shingled farmhouse roof and the spruce forest root the series firmly in the Black Forest.
The result
The set is available in the Black Forest Artworks shop as individual prints and as a complete set.
The set is available in the Black Forest Artworks shop as individual prints and as a complete set.
Farm house illustration withn crops, a little fruit and salad garden, flowers and a beehive
Farm Illustration with a crop fiels, an apple tree, farm workers sawing wood or sleeping under a tree
a stable illustration of a black forest farm, with playful animal illustrations, and funny details to discover
Bunny bear, a recurring hidden character by Alexa Gregor, playing with a bee (low res Screenshot)
Bunny bear, a recurring hidden character by Alexa Gregor, eating an apple in the tree (low res Screenshot)
