Overview

From watercolours, inks and oils through to digital painting in Photoshop, whatever medium Jessine Hein works in she turns out stunning fashion and beauty images for her clients.

Jessine had a unique head start in the world of illustration – her father’s a painter and her parents owned an illustration agency. She learned a great deal from watching her father work, and from being surrounded by illustrators day in, day out.

Her life is full of breath-taking creativity and imagination, and it’s fair to say she looks at the world differently. If she paused in a gravel carpark, she says, she’d empty it of stones because to her each one is unique and fascinating. She’s inspired by everything from ghosts to insects, and has huge admiration for the way artists like Egon Schiele use negative space.

This vast variety of interests and inspiration enables her to fulfill any kind of clients demands with an extraordinary power and creativity. She is always hungry for new and different challanges.

Training

Learning to draw and paint from her father, Jessine has been illustrating since she left high school.

Approach

Jessine loves it when her clients feed her imagination, and her first step is to focus on the brief. “Using empathy and paying close attention to the words chosen by my client help the image, with all its colours and composition, to form in my mind. It’s almost like remembering a dream, only that the visuals get stronger the more I think about them, not more blurry,” she explains.

Classic media like watercolours and oils have a timeless elegance for Jessine, but she’s equally adept working in software and an array of other media.

Styles

There’s a broad range of styles in Jessine’s portfolio, and she enjoys using new techniques and developing new looks. Watercolour, etching, classic comic book, vector graphics – she has an open mind and is willing to add to her repertoire. Jessine loves the idea of making an impact with a handful of strategically executed brush strokes, and inviting the viewer to fill in the blanks to mentally complete – and engage with – the image.

Client List

• Braun
• Cosmopolitan
• BMW
• Coca-Cola
• Barclays
• EMI
• Brown Brothers
• HSE24
• McNeil Consumer Healthcare
• monster de
• Freundin Verlag
• dm-drogerie
• Manor AG