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Blog » boring meetings
Boring Meetings Magically Become Interesting!
By Jon Reinfurt
Here’s a couple of illustrations I got to do for the most recent issue of Convene Magazine. The theme was “terrible meetings”, or more accurately how to breath life into a bad meeting or convention in order to make it more effective. Basically the AD wanted to have a really boring meeting depicted on the cover, and then for the inside feature show to some sort of positive magical transformation. We went through a good amount of sketches for the cover but in the end they settled on the idea of a crowd of bored convention attendees as seen from the perspective of the speaker. Pictured above is the final art for the cover without the text (Sorry, I haven’t received a copy of the completed magazine yet). The inside illustration (below) shows the transformation of the same audience into a packed crowd of excited and engaged convention goers.
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Here’s a couple of illustrations I got to do for the most recent issue of Convene Magazine. The theme was “terrible meetings”, or more accurately how to breath life into a bad meeting or convention in order to make it more effective. Basically the AD wanted to have a really boring meeting depicted on the cover, and then for the inside feature show to some sort of positive magical transformation. We went through a good amount of sketches for the cover but in the end they settled on the idea of a crowd of bored convention attendees as seen from the perspective of the speaker. Pictured above is the final art for the cover without the text (Sorry, I haven’t received a copy of the completed magazine yet). The inside illustration (below) shows the transformation of the same audience into a packed crowd of excited and engaged convention goers.
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