And this is how the final cover looked. Doesn’t it make your mouth water just looking at it?

Cover © Vijselaar en Sixma / Esther Tji

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In the end the pictures were put together in Photoshop changing the scale, the contrast and the colours. Also the sky was replaced by a computer-generated image. Finally the picture was retouched. We made two final versions: one with the pink candy clouds, and one without.

Screenshots © Vijselaar en Sixma 2010

Next we set up the scene, arranged the lighting and took several pictures.

Picture © Vijselaar en Sixma 2010

When the sketch was approved upon, graphic designer Ester Tji send this cover concept.

Design © Vijselaar en Sixma / Esther Tji.

Consequently we started to build the actual scene. Especially the palm trees were quite a hassle to build.

Pictures © Vijselaar en Sixma 2010

Also the sweets were very hard to resist and we couldn’t help eating some during work 😉

KLM asked us to make an illustration for the cover of their Inflight magazine KLM Herald. The theme of the glossy was SWEET and we were asked to make an image that would communicate a feeling of summer, vacation and candy.

Thus we thought up a tabletop scene of two tourists relaxing on a tropical candy island build from sweets and cookies.

After having bought lots of different sweets we tried out several arrangements. Finally we proposed this sketch.

Sketch © Vijselaar en Sixma 2010