Jojo Ensslin
(He/Him) • Düsseldorf, Germany
Biography
Jojo Ensslin works as an illustrator, animator and artist in Düsseldorf, Germany.
His style consists of rather flat perspectives, idealized and simplified landscapes and an overall nostalgic and haptic feel.The charming, yet slightly odd characters he creates are lively and populate scenes with multiple narrations, subtle interactions and hidden jokes.
Jojo starts his work with pencil on paper, or the more modern version of it: the tablet. Even though his technique is vector based, he alters his finals by adding textures and shadings, roughness and artefacts. Jojo works in CorelDraw, Illustrator and Photoshop, for animation he uses After Effects.
For a variety of clients he is doing character design, editorial illustration, childrens-, and school books, animation including script and storyboard and many other applications.
His illustrative style gets even more reduced and simplified in his woodcuts: only using 3 to 4 colors and due to the destructive nature of the technique in strictly limited editions of around 12 prints each. His artwork is shown in solo and group shows in Germany and other European countries.
Selected clients
Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Clubhouse Junior, Hungry Eye Media, Connected Rogers, Todays Parent, Oxford University Press, Eltern, Freundin, La Viva, GeoMini, Guppy Friend, Ferrero, EY, Audi, Nivea, Lidl, Samsung, ECE, IngDiBa
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