A client of mine, an Art Director of a monthly magazine in Sweden, asked me to illustrate an article, which was an interview with a person working as an employed contractor at a company who had been heavily bullied at his work. It was very important that I had no knowledge of the working place and hadn't seen any pictures as reference of the person interviewed. That way, I couldn't unintentionally and unconsciously portray anything resembling the person in the article. He was going to be anonymous.

Four illustrations in total were made for the article; one being a full-page spread and three other smaller illustrations. A decision was made that I would only draw the lead character as a silhouette in all four illustrations but his colleagues with clearly shown faces. Although, still only imagined faces and not their actual likenesses.

After reading the full article and a quick briefing by the Art Director, I started to make rough sketches in my sketchbook. When I felt I had the general idea of each image, I scanned the drawings individually and saved them as individual Corel® PHOTO-PAINT^TM (CPT) files. In each image file, I placed the scanned images as temporary objects in the Objects docker, and set the opacity of the objects to about 50%. Then, I created new objects and grouped objects to organize each part of the illustration. For example, all black outlines were set in one grouped object, and the additional colours were set in a single new grouped object. That way, everything is well organized, which is important when objects keep being added in multitude during a project - some saved and some deleted. When I had drawn up the black outlines after the rough sketches I scanned as reference, I deleted the rough sketch object.

Because I liked to have the same base colors in all four images, part from one and two odd ones for each image, I saved the first Image Palette in Corel PHOTO-PAINT as a customized palette, which I then opened and reused for each new image. When all illustrations were finalized, I converted all images to CMYK, 300 dpi, and saved them as TIFF files before sending the illustrations to the client.