Hello designers and art directors, I'm Ken Jacobsen. I've been a full-time freelance pen-and-ink illustrator, creating classically-styled illustrations for people like you all over the world, for almost 30 years.
This site shows a selection of llustrations that I’ve done for packaging. To see my other work, just click my logo at the upper right.
Style: My illustration style is influenced by the classic pen and ink illustrations of the
19th and early 20th centuries –themselves influenced by the woodcuts and engravings that preceded them.
Technique: I draw everything on a digitizing tablet, which I’ve been using since 1995, and all my work is created in digital format, unless requested otherwise.
Finished illustration: Whatever the client requires, whether vector or pixel format, including multiple layers, if desired.
I hope you enjoy my work, and please feel free to contact me any time.
All images copyright © 2022 Ken Jacobsen
Usage:
Organic Wild Rice label illustration
Client:
Flint Communications
Pen & Ink
Usage: Packaging illustrations for Green Giant
–A farm field background and the Green Giant character
Client: Pederson Gesk
This background illustration appeared on all of Green Giant's
canned and frozen packaging for over ten years
Usage: Proposed logo redesign for Levis jeans
Client: Cronan Design
Pen and ink
Usage: Packaging illustration
Client: Dollar Shave Club
Pen and ink converted to vectors
Usage: Wine Label
Client: Paragraph Inc.
Pen and ink converted to vectors, in three layers
Usage: Packaging illustration, Gold Medal Oat Flour Blend
Client: Kroese Design
Pen and ink
Usage: Logo, Earthgrains Baking Co
Client: Murray Lienhart
Pen and ink
This illustration was part of Earthgrain's logo for over a decade.
Usage: Yards Cicada Ale label illustration
Client: Paragraph Design
Pen and ink converted to vectors with texture added
Usage: Packaging, Corningware
Client: Dunn & Rice
Pen and ink with watercolor and pastels
Usage: B T McElrath Chocolates label
Client: This is Folly, Minneapolis
Pen and ink
Usage: Dr Harvey's Specialty Diets package -Retriever
Client: Hampton Hargreaves, Pittsburgh
Pen and ink converted to vectors
Usage: Dr Harvey's Specialty Diets package -Beagle
Client: Hampton Hargreaves, Pittsburgh
Pen and ink converted to vectors
Usage: Greenwise organic herb labels
Client:Publix Foods
Pen and ink with watercolor
Usage: Debeukalaer labelling illustration
Client: Compass Design
Pen and ink
Usage: Plant Success Organic Mychorrhizae packaging
Client: Plant Revolution
Pixel art, converted to vectors
Usage: Whiskey label illustration
Client: Chris Gorney Design
Sketch only –client "went in a different direction"
Usage: Publix Greenwise Organic Butter package art
Client: Publix Foods
Pen and ink with watercolor, each on a separate layer
Usage: Pig's Eye Beer label
Client: M R Bolin
Pen & Ink
Usage: Publix Greenwise Blue & Yellow Corn Chips
Client: Publix Foods
Pen and ink with watercolor
Usage: Maple Syrup Packaging
Client: Happy Monday
Pen and ink
Usage: Publix Greenwise Organic Fruit Juice
Client: Publix
Pen and ink with watercolor
Usage: Wanderer Face and Body Wash
Client: Dollar Shave Club
Pixel art, converted to vectors
Usage: 4life Packaging illustration
Client: Woodruff Sweitzer
Pen and ink, converted to vectors
Usage: Hellmann's Aioli labels
Client: Anthem Worldwide
Pen and ink with watercolor
Usage: Greenwise Organic Colombian Coffee
Client: Publix Foods
Pen and ink, converted to vectors
Usage: Shifted Pre Workout Packaging
Client: We Are Parliament
Pixel art, converted to vectors
Usage: Miloslaw Beer re-branding
Client: Ostecx Créative, Warsaw Poland
Vector art
