Hello! I’m EJ Jardine, a recent graduate of Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.
Hello! I’m EJ Jardine, a recent graduate of Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in illustration and a minor in communication design.
The project was to research and learn about a typeface that I found interesting, and create a type specimen book exploring the features of the typeface. Type of Enemies: A Type Specimen of Fraktur & German Nationalism examines the history of blackletter type and its links to German fascism from the 1930s to the late 1940s.
The brief was to create a piece of work that was based on the topic of Absence. I decided to create a two-page comic spread of a post-apocalyptic world, following the character visiting the grave where they buried their brother.
Cycles: Life & Death is a piece of work created for the MIAD Illustration Class of 2026 Zine. The theme for the zine was Cycles, and this was my take on the theme.
The Fairies, Flowers, & Fairy Tales is a comic duology of fairy tales pulled from Hans Christian Andersen’s collection. Both stories were written in the same decade of the 1830s, taking place in Denmark. The Rose Elf and Little Ida’s Flowers are two lesser-known stories from Andersen, so adapting them into this comic was a labor of love! Keeping it old school, the comic is inked traditionally with dip pens, and bringing a touch of modernity, the inks were scanned and colored digitally, creating the ultimate marriage between traditional and digital art.
The Rose Elf follows a small fairy that lives in a rose as he witnesses a couple say goodbye, while trying to get home. Tragedy soon befalls the couple when the young man doesn’t return from a trip.
Little Ida’s Flowers is a story of a young girl’s flowers wilting and why they have wilted. A student tells fantastical stories of flowers coming alive and dancing in grand balls in castle halls. Believing the stories, Ida goes to bed expecting the flowers to have a ball in the study.
See work here: https://www.twine.net/signin
Currently, I design their weekly bulletin, working with them on creating graphics, formatting, and layout.
Screen printed signs and materials for the U.S. Postal Service.
Freelance illustration work for Milwaukee, Wisconsin & Davenport, Iowa, including client posters such as Stone Creek Coffee (2026) and Penfield Children’s Center (2025), plus other commission work (2023).
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