Editorial Spot Illustrations
A self initiated project created in Photoshop, from rough concepts to thumbnails to the final designs.
The first stage consisted of using reference images to gather and map out ideas about specific objects. As the theme was wellbeing, I sourced images which depicted looking after oneself both physically and mentally - exercise for instance, was represented by dumbbells, while reading and writing by the forms of book or journal.
The second stage was refining the previous drawings. Picking a darker colour, I transferred my preferred concepts onto a new page divided into squares and decided on individual compositions within them, while still remaining not too precious.
Finalising involved creating the finished sketches and going over them with shape and colour.
Each spot is roughly 3 by 3 inches, and is intended for use as part of a magazine page or a double spread.