I made these illustrations for City Pages, a Minneapolis-St. Paul newsweekly, a month ago. All three were for an article about bad bus drivers. At first, I was going to have a unique bus driver for each illustration, but I decided to develop one character to use for all three, to bring some continuity to the illustrations.
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The second one is fantastic.
I really like some of the contrast of opaque colors I've noticed in your work. The style is a little more... graphic(?) I'm talking about elements like the THUD, combined with the burst illustration below, all on the solid yellow background. I think it would be cool if the inside of the bus were colored this way too. I think it was a great choice to stay with one bus driver character, in order to help give readers some visual continuity to go along with the written narrative.
Good point, Peter. I think one of the things I had to keep in mind was that 2 of the 3 illustrations would appear in black in white in print. The first illustration, with the snow scene, became the main illustration and appeared in color. So I think with the THUD illustration, I was aiming to create a contrast between outside the bus and inside the bus. Maybe I should have just designed it in black and white to begin with. Then again, I didn't know which one they would choose for color.
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