AOI Prize for Illustration 2017 entry

• I insisted that this would be a short brief for me to tackle. I hadn't been working solidly from the point that I began it to til the end (today) but it definitely took a lot more hours than I had expected
• I decided to go with a lot of spot illustrations that could be fitted together to make a big image, a way of being able to communicate a lot of ideas at once. I thought this would be quicker but actually took a long time- lots of images AND I hadn't planned how to fit them all together so that took some thinking afterwards.
• I didn't want to just be obvious with this brief, but I wasn't about to lay something metaphorical on a poster about transport. I tried to make something fun with the characters but also their figures and proportions, as that's something I've been interested in drawing this summer.
• For once the text (shape/letter wise) went quite well and was fun and I think I managed to create text in a way that was digital but not distractingly so compared to the rest of the image. HOWEVER! I had a lot of pain trying to balance this composition, and I don't think I quite got It even in the final design, but had to cut my losses at a point as it was interfering with other projects. Overall, I really need to learn to plan better, which I'm struggling with when making pieces in a  combination of traditional and digital media.