I recently completed an illustration to be used on a poster representing the societies which are available for students at a local university to join. The brief was to create an image using the world map to represent the idea of inclusion, and to incorporate elements which relate to the various societies on offer. I came up with this composite illustration in black, white and shocking pink. It was the first piece of illustrative work I had done for a while and took a fair bit of penwork, but it was good fun - especially except for all the scanning and cropping - and looks great on the A2 posters which were printed.
Here’s a detail from it. You can see a larger version of the full thing here.
If I could go back to it, I’d probably add some white design elements to break up the pink a bit and add further interest and depth. Maybe white text denoting the societies and laid out like placenames on a real map, connected to their respective graphic with a white line - I think that would really make it sing. What do you think - let me know in the comments.
