In the deep end

Hello everyone

I wanted to share with you a new brief I was given recently. My teacher is a practicing illustrator and he gave us a task based on a real life project he had done previously in the year. At the start of the day he explained the brief giving us a typical email that an editor might send to you. Our task was to draw an illustration for an article about the work load of young teachers. We had to draw a rough sketch by 2pm that same day then, once approved, we could start finalizing our idea and planning.

Here is my initial sketches

Here is my final sketch

This was such a fun and challenging project. It was helpful to see what it is like to be an illustrator in the real world but it was also stressful feeling like you are working for somebody else and trying to please the client.
However, I do feel like I have learned valuable lessons from it.

Megan Stokes