A collection of editorial illustrations
Shark Teeth Hunting: The risk and rewards of hunting for shark teeth.
Triadic palette. Pink tones are my favorite to depict flesh tones in illustrations. It has beautiful shades and is the common undertone of all fleshtones.
A Psychology Today article about the toll it takes on people in the profession of aiding and caring for others. In this illustration one person is winding up the other even though they are in no condition to and further damaging themselves. I chose this grey blue because it reads as a medical tone to me and I used different shades of that color to create depth.
"Young girls wake up one morning with the ability to generate powerful electric shocks from their bodies, having developed specialized muscles — called “skeins” — at their collarbones, which they can flex to deliver anything from mild stings to lethal jolts of electricity. The power varies in its intensity but is almost uniform in its distribution to anyone with two X chromosomes, and women vary in their capacity to control and direct it, but the result is still a vast, systemic upheaval of gender dynamics across the globe." -Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times
To achieve the feel of this I created a strong person out of the shape of the female reproductive organs, and create the action of bolting electricity from the collarbones. I chose a triadic palette that plays well for the subject and action, I enjoy using pinks for flesh tones because it reads as such but is also ambiguous as it is diverse.