GIANT MOUNTAIN

This illustration was one of the ideas for a program for Women at Grant Thornton. Apparently the even though the people deciding what image they wanted called for some sort of climbing or progress vein to the editorial illustration, they really didn't glom on to the mountain, really. In fact, they were very adverse to it. I basically was drawing blind when drawing the mountain. They wanted many many different ways to get up along with stairs and ladders, at least, those were all suggested. As opposed to not adding those elements, I usually just add them and hope for the best. I really thought it might look good but..alas, it doesn't really read too terribly well. Not well enough for the more simplistic ideal that Grant Thornton would want to see, really. They have some really nice editorial work but we don't have all that long to work on them. I did a ton of silhouettes and the mountain in one day along with a watercolor background and a sketch of three different paths leading up to the mountain. The silhouettes are for racially blind editorial illustrations so no one really gets offended. I had to do all the elements separate as they need to scan them, add the all in one file after cleaning them up. I just think in layers anymore anyway. I'ts eaier when you have to build it,after all.