This is a picture of a piece I produced last year for an editorial illustration project. We each had to choose one from a variety of newspaper articles to produce an illustration for, I chose the story of the conspiracy of the death of Paul, the German football-predicting octopus. It was early in the first year, and I didn't feel overly confident in my hand-drawn skills to produce an editorial by hand, so despite not being an expert on Illustrator and having limited time to produce the piece, I decided to produce a piece on Adobe Illustrator, based on the story of an Argentinean chef placing an octopus dish on the menu of his restaurant after Paul (correctly) predicted that Germany would beat Argentina in the World Cup Quarter-Final last year.
I know it's a simple design, and if I had more time to do it again, I'd love to gain enough confidence to produce a hand-drawn design in the same style. It's not the best piece of work I've done, but I quite like the simple idea and I'd like to think of it as another example of me looking to develop a cartoony style.
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