Editorial with Luke! Editorial no 1! Editorial, editorial, editorial!

Luke is the Best. If you understand that pun, you're either studying at Camberwell or having a really nice knowledge about contemporary illustration.
Nevertheless, time to present what I achieved for Luke's project called:

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in which we were simply asked to make an editorial illustration for the articles Luke provided us with.
To have any understanding about my work, you need to know the articles, but no way I am going to post them here, so:
- article no 1 in short was about property hoarders, leaving empty buildings unused and homelessness.
- article no 2 was general moaning of a fan of surfing who's scared that surfing became too popular and too cool and he will have to suffer from overcrowding of the beaches even more than he is now

The process of making those illustrations was very enjoyable, quick and efficient, something what we, migrant student workers with poor management skills really like!
Simple steps: read the article, grasp the meaning, find the keywords - make roughs, lots of it, try to draw down your ideas, visual sum ups of the article - send the roughs of your best roughs (blah!) to Luke, await feedback - make your amazing, final and shiny editorial illustration!

I do not have all of the steps to show you - scanning is between refilling the ketchup bottles and not being able to use self service checkouts at Tesco in my top 10 least favourite things to do.

However, here we go!

This post is dedicated to the Editorial no 1, as I need to nicely split that for my disgusting Development Folder.

So, these were based on my first, very scribbly roughs - I made like 15 really bad sketches, full of clichés - trying to make my illustrations funny or smart - well, didn't really happen. And then I found out that simpler, but boldly presented ideas stand out much more than jokes of Eastern European moron, who's not yet having enough understanding of the beautiful English language to try to be funny. 

Luke's liked the last one best (ha-ha) - saying, it had the strongest message. Therefore, I made this - basically repeating my idea with more paper and more glue and generally more fuss. 

I enjoyed making it. I think there is some great visual chunks in it. I fell in love with the collage. Nevertheless, it does not change the fact, that the first initial illustration is just stronger and probably better. 

There is a lesson in it - I need to know, when to stop or when I am overthinking a task. 

Off to a Editorial no 2!