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Concept #1
Exaggeration / distortion, shadows (purple), halo effect, blues to reds/orange (ascension - salvation), eyes closed (somber effect), scar (pain)
Style Technique: Pastel painting with water colors
Reference Artist: Phillip Burke
Concept #2
"Talk to the hand" body position, hand in foreground, eye can be seen between fingers, eye (speaks the "truth", genuine), rough cuts to depict grittiness, black and white (like Shigley's Tracy Chapman)
Style Technique: Wood cutting
Reference Artists: Neil Shigley, Emil Nolde, Kaethe Kollwitz
Final Illustration
Full Page Spread - "The New Yorker"
