The main point I was conveying with this idea was the deceit and two faced nature of the Volkswagen company, and also the deadly danger they have introduced by covering up their pollution emissions and allowing people to keep using their cars and pumping unsafe gases into the world for all of us. I'm quite happy with the idea behind the piece but I wasn't sure how best to visually explain it, as I'm trying to move away from fineliner work. To escape this I tried incorporating some collage into the piece, I cut out the heavy black spaces and put a coloured card background behind the image to show through. Initially I was going to use red but I felt it was a bit out of place and not very subtle, as red often screams danger and this piece is about the quiet deceit of the company. This is the piece with a red background before I decided against it:
I decided to use a black background in the final design as I felt it communicated the subtlety of the issue better and less glaringly obviously. Although I kept the skull in which could also set alarms blaring for poison and death. I think that the skull is appropriate though as it isn't too horribly exaggerated or very details but I placed it in the centre of the piece to communicate the central theme of my whole article, which was basically how pollution is killing mostly everything. To improve this piece in the future I would experiment more with other media as I have on the other two editorials, which I think are more successful than this one.
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