I wanted to walk through my thought process for this https://newnaratif.com/journalism/timor-leste-draws-its-line-on-domestic-violence/share/pybxr/fa2b3663870c6beb79904db1d583f0e2/?fbclid=IwAR3X1ZTffC7J3APeut-Y60CeCzGavd1VeO-iwSnKDw1CrMsXF9KJfTgXJE4
For New Naratif I worked with Charis Loke to produce an Illustration for the article "Timor-Leste Draws its Line on Domestic Violence". Sophie Raynor wrote the article and it was vividly written that images immediately sprung to my min
I wanted to emphasize how speaking up can actually affect the situation and how it also protected the other women in the family, hence the placement and composition. After a few corrections I made this as a guide for myself
The biggest difficulty for me was actually doing the spot illustration. I had in mind that I wanted to show how these families are between a rock and a hard place before the state intervened but all ideas I had doesn't seem to gel. All I can think of is the family in between two places --and the composition is all very scattered.
I took a break and decided to flip through Adam Hughes' art book . I love that he doesn't really cover up his less than polished sketches . The sketches made me pick up my pencil and sketch more loosely which gave me a breakthrough and made me produce this --which got an OK and I finalized it.
