Exercise 2, 2nd attempt

1st attempt

 This was my first attempt at an illustration for an article in the Independent about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. In the article it is described as a 'plastic soup'.The World's Rubbish Dump: a tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan

It's invisible from satellite as it lingers below the surface, and was happened upon by a former Sailor Mr Moore by chance in 1997, on his way back from a Los Angeles to Hawaii yacht race. For this illustration I focused on his story, and tried to make visible a few Tesco Bags etc that might be recognisable.

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I also played with the idea, as described in the article about it behaving like a monster "It moves around like a big animal without a leash... when that animal comes close to land.... the garbage patch barfs and you get a beach covered with this confetti of plastic'.

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I played about with this idea in my sketch book for a bit, and then decided that the most shocking thing was actually the size of the 2 patches.













So eventually I went for a much clearer image - treating the 2 patches like islands in their own right, but making them look slightly like sea monsters.

final image