Sugar Kills

The original sketches did have him presenting the lollipop to an obese child (see my earlier post), but I figured that 1) That made it slightly comical and less sinister 2) I (quite rightly) had it pointed out in some feedback that the interaction in pose between the two characters wasn't very interesting. To mitigate this, it's been kept more as a character illustration, I feel that the pose is still interesting enough as it forms a fairly strong silhouette and I didn't want to break that up too much as I was quite happy with the design already. Posing it may have compromised this. Anyway, I took away the small child and instead added children's hand prints to to the cloth on the character (and background), to hopefully illustrate some kind of clamouring desperation by children to get access to something that is really quite bad for them. It's in part a tribute to one of my favourite controversial paintings "Myra" by Marcus Harvey.