A biro and marker pen illustration, using shades of grey and a red. 3 children are practicing a human pyramid lift. A girl with plaits is being lifted, her arms are outstretched for balance and her face shows accomplishment. She is supported by a boy and a girl, they are holding her ankles, looking up and smiling at the girl.
Building Each Other Up
Children's editorial spot illustration for an article about supporting your peers.
© 2020 Gabriella Wilde
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Image 1: A biro and marker pen illustration, using shades of grey and a red. 3 children are practicing a human pyramid lift. A girl with plaits is being lifted, her arms are outstretched for balance and her face shows accomplishment. She is supported by a boy and a girl, they are holding her ankles, looking up and smiling at the girl. 
Image 2: Spot illustration magazine spread mockup. ]
Characters
a child with short, light brown hair walks in a knitted crocodile costume, with their head poking through the crocodile’s mouth, worn as a hood. They wear chunky grey shoes, black trousers, and a long-sleeved green top underneath the costume. The tail of the costume trails behind, and the crocodile’s cheeks are also coloured pink. They walk to the left, with their left arm holding a roller ball cane out in front of them.
'Reality'. A digital illustration with sketchy lines, coloured in greys and pink with lots of white space. The character is struggling to keep up with the 'kangaroo jumps' exercise. Her face is fully flushed pink, which matches her pyjama bottoms. Her hair is falling loose from a messy collapsed bun.
Editorial
Digital illustration split into wobbly tiles of different sections. Each section depicts an aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. Illustrations include: handwashing, rubber gloves, a rainbow, a child banging a pot with a wooden spoon, yellow and green daily briefly podium (for England), three silhouettes in a socially distanced queue, a mother and daughter performing ‘kangaroo jumps’ with varied ease in their pyjamas, a bubble, a gushing tap, a half-full soap pump with the words ‘happy birthday’, a bottle of hand sanitizer, an NHS worker in PPE, a medical face mask, a water droplet, the virus, and a semi-dressed group video call. Black, white, blue, green, red, and yellow have been used playfully, in relatively even amounts throughout.
pink and purple text on a yellow background reads: “keep dancing Fatima”. The word ‘dancing’ is animated to move up and down.
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