Quick illustration for the New Scientist cover brief. I took the image from the article and sketched out the lamp post and went from there. My idea is that the lamppost acts like a plant during photosynthesis, taking in the energy (in this case, solar) from the sun and 'feeds it' via roots back into the National Grid.
The sun so far:
I am enjoying the fact that all the pieces look illustratively different.Where as the Diabetes cover leaned more towards Vector, the Space baby with a decidedly messy feel and this one with its cleaner lines. I think it works well for the style choice and the message behind the images.
Changed the structure/terrain of the ground and made it seem more earth like.
It's getting there. But at this point, the lamps and roots are starting to look a little dead. I'm going to tweak the colours and see if I can't make it more natural looking.
Made the lamps and roots green though I may play around with making the roots lighter. I'm also thinking of adding some plants and clouds but I'm not sure if that'll be over kill or not. (Also, it may stray from the original topic)
Show the difference in roots colour. Also just annoyingly realised I'm working in RGB and not CMYK.
FIN. I'll ask Lorenzo later whether or not I should add clouds or if I should just sign this one off. 
Applied to the template. Flipped the image so the background of the text didn't look too busy. I'm might just leave it like this, yet my in crit last week it was suggested that I added more text to suggest other articles.
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