Barnardos Scotland and Grampian Police operate the Young Runaways Service, a project to help young runaways within Aberdeen City. YRS hired Viscom to create a comic book based on stories written by young runaways during a story-writing competition.
Of the nine stories and one poem in The Young Runaways, I illustrated five stories and designed the layout of the comic. I also designed promotional materials, including a series of posters, a banner and invitations, for the comic’s launch event.
The artwork was drawn by hand, scanned and cleaned up in Photoshop and then turned into scalable vector images in Illustrator. The project’s tight budget meant that only the front cover could be printed in colour, but having the stories in black and white, added to the atmosphere and perfectly matched the hard hitting themes covered by the stories.
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