Tea Time

by Tatiana O'Toole

This illustration was one of my attempts at compromising with the client on content. Because the illustrations would be used to cue the user into understanding what they were about to read, having illustrations depicting full on Nessie habitats wasn't very helpful; the metaphor had gone too far into the abstract to successfully inform the user what the copy was about. I started introducing home scenes that would be something the user would identify with but have subtle nods to the Nessie brand theme- seaweed looking desk plants, abstract tea pot patterns that looked like the Loch Ness Monster, and books tied to adventure and nautical topics. It didn't meet their expectations, and this idea was scrapped, but I finished it out anyways.