This Way Up

This was a short project to create a poster based on the theme, 'This Way Up', which we are doing alongside illustration students in Australia. I would have liked to have had more time to spend on this, it was pretty rushed due to all the project deadlines. The idea is that the top half is the UK, with a fox, an otter and a stage, the constellation Orion and an English tree, whereas 'across the water' in Australia the tree is a baobab (which is where the main idea came from, as it is also known as an upside down tree due to the fact it looks like roots) and the animals are the equivalent, a dingo, a kangaroo and a duck billed platypus. Also the constellation is the 'Emu in the Sky'. In the UK the sun is rising and as it is on the top, and the sun is setting in Australia, as they are opposite sides of the world!