My first real illustration job!!!!

Recently I was given an opportunity by the company I work for back home in the holidays to create a poster. They are a chain of upmarket care homes, mostly for the elderly with specialist dementia units and care staff. Their ethos is to treat every resident with dignity and respect, not just shove them in the corner because they are 'on their way out' or 'won't remember anyway'. Since working there and interacting a lot with the residents, this is something I feel very strongly about; I have met some of the most fascinating and brilliant people, who completely deserve to be treated with full respect.

The poster had to include a poem written by one of the head dementia nurses, a couple of my own illustrations and be organised clearly so it is easily readable. They also asked for it to be positive, almost a bit twee, "maybe watercolours or something" so it doesn't look negative and care staff would want to read it. I found it SO hard to work with the type; looking back I probably should have collaborated with a graphic designer.It's not the sort of thing I would usually want to make, but I do feel like I have done a fairly ok job and the company said they were super happy with it, so I suppose that's all that matters! It is to be distributed across all their care homes in the UK and used in specialist dementia conferences and meetings, so I am pretty proud!