Lovely composition and colour palette. You've captured the kids hair really well, very messy and childlike! Also the three children walking is very cute and with just a few simple lines too.
I love the drawing and colouring, Janet. The drawings are wonderfully delicate and the colouring (and some of the wobbles in the drawing) add a lovely child-like quality. The poses of the kids in the playground and the colour pallet make this seem quite real. Two points: 1) normally in editorial illustration, you wouldn't be given this much room to spread out your message. If a tad of space was added at the right of the top image, the bottom figures could be placedin front of the top image (at the right). That said, you may have two illustrations here. Maybe either would be sufficient. 2) Please explor handmade lettering. Some of the same child-like naivety mentioned above if applied to the text could contribute to strengthing the kids' message! Or maybe just trace some lettering. Overall, a lovely job.
I like the way the colour looks like its been drawn by a child. There's a great sense of movement in the playing children. Only a suggestion but would it be more powerful with the lettering being hand drawn? maybe childlike?
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