Speculative illustrations from a New York Times article titled ‘These ‘Trash Trees’ Are Actually a Banquet for Wildlife’ written by Margaret Renkl.

Opted to include two versions of the final main illustration as it was a good chance to experiement with/without a limited colour palette. Also produced 3 fun spot illo’s to accompany throughout the article which can be found below:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/opinion/hackberry-trees-food-wildlife.html