The original brief asked me to illustrate a Philippine Tarsier running ahead of a pack of runners participating in the fundraiser.

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I had no idea what a tarsier was and after countless Google searches I still had no idea what it actually was. I came up with the conclusion that it was an endangered ugly miniature monkey, I think I was pretty accurate. 



​I played around with this idea but no matter how I drew both parts it always looked as if it was a hunt rather than a run. So I soon realised that it wasn't going to work. Instead I decided to illustrate it as if they were lining up at the start line of the race and the tarsier was the focal point of the poster.  Painted the original illustrations by hand and touched them up digitally to produce the final outcome.