Bad Future, Better Future:

A guide for kids, and everyone else, about climate change — and what we can do about it.

The New York Times, April 20, 2021

I painted these illustrations in bits and pieces, using gouache on watercolor paper, and assembled them into long, seamless scenes in Photoshop.

The files for each section of the story are about 50,000 pixels wide and have 1000+ layers! One of the biggest challenges for this story was building a continuous landscape that accommodates text in desktop and mobile configurations. Having the flexibility of movable, digital layers made it possible to edit text while the illustrations were being created.

This digital assembly process also came in handy while making a two-page, poster-style spread for print, which published as part of Science Times Earth Day issue.