“Our Home with Nasa (rejected version)” - Commissioned work, 2021

This is the rejected version of the commissioned portrait illustration, you can view the approved version here.

The brief was to create an illustration of Nasa sitting next to Khoa - one of Nasa’s parents - who helps raising this little cutie. The commissioner mentioned that Khoa loves going trekking and joining marathons. So at first, the idea of him wearing a jacket like this and looking ready to go trekking came to me pretty clear. However, the client didn’t quite fancy this idea as much as I did, so we sticked with the other version