'The Nones' Illustration

Created this for the cover of Deseret News National Edition. The article, written by Chandra Johnson, focuses on what the reality is of people who are unaffiliated with any religion.Though their may be many of these, so called "Nones"; the fact that many of these people still have faith in a higher power should not be discounted.. In short the polling numbers are far from being simple in regard to people and their faith.

The process

So they wanted an illustration that showed a lot of graphical imagery combined with someone appearing to worship or pray. I selected 4 or 5 from our archives, opened them in Illustrator and changed all to white, with an outline appearance. Then I copied and pasted them one at a time into Photoshop.

Then, using an image mask I composited the graphics with the Shutterstock image. I used a gradient
map mask to make the image more monochromatic. All this took about 3 hours total.

Illustration showed up in a few different places
Below are the places this illustration has been published. The first of course being on the cover of Deseret News National Edition (Page layout by Heidi Perry). Should also be noted that the graphic at the bottom of the page was also created by me.

Suprised to find it at this link on dailyamerican.com website.

Also found on the National Editions website at this link

This is the first version of this illustration. Editors felt it was too ambiguous. They were right.