Monocle 80! [Full Project]

Here's my last spot illustration for Monocle, issue #80. This illustration lives on the diplomacy briefing page. I have got the full project photographed up and live on my website - go check it out!
http://andrewcolinbeck.com/monocle.html
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A little story: I am not going to lie. When I got the brief for this particular illustration, I was way intimidated. Lots of super complicated terminology and trade tariff industry jargon. I sketched a bunch of stuff, and this was the last concept I sent, which basically just indicated that the subject was super convoluted and I was struggling to understand it — but this is the one my art director liked! Haha.