El País
This illustration accompanied an article in Babelia, the cultural supplement of El País, about crime fiction and the leap the genre has taken. I pictured a noir scene frozen at the moment after the violence: a figure crouched over a body among shards of broken glass, holding a single red object.
To keep the tension, I limited the palette to murky olive greens and let the light cut across the floor like a streetlamp. The one red detail is the only spot of color, and it is where the eye goes first.
