In my Drawing for Illustrators class, our final project was to create a 5-layer tunnel/accordion book of any scene we wanted. We had to put in two characters and make sure the composition would be structurally sound, as we were going to build it ourselves.

I decided to illustrate a scene featuring a freediver because I thought an underwater tunnel would fit perfectly with the assignment brief. Freedivers train to dive deep without the use of any oxygen supplying breathing apparatus. I also love the water and marine life and I was really excited to illustrate this.

Here’s the final printed, cut and assembled project, all done by hand.

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