Set of illustrations for Pause magazine

This three full page illustrations were made for an article on Revista Pausa, a wellness magazine. The article covers breathing as an essential part of the life process that has a huge importance that is often overlooked. It's amazing how even when we hear it all the time and also have experienced the benefits of conscious, deep breathing, we usually tend to forget it again and again. With this spaces I really wanted to take the opportunity to come up with a reminder to breath for the reader to have or even tear and affix on a wall. I love the idea of an image going further than its original illustrative purpose and becoming a positive part of the everyday life of the viewer.

For the illustrations I created a scene where breathing is central and the characters that are in it are cultivating a healthy lifestyle of connection with nature, in which we have an important role when it comes to the breathing cycle of oxygen - carbon dioxide and plants that use this compound to live and create more oxygen in return. In this very interesting article you can see how we are all connected as living forms and it gives a whole new meaning to the idea of self care: taking care of myself invariably means taking care of nature and others.