Now it’s time to put all these pieces together in one layered file and make them work together. I’m a huge fan of the illustrator Gary Kelley, and I think his method of flattening the illusion of perspective through color and shape is nothing short of ingenious. My humble tribute to his work is to try to achieve a similar kind of flatness, by letting the shapes intermingle. The pool shape is behind the figures, but on a separate layer above the figures I used the pool’s paths to brush some of its shape through them. You can see a similar technique used throughout the other shapes, like the rooftop and the intermingling background buildings. (Fig. 7)

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