Although the client loved the first piece, the publisher asked for a few changes. Remember, this was done for a Christian publisher! They felt most of the faces looked a bit too old and the figures were a bit overdeveloped. They liked the slenderness of the girls, but felt the Asian girl's shirt was a bit too form fitting. Outside of the White teen, they felt that the poses and expressions didn't depict any real threat of danger. They asked me to remove the walls and make the threats swirling around them more ominous and threatening and to add more drugs, a sex education book and condoms.
They suggested a severed hand holding a syringe, I opted for a skeletal hand bleeding off of the page. I moved some of the 'threats' per their request also. They thought a threat coming from behind might look good, so I changed the 'ape' skull into a backdrop...looked cool, but it loses it's evolutionary stance in a face forward position!