Beginning studies of any new language can be intimidating. To help illustrate this situation, I picked the visual comparison of learning to drive by placing a nervous crash test dummy in a car filled with ASL textbooks. In both these scenarios, the new student wants to succeed but fears making mistakes and crashing. I wanted to advertise my dictionary as a portable resource and a friendly alternative to stricter ASL studies. Later drafts of this ad might go into more detail about what the dictionary has to offer. Taking the book’s cover and the ASL hand sign for stop from the dictionary, I blended them with new original art. Drawing the inside of a car was my biggest challenge.
