head in the clouds

the prompt for this piece was taking a common phrase and creating a piece out of it. we had to start out in traditional media.

i followed thumbnails with rough sketches, exploring some of the different concepts i had for this piece.

i chose the first rough sketch i did, then moved onto the next phase, which was refining the sketch and doing the finished linework.

finally, i scanned the linework in, and started doing color studies in Photoshop. i wanted the piece to have some pretty intense colors, so i did some with pastels, some with high saturation, and then one with lower saturation. I ended up going with the last one, with a few adjustments.

once i chose the color study, rendering and finishing the piece.

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