inspiration free people - illustration project

good morning lovelies!  i hope you all have had a wonderful start to your weekend.

design classes have started again for me and i thought i would share a recent project that i just had this week.

we were required to bring in a picture of whatever we wanted.  i had just received the january free people catalog and of course it was beautiful so i decided to bring it along.  the project was to select an image and draw an illustration of it.

here is the catalog picture i chose...

 

isn't this cruiser bike adorable.  i actually have seen this bike for sale at a local bike shop...one of my favorites.  i can't wait to buy one this summer!

here is what my illustration turned out like...

 then we had to copy the illustration onto colored paper (we were only able to use 4 colors!!) and create a second image that changed the meaning of the original illustration.

this is what i created...

i used purple, green and two shades of blue.  i thought putting this girl in the clouds was a perfect representation of being on "cloud 9" because lately that's how i've been feeling :)

we weren't required to make the image 3 dimensional, but i thought adding these elements made it more interesting.  it is difficult to make something look interesting with only 4 colors so i had to do something :) luckily my teacher loved it!

now that classes have started back up again i will be able to share all of my new projects with you...yay :)  i'm working on a new window display tomorrow as well so expect pictures from those too!