I started this spread by just writing down the usual steps I take to make my art. Breaking it down to bullet points and leaving a limited space for each really helped get me started on the illustration.
Using Prismacolor Pencils requires a lot of sharpenning and I accidently bombed my spread with all the mess. I always feel like I need to recycle material so instead of throwing it all out I smudged them across this page.
I learned to embrace the unexpected because when I smudged the pencil trash it actually occurred to me that often times the process feels like a foggy road, you just have to keep going until the fog is cleared.
Illustrating this spread was the most fun I had in a long time. I did not expect that that I would connect with the toned paper and the smooth cardboard white paper so much!
Drawing all the steps one by one made me realize that after almost three years of doing art, I have started to find my own workflow, something that I did not even have a word for when I just had started.
My favorite parts of this process were using corresponding media for each of the media drawings and coloring outside the frame on my final drawing because I had so much fun coloring the sea and had enough space to add more.
The Media drawings from the left: Color pencil, black pen, oil pastel, brush pen ink.