Transport

Idea: Something fantastical. Here are a couple thumbnails of a man with a jet pack and then some other less interesting ideas and then a flying car.

Liked the flying car, so I developed it some more and picked a composition which I felt had obvious, but strong line of sight, achieved with the flying birds. The bending buildings also are helping to direct the viewer to the car.

Preparatory sketch along with watercolour practice to test tone/colours, as I want this brief to be resolved through traditional means, simply because I haven't finished a piece of illustration traditionally in a long time. 

Redrawn prep sketch after looking at more reference, particularly what a bird looks like in flight from behind.

Final illustration: I'm happy with composition but the colours turned out very muddy. In my head I imagined the image with bold, bright colours. I need to practice more with watercolours and should've seen this after the first watercolour test. 

Using watercolour paper gave a nice texture though and that bird in the foreground was well painted.

Also I should've pushed the values a lot more to emphasise the sunny day but I think I was too scared as watercolour is such an unforgiving medium.

I also forgot it was supposed to be a monochromatic image so I rectified this in Photoshop and think the image looks a bit nicer, as I was also able to push the values through levelling.