Most of the time my sketches never see the light of day. This time, I ended up sharing the process with a friend who really liked the end result.
I started with just some scribbles and lines.
It took another person to tell me that it looked like I was just drawing clouds.
I love the way most enamel pins end up looking with the gold lineart so I tried to do only do flat colors aside from a gradient background.
I was experimenting with color themes and ended up working with a compound theme using purples, blues, yellows, and more tan-ish colors.
Overall, I think the outcome is pretty nice. It will look even better if I go back to fix up some lines too but that is simple enough.
I just need to finish formatting the document first so I can make some notebooks and journals out of them that I will be selling on Amazon.
