I finally completed my project today. I enjoyed the process but I did find myself stuck at some points. When I started the project I sketched my idea out on paper, took a photo of it, and I took it to Photoshop to crop the photo. After cropping, that’s when I started working on coloring it in Illustrator. At first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to color it normally (with color variations) or to do one color scheme. I ended up choosing to do one color scheme in purple and it took a while for me to get the colors right. And when I did settle on my general color, I still had some adjusting to do. Sometimes the colors looked off, but the biggest thing was the lack of contrast that made everything blend together (which I later fixed). I fixed it by making the darks darker and the lights lighter. The adjustment of the highlights from the sun also helped. I intended for my style to have detail, but not too much (simplistic or cartoon-ish?). At one point I thought about adding grass but I scratched that idea partly due to time limit and I wasn’t sure if it fit. I like it overall, but if I could go back I’d change the bush, and attempt to add grass in the foreground.