This season's market illustration incorporates past season's flyers to celebrate the market's 10th season.
The first sketch.
The printed drawing guide. Overlaying tracing paper, using pencil, then marker, I drew the banners, type and strawberry girl separately so I could put them on separate photoshop layers.
The board approval sketch. I usually wait for board approval to start the linework but I took a gamble because of schedule. They loved the sketch.
Scribbles on print outs. a fair amount of this sort of thing goes on with notes and feedback, often times at a pub while enjoying a beer...
Painting begins. I run it past my wife and others at different times for feedback. In this case she did not like the tan background.
A detail of strawberry girl.