Sometimes inspiration is literally right in front of you…like in the kitchen pantry.
I did four versions of the same Shin Ramen packet using four completely different mediums. Not because I planned some big project. I just started with watercolor, then I wanted to see how it'll turn out if I tried a different medium. Same subject, same composition, different medium each time. I wanted to see how I'd do and how each one would feel differently.
Watercolor was first. That's my comfort zone so it was a good baseline.
Then colored pencil. Slower, more controlled, lots of layering, and less clean up then watercolo.
Then oil pastel. That one was a whole different thing. Oil pastel is chunky and physical, you're pushing color around rather than layering it delicately. It ended up being my favorite of the four just because of how bold it came out.
Then digital in Procreate. Same image, but now I could fix anything. Which is both the best and most suspicious part of digital.
What I got from doing all four: the subject didn't change but my relationship to it did every single time. The constraints of each medium basically made the decisions for me. With watercolor I had to commit. With oil pastel I had to be loose. With Procreate I had to stop myself from overworking it.
Shin Ramen did not expect to be this much of a muse.