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.

oil pastel (pentel)

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.

digital (procreate)

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.