Today Was A Good Day

After what feels like absolutely ages of working on this image, it still doesn’t quite feel finished… but if I keep staring at it and questioning what it needs, I’ll never move onto the next. So once again, I’ve had to remind myself it’s all part of a bigger picture.

I’m still not 100% sure what the end goal is with the travel illustrations I’m creating from my Australia and Bali trip. I’m toying with the idea of a picture book that navigates the story chronically, or more simply a scattered collection that navigates a narrative more randomly. Some illustrations from the collection will make it in to purchasable prints, and some are just for my own enjoyment.

When creating this illustration, I had in mind a print that would go quite nicely alongside Lazy River, and I can confidently say it doesn’t quite work in that context, but more prints was never the goal of this project. The goal was to draw on observation and create a narrative, and thankfully, I feel, it does that.

This illustration, finished or not, is titled Today Was a Good Day, (thanks to Tom’s Route One tee). It captures the tropical winding roads in Ubud Bali, via one of my favourite modes of super safe transport, moped!