Illustration 1.5 In Progress - Updated

Updated version at the bottom....

So I woke up at 3 am last night with this idea.  I hate the flower and I'm going to change it, yet it'll still be a flower.  I also just noticed the product placement thanks to the website behind the photo.  But yeah.  This is my idea so far... an intimate couple with a flower sprouting from the woman's mouth.  I'm going to go in and do the flower in a much more realistic manner and also do it at a perfect vertical.  I honestly have no idea what I'm doing and I'd love some feedback.  No. the oval is not going to stay there, it's just to help me visualize things.  It'll still be a basic oval, but I will have parts of it broken up to give a push and pull between the two weird purples.  Let me know what's going through your head.  I could sure use the help.

UPDATE

Okay, so I played with breaking up the oval thing that this couple is in and I changed the flower to a more realistic and also a better straight up and down vertical that breaks the top of the oval just barely.  The flowers and the background is still a BIG work in progress, but I'm beginning to get happy with the couple.  I want to come in with them and give a few shadows to show mass and volume, but besides that, I like them.

Here it is again with this weird feather texture background.

UPDATE

So I hate the texture on the background, but I still feel like I'm missing a big piece to this.  I took some of Olivia's advice and erased the linework over the legs so that they don't go straight to the edge of the oval and then stop.

COLOR CHANGE!  I LIKE IT BETTER NOW!

And a big change....

So get rid of the weird geometric crap coming out of the oval and take away their outlines and this is just getting... weird.  I actually don't care for it much anymore, but I'm going to change that!

A few more contours and also a line art color change coming up!

So on the first one, I went in and dulled down the brown color I used for line art.  The second one is a blue shade and the third one is a pink/purple shade.  Earlier I played with putting back in the facial expressions and details along with keeping the contour simple, but I realized that I didn't like it.  Now, I see the strange thing going on with the flowers in the corner, but I can fix that after I get a little feedback on the contour colors.


This kind of art is different than what I used to do, but at the same time it's what I always wanted to do.  I admire artists who work with strange subject matter such as this and can convey it in a very fantastical, almost scifi effect.