Testing out ideas

I have been using my photographs that I have took to create this illustration. I have been struggling with the idea behind my work so I decided to almost 'think through drawing' by creating this image. I took direct swatches from the photograph to create the colours in this image.

I am happy with how the piece went, it has helped me to realise what I like and what I don't. I feel that simplifying the colours down more could produce some exciting results. I also think that its almost trying to be too life-like here. I think its a good idea to look at the process of screen printing.

main point- simplify colour palette so it would work for screen printing.