Secret 7 - Clearest Blue

I listened to the song a few times and looked through the lyrics to get an idea of the feel and the meaning of the song. A lyric that stuck with me was "If ever I try to push you away
You can just keep me there". So I wanted to make an image that had a comforting feeling to it and a sense of trying to keep someone you care about with you. 

My initial idea was to have the little fingers crossed, like a pinky promise. ("tell me, tell me you'll keep me") However this is really hard to draw and looked totally ridiculous even with reference, so decided on just hands crossing as if someone's trying to reach out to the other. 

This was a small brief so I wanted to do these pretty quickly, and not invest more time than is necessary as I have already done that for another small brief (whoops). 

Since the song is called clearest blue I did think that it should be at least partially blue. The song is quite soft, but also has this hard electronic edge to it so I chose to do this drawing in coloured pencil to match the softness. I think the combination of blue, with pink and yellow flecks on the hands works, it's gentle and not overpowering. The triangles add a bit of edge to the image and also direct the eye into the centre. 

I tried a few different combinations of triangle positions, colours and filters etc. I wasn't sure about doing a blue filter over everything because I didn't want to overuse the 'clearest blue' theme, but I do think in the end it was best to do so just because the white background is so bright and the blue helps to soften it on the eye.