Simplicity is beautiful

For this piece i used the quote ''Simplicity is beautiful'' i wanted to create a drawing which fitted well with the quote. I decided to do a bird cage with the bird flying away, keeping the piece very simple. 

I started by sketching a bird cage in pencil - 

Then i needed to decide where i would want the bird and the quote

I then thought it would be a good idea to go over the image in pen and make the lines more prominent  then using water colour i could add some different shades and background to the image. But i realised that wasn't keeping the image simple.

The water colour wrecked this piece, so by using Photoshop i had to fix it.

Here i changed the levels so that the image was brighter and there was more definition.

So i decided that i didn't want the coloured background or the bird in the image as the bird didn't work well coloured. so by using the paint brush tool i was able to carefully rub out all colour and leave the background looking white clean. 

The quote in the first image was hand written then the second image i used a font from Photoshop which i felt worked well. 

I decided that it would work better with the bird flying away from the cage and the font to be the one from Photoshop.