After a quick brainstorm of thumbnails and thoughts, I hit the wall on what the theme for this shirt would be. Usually the recipe for the TPR T-shirt designs consists of taking a location icon and toon-ifying it, but that didn't really seem to be the case with this tour, no Rome = no Coliseum, no Berlin = no Brandenburg Gate, etc. The Nurburing was tempting, but so complex it wouldn't make sense in the context and themes of these designs. So I stuck with the Eurorail idea, just decided to highlight the beautiful countryside of the area...
...but made a bit of a departure from the previous designs. Instead of toon-ifying, I went a little more Disney-ifyed, using these classic posters as inspiration. The plan wasn't to go whole-hog, and just do a Disney version of the design - I wanted it to be able to stand with all of the other TPR designs in the end...
So again, I made a rough drawing to get started on the final. Usually the drawings are followed fairly closely, in that I just digitally trace and clean up the pencil work, then make adjustments, but this time, it was more of a plan of attack, because I was going to be using block colors (not just outlines, with an easily adjustable color fill) too; elements would need to get locked down earlier in the process, therefore being harder to adjust in the end...
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