mural design part I

This mural started off oddly enough as one small one up on a new Old Navy location that was close to our building. The company decided to build another store less than 5 miles away from our store. The two stores would be closest locations with the same design within the entire Virginia Beach market (which isn't common in smaller market). Some of our associates and leaders went over to help open up that store and which was similar to our own with one exception. The exception being the break room for the associates. Every associate that came back to our location bragged about how nicer their break room was compared to ours especially because their store had a mural. Our leadership team  took offense to hearing that over and over again. Until ultimately my store manager suggested we make our own mural.
The original planning started off in late Spring and the associated had between 2 themes to chose from "superheroes" or "beach theme." Ultimately the beach theme won out after multiple attempts to get a complete consensus. I wanted to do a collaborations of sorts with another few photographer in our store but that fell through. One September morning i went to the ocean front and took some reference photos. During the fall and winter the natural needs of the business left little time for me to start of this construction. Shortly during the turn of quarter 1 of the year, i wanted this to be my last parting gift to the store. Almost a year out i had decided that i would be moving to Texas. On the tail end of one of my lunch shifts i pulled about a piece of chalk and began sketching out what would be a mural design.