I've been wanting to illustrate this song for ages and finally got around to it. It's much larger than I'm used to working with...so I had to scan it in several pieces...which is why there are a bunch of lines through it. Looks much better in person, as per usual. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. This picture was completely spontaneous. No planning with color or composition, no references...just put the song on repeat and started sketching. (Which would explain why the color and composition suck. XD)

"Picture yourself in boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalde skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds."
-The Beatles