Just when I thought I was done with Mermaids

And the new process continues! I used to bemoan the loss of my beloved scanner, but my new workflow (enabled by today's camera phone optics) makes it a thing of the past.

Princess Projectra's night at the Tiki bar...

Man, this one is defining a whole new workflow. I drew this in my sketchbook, then used my phone to take a picture of the linework. I cleaned it up a bit, then used Illustrator to vectorize the linework. Dumped a PNG to Procreate and colored/composited. The background is from Frax HD, and back to Photoshop for final compositing.

Are there Tiki bars on Saturn?

I'm mashing-up the nifty Tiki style of the 1960s with some of my favorite characters. So, for some reason, i think it's funny if each character is drinking a wondrous beverage. More to come, so stay tooned!

Diana's Adventures in Tikiland...

I picked up the new Making of Moana book recently, and it's friggin' inspirational!  It triggered this Tiki-inspired Wonder Woman that I hope you find giggleriffic.

In Repose

This one's heavily inspired by 1960s advertising art--it's just so very supergroovy! Doodled in my trusty sketchbook, then inked/painted in Procreate, finally composed in Adobe Photoshop.  Dig it!

Rocky the Island!

Headed here on my next vacation! This started off as a sketch in my handy Moleskine. I took a picture and inked/painted in Procreate with Apple Pencil. I dug through photos I took on Turks and Caicos and found a nifty one for the background.

Chalupa's Tiki Adventure!

I had so much fun drawing my little dog (Chalupa), that I figured you all needed to see it closer-up than the previous piece.  As usual, a mixture of Procreate on iPad, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop gets us to the finish line.

Sunday Evening Mai Tai

What better way to spend a lazy Sunday evening? Most of this was done on my trusty iPad Pro with my even trustier iPad Pencil. I took each element into Adobe Illustrator in order to generate vectorized versions for easy scaling, then composited everything in Adobe Photoshop. Hope y'all digs.

Hunter Gatherer Fred!

Yabba Dabba Doo, y'all! Another take on everyone's favorite caveman. I did the figure work in Procreate on iPad with an Apple Pencil. I converted to vectors in Adobe Illustrator and plopped it into Photoshop to composite with an old background image.

Third in the Series--Mer-Kara!

How I love the Bronze Age of comics--simpler stories for a simpler time. At least, I think it was a simpler time; I guess it's always a simpler time when you're a child. At any rate, my fondest comic book memories are from the 70s books, and I really miss the days when all comic books could be appreciated by all age groups.  Nowadays the form is divided into uncompromising niches. It's sad to me that I can't buy Batman comics for my niece and nephew.

But, enough of my whining.  Hope y'all digs on Mer-Kara's Aquatic Adventure!

Last one for awhile, y'all. I'm concentrating on a new web portfolio, to be debuted soon. The figure and background illustrations were done in Procreate on iPad with the Apple Pencil. Some of the textured curly bits were done with the wicked-cool fractal generator Frax! The design elements and final layout are pretty much all Adobe Photoshop, with some Adobe Illustrator thrown in for good measure.

What if Wonder Woman was a mermaid...

Second one in a 3-part series of DC mermaids!  Main figure and background entirely drawn/painted in Procreate on iPad with an Apple Pencil.  The cosmic fish tail fill was produced with a tricky combination of Frax (to generate an interesting fractal pattern) and Percolator (to lay a cool star pattern on top).  Final composition was done in Adobe Photoshop, with a smidge of Illustrator.

Mer-Batgirl!

Mer-May seems to have had an effect on me.  Crossed with my love for Bronze Age comics, this is the kind of design that pops from my brainstuffs. The original pose was a quick gesture from my sketchbook.  All illustration and digital painting was done on iPad Pro with Apple Pencil in Procreate. The final layout/design is a combination of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Hope y'all groove on it.

Easter Monkey's Coming to Town!

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Santa on the 26th!

Santa deserves a break too! I imagine him on a beach somewhere, frollicking with all kinds of critters! Most of the characters were drawn in Procreate on my iPad Air, with a Pencil By 53. Then the whole thing was composited in Photoshop. Doing my best to put together a series of holiday illustrations--with an odd twist, of course.

Ancient Frodlodyte

I drew this little guy directly in Procreate with a Pencil By 53. The background is a picture I took on the Big Island of Hawaii, in the rain forest near the volcano. Everything's composited in Photoshop.

Late Halloween

I did this piece way back for Halloween--but neglected to include it here. Next year, I'll get this one ready for Halloween cards or some kinda decorative display.

This started as a doodle in my sketchbook, then took a photograph of the sketch with my trusty iPad Air 2. Production past that point was done with a combination of Nomad brush and Adonit JotDot Pro in Savage Interactive's most excellent Procreate app. I realized what a cool Halloween greeting it might be, but it needed a cooler backdrop. I made an interesting fractal background in Frax, then dropped it into Tiny Planets to swirl it up a bit. Then it was on to Percolator to get those groovy stars in the fractal pattern. Back to Photoshop for final production--some overlay effects for drama. The haunted house was a hodgepodge of references from different haunted houses I found on the interwebs, and did the linework in Illustrator.

Then I realized the piece needed a floating pig...

Happy late Halloween! Maybe I'll get to X-mas before February!