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!

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.

Happy Fourth of July, all!

I've been staring a lot at old Groo comics by the incredible Sergio Aragones! This is my attempt to integrate some lessons learned from his shortcuts to my own style. Then I made it patriotic.

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.

One more for the day!

This piece was inspired by an awesome CD collection of Bikini Beats beach grooves.  Hope y'all digs!

Where the Monkeys Hide

If only I could make a career out of drawing these busy little cross-sections! They're so much gigglyfun to draw. Hope y'all dig on coloring them at least half as much!

Paleo Kara, cover version

This will likely be the last of this series for awhile.  I have a ton of projects that have been patiently waiting for my attention.  Worry not--more to come as soon as I clear my plate a bit!

Paleo Babs!

I'm having so much fun with these pieces!  The figure is hand-drawn in my trusty Moleskine, scanned and colored in Procreate for iPad, composited with a photo I took on the Big Island of Hawaii in Photoshop!  What an excuse to visit the nostalgia of old comic books with new illustrations!

Devil Dinosaur meets Tigra!

Another love letter to the comics of my youth! They just don't make 'em like they used to.

1,000,000 DC Diana

So, who's seen the classic Raquel Welch film 1,000,000 BC?  It shaped my 8-year old mind into the strange and wonderful place it is today.  I love dinosaurs, ape men, iguanas with cardboard fins stuck to their backs, and of course, beautiful and powerful paleolithic cavewomen!  I'm on a roll, combining all that with some of my favorite DC comics layouts from the 70s.  Keep an eye out--more to come!

When Pigs Fly

 

This one's a little more cheesecake-y than I normally post here, but it made me giggle, so I figure it deserves to be here as well as my Furkini Atoll brand!  Lines are hand-drawn, but I painted it in Procreate on iPad with the usual Nomad brush!