Cryptozoology Coloring Book- Man Eating Plants

Cryptozoology Coloring Book- Sea Serpent / Caddy

Cadborosaurus willsi or Caddy is the name given to some unusual remains found in the stomach of a Sperm Whale in the 1930's. The elongated corpse is often connected with old myths of massive sea serpents inhabiting the open ocean. 

If this looks familiar, it's because I basically ripped off my earlier Adrift ink painting to save some time. Why reinvent the wheel?

Cryptozoology Coloring Book- Ozark Howler

The Ozark Howler: a bear-sized cat that roams the bluffs and waterways of Arkansas and Missouri.

Cryptozoology Coloring Book- The Dover Demon

Back on the horse with my coloring book! Hoping to use my summer months to conquer this project and minimize the distractions of recreating and other art ideas.

The Dover Demon is a creature that was spotted on 3 occasions around Dover, MA. It's description is difficult to match to any terrestrial animal, therefore it's often thought of as an alien. This is by far the strangest creature I've depicted so far, and likely the furthest from scientific reality I'm willing to venture. 

Rampage AVL

Check my feed for a description of the process. So glad to have some time to focus on my illustrating now that school's out for the summer.

Rampage AVL- simulated watercolor technique

Here's a quick walkthrough of my coloring technique for my parody of the Rampage arcade game. Since I chose to do the line art digitally, the challenge became to color the piece in Photoshop in a way that simulated watercolor. Nothing beats the look of real paint on paper, but since the drawing was born on the computer I found this approach to be a worthy substitute.

Here we go...

1.) I painted several pages of watercolor paper with a wash of india ink and scanned them into my computer.

2.) Using Photoshop, I sliced up samples of the ink-wash scans and placed them in separate layers underneath my line work. It looks like an overly complex patchwork of values, but each subject of the illustration actually has its own unique texture and direction of brush marks.

3.) I switch the blending options on the ink layers to multiply and create a new layer for color underneath. The flat color from the Photoshop brush and the black and white ink wash combine to create a pretty nifty simulation of watercolor paint.