Once I have all my shapes filled with flat color I will want to add some gradients to some of the shapes.I make my gradients subtle by using 2 colors that are closely related but usually not the same hue or saturation. This gives the shapes a slight illusion of color depth rather than having only cold flat colors.For example on the muzzle area of the...

A few months ago a Japanese clothing line approached me about illustrating some shirts and sending some art to display at one of their stores in Japan. There are a few shirts available: https://baycrews.jp/item/detail/journalstandard/cutsew/23071600931010 @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2...

Once I have my drawing inked and all the different shapes organized by folders and layers I'm ready to start dropping flat colors into the shapes.  I want to get from hereto hereNote how all the groups and layers are organized:I'll take my line drawing of the head silhouette and turn off some of the layer groups to make the color filling easier to follow.I...

People have asked me how I do my digital cartoon paintings so I'll attempt to explain it.I'm sure there are many ways to do this but after years of trial and error this is the system I use.First I draw a cartoon on paper. Then I scan it in and open it in Photoshop.Once it's open, I up the resolution to 500 dpi. A high resolution will make the final...

 Here are some slightly cartoonier primate sketches from this morning.

Now that the crazy man is gone, the news has been boring so I now watch a lot of zoo shows in the morning and like to sketch the animals (and some of the people too).Here are some of our closest relatives. Naturalists are among my heroes. So are prosimians.Here are some kids at the zoo about to meet a tame flying wombat or something.