Post-by deadline still the last day of the month?

Personally, I love the UI of Procreate. It does what its supposed to do, stays out of the way and just works. I've been using it since my second generation iPad and generally love it for painting/illustration work.

That said...I've been making an intentional effort to learn the Adobe products, because it's included in the CC stuff I'm already paying for, so I've been using Fresco foe a few weeks now. It's by far the best version of all of their offerings. The watercolor and live brushes features are nice, but the ability to export to vector is huge. When using Procreate I kept having to jump into Photoshop, then tighten up the layers, and then vectorize each piece back in Illustrator for reassembly. If you're doing any large format or logo work it saves all kinds of time.

I guess it just comes down to what you want to use it for.

Love the addition of the worm! I think the black and white one is stronger...I get that you want to highlight the paw in the foreground but feel like the ink wash doesn’t help draw attention to the foreground as much as it hides some of your great details.

This one is much stronger in my opinion...good job on the leg too. Much more clearly a dog’s foot. I like that the little girl isn’t the one starting the car too...even though it made for a fun composition I did wonder why she was driving. For what it’s worth, the far electrode in the ground may be a little too far off in the distance to be clear about what’s happening...now that the frogs are gone and they’re a little smaller it kind of disappears back there. Not sure if that’s an easy fix or not but it may help drive the point home.

No pun intended.

Turned out to not be too bad of an edit in Photoshop...here's to naming your layers!

@theprairiefox D'oh! I can fix the digital version, but I can't fix my uncoolness at not realizing that

And thanks @TessaW, her big old head kept getting caught up in the jar...at this point it may end up being more work than it's worth with all the layers in there! I can try though if I need to fix the dog tag...;)

Thanks both of you!

I tried to do this in traditional ink...really. My problem is that my inking ability just didn't match up with my imagination and schedule this month! Tried to keep the tones to a solid ink and two levels of wash, and I'm pretty happy with the way it came out.

Feel a bit badly posting this on the day my own dog is in for leg surgery, but it is what it is.

The prompt says nothing about the pooch being glad its back from the other side, so that's where I went with it.

Edited to keep the file size down.

@Zachary-Drenski Yeah, dogs (even fat dogs) tend to have thinner legs, so that’s probably why my mind went there. Still so good though.

Okay...going to scrap this one and start over. Going back through some of my thumbnails this version will be more dynamic and I can work in Gadget. Let’s see if I can do this with ink when there’s no undo arrow!