Posts made by Aaron_T

I love the implied skull, too. Subtle!

Love this character! Seems like you really have him nailed down.

@LisaF Great, thanks!

Finally had some time to get back into one of these! Might re-submit if these are supposed to contain the text in the actual graphic.

Dragonfly race! Played with a limited color palette for this one.

Thanks guys...I like these ideas. I’ll tweak it since I have some time!

I (still) haven’t seen any of it yet, so when the internet exploded about the show my old brain went immediately to dad jokes.

And the original recipe:

Things have been crazy around here for the past month, so much that I didn’t even submit anything for the Wizard of Oz book cover design. Last week, my wife and I took a day and went for a drive to get out of the Phoenix heat for a few hours. We ended up in Sedona and had lunch beside Oak Creek, watching the dragonflies zooming around the rocks and little waterfalls. I’ve been doodling little racing dragonflies in the margins of my notepads since coming back from Sedona, not realizing that “dragonfly” was the theme for the August contest until yesterday. Thanks to dumb luck I’m actually on time for once!

How is it the end of another month already!?!?

@baileymvidler That's got to be it...I mostly draw in the evenings, and keep my screen blindingly bright. Who needs sunlight anyway?

Not as fun as anything else on this page, but more from the super-sexy world of utility infographics!

@TessaW @jdubz Good point...moving it up in the timeline by just a few seconds like the original C does give it a little more anticipation.

Kind of an un-related note, but does anyone else notice how dark Procreate is when you export and then post? I feel like I always have to run it through Photoshop just to lighten it up so I can see it before I post it. The same image as above, just lightened up slightly in Photoshop, where as the one last night was exported and posted without the Photoshop pit stop. Wonder if my settings are out of whack. @EliaMurrayArt I just saw you mentioned the same thing while I was typing! Nice fix...I haven't got in and highlighted the foreground yet but I really like what you did with the yellow!

@Neha-Rawat Yes, I’m struggling with that too. My goal was to make sure clydes mouth was big enough to get the monkey in between his teeth. I may be over thinking it but I don’t want the next scene to be a monkey in thirds

@baileymvidler Looks great! The value study reads really well too, just by itself. I would love to be able to just draw in values like some people can but I can’t seem to get my head around it.

For a prompt that seemed lighthearted enough I seemed to make it as dark as possible.

Ha ha...sounds like C is the way to go. I'll work on it a bit and muddy the water so it looks like its a river moving and not a still pond. Thank you everyone!

@theprairiefox Cool...thanks!

What a great idea @theprairiefox! Looks like you were part of a series? Do you know, are they looking for collections like that or would they just take whatever sheets they end up with and put them together on their end?

Oh, nice, @Jeremy-Ross Didn't realize we had that. Thanks!

Did a couple of sketches of different elevations of the pre-chomp moment, but having always been a fan of the top-down Jaws style POV I feel like this is more my speed, although painting with this soft an airbrush to get that blur is killing my eyes. Might just draw it normally and then Gaussian Blur it into submission.

I started with the mid air version, which follows the text of the prompt, but then playing around with the layers I'm finding that having him still submerged behind the in-focus foreground is a nice effect. Deep underwater I might have to close his mouth a little just for accuracy, but I like the "oh I didn't see that back there". Do I get dinged for not having Clyde on the surface of the water the whole time?

Thoughts?