They Say It's Your Birthday...

Here's some birthday art I've quickly whipped up recently for friends on Facebook... all drawn and colored 100% digitally, using a Ugee drawing pad. None of these are caricatures of real people, just misbegotten souls hastily pulled out of my imagination--

I've also done a few quickie doctored birthday photos, too, but I'll only put up one of those... since this one involved an actual collage of eight separate picture elements to form a composition, rather than merely dropping a cake in front an already-existing single photo.

I've Got You Covered!

A handy bit of lettering and cover art for Cartoon Loonacy, a cartoonist's APA which I belong to, which currently boasts such amazing talents as Hilary Barta, Jim Siergey, Brian Buniak, Gary Fields, George Erling, Russ Maheras, Bob Vojtko, Darren Auck, Michael Kraiger, Delaine Derry Green, Yul Tolbert, Mark Campos and Tom DeSieno.

For this piece, a spoofy homage to the old Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, I inked with a typical combination of watercolor brush, dip pen, and some rapidograph on 2-ply cold finish Bristol board. The rest of the lettering and the color were done on the computer, using Photoshop.