"A Whale of a Tale"



as seen in sketch book



I was inspired by two Twitter tweets.

something about a red bear and another of a book cover design for Moby-Dick.

Go figure inspiration from Twitter, well you never know where or how its going to find you.

 

early ink sketch

I did a handful of sketches and liked this one

 

I decided I wanted it to be longer than 8.5X 11 so Moby got its own page

 

Along the way I added a dog 

 

pencil drawing with watercolor

I have been working a little differently instead of going straight to ink, then adding watercolor, I've been doing a pencil drawing on watercolor paper with washes of watercolor and adding ink in the end; it takes longer this way but the results are

FUN! 

 

pen and ink with watercolor

Almost done I need to scan them fit it together and finish it in Photoshop

(don't you love that whale?)