Daily Quick Sketch: Charli Bean Travel Mug

Created this concept for my wife, who loves coffee, has an Icelandic lineage and is a redhead. So I decided to make her a coffee travel mug using redbubble.com.

The original concept image I though for my wife mug

Now available to the public, if interested here's a link to find it below:

www.redbubble.com/people/arrrggghhh

What the product should look like, it should arrive next week

The original pencil sketch was done in ArtRage Pro 5

The final artwork that was sent to print the travel mug

Mermay 2018: Octo-Tail Mermaid

This is the first year I'm doing the annual #MerMay online event where artists submit daily images of mermaids. Here's this week's image, the Octo-Tail Mermaid.

Rotated the image by 90 degrees, blotted and cross-hatched the background

Original pencil sketch

Cleaned up the pencil line with digital penciling

Laying down the base colors before adding highlights, shading, and details

The original "final" image of my #MerMay2018 Octo-Tail Mermaid
I wasn't happy about her ink at that bottom - so a change was made as seen above