Illustration Friday: "Insect"

This is something I did a while back but keep touching up in one way or another--do the beetles need a purple glaze for shadow? More reflective highlighting? Is the grass textured enough? And so on. I like the way the cloud came out, I think it's the best bit I've ever done with an oil bar. :) The beetles probably do need some more highlighting, now that I look at it again. Gah!

The title is "Going Home".

This is Part Two of the Lobster Triptych in its final form. A little bit of art geekery here: while the Rapture was an exercise in careful underdrawing and glazing, the End Times were all about trying to depict light in an interesting way.

...okay, and painting a world-destroying jellyfish. :D :D :D

The seas are boiling, the Apocalypse Jellyfish comes a-reaping, surely life sucks for these poor marine custaceans. You'll note they're red, meaning they've been cooked...but they suffer still!

I feel kinda bad for them. The Festive Brunch will conclude the triptych soon!

Part Two of the lobster almost-triptych. They'd be a real one if they were all the same size, which they ain't. Oh well.

This is a work-in-progress shot. I still need to put highlights on the landscape to indicate that the jellyfish is a light source, and a few other things.

The Apocalypse Jellyfish isn't done, of course, and there are no actual lobsters painted in yet because they're part of the blue blobs near the bottom that just has the base color. They will be there. And these will not be beatifically green living lobsters, oh no. Those seas are BOILING, my friend, 'cause it's the End Times. Those lobsters are going to be bright red. Bubbles and steam will be goin in later, as will the Apocalypse Jellyfish's reaping tendrils.

I didn't intend the AJ to look quite so much like a mushroom cloud, but it works.

Suprise

This is my first Illustration Friday project. The theme was "Suprise".

I saw a photo in a magazine of a bright red lobster dinner, and I thought that doing a lobster picture would be neat. So, I had to figure out what would suprise a lobster.

What would suprise a simple marine crustacean, spending its days and nights in the chilly ocean far from the sight of any land animal?

SUDDENLY ASCENDING BODILY INTO HEAVEN MERE SECONDS BEFORE THE WORLD BLOWS UP, OF COURSE! Yaharrr.

I'm not Christian myself, but the idea of a Lobster Rapture was too neat not to paint.

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