Adelia Jumps for the Balloon: Finished Painting

I finished this on the newest watercolor tablet I purchased. It's 'Arches' cold pressed (which means that the paper is textured....hot pressed, which is how I did the virgin penguin piece, is very smooth) and everything seems to turn out amazing on it. I changed the composition slightly from my tone comp to this one by lowering the frame so the balloon looked like it was flying out. And having reference to where the shadows and highlights were, it was quite easy to paint.

Adelia Jumps for the Balloon

Adelia Jumps for the Balloon

This is the tone study I did for my next painting. I decided that I'd better start figuring out where I want my light source before I put brush to canvas. I did this on tracing paper over a cleaned up (in Illustrator) version...I also used this opportunity to readjust the placement and to put Adelia more on model.

Adelia Jumps for the Balloon

Final Version: Adelia waking up

I really like this character - I finished the painting yesterday and can't wait to start on another one.

Adelia and the Balloon wake up

Adelia: in bed - the color comp

I'm currently developing a series of paintings, hopeful to turn them into a book. They follow the adventures of little Adelia and her balloon. It's really due to the suggestion of Tracey that this is taking place (so thank/blame her). I had originally done Adelia as a big, fat penguin and my original intention was to place her in compromising positions meant for smaller bird (that could fly). My two original paintings with her had her standing on a tree branch and falling off.
The only thing is - the more I drew her, the more she changed from a turd of a penguin to a cute child like penguin. Meantime I did a second painting with my chinstrap character, only this time I imagined him as a fatty (I felt it added a lot to the painting to have this cute fat chinstrap penguin holding a balloon)...Tracey suggested I merge the two story ideas together and this is the first of many more to come.

color comp of Adelia with Balloon

Pinguino: Adelia doesn't fall far from the tree...

I painted this last night in Photoshop. I used one of the brushes the program provides to try to add a bit of texture to the painting so that it didn't look so computer generated. Things seem to be coming along quite nicely...I have several more ideas that just have to be drawn before I can come in and paint them. I think I might end up seperating the two boxes as my original idea doesn't seem as good (of having a large box with big action in it, and a smaller box for reaction or consequence or so I have a chance to say something that I think is funny, but is probably just lame). This really came about by this second piece in the Pinguino series having two drawings that I really like...it seems a shame to shrink one of them...

Adelia climbs a tree

Painted in Photoshop

Pinguino: Adelia the Penguin in a tree

This is the second in my series on Adelia the Penguin. This is only the beginning stages of this piece (the first drawing I did was too stiff, so I tried to put some action into this one.). I did a rough which I scanned into my computer and I did a quick cleanup of it in Illustrator. This isn't the same type of cleanup I'd do professionally...I just quickly cleanup the linework so I have something very solid to work with when I transfer it over to watercolor paper. I'll probably paint this in photoshop before I try it for real...so expect that in the next week or so!

Adelia in tree

Illustrator Cleanup

Adelia painted in photoshop

I'm not really into the watercolor version of this piece - which is why I did this one...
I'm also trying to develop it into something...which is why it's set down a bit different. I thought adding the cleanup underneath, as well as the english version of what the piece says as something that makes it more of a complete piece...but I still feel like it's missing something...

Adelia the Adelie

painted in photoshop

Adelia the Adelie

I was thumbnailing a bit and came up with this character. I liked it enough to try and do a series of paintings with this as it's subject matter. The text on the drawing will eventually be done in illustrator or even photoshop...I just wanted to see how it would look...and the way I work, it looks messy...I didn't want to just say penguin...the word (Pinguino) is penguin in Italian.
Adelia the Adelie Penguin (the name Adelia came by accident as I was saving my first illustrator cleanup version of the file...and it seemed that Adelia would make a good name for a penguin...). I painted this very quickly...just trying to get a feel for it - I'm not sure of the color of the penguin yet...I don't want it to be too dark...and not terribly light either...

Adelia the Adelie Penguin

Pencil and Watercolor