Jewel Renee Illustration

As the poles melt, we are finding out more than we've ever known about ice seals.  Ribbon seals are only one variety of ice seal. They a...

I colorized the ice lines separately from the seal lines on this drawing. I like how the snow shapes hint at perspective.  It's very ha...

Four layers into coloring in Photoshop, this little one is starting to look cute.  I'm very pleased that the blue gradient I use for und...

I really liked the shallow water feel in the balloon fish and blue sea slug illustrations, so I used a similar gradient for my background. ...

Captured on paper anyway. Here's an in progress of the color layers. I moved him to the top left of the composition to add a little dr...

After scanning in the penguin drawing, I was able to paint in one sitting.  He took about 5 hours of photoshop time to illustrate. My favori...

While I'd love to stipple every delicate dot on this baby cuttlefish, I'm going to have to call this done.  I'm content with the...

All done!  You are looking at  20 layers of photoshop "paint". If I ever switched to oil paint it'd take months for these to d...

I imagine that finding one of these in the ocean is like finding a walking stick bug in the woods.  It's pretty rare, pretty hard to see...

I had the time to color my starfish in one session, so I didn't post an in progress version.  I can offer you an alternate crop though: ...

I struggled to establish a twilight feel but in the end decided to keep this piece vibrant to fit with the series.  Soft murky shadows reall...

As A.K. pointed out in the last post's comments, Nautili are most active at twilight.  So I've surrounded this one with an inky sea....

Just a bit of polishing up, I didn't want to overdo this one.  He looks almost friendly.   However, I think I'll watch from here.  T...