Update: You can now buy this cartoon on a t-shirt, hoodie, or sticker at RedBubble. How can you resist?
Here’s another drawing of a penguin in a cloak.
This one is interesting to me because of how I achieved it. First, I copied from a picture of a penguin I took at London zoo.
I sketched it in pencil and then sketched in the mask and cloak. Then I put it on the lightbox and drew the outline on a new sheet using a tria marker with the brush nib.
Then I scanned it and adjusted the levels to get the white paper white. I copied the layer and coloured it in, and put that coloured layer under the original scanned layer, using the Color Burn blending mode.
The nice thing for me is that I like this sort of look and I’m gradually working out how to achieve it. Gradually.