Adventures of Oliver and Dynamite - new color version

 Happy New Year!

I've been slowly making my way through this Domestika course called  "Digital Painting for Characters - Color and Light" because I feel weakest in understanding color and light when trying to advance my artistic abilities.  And while it took a while (I can only squeeze in a few hours a week at night after the kids are sleep), it's been really helpful and fun.

So here's a new version of the color for my old drawing of Oliver and Dynamite on a scooter.

I feel like this has come a long way.  For comparison, here's how it looked when I tried to color it last time.

Yay, progress!

The Adventures of Oliver and Dynamite

Ever since Ollie was a baby, and well before he could understand what I was saying, I've been making up stories to tell him while I tried to put him to sleep.  Over the last two years, I've developed this little world around a little monkey named Oliver, and his kitty sister, Dynamite.  I've told Ollie countless stories about their adventures.  Some are nonsense, some are uninteresting, but a few are actually pretty good.  I spent a few months working on and off on this drawing of Oliver and Dynamite and hope to turn some of those stories into comics over the next year or two.  I would love to be able to give Ollie a little printed comic book of it one day.

This is one of the few pieces I've done on Procreate on an iPad.  I'm definitely starting to feel more comfortable with it and am happy with my exploration of color here.