The Extreme Cetaceans Series (Patreon)

Hi everyone - yes, I'm still here. If you've been keeping an eye on TetZoo you'll know that I've lately published a couple of articles on unusual and remarkable - or 'extreme' - cetaceans, the emphasis very much being on dolphins and porpoises. For fun, I've been building a montage in the articles which features (vaguely cartoony versions of) the relevant species in a sea scene. Here's how it looks as per the most recent article...

As you can see from the montage at the very top of this post, I've now done four more 'extreme' cetaceans, all of which need adding to the montage as time allows. Clockwise from top left they're humpbacked dolphin, Dall's porpoise, Irrawaddy dolphin (specifically, the local form known as the Pesut) and a rightwhale dolphin. This is a bit of a spoiler, since now you know which additional species will be covered in the articles I have yet to complete. The published instalments are...

Extreme Cetaceans, Part 1

Extreme Cetaceans, Part 2

If you're wondering how I made the montage (yeah, you probably aren't), I drew the animals separately (see very bottom for the initial two, both drawn hastily); scanned them, and cut them out using coreldraw's magic wand tool. Meanwhile, I drew a sea scape, and gave it some shade and colouring in photoshop. The splash was drawn partly in pencil and partly by using the eraser tool. Final result...

The cut-out animals were then pasted in. This will happen with the others, one at a time (I'm overdue on the humpbacked dolphin and already need to add it), which means more working with splashes and spray. The final product will be crowded, but fun. I wasn't drawing these animals for any project other than this series of articles, but of course I need about a million cetaceans for The Big Book, so I'll probably recycle them for that (at least some of them will be relevant).

Thanks as always for support. Time has become even tighter for me than usual over the past few months, I'm so, so behind on the things I want to do....