Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Spring Cover for SpongeBob Magazine

SpongeBob and Patrick jumping and bouncing on springs Magazine cover painting by Sherm Cohen  
This cover for SpongeBob SquarePants Magazine ran last spring (see, “spring?” Get it? ahem.). Drawing in pencil and Photoshop. Inked in Adobe Illustrator. Painted in ArtRage 2.5 except the background elements which I stole borrowed from old production backgrounds. Usually I paint every background from scratch, but I was in a real deadline crunch. Below are a whole bunch of preliminary sketches and layouts…

 SpongeBob and Patrick jumping and bouncing on springs SpongeBob_Magazine-Rough
pencil sketch of Squidward yelling at SpongeBob jumping and bouncing on springs
 pencil sketch of SpongeBob jumping and bouncing on springs  pencil sketch of SpongeBob jumping and bouncing on springs magazine-cover--sketch-04-sherm-cohen
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pencil sketch of SpongeBob jumping and bouncing on springs
pencil sketch of SpongeBob jumping and bouncing on springs
    SpongeBob and Patrick jumping and bouncing on springs