After nearly a month, we have finally finished our collab! It's always fun to see the process (well, at least to me), so I figured I post the multiple stages we went through to get there. Much thanks to alvarejo for his multiple suggestions/feedback and phil for the pres help.

Enjoy!

Quick concept sketch I send doodle of a guy surfing on a whale's tail:


He likes the idea (yay), so I draw up a surfer and send it his way:


Doodle follows up with a cute whale and fun idea of having the waves emerge from the whale's blowhole:


I absolutely love the sketch and use alvarejo's advice to incorporate some more movement:


Doodle begins coloring the design:


I begin finishing the surfer and shoot over a quick version with much more movement and excitement:


Doodle polishes the image and adds his signature halftone clouds:


After I clean up the water and add some small seagulls to the background, Phil provides some awesome flash and a baby is born:


Hope ya'll enjoy!

Guesses so far..

2.00 - Nohbody
2.70 - Efunk2332
2.80 - pindian
2.91 - L11
3.01 - rossmat8
3.02 - Jemae
3.05 - jshepp
3.08 - boostr29
3.12 - jeffreyg
3.14 - rbthatcher
3.15 - phillydesigner
3.17 - bengineer
3.19 - jess4002
3.21 - celandinestern
3.22 - mgill52
3.24 - EricDiaz
3.27 - madamdecember
3.28 - brentendo
3.29 - lily1029
3.32 - evan3
3.34 - ExpiredInNovember
3.36 - Stoma
3.38 - ir0cko
3.39 - angelatag
3.40 - littlem
3.41 - mustachepete
3.42 - bhoomika
3.43 - kidyesterday
3.44 - Pakpandir
3.45 - FRICKINAWESOME
3.47 - bluckyou
3.48 - The Paper Crane
3.49 - Krimson
3.51 - Real World
3.52 - scadgonzalez
3.53 - psykomakia
3.55 - umbrelladude
3.56 - senortophat
3.58 - dschwen
3.62 - grapefruitmonster
3.68 - Captain Kickball
3.78 - Ste7en
Apple - Maltzmania