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Here is the illustration I did for my wife’s birthday card this year. I was initially not excited about the project, as I was already in the middle of working on the cover my next sci-fi erotica story. However, in the end, the card turned out to be probably the best digital painting I’ve ever done:

Here is a detail of the cat. Zoidberg is a pretty good model, isn’t he:

And now here’s a detail of the cupcake wrapper, which was largely painted without a specific source:

I should say, I find painting fur and wood grain much more fun and less stressful than painting dinosaur scales. That book cover illustration is almost finished, by the way. I should have it posted in a week or so.

People say that all I ever paint are gorillas. Well, here’s a painting of a completely different primate. This gibbon happens to himself be an artist- a “mixed media” artist of a sort. Many might find the content of this image a bit inappropriate for a Valentine’s Day card, but that’s exactly what this illustration was for. And my wife, who loves primates, was not at all put off by gibbon’s unconventional choice of tools.

In case you thought that was just very dry-looking paint on his palette, here’s a detail:

In a few days, I will post the Valentine’s Day card my wife made for me. Also, I will soon begin writing what I hope to be the next great American erotica short story. Stay tuned for updates.