"Jazz Ant": Last summer a friend and I were at a cool local coffee house
called Xtreme Bean in Tempe listening to a live jazz band they had there.

Of course we were sketching and an image of an ant "relaxing" with
a cup o'joe and a smoke came floating outa my head and onto the page.

I always wanted to do a digital painting from it and finally got around to it recently.

Along the way he lost his smoking habit but picked up a hot lady friend. : )

If you look in the background you can see a "boss"
ant....and he's not too happy with our non-working duo.

I had a lot of fun with this concept! If you want to see
some of the steps I used to create this image, including the original drawing
from my sketchbook, please visit my blog page here.

Created using Sketchbook Pro software
and a Wacom Intuos tablet.

 

Image: Copyright 2011, Jephyr (Jeff Curtis), All Rights Reserved