Our friends at Black Mermaid Productions are posting gorgeous sneak peeks of their upcoming project Elf-Fin. It is unusual to see an artist putting this kind of hand-painted effort into cartoon-influenced images. So many creators have gone digital. It’s lovely to see beautiful modeling devoid of the characterless color one has come to expect from Photoshopped comic art.
I hope you will pop over to the official Black Mermaid website blog where you can see dozens more images from this project. Jozef Szekeres and Julie Ditrich are working hard on this series. Please support these Australian cartoonists whose work has appeared in Joe Linsner’s Dawn, and Erik Larsen’s Dart. Jozef painted a beautiful pin-up for A Distant Soil, which I really need to get around to posting!
Black Mermaid also created the entire mythos for the Wavedancers series, bringing mermaids and elves together for the first time!
