SpongeBob Magazine Halloween Pumpkin Cover Painting - On your Newsstands Now!

The new issue of SpongeBob SquarePants Magazine has a cover I painted a few months ago...a special Halloween themed portrait of SpongeBob and Patrick as seen from inside a Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin...

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...and here's the original painting before all the word-balloons, headlines and logos:

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This was painted digitally using the fantastic (and cheap) graphics program, ArtRage 2.5

I saved a bunch of different versions of this one as I was working on it so I could recreate a sort of step-by-step drawing painting process. Keep an eye out for that post in the near future.