Some of my digital Marine Art:

[Mr Cob]

I love painting and creating art in all types of mediums. I'm a Web Developer by trade so naturally my art has also taken the digital form...

Here's a couple with a short explanation of each:

Title: "Nuclear Deaths". It's inspired by my Nuclear Green Palythoas and Purple Death Palythoa corals along with Palytoxins. You can see palytoxins being released from these bad boys. I used an image of my Nuclear greens along with an underwater shot that I purchased from a stock photography site and of course my mad photoshop skillz. lol



For reference, here's the original pic of my Nuclear Greens that I started with: (actual picture I took from my tank)




next....


Title: "Ocean Storm"
I was curious what the ocean might look like underwater during a storm so I did a Google search and pretty much got nothing, which inspired this illustration. It's more of a storm just starting and lightning striking through the water. I used stock photography that I purchased to create this illustration along with layers in Photoshop. These pics are not from my tank.

[Europhyllia]

I really like the Ocean Storm one.
I wish I would be more skilled in Photoshop. I know I am using only 20% of what it has to offer...

[txav8r]

Those are crazy Rob! I love them both!

What about the box-bait palys? LOL

[Mr Cob]

I really like the Ocean Storm one.
I wish I would be more skilled in Photoshop. I know I am using only 20% of what it has to offer...

Thanks, Karin. Funny thing.... I've been using Photoshop for about 10 years now and a few years ago I began teaching my wife some of the design and web tools that I use.

Well, one day she was doing some batch processing in Photoshop and I saw her using a crop tool and accomplishing something that would normally take me an additional 5-8 keystrokes to do and I said; "hey what are you doing there?". Her; "oh, just using the crop tool". Me; "oh, yeah.....the crop tool." <LONG PAUSE> Me; "WHAT THE HECK IS THE CROP TOOL????" She started cracking up... and taught me something that I now use every single day.

....LOL! I really enjoy seeing how other people use the same tools I use. There are so many ways to accomplish similar effects and an array of tools that even I don't use or understand.

Those are crazy Rob! I love them both!

What about the box-bait palys? LOL

Thanks, Jack! LOL, the box-bait palys! Only you and I thought it was funny. For everyone that missed it, for one of the POTM contests the subject was "boxfish and Palys/Zoas" so I submitted my box-bait palys (palys with a boxfish face in them) to Eve and it slipped by her and she entered it into the contest. lol. Sorry Eve.

[Europhyllia]

The palys with the freaky eyes? Those were cool (if we are talking about the same thing)

[txav8r]

Haha! Yes Karin. Those were the ones!

[Europhyllia]

Ha! I saw those and thought: funny palys with boxfish eyes. But then nobody said anything and other 'fun submissions' had already been nixed so I was glad I kept my mouth shut because I figured: crazy me. I am probably the only one that sees fish eyes in them. They must be just some kind of snazzy spotted expensive paly and I would have looked like a dork mentioning it...

[hobogato]

what about the hasselhoff palys? anyone remember those?

[Mr Cob]

^haha...yes! Zoaid.com has them...

http://zoaid.com/index.php?module=Ga...g2_itemId=3965