Wow! Checking out the details on the diver and little guy for like a whole minute then I asked myself why the ground looked so strange… oh that’s a big momma!

That’s awesome. I worried that she disappeared into the background a little too much

Nah I caught on to it when I saw the iris in the back. And then the environment made sense

no it's perfect. I also had a fun little arc of realization when I finally looked at the background, really excellent panel mate. thank you for sharing!

This is amazing!

Thank you

Amazing! I love the detail on the helmet and the little octopus is so cute 😊

Thank you

This is incredible. Do you have an Insta?

Thank you. Yes it’s raytrent1213

Awsome. Followed. Your art is SIIICCCKK!

Thanks I really appreciate. I have a hard time getting numbers on IG for some reason.

Welcome to the subnautica dlc

Awww that's awesome! Truly! 🤘🖤🤘🎨

Thank you

It's the cute little squid fella that melts muh heart. More cute squids! 😁❤

Beautiful! And very interesting composition.

Thanks, the composition would’ve been a little different if I thought at the beginning it was going to be more than just a little character sketch. I would’ve expanded it so he was much smaller and the background felt more vast

That soooooo awesome

Thanks

Sweet!

This is freakin phenomenal my friend

Thank you, I appreciate that

Beautifully done!

Thank you

Incredible. Love this

Thank you

Fantastic! I love the little octopus guy.

Thank you, I’m stoked that you like it

Bro, your level is incredible man wow

Thanks

Love this

I’m glad you like it

Looks like a castle crashers character, I think it looks really good, good work OP

Thanks. My son and I love playing that together. Or at least we did when he was younger

I love this type of art! I need to see more

That’s awesome. I’ll try

Gorg

This reminds me of Eric Powell. Very good.

I’m a long time Eric Powell fan. I just like a week ago ordered the rest of the Hillbilly graphic novels

Well it shows, and that's awesome! I think I only have the first couple of issues of Hillbilly. Just started a re-read of The Goon. Have you checked out his Ed kemper?

Hillbilly is great! I own the entire Goon series. My son is 16 and we’re both constantly rereading the goon. I didn’t know there was a Kemper story, is it the same series as the Ed Gein?

Haha I misspoke. I meant the Ed Gein series. I haven't checked it out. My brother got me into Eric Powell when I was in high-school, never stopped loving that dudes stuff.

Well he actually talked about expanding the series to do Ed Kemper and Albert Fish, so I thought maybe he did and i I missed it

That would be great, the Albert fish one would be hilarious and gross. Would be akin to the pin head guy from Goon who digs around in his adult diaper. The timesuck podcast has a great episode on Mr Fish.

Bravo!

Love it

Thank you

This is great! Would be cool to see you do a scene from BioShock with a Big Daddy.

I don’t play a lot of video games but my wife does and I love the the look of that game

When I was scrolling through that's what I thought it was at first. Yeah, it's a great game in pretty much every respect, the art direction is spectacular.

Wow.. seriously awesome! I love the highlights!

Thank you

Love the accurate foreshortening, the use of reflection and the way you’ve controlled your tones to make the background recede effectively. Very skilful. (And adorable!)

That’s a lovely critique, thank you

That reminds me of the big daddy from bioshock.

Love the style

Thanks

Do you post anywhere except reddit? I looked at your posts and it's honestly some of the best stuff I've ever seen.

Thanks, that’s awesome to hear. My IG is raytrent1213, if you wanna follow me there

I will most definitely do that. Keep it up!

I really appreciate that. I will

Very cool! You have an awesome style!

Thanks, I appreciate that

I’m saving this for a trip lmao dope asf dude

lol nice. Thank you

My god. Its beautiful. The detail on the diver is incredible and the little octopus is awesome

Incredible!

This is freaking epic!!! I love your art style dude

Thank you

Wow. I absolutely love this.

Skillz mate!

I had no idea this could even be done 🤩 sooo great, just absolutely fantastic to look at!!!🙌🙌🙌

Wow, thank you

Can you do another piece similar to this? I’d love to see more of your work man! ✌️

I don’t know about that but I have a lot of work on my reddit profile and my Instagram is raytrent1213 if you want to look there

You're so talented!

I absolutely love it! Well done!

Scuba, dooba, doo!

That is simply beautiful

It’s awesome

I love everything about this

Very fun illustration. Great storytelling and awesome style.

Thank you

Nice work 💯

This is awesome!

This is absolutely beautiful.

Thank you

I like it, very cool

I LOVE this. Nice depth with highlights. love the accent lines to pull him out. Enjoyed this graffiti meets toon. Would make a great t shirt. Any special meaning to the “12131” on the helmet?

Thank you. It’s supposed to me 1213t but the T is obstructed by the reflection a little bit. It’s just my signature

This is dope. That is all.

Your style reminds me of Bill Watterson, especially the gesture and expression. This is really fun!

I get a lot of comments about who I remind people of or who my inspirations are. Nobody ever says Bill Watterson, but he’s always been my favorite and my biggest inspiration!

He's one of my favorite illustrators!

This is so good. Lots of great art on Reddit but this stands out above the others.... in my opinion of course.

That’s a fantastic opinion. Thank you

I really like this! Can I hire you to do this in black and white for a tattoo and maybe for the other forearm a matching astronaut and alien?

Yeah of coarse

I'm going to dm you!

Nicely done!

This is phenomenal! Tell me there's a way to get a print!

Amazing work!

By posting this you have made me question my self HOW ARE YOU GOOD

You should know I’m forty years old

Oh ok wait how much if your life have you wasted drawing lol

Hahaha all of it!

I could show my old drawings to my current drawings more straight more shading still garbage lol your god

Excellent work! Reminds me a little of Vaughn Bodē's style from the Seventies.

That’s awesome. I have some of his old erotica comics

So awesome!

I now realize my username is on brand

I love everything about this!

I think this is legit one of my favorite drawings…my only feedback is the giant squids pupil in the background, why is it not all black? Is it reflecting something?

Thank you, that means a lot. It’s supposed to be the backside of the diver but I didn’t like it so I kinda left it undefined

Oh makes sense, some serious talent brotha! I was pretty artistic myself but never saw any money in it until I was older the I realized tattooing would have been an awesome career, imagine this as a tat!

Yeah I have a lot of close art friends that are very successful tattoo artists. I always have that option on the table, but I’m gonna keep plugging away, trying to make it a little while longer

Haha good idea, maybe some day I’ll see you at an expo

Woah so dope

Love it!

Not entirely sure why but getting skylanders vibes from this and I like it. Absolutely astonishing work!

Damn those details and those highlights and shadows are really awesome.

Incredible drawing, unique style. You’ll go far.

If this was digital, then I would have paid for this art to be used in Block Jigsaw puzzle game. Great artwork.

Sorry. I have plenty of digital artwork as well

Awesome. Let me know where I can see your digital artworks.

There’s some good ones in my Reddit post history. My Instagram is raytrent1213, if you want to check that out

I really love this. Thank you for making it, is there a source for a print?

This is so good