Octopus Ink

Here the hammerhead family has been incorporated into a Shark Eggs sign, along with a horn shark and swell shark, and their respective eggs.

Unlike even a deluxe set of 72 color pencils, using digital methods to color an image presents a seemingly infinite range of choices. Maybe that sounds like a good thing, but I find that rather than being creative, I may be tempted to choose colors from Photoshop-provided palettes.

Instead of resorting to this, I like to pick colors by sampling colors from photos of the animals I happen to be coloring, using the handy eyedropper tool. Sure the colors aren't completely accurate (filtered by water, lenses, photoshopping, etc), but the resulting palette is much more interesting, and consists of colors I never would have considered. It's not just a matter of eyedropper-ing any pixel's color though. Colors need to be layerable and blendable at different opacities, and most importantly that color needs to be symbolic of the object it is coloring. P.S. The title font is "Monkeyboy", free from 1001fonts.com.