The Avenger After Jeff Jones

This is a little homage to the fantasy painter/illustrator Jeff Jones.
Years ago my brother bought me some trading cards featuring his work and at the time (around '93 or so) I did some drawings based on his designs. Well that was a long time ago and I wasn't a very good illustrator then so I decided to re-draw many of my little homages to his work. There are three others I am currently re-working. I'll post 'em as I get 'em done.

Pirate Monkey

Full title: Pirate Monkey - The Banana King Vs. The Unfortunate Blob.
It's kinda silly I know but it's fun.
Pirate Monkey is just a little character I came up with about a year ago - give or take.
I have no real background for him yet; only that he's a monkey who happens to be a pirate.
This was drawn at 14 x 17 or so and took about 3 and a half to 4 hours to do - pencils and inks plus a little work in photoshop.

For the Sake of...

I got into a bizarre argument with some kid on Deviant Art about nudity in art.
Basically his adolescent hormones were all about boobs for the sake of boobs and it appeared that nothing I could say would change his mind.
I drew this as a response to his mindset about the subject and his antics within another members site.
It took only about an hour to pencil and ink because I didn't put much effort into the inking.
I am going to go back into the image and beef up the inks and probably throw on some digital color. I'll post the result when I get it done.

I should add that the background is a digitally manipulated stock photo from the page of another member of DA.
Unfortunately I cant find the link at the moment.

My Robe Please

The Pale Rider, Death itself, coming up out of the pit to harvest fresh souls.
Quite the corny explanation but images like this are really fun to draw. Fantasy drawing in general has no real rules so you can do pretty much anything and justifying it is easy - hahaha.
Drawn at about 14x17 in. from pencils to inks to digital color (the background is a digitally manipulated mono type print of mine) it took about 6 hours.

Anatomically Incorrect

This one is slightly different than the one on my Deviant art page (Anatomically Incorrect). I couldn't decide which version worked better so I posted both at different sites.
There is quite a back-story behind this image but I don't think I'm prepared to get into it at the moment.
The quasi-angel as a mannequin missing some limbs is more work with displaced body parts. I guess in this case the whole body is displaced revealing a sense of incompleteness in supposed perfection; lifeless rigidity replacing tenderness...
The background splatter was drawn by hand and the whole image was drawn relatively small at about 7x10.5 inches (the ratio is a standard comic format at 2:3).
The whole thing from pencils to inks and digital color took about 5 hours.

Spidey and Venom

This is the second page of a little two page spread featuring Spider-man and his 'ol enemy Venom.
Initially I really liked how this turned out but I'm a little luke warm on it being in my comic portfolio right now. Not that I now dislike it but there is something about it - something I can't quite put my finger on that makes me feel it's not totally up to snuff...
The more I look at it I think it's the buildings in the background that I am dissatisfied with...

Harvester - Finished

This is the finished version of the Harvester of Sorrow poster.
Colors are in photoshop and all of the textures used are actually (in some cases digitally modified) pieces of my own printmaking body of artwork. They created a nice (gruesome) vibe for the drawing. Total post work time 2 and a half hours

Fat Mans Paradise

This is basically a totally fake comic book cover...
I did it because I thought it was funny and fat guys are fun to draw.

Prior of the Ori

Again, I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to the Stargate franchise.
This particular character is one of the foot soldiers of the main bad guys (The Ori) in the last two seasons of the show.
I think it made for a good splash page.
Drawn fairly small at about 9x12 I believe; it took about one hour to pencil in and about two hours (give or take a smidgen) to ink in.
I'm going to be adding color and textures to this so and when I do I'll post the results.