Some really excellent stuff here. I never seem to get the time to draw, and I think my skills have suffered a bit cos of that. Well I thought I'd share this with you guys. It's by a girl I used to work with and personally I think she's very talented. I asked her to draw me a samurai monkey so i could model him, 45 mins later she produced this (and a side profile of him too!):

Ha ha - that's very cool - I had been wondering about your avatar - It reminds me a little of planet of the Apes.

Yeah, I don't normally have an avatar but I just love his expression. Love the cloak and helmet too, it rocks :D

The pose is somehow also quite cool :P

was going through some pictures today and I found this unfinished painting from a couple of years ago - one of the last that I painted before starting maya.

quite cool :D

was in made in PS ?

Looks great Arran, kind of reminds me of a 60's/70's tv show like the man from UNCLE or the prisioner.

Quite Jealous...

Can't draw for toffee, me. No art background what so ever me like :).

Keep up all the gr8 work, Jay gr8 stuff man.

that looks real good, you should keep on doing this so you're not going to loose your skills.
Was it from memory or did you paint this from a photograph?

cheers

thanks a lot guys! :beer:

Grev_Mivlos - No Photoshop - just boring old oil paints. :)

gster123 / farbtopf - this was actually taken from a still from the film Brazil by Terry Gilliam. yeah, I'd like to do some painting, but at the moment I am having too much fun with maya... ;)

Man, Steve! You're stuff is amazing!! I'm hesitant to put my stuff on here now!!

Sparticus

I'm planning on doing something with this...

Excellent, Did you draw this from the game or is it LucasArts' own piece?

KotOR 2 I believe?

Cheers
Jay

Looks a great image! Would love to see this in 3d.

I set my friend another challenge (last one was samurai monkey a few images back) just to keep her on her toes. I told her my idea for 'Rubberduckski' which was an idea based on an assignment whilst I was training. The idea is that this would be a vehicle for a mouse character. A motorised steed if you will! Crits and comments welcome, I'll pass them on. Cheers.

Thats great! Is that what your monkey uses to get around?