Year Of The Monkey Master Of Flame 2016

2016 may very well belong to our new character, an eons old ancestor of Vann Illia and his quests.
FallenAngel was suggesting we do something with a flame monkey in celebration of the Chinese new years.  I thought about it for a bit, but really wasn't coming up with anything all that great.  While talking to my friend Frank, I got inspired and started to doodle.  One thing lead to another and  Vannk was born.  A prehistoric Elf, his evolution is very different than that of humans.  They kept their prehensile tails much longer.  His ears are much larger than his descendants, being able to hear the slightest sounds from far distances. He only allows the brute to think it has ambushed him!  He is ready to strike with file and blade!

Like Vann our new warrior might be of mixed origins.  I would love to explore him a lot more.  Maybe doing a short little collection of pieces that tells as short story.  The character is still very much a work in progress.  We will have to see what kind of direction (if any) that we go on him. I'll probably base that on his popularity.

Below you can see a small glimpse into the creative process.  A couple sketches I did on sai and the piece as FallenAngel worked on it. You can see him not liking the sword position and deciding to use it in a position like a cane. Testing the rocks stability as he crosses the molten area. Also note the ammonite was a squid here.  A nice alternate collar, the the necklace we eventually used.  Ever wonder where Vann got that fossil he wears?

Athan In the Jungle

 It was Ink-B's birthday on Saturday.  I made sure to send him some beautiful birthday wishes through art by TonberryKnight and FallenAngel.  We picked his character Athan as the subject for this years gifts.  Both images place Athan deep in the forest.  Tonberry created a very magical image, setting Athan deep in the darkest part of the jungles of Prehistoric Paradise.  He is very beautiful, especially his eyes that see right through you and his big thick ears. :)

FallenAngels image is so very playful.  I wanted to do a cross over with our Monkey boys; Nole and Matu.  Fallen has them serving Athan some banana cake and assorted goodies for his birthday feast.  It's a perfect day filled with friends and food.  That's what a birthday party should be all about.  We even brought in Athans wolf familiar to join in the meal.  :) 

Samba De Muscle Monkey Amigo

Back before Christmas, Aneroes was very kind in asking me what I would like as a gift.  You know, there was one idea I had on my mind for years, but never really asked about doing.  Something that has a very special Christmas relationship with me.  I started to think back to end of my college days.  The Dreamcast days.  Christmas 2000 was the year I went all out and got my sisters kids the game and the controller for Samba De Amio.  They loved music games.  Parappa the Rappa was a big hit with them.  They loved Sonic to death.  This was made by Sonic Team.  It seemed like the perfect combination.  I was paying for the holidays on a Wal-Mart salary so those controllers and the game took out a huge chunk of my savings, let me tell you!  I think they were $115 each.  But dang, it was so worth it.  From the moment the game started we knew we were about to play something special.  Forget the Wii  for bringing family together.  The Dreamcast that day had 4 generations of my family swinging maracas around, laughing, singing and dancing.  People that never touched a game before were clambering for the thing.  I also remember the same people going crazy for Sega Bass fishing the next Christmas.  Too bad the Dreamcast didn't market itself as well as the Wii.  Anyway...the party raged far into the night.  Friends wound up staying way late and every night for days afterward we had so much fun with the game.  It was one of the best Christmases ever.

I remember running around to get a set of controllers for myself just a few days after.  I never thought I would go crazy for a music game.  They were so hard to get! Sega had stopped producing them already. We finally found one at this mall an hour away.  After we got it, the buddy I had gone with and I watched Dude Where's My Car and laughed our asses off.  That was another great day.  That new years we all raced to play just seconds after midnight.  The first game of the year. We even went out and got the pirate version of Samba De Amigo 2000.  My niece still has a stuff toy of Amiga, Amigos sister that she keeps by her bedside.  This was one of those games that really brought us all a little closer.

Years later I had tons of fun with the Wii version. My nephew didn't care for it much though.  I even wrote a review for it that I never published.  Yeah it wasn't perfect, but it did the job.   A friend of mines sister saw me play it on Christmas Eve and bought a Wii just for the game.  :P  We also had the Eyetoy game with Samba in it, which was surprisingly well done.   I wish Sega had ported the game to PS3 after it's motion controller came out.  Maybe I should post some pictures of my Samba Controllers, but you guys can find that stuff anywhere.  So I will just share what Aneros took so much time and effort to draw for me to share with you all. It's a super Studly Samba De Amigo monkey man.  A hunk totally fitting in with my vision of a perfect Christmas gift. :)  I never doubted for a second he couldn't bring the sexy out of Amigo!  Dang we might need to explore some more characters on day! 
I hope you guys love him as much as I do.  Check out Samba De Amigo if you already haven't.  It's the perfect game for gay men.  What other game lets you wave your arms around like a fairy to Ricky Martin and songs titled Bum Bum? :P Joking! Seriously though it's awesome.

Dore In Danger: Urbanmusiq Ape Escape!!

Oh no! It's only been little more then a month, but Dore Lockstone, our cowardly caveman of Prehistoric Paradise is in trouble again! Thanks to Urbanmusiq the poor guy can't even enjoy a banana in peace!
The concept of tonights mesozoic masterpiece was influenced so much by looking at my old Tops Donkey Kong cards, coupled with a desire to see Dore sucking on some banana. Hee hee. I actually drew up over a half dozen poses and sent them to Urbanmusiq. Then, out of the blue, I sent the concept of this one to him and he e-mailed me right away wanting to do it. (Yes that means I have 7 other Dore ideas out for grabs!) I asked him if he wanted to do Donkey Kong colours, or grey and black like bad old King Kong. I was happy he chose DK. Urban and I have done way over 40 images together. I can't believe it took us this long to tackle Dore. He seems like a character he should have naturally drawn long ago. I say this cause the image process was so smooth and fast as well. He just nailed Dore! From his messy (I'm constantly running) hairdo, big puffy proud pectorals, to his thick dick with meaty, tight foreskin, Dore is a caramel skinned feast for the eyes. And speaking of eyes, I think Dores ice blue peepers are the most expressive eyes I have seen Leon De Leon draw to date. Dore with big doe eyes!!! SIGH! So cute!!!

During the process he wanted to know if I think Dore should have a beard. Hmmmm what do you guys think? Personally I like him with his scruffy look best. And Urban always delivers the best scruff around. Couldn't pass that up! We also discussed adding a banana in his butt, but we decided against it. It might give the impression that the Ape hand has caused another reaction besides surprise in Dore. :P Tee hee! I don't get that many chances to commission Urban, but every time I do, I am so overcome with excitement. It's always so much fun watching my wonder from down under work. ^O^

Leon De Leons meaty art has my Banana Bursting, that's for sure! XD
Thanks to Adonix for the awesome image!

Hot Monkey Love In the Jurassic Jungle

Here's a blast from the past by the artist Kumikoalastar. I commissioned this way back in 2009. It's a really nice hand drawn image of Congo from the game Congo's Caper with Congette, who is now a male counterpart. Kumikoalastar did a fantastic job depicting the young lovers against a fiery backdrop. You can feel the mugginess in the evening air.
I really liked this game back in the day. The cute character designs really stuck with me. When I was in early 20s I sought out the Japanese version of the game. This proved elusive as there was not a lot of information regarding the game to be found online. Gamefaqs was of course no help back then. There was no Wikipedia either. Eventually I did find a seller on E-Bay that recognized it's American name and listed it under both Congo's Caper and Tatakae Genshijin 2: Rookie no Bōken. I got it pretty cheap too. I think for like $10. It's still pretty hard to find images from the Japanese box and manual. So I took the liberty of doing that tonight. Here are some pretty big images for you guys to enjoy! Come back with me to the ancient 1990s! :P

Congo, (or should I say Rookie?) was a very well designed mascot with his cute monkey Ears and tail. His face reminds me a bit of Ranma with hair very similar to color to Sonic. In fact it can be easily be thought that Congo was an attempt to combine a lot of Mascots. Sadly the game was sort of a budget title. It doesn't have a lot of the flash his predecessors Joe & Mac had. Did you notice he's sliding down a rainbow? That was too gay for the American Box Art I guess. We got the usual godawful Americanized crap as usual.

The game is copyrighted 1992, but Rookie's logo says 1993. That's not confusing. Still, I love the logo. Very similar to Sonic the Hedgehogs.

Anyone wanna translate this story? :)

Even back then the easiest way to a girls heart was a big shiny rock. :P I wonder if that's why our cock heads shine when fully hard? XD See the Monkey at the top? You devolve back into a monkey if you take too much damage. Similar to Super Mario in that you also decrease in size as well. Congo can become Super as well. You can see him go Super Saiyan here and on a page below. Hey it was the 90s, everyone was doing it!

Ambiguous boss images.

Your best friend is a tortured little pterodactyl. I guess they pick on him cause being pink makes him gay. Prehistoric gay bashing....nice. u__u

Enslave That Monkey

Hey guys. I had a HORRIBLE weekend health wise, but a glorious weekend art wise. I pretty much did my best to stay off the PC, only posting quickly here and there on Facebook. So in order to catch up, I am going to do a few quick posts. (Else I wind up like I did in 2009 and I still have stuff from that year I haven't posted!)
Okay so first off some Monkey Business courtesy of Nookiedog. I got Enslaved Odyssey to the West for Christmas in 2010. I really enjoyed the game. Yeah it's got it's flaws. Like I had to redo some sort of factory stage when it glitched and the puzzle I was doing screwed up. All in all I did enjoy the title. Monkey is certainly very sexy. Right after getting the game I think I was in talks with Nookiedog about doing a piece featuring the character. He sent me some cool line right away too. He really liked the idea. (The game gave him some troubles though!) Through 2011 I did not seen much cool erotic art of him, besides one nice one from Branchlaw, where he's getting jerked off. So when I got the completed image a couple days ago I felt really excited to be able to share with the world some tantalizing art of this neglected hero.

Super tight chest, thick full cock, a little pepper on the pubes and some dust and grime for that gruff, tough, hunka man look and I am sold!!! :D What a heart stealing comeback Nookie!

A sweet gift from an even sweeter guy. This exclusive image is part of a set. This one features his foreskin all the way over his head. To see the others you will have to go to Nookiedogs blog! :D It's been way too long since the world has last seen Nookiedog do any kind of erotic male art. So long in fact that I was getting e-mails wondering where he was and if he was okay from friends and fans! He is of course just fine, but very busy with life! I as well hope he makes time for art, cause when I see an image like this, with so much detail and hard work put into it, I can't help but HUNGER for more! :D hee hee.

http://thenookieblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/enslaved-monkey.html

Here is some official art. (I like Nookies much better! XD)

Should I continue to commission more from Enlsaved?
I want lots more Monkey Business!!! Forget you Mario! XD
If you want more MONKEY take a look at the Nookieblog:

http://thenookieblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/enslaved-monkey.html

This is totally random. I found it last night and just had to post it. Can you imagine an Atari Golden Girls game? This game would have rocked. I couldn't stop laughing when I found it. :P

Back from Disney

Hey guys! I just spent almost 2 weeks at the happiest place on Earth. What an amazing place it is. I will have to do a blog on the adventures I had there in the near future. While I had visited the park for a few hours as a small child, nothing in my memories could prepare me for amazingly mind blowing the parks are. There is always something going on. I must rode Space Mountain 20 times. There is nothing like it anywhere. I have never been on a ride that had music for each part of the line, then on the ride itself and after you get off as well. With it's 70s science fiction themed displays and dioramas, it's wonderful lighting and mind blowing journey through the galaxy it's easily one of my favorite attractions of all time. Disney truly has the power to dip into your heart and bring out your inner child. Best of all, there were hardly any lines at this time of the year. Best of all the Magic Kingdom was decorated for Halloween. I tell you, Mickey throws one HELL of a Halloween Party. I could have stayed there for a month and never gotten bored for a second. XD

Well it looks like Dimata has decided to take a little vacation too. This was completed by FallenAngel while I was on vacation. I got this idea after doing some light research about Japanese hot springs. By the looks of that towel I would guess he is staying at the DPK resort. XD
I have a feeling Matu will soon be perch on that tower of meat. :P Careful Matu, it's probably a bit slippery! A super cute image, Fallen always adds such neat touches, like the bird and funny fish fountain. Gosh Fallen could you have gotten get that dick any bigger? XD Yowza! :P This was great to come home too. It wasn't the only image that was awaiting me. I will have some more for you guys in the morning.

I think my boys were following me. Wasn't I surprised to find Dimata and Smilo hanging around DinoLand USA!

Yes, just in case you were wondering, I did indeed win myself a stuff Saber tooth tiger. How cute is he? He looks like a doll Fred would purchase for Pebbles!

Boxers Strike a Pose For A New Poll

Ali and Barbe, the sites newest characters, pose for your Consideration. :P

Yesterday night I started a new poll here. It's sort of popularity contest. I listed a bunch of the sites main characters hoping I didn't leave any out in the process. The most popular character will be guaranteed a commission a month till about June. (As long as I can arrange it of course.) The other top 9 I hope to include one a month for the rest of year till October/November. Maybe I will plan out a 10 character orgy. XD This way I can have fun focusing on characters patrons on the blog want to see and don't wind up neglecting characters I might otherwise do. It will be interesting to see who comes up on top. The poll will run till the end of the month. Please feel free to add comments regarding poses and pairings and artists interested in this can contact me as well. :D

The image above was done of course by Fallen Angel. When he drew the first image of them, he sketched this pose out beside it for the fun of it. I liked the pose enough to ask him to complete it. This image got the benifit of being put on the back burner as he worked on the first sketch and the Christmas image. Even though the sketch was great, Fallen took the time to improve on it time and again as he worked on the other projects. I just noticed now as I go through my files he sent me about 3 sketches as he had fun with them. :D He made a few changes along the way, for example Barbe lost a tooth he had sticking out of his mouth for example and was given some really sweet expressive eyes. In the sketch his eyes were much smaller and evil looking and his mouth more brutish looking.
Thanks Fallen it turned out great and even better then your original vision. :P

A New Challenger Ali Aspen

Hey guys. I haven't been doing a lot of blogging and I doubt I will do a lot this week either. Thing is, I am sick. I was knocked off my butt all last week and now, even as I fight this lingering flu, I gotta get it in gear and do my best to get ready for Christmas in 4 days! Here we go with the Christmas rush blogs... XD
I thought I would start with a new character in my boxers series. I kept thinking about boxers wearing hoods and what kind of animal has a natural one. Then it came to me, A cobra! So I worked as hard as I could on a character.

This is Ali Aspen.

Ali is a young fighter from Egypt. He came to Canada at the age of 10, fleeing oppression in his home country. His family is cursed with snake like bodies. Ali however is a kind, thin young man. He wants to fight to prove his honor and do good in the world, but faces many problems. He sees Joey as a hero and wants to train under him more then anything. The top of Alis head acts like a hood. It can flex down over his eyes and add cover and mystique to his face. The sides in my design are thin and sectioned, much like the thin layer of a hood. The other layer is scalier and thicker and can provide Ali with protection on both sides of his head. His tail is extremely long and powerful. He is not the strongest fighter, but his speed, agility and heart make up for any loss in size he may suffer in comparison to his opponents. I am not sure if Ali will remain uncut. Most guys in Egypt are cut, so I am still debating that. :P



FallenAngel did a fun sketch of him and Barbe the other day, so I asked him to please complete it. I really like the way he did Barbe, he is very cute and funny. He's also very muscular! XD He even added in his apple tattoo when coloring the image. Not sure how that works on those super hairy arms, but trust Fallen to pull it off! Man he is bushy!!! He would make a nice plush doll. :P

He's take on Ali is a lot stronger then my frail fighter above. He gave him more competence in his face and larger body. Love the big chest, especially since I don't think I conveyed that well enough. When he drew the head frill he made the segments more separate from the head, instead of the gradual joining I attempted. This looks cool cause they have cushion like appearence for added protection, where as mine was just flat skin.

I hope to commission many more images and maybe even try to do a comic featuring Ali.

FUCKER PUNCH

Time to introduce Joeys main rival in the ring. The arrogant might heavy weight Monkey Fighter Pink Barbe Pop! Their family has been feuding for over 30 years and they take their mutual hatred right into the ring with each other....




This is Adonix's awesome take on him. He started and finished this today. The dear man, did this while he was in the middle of a move. He gave him a very strong build. That face is like a brick... Adonix always does great faces and unforgettable smiles, but there is something that really stands out about that smile. He's scary charming! He's hot, but you know he can grind you right into the ground. I like where he took the character, adding in dog tags and a very flattering tattoo! He turned out why better then I could have imagined him as you will see below. XD

Adonix not only helped in his creation, he helped naming him as well. He along with Guytoonist and I just sat and tried out best to name him, based on Adonix suggestion that he looks like candy. So we decided on Pink Barbe Pop.. XD

Here is some of the sketches I did of him. I wasn't really sure about him, but between Adonix, Maduinshorn and some others, I have a lot more confidence in his design.

I totally phoned in those boots...talk about a rush job. This wound up being the final version.

My Second attempt at him.
The apple is influenced from a very special video game.

Big arms. XD

FallenAngel and Maduinshorn are up to Monkey Business!

Hey guys, I have a lot of art to show here today so I won't be gabbing as much as I usually do. I feel the art will do a lot of the talking. This whole project started back in March. I was really wanting to return my Musk Ox back to center stage a bit. I started to doodle him on Sai. At the same time Hoaigon and Ephorox's Monkeys were really starting to inspire me. I doodled a couple characters and really didn't think much of them at the time. Since one was attached to Holocene he made his way to FallenAngel when we started the commission. I actually wound up sending both sketch pages just for the heck of it. At the time I was also trying to come up with another cat man for Athan, Ink's character. The images sparked Fallens attention. The next time we spoke he asked me if I would like to bring these monkey boys to life. I was pretty shocked that they sparked any interest at all and said, 'sure, that would be cool!'
And so began the life of what would become 3 brothers.


What was a cat, became a monkey named Nolee...so named in honor of the person that gave him real life. He would have been forever stuck on this page if not for him.

What happened next was interesting. Fallen sent me a character design sheet and on it was the first monkey with the wild hair seen above and the cat creature turned into a monkey! Oops! LOL, but not a bad idea at all! I loved the idea of changing him from a monkey to a cat so much, that I responded by saying, 'is it ok to do three?' Ha ha ha hey all good monkeys come in threes! XD


One thing about FallenAngel anyone that commissions him will find out right away is that he LOVES to do original characters. He takes great pride and joy in laying them out and showing different ideas. He explained the body structure, hair type, including how it is spread along the body, penis stats, everything in great detail. He's a true professional with a great heart.

As he sketched and drew our minds raced with imaginative ideas. FallenAngel came up with description of the Monkeys and their world.

I was thinking bout a good background history, that
somewhere in an uncharted jungle wherein few prehistoric
animals survive, a mysterious meteorite
falls in that area and few residence animal got affected
of its mysterious radiation, thus the few would be
the 3 monkeys, they mutate and gain knowledge and speech

Matu - the playful one, the youngest. Curiosity is his weakness. Age 19. Penis Cut.
Nolee - the oldest, artistic and loves to discover. Age 31. Penis Uncut 10 inches.
Allai - The sporty one, the middle of the 3, sport was his passion fishing is one. Age 26. Penis Cut.

Their jungle was far reach from human but few stray bump into
them and ends up in haze and blissful state LOL*

and others animals affected is unknown to be discovered yet.



Matu was the first one to get done, he's my favorite so I yeah ha ha ha I used part of my name on him. In fact all three names are in jokes related to special people in my life. Don't ask me where and when I came up with that funky hair.






So graceful and full of mischief, Matu swings through the Jungle grabbing bananas as he goes. He is always in a ready..um..state for adventure. XD Matu turned out perfect. He has the exact appearance I was looking for, a bight blue eyed slightly twinky guy. Love the Classic red jungle background. I mean how perfectly fitting is that? ^_^ You will see Fallen also went the extra mile to include an animal friend for each of the boys. The frog is adorable! Reminds me of (I think his name is) Kero from Hello Kitty. XD

Next was Nolee (originally Nole.) He got a bigger build and a lot more shag then his bros. Because of this I thought about making his skin darker, I felt it emphasized his toughness and age a bit. He's not as brightly coloured as his brothers, showing he's a bit more reserved and quiet then the other 2. He acts like a father figure.
Here we see 'the old man' sitting on a rock fanning himself in the heat of the afternoon. Leaving in a jungle with that dark fur can wear a hunk out!






Nolee turned out awesome! I really love the fact that statue is drooling over him. I didn't notice that until the image was done. It's a great design to have his cock falling out of all that fur. :P He might look lazy here, but get him excited and he will give you the sexing of your life! That's how big his cock is flaccid...think about it! LOL.

Finally is Allai. Man, did I forget about his colouring I chose. The day he appeared in my inbox was I surprised. He turned out to be one delicious looking guy. Like a yummy Chocolate banana ice cream treat I used to buy, I would love to lick him all over!

A golden Monkey lover...what a treasure!

Allais rough shows, well a rough surface of hair around his chest and torso. This was the one thing I changed, I wanted him to have a smoother look. Allai was given bigger hands and a cut cock in the end. Originally I had thought to give him more Asian eyes. Maybe that will come in the future.


Allai is pretty surprised at his catch, a full sized Ichthyosaurs. Nolee is covered with the most hair, a gold shag that is much softer and less heavy then his brothers. His ears and hair were inspired by the animal tamer/trainer Mohji of Buggy the Clowns crew in One Piece.
Allai is almost the same height as Matu and while older often is confused by people to be younger. Nolee turned out way sexy. He has a huge chest, yet his legs and arms are less muscular then that of the other men. Maybe that is due to him spending more time on the ground drawing and inventing and not playing as much as Matu does.

My question for future images is should I purse more Asian looking eyes and connect his abdomen to his crotch with skin and leave out the divider of fur?


OK so as all this was going on, a third party was also involved in every step as well. Maduinshorn was very interested in an idea I proposed regarding all three boys taking on Dimata in their tree top home. Guys, you want to see another artist that is going to give you 110% all the time, you have to commission this guy. I sent him each image fallen did as they came in and even before the Monkeys were completed he was sending me sketch after sketching having so much fun with the idea. An eager spirit like this, can only create the best images ever. His dedication is touching and so appreciated by myself and Fallen as well, who also fed off his kind feedback. It was great to see artists working off of each other like this.

So with out further adieu I give to the world the latest Maduinshorn masterpiece, to me his greatest work ever, Dimata's Monkey Orgy:



While walking though the jungle Dimata is startled by vines falling on him. He quickly lifted hundreds of feet into the canopy, where 3 Monkey brothers proceed to have their way with him. Each one wanting his attention and affection more then the other. Someone should tell these boys that Dimata would willingly entertain each of them.

This was a lot of fun to watch Mad work on. The idea just rushed to me and I was hesitant to include the upside down fucking. Ha ha ha, Mario had a ball with that. He did an excellent job posing all the boys so we could get a great view of each one.
I can't help but get a huge grin every time I look this over. Nolee is so regal and strong looking. His skin so smooth it shines in the sun, beautiful. His shag and posture are wonderful. He is the bravest to thrust between Dimatas tusks like that! Maduinshorn and I had a lot of really genius idea here with this blow job. We increased the tusks to increase the danger!
Mattu is really cute, I love that focused look on his face, there is something very simple about him. Like he has a very simple innocent intelligence like Tarzan. He looks like he feels he is teaching Dimata how to jerk a guy off for the first time. XD I really love the eyebrows and the facial structure. Very handsome. The body was too perfect to cover in vines. (See below.)
Speaking of Dimata, I LOVE this big hulking hunk! You did a the most amazing job making him the perfect size. He would tower over these boys, but he still has the appearance of a gentle giant. That cock is one for the history books. Love the foreskin details and the huge balls. Love his baby face! AWE! Hee hee.
Nole is was really fun to talk about with Mario. Hee hee. I never did an upside down screw before and Maduinshorn knew just how to position him. He gave him a perfect slender body, huge brown dick and big ass hands! XD I think he is my favorite part of the picture aside from the BACKGROUND!
I have said if before and I will say it again here, Holy Crap on Crap!!! That waterfall crashing down in the background makes this image the most epic thing ever! What an amazing touch. Gives a sense that the boys are getting hit by some sweet cool air as they fuck their new friend, never getting too hot and being perfectly relaxed. At the same time you could say it also adds to the crazy jungle chaos going on in the foreground, a noisy frantic man orgy.

Let's take a look at the creative process!



They day I told him about the idea he sent me this right away. The Monkey men were only sketches done by me, along with the character model sheet Fallen had done at the time, but Maduinshorn really wanted to get the jump on the idea while his juices were flowing.


Time passes and Matu and Nolee were completed by Fallen. As you can see he followed their designs perfectly adding his own great touches along the way.





The final line art. I got this yesterday morning. Yep, he did it THAT FAST! The boy is a Road Runner! As you can see a final vine was added to the hand grabbing Matu. The vine at first covered Matu, but I told Maduinshorne that it was a total shame to cover up any part of this sexy Monkey he drew. So he moved it behind the character. ^_^ Gotta preserve hunks you know... :P

This is where things got interesting. Mario wanted badly to complete the image yesterday. His artist blood was flowing. One problem. I was already at work and what was worse, I did a late shift yesterday. Hotmail wasn't letting me preview the image without downloading it and opening it up at work would prove disastrous. So I got an idea. I asked him to send me the flats, in small work safe segments. Ha ha ha, well these are not all work safe, but it worked perfectly. I just dodged around the images by shrinking the window and approved them right away. Take a look. This is a great idea for future commissions any artist is doing and would like an opinion on right away. :)





LOL not exactly work safe, but not hard to get around.. XD




WHOA! So not work safe! LOLZ! This was the first image I looked at and man was I cautious afterward! Thank goodness no one was around! LOL XD

Guys I want to thank you both so much, more so then I can with praise. You took simple sketches and turned them into some extraordinary images of characters that I hope we can all revisit again and again in the future. ^_^