APE-ril: Mojo Jojo

I never really watched the Powerpuff Girls, despite many people saying I should...  So I'm not at all familiar with this character, other than knowing he's a bad guy on the show.  When I started the APE-ril Challenge, I was kinda looking forward to do this one, and maybe taking a different spin on him... make him look more like a real monkey, and still have the suit, more comic-book'y and less anime'esque.... But, APE-ril ends tomorrow night, and I still have like 8 more monkeys to draw and such... so...  quality is failing to quantity.  However, it's kinda liberating at the same time, because I'm not getting as hung up on how things look... which opens up things I would otherwise not normally do.

Also, my buddy, Stephen Wittmaak took a stab at Mojo Jojo early on APE-ril... you can see his right here.

APE-ril: Blip

It's Blip!  From Space Ghost.

I'll be honest, I haven't seen a lot of Space Ghost.  I used to watch when Cartoon Network started up, cuz he was a superhero and he kinda looked like the 90s Batman animated series, so I watched.  But I don't remember Blip.  Like at all.  Mayhaps he was purged from my memory... I don't know.

Also, in the first APE-ril blog, I mentioned I'm stealing this month's theme from Stephen Wittmaak, and I posted a link to some of his work, however, what I didn't do was post to where he's posting HIS Ape-ril work... so just for the sake of comparison, who you can see his spin with the Ape-ril theme at his Tumblr

Abu and "Ape" Welcome you to APE-ril

My buddy and art-peer, Stephen Wittmaak (whose work can be found at PORTCITY UNDERGROUND) is doing an "Ape a day" drawing challenge for the month of April, thus making it "APE-ril" (get it?).  Anywho, I was thinking about it and thought, that's not a bad idea... so... in the words of Barney Stinson, "Challenge Accepted!"  I sat down for about 2 hours and made a list of apes (and monkeys, PLEASE don't debate me on the difference of monkeys and Apes, let's just let bygones be bygones) that I wanted to draw.  That list goes to 30 (one for each day).  As I was at Disneyland all day yesterday, I did not have time to doodle an ape yesterday, so today is TWO apes.  I really want to do all 30 in the month of APE-ril.

First up is Abu, everybody's favorite little rascal monkey from Disney's Aladdin.  See the connection to yesterday's Disneyland trip?  Or is it just cuz his name comes first on the list of monkeys?  It's technically, both!  Ha-HA!

Second up is, "Ape Named Ape" from the ORIGINAL (not the lame animated remake or the gawd-awful Brendan Fraser film) George of the Jungle.  My mental image of Ape differs a lot from what I found when I was looking up reference material for this drawing.  I really don't remember him looking anything like this at all.  But apparently he did.  Kinda weird how my mind remembers something else.  But I'll take it.