Birthday Portrait Aarrrrrr-t

Holy crap, I haven't posted here in over a month!  Which is odd, cuz I have been drawing in the past month.  I need to post more here.

Anywho, the above is a portrait I did for a co-worker for her birthday (which is today... Everybody sing!  Happy Birthady to yo.... no?  Nobody wants to sing?  Fine!).  She's really into pirates, so I drew her as a pirate.  Which is very odd, cuz I'm not a fan of doing portrait work.  I hate drawing portraits actually.  I really do.  But I did it, here it is.  She liked it.  So yay!

It was kinda helpful that she has dark hair, I would of hated drawing all that hair had she been a blonde... cuz it was a dark I could hide a lot with the blacks, which was immensely helpful.

APE-ril: Jack

Everybody's favorite undead monkey!  JACK!  A lot of people think it was Johnny Depp that made the "Pirates" films so successful... nope, it was Jack the monkey!

I had some trouble drawing Jack.  I think that's because I was trying too hard to go for "Realism" initially, when I boiled him down and simplified the character in a cartoony fashion I think better captured this little monkey rascal.