Tuesday, February 22, 2011

A Stone Monkey Head


I don't see this one online right now. It was painted for The Adventurer, LucasArts game fan newsletter. When we drew the screen art for Secret of Monkey Island we had only a handful of ghastly colors to pick from, hence the blue green Monkey Idol in the game. For that reason as well as the tiny characters it was always fun, when I had a chance, to draw Monkey Island concepts the way I thought they should look.

Pen and Ink and Gouache 6X9

--Starchie

9 comments:

Andrew Barr said...

that's the second biggest monkey head I've seen today ...

I couldn't resist sorry.

Elysa Castro said...

ohhhh ilove this!!

Yuusou said...

That wimpy little idol on the left of the tongue stairs should be Lemonhead's idol. How cuuuuute...

One thing's missing: The monkey hanging on the nose of the totem figure.^^

Unknown said...

Awesome!!!
Steve... More Monkey Island art, pleaseeee!!!

Charlie Gavin said...

Man, this is incredible.

Eyz said...

Shishke Bob,
Shishke Joe
and Shishke Larry!

Jonathan said...

Awesome! Love that you keep sharing your art for us! :D

Aractus said...

I'm deeply sorry you couldn't find it online, I've corrected that for you:

http://scummgames.net/mags.htm

Apina2001 said...

I love this stuff. Not only that I have bunch of prints signed by Steve, I now got this.. http://helppox.com/tatska.jpg