Jon Kelly Ink.: Drawing

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Unicorn Power

I'm thinking of making a coloring book for adults. This took me 10 minutes to sketch and ink.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Life Through a Cat's Eye Lens #3

Our sleep patterns are even more strange to them, rest assured.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Life Through a Cat's Eye Lens #2

It's all just a game to them.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Life Through a Cat's Eye Lens #1

In celebration of the upcoming game in the next year, I decided I should get back into drawing and releasing comics on a regular basis to keep my pen sharp. Let's call then warm up comics. It's been a while since I've done any kind of sequential art - so this should be fun! Let's dive right back in. I expect I will be rusty and clunky for a while, but it's high time to start putting more illustrations out there - even if they're questionable by my standards haha.

This comic is about cats. Specifically my cat. Although my cat isn't actually orange, rest assured, this is a daily ritual that repeats on an endless loop throughout the weeks, months, and years. Welcome to my world.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Abe Sapien Skanks

Abe is deep into the ska / crust punk scene. He's so deep he's underwater.

High Seas Ahoy!

Pirates! Cannons! Battleships! Earn vast wealth as you trade between bountiful islands and confront cutthroat enemies to plunder their treasures. Captain might vessels and command your salty crew as you seek revenge on your mutinous former 1st Mate …

High Seas … coming Winter 2015

My friend and roommate James Johnson and I have been working for the past year and half on creating a video game that we can be proud of and share with the general public. We're ramping up our production, and aiming to have Alpha testing underway by early summer. I'll be checking in here regularly with updates, follow our progress on Twitter, Tumblr and of course Facebook.

Keep and eye out, we'll need your help and support as the months go on :)

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Christmas Commissions!

Two of the better commissions that I did for christmas this year :) I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. The first is pretty self explanatory haha, it was a present for a friend who had a pug they loved dearly. The second picture is a snapshot from Dungeons and Dragons campaign a friend of mine was playing through - it was her and three of her friends, and these were their respective characters... it's a little dark but I was working on a bad monitor at the time. Take it away!

Monday, December 16, 2013

High Seas!

Art in progress for an upcoming game called High Seas!

Just a few teasers of character concepts and backgrounds ... all art is the sole property of me, Jon Kelly

Choose yer first mate ya scurvy scoundrel!

Location shots...

Game to be released soon!

Friday, November 15, 2013

Forest Level Backgrounds for a friend's upcoming release

Each slide is reversible and interlocks with every other screen to create a seamless moving background. The colors are a little bland but it was intentional for this first draft.

Trolls!

Myth collecting is a hobby of mine. There is something so personal about mythology- even hundreds or thousands of years after the story itself was inspired, mythology (of every culture) still speaks to the most primal human problems. Reading myths, to me, feels like studying cave paintings, or being at an archeological dig... it's a direct connection to someone, somewhere lost in history, who left their mark.
Trolls are a funny little breed, am I right? Throughout mythology they come in all sizes, all shapes, and all temperaments. There are flesh-eating cannibal trolls, tiny mischievous trolls, huge god-like trolls, house trolls, chimney trolls, tower trolls, cave trolls, hill trolls, mountain trolls, trolls with magic, trolls without magic... it goes on and on, you get the idea. Lots of them - pretty much any location or medium sized animal was probably attributed with a troll at some point in history, humans cannot get enough of them. Every culture has at least one version of a "troll," for good or evil, we're stuck with them.

On a side note, I really need to get some better paper.. my lines keep bleeding all over the page if I'm not careful with this stock. I'll get into it more with part 2 of this blog post later, for now I'll just leave you with Troll Pictures Part 1! I'm off to celebrate fireworks day! I leave you in the company of this big hunter troll, the smaller rock troll, putting up with their little, neon-haired cousin.

*Update* Woops a whole week went by! Such is life in the summer time. After a few weeks, I'm back in the swing of things, and finishing up my first, full interweb comic, Far From Home, while I doodle other things in my sketchbook. These are those other things.
     Here's the rest of the gang- that I've been turning over in my head for a while... I mean there are always more, but these are the ones that bubbled to the surface first when I started drawing. The ugly one was semi-inspired by an old show called David the Gnome, which I used to love watching as a little kid. The lighter, sketchy-looking one of them is a Kappa, a funny little kind of Japanese troll that lives underwater, has a head full of water, and will die if that water happens to slosh out by accident. That big one on the bottom looks a little like a Totoro (which is also the Japanese word for "Troll" f.y.i.), but I'm not sure why she would be hiding under a bridge... actually, looking at it now, I know exactly what she's doing under that bridge.
   Oh and fun fact, all three of those trolls are female!

     ... but not the two tiny ones. Those are definitely dudes.