jlenox – Page 58 – Jason Lenox

The final inked version of ATTACK ON TITAN that I made as a pinup- the detail really turned out gorgeous for the Titan, and Survey Corps horseman, and even the man in the high background getting squished! The Attack on Titan Manga is very un-detailed (but highly fluid in motion) so I had to really go over volumes 5&6 to piece together the anatomy of the equipment, uniform and gear for the cavalry rider, and even the Giant body details on the Titan- Hajime Isayama really has some things spelled out in some panels and others are left to the imagination, and then the next panel is completley opposite in terms of what is shown in detail and what isn’t. So to get a full picture, I needed to look at various reference points constantly. This made it hard to really attain the accuracy and level of detail in my style, while keeping it true to Hajime Isayama’s original designs. The details really fleshed out the composition in the end despite the lack of solid reference…or un-fleshed it in the Female Titan’s case. I felt the rider’s Jacket and the Giant’s face really were stong elements of this piece. Ironically the hardest part to ink was the shoulder patches on the rider’s jacket. The Survey Corps has a very complicated logo, and I really tried to nail it. I would have never thought that would have been as hard as it was, but indeed it vexed me. Well I hope all of my anime friendly fans enjoy this as much as I did creating it!

Harley Quinn Commission- Pencils

December 27, 2013 jlenox

Commissions Pencil Work

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Another cool commission from a fan who asked me to do an interpretation of DC Comic’s Harley Quinn, the girlfriend of the Joker. I was surprised to see her new costume was more of a roller derby girl as opposed to her old Batman the animated series jester outfit, but hey, times are changing! I may tweak some of the facial expression, but at the same time, I like the odd expression that came with the smile and stare I was going for in a psychotic killer’s psychotic girlfriend….

Enjoy!

Thanos Commission- Pencils

December 26, 2013 jlenox

Commissions Pencil Work

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Just a short and sweet Thanos Commission I’m doing for a fan I met at a store signing. He is collecting different artists doing their own interpretations of the classic Marvel villain. I’ll always identify Thanos with the following four items as visual keys…

#1- The Infinity Gauntlet

#2- The 70’s Anime inspired helmet

#3- the psycho eyes and ever present smile

#4- the wacked out ribbed chin

I put all of them in the piece, and had a nice overlap of hand over face and shoulder to build depth. The piece ended up being a fairly simple, but effective composition to get what I remembered about Thanos into one coherent pinup.

“HELLBENT FOR INKING” 2014 Jason Lenox Convention Tour Tee Shirt Artwork

December 23, 2013 jlenox

Colored Work Logos/Promotional Work Tee Shirt & Fashion Art

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2014 means some awesome conventions that I’ll be at, and since I identify as the “Metal Artist” on the con circuit, just like last year, I needed a metal themed tour shirt for the fans, and this year is no different- and super local graphic artist Andy Mylin took my wishes to make a JUDAS PRIEST Themed Jason Lenox shirt into reality with some of my recent artwork. Here is the new Shirt Artwork that will be for Sale as tee shirts starting in January of 2014 via my website or with me at comic shows at my table/booth. Below are the Front and Back artwork for my 2014 theme “HELLBENT FOR INKING” and the art from Priest’s album “HELLBENT FOR LEATHER” that Andy used as a template is below all of that.

Check out Andy’s website here and contact him if you need some great graphic design and artwork in general if you dig his style- I know I do!

Enjoy some killer tee shirts in a few weeks from yours truly!

FRONT

BACK

Original Judas Priest Album Cover Artwork

12/19/13 – Nude Figure Studies in Pencil with Model- At Art Alliance of Central PA

December 23, 2013 jlenox

Figure Drawing Pencil Work

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I could tell this session really went well for me, I was very pleased with my pieces from this week, I think the rust finally came off from missing figure drawing for a few months- enjoy. And very impressive from this week’s new model who held some obnoxiously uncomfortable poses for decent amounts of time.

“Attack on Titan” Anime Pinup – Pencils

December 18, 2013 jlenox

Pencil Work

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So my newest pinup is based on a Manga I am reading called “ATTACK ON TITAN” Which is basically a post apocalyptic future where humanity lives in a walled city as the Earth is over-run by cannibalistic giants that eat people. Right now I am on volume #6 and I quite enjoy the series. As I work on building up my folio, I have an anime con coming up in January 2014, and I know this show is popular (it’s an anime as well, which I have not watched yet) so it should be a hit at shows, and since I like it… and who doesnt like cannibal giants…. I decided to do this piece as my newest project.

The layout and pencils took about a week to get where I wanted them- volume 6 detailed a new Giant that is a skinless woman, who is smarter than the average giant, and alot of the issue is her killing the “good guys” the SURVEY CORPS of the last bastion of humanity as they ride a bunch of horses around towards a forest- they use horses to get around, and wires with guns to launch the hooks from their hips to stab the giants in their necks… go read it or watch it to find out more on ATTACK ON TITAN… but I digress.

Anyway, I wanted to give the size of the female giant in this piece and at first in my thumbnail my thought was to go over her looking down with the soldiers on their wires trying to cut her- see below I didn’t think it worked. Then I went with a straight forward Giant woman crouching with a horse running at the viewer- straight on, and not dynamic at all, but I liked the elements- then later that day, I was brushing my teeth, and just saw the thumbnail of the crouching giant in my head and moved my internal camera to the left and down and looked up- and saw the image rotated in my head. I made a rough sketch of the giantess from a worm’s eye view as a rough sketch, then made some traces of my rough sketch of the giant and a sketch right on tracing paper for the rider so I could move his image around on top of the Giant. After I was satisfied with the composition, I cleaned both images up , and then transferred it to a board and did the detailing. Now this book has kinetic art, but weak on the detail, so I had to really guess and dig to find out the layout for the uniforms and monster body. Id love to ink this book for the artist/creator Hajime Isayama and give his excellent layouts some of the detail they deserve, probably not going to happen, but It can’t hurt to dream a bit. Enjoy the pencils, especially the guy getting crushed in the giant’s hand. Take a look at the hand closeup below the finished pencils… it was fun to make that gruesome detail of the twisted and crushed limbs, I always love finding details like that in other artist’s work so I like to pay it forward to other fans to find this sort of thing. So be on the lookout…. Ill be inking this piece soon!

Reference Material

Davros and the Movellan-Dalek War Pinup – Final Inks

December 18, 2013 jlenox

Dr. Who Pen & Ink

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Well my fifth and final Dr. Who piece really turned out well in the final pen and ink version. Once I realized that the Black would be dominant on Davros’s person and life support machine, and the outer space background would be pure black and made a tactical decision to use Black as the dominant color for the nuke and Dalek killing Movellan POV. The center Dalek in full black with a “nuke flash” in the background was a fun way to do a Dalek differently, and the Movellan really pops with the black outlining the Dalek eye stalk and gun framing the beam cutting the figure. On a smaller note the pen and inks also really made the little details like the wires and screen partitions look really stylish as well. Overall, this piece worked for me, and was a great send off to my 5 piece Dr. Who series.

12/12/13 – Nude Figure Studies in Pencil with Model- At Art Alliance of Central PA

December 16, 2013 jlenox

Figure Drawing Pencil Work

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More rust coming off at figure drawing class- check it out

12th Cyber Legion of the Cybermen Pinup – Inks

December 11, 2013 jlenox

Dr. Who Pen & Ink

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There were some small fixes on the hands of the two Cyber Troops in the foreground and alot of labor on the detail in the background. I elimated the tank driver as I really got into the nuts and bolts of how the tank space worked- and I didnt see the space for the main gun with that guy sitting there, sometimes you get more into this sort of thing than you think you will! Overall this piece turned out just like I imagined this scene would be which is a fun final result. The inks really brought out elements like the guns and cybermats- as well as highlighted the overall composition of the piece.

I hope you enjoy it as much I did making it-!

12/5/13 – Nude Figure Studies in Pencil with Model- At Art Alliance of Central PA

December 8, 2013 jlenox

Figure Drawing Pencil Work

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I’ve been away from the Art Alliance for months, but back again last week here are the results, I was rusty, but as always a good workout of the fundamentals.