Commission for Tevildo of one of his characters, Hazel, as the High Priestess from a Tarot card Deck. This one has a few issues, but I still really like how it came out.

This was commissioned by Dragoneer to be used as a heading banner for July over at Fur Affinity. Fender is the mascot over there, and This month is Pirate month in honor of the new POTC movie.

This was commissioned at AC, finished a week or so later. I love how this came out. Makoto and Sapphire are copyright themselves.

From June, Commission for Hida of himself 'cosplaying' as Danny from the movie "Unleashed."

Birthday present (7-2) for my sister, Bastek.

Commissioned work. Had fun with this one. =)

Want a commission like this? I have a furbid auction up that ends tonight at about 9pm eastern!
http://pics.livejournal.com/nevarraven/pic/0007c1e7

Come see this in the AC06 art show!

Markers and colored pencil. Image © 2006 nevarraven

There's tons of things I could still do with this, but I just needed to be done with it, and I think it looks fairly nice as it is.

Maki is © Rose Quoll.

This was drawn, inked, and about halfway colored at FC06 in one of Yao Chi's sketchbooks-- then it sat, sad and unloved, on top of my printer for three months. Finally, wanting to get the book back to him before Califur, I dug it back out, decided it was actually a lot cuter than I remembered, and finished it up. Unfortunately I was not able to salvage the light source, so please excuse the disjointed lighting. =)

The final Meran illustration, commissioned by R Korol. Meran is one of the characters in her comic, "Native." Check it out at http://netivecomic.com

A note to the moderators- I know you work very hard doing what you do, and despite my frustrations, I do appreciate that. Please let me note that I chose to leave the watercolor 'edges' on this image for an aesthetic purpose- that being the fact that I like how those edges look. I could have very easily cropped them out, but chose not to.

I finally got a good scan of this! Check in my WIPs folder for progress work on this!

"the yale was an antelope-like beast about the size of a horse with tusks, long horns, and the tail of a lion or goat. The horns were able to swivel independently and are virtually always shown parted rather than parallel. It was first described by Pliny."

My entry to Rose Quoll's contest. I went all out on this one, and had a lot of fun with it. I hope she likes it! =D

Garlic still life. Painter. The actual -painter- part only took about 6-7 hours, but the drawing took a long time, so the total was probably around 13 or 14 hours. Perez may send me bact to fix things on this, if he does, I'll move this one to wips.

Fur Affinity and Fender are © their creators/owners

I drew this at Dragoneer's request as a follow-up gag for the April first Llama joke. He added the text.

The final version of my cover for Philip Pullman's "The Subtle Knife." Image © 2006 Jenika Watkins

Binturong study.

Another one-hour photoshop study. This is for Abyss. Abyss is © 2006 Abyss-Dog

Just a quick study of a hyena's face, from photo reference. Playing with color more than anything, I see a lot of anatomical errors now. I spent about an hour on this, and I'd like to start doing these quick paintings more often, good practice. =)

Blah. I kinda like this, but I really wish I'd had more time on it. Maybe one day when I have more time to play with it, I'll revisit this one. =P

The 'final' illustration, which will be turned in tomorrow. This is actually very different from what I'd intended it to be. I wish I had time to do a second set of pages, with the more cartoony version of the characters. Oh well, when you've got deadlines, you've got to just do what you can, and can the rest, as my dad would say.

I left this one somewhat larger than the wip versions, for more detail and hopefully so the text will be somewhat legible. Next time I do one of these, I'm going to make sure I write larger. =)

System cats are © 2002-2006 J Watkins

Nevar (myself) as a flying fox bat. Last night and this afternoon in photoshop, 5-6 hours approx.

The final KaHaTeNi Flight picture for her birthday. I'm overall very pleased with how this came out. =) Image © 2006 J Watkins, Character © 2006 KaHaTeNi RavenYote.

Random giftart for Kaput otter- plus an excuse for me to play around with a slightly different illustrator technique. =)

Saving this killed the colors. =( This was a computer illustration assignment- a portrait in Illustrator. This is Cori, one of my old roommates. I enjoy illustrator, but it's really frustrating sometimes. 0_0

Our first 'real' project in my computer Illustration class this semester was to use Illustrator to do three related icons/spot Illustrations. I chose Bats for my series because I have recently come to be very fond of bats and I haven't done much bat drawing in the past. The colors on these are optimized for printing, not for web, so I apologise if the colors look a little odd. After our critique, I realized that I really needed to bump up the contrast a lot more just so these guys would be VISIBLE! Please do not use without permission.

Panel 1/5 of a project called "Sequential Illustration." Unlike comics, we were not allowed to use Text, and the last panel had to be a 'surprise ending.' I chose to base mine loosely off an aesop's fable about a lion with a thorn in his paw.

Panel 2/5 of a project called "Sequential Illustration." Unlike comics, we were not allowed to use Text, and the last panel had to be a 'surprise ending.' I chose to base mine loosely off an aesop's fable about a lion with a thorn in his paw.

Panel 3/5 of a project called "Sequential Illustration." Unlike comics, we were not allowed to use Text, and the last panel had to be a 'surprise ending.' I chose to base mine loosely off an aesop's fable about a lion with a thorn in his paw.

Panel 4/5 of a project called "Sequential Illustration." Unlike comics, we were not allowed to use Text, and the last panel had to be a 'surprise ending.' I chose to base mine loosely off an aesop's fable about a lion with a thorn in his paw.

Panel 5/5 of a project called "Sequential Illustration." Unlike comics, we were not allowed to use Text, and the last panel had to be a 'surprise ending.' I chose to base mine loosely off an aesop's fable about a lion with a thorn in his paw. This is, somewhat obviously, the surprise ending. ^^