Tarzan Sketch (Patreon)

These type of images are the hardest to paint. Close and intimate but with enough tension and promise of action to make it interesting enough.

Actually I painted one right before this one, just on a whim and to try out if what I saw would look good, only two days ago, but it didn't turn out as I wanted at all, so I had to toss it. I'll do a Tarzan image nonetheless. This sketch looks more promising but that doesn't mean anything. I can still mess it up. It is challenging.

What I do know for sure is that it'll not be a Disney Tarzan or a beautyboy apeman. It'll be the scarred tough guy who lived in the jungle for decades and fought huge beasts to win. I grew up with the original Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. The one from the original books :) Jane is another story. I'll just make her pretty. :D  

As an illustrator I get descriptions of characters to make a painting by all the time. I want it to be as accurate as the description allows, but Hollywood didn't even read the Tarzan series, did they?