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Dinosaur Fight - I like the atmosphere in this one, and hopefully it's not too obvious who would win in this scrap...

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Swing Time! Kong goes for a quick spin around the jungle

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A quick Naomi Watts image, line work drawn over a picture of Naomi for reference.

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My First Kong, again this was back in the days when I needed to use a genuine gorilla image as reference, he looks kinda shiny here, and he ain't purple yet - but we'll get to that

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Kong Face, and here we have the first genuine Purple Kong - I was incredibly pleased with how this turned out, and it was because of all the warm responses I got that I carried on going with the Grape Ape :)

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At the Altar, now this one took a long time to come together, I knew I wanted to show Ann on the altar, but how to achieve what I wanted, that was the challenge. Kong was a last minute addition to this one, and I'm very pleased that he's there.

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Lock Up & Tied Down, just how are they going to transport the Big Guy back to NY? Here's my initial concept - just don't look at the scale, cos he doesn't look much bigger than an average gorilla to me, but who's checking? (what do you mean *you* are

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Poor Lumpy (SPOILER MAYBE?), here's how I see Lumpy going out... this isn't based on any actual evidence, just an idea I liked. This is a combination of Photography and artwork.

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Evening Stroll, Kong taking a walk around the jungle (this again, is based upon a gorilla photograph)

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Dino No.1, my first stab at a T-Rex, Grrrrr....

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Kong vs Rex, and this image is important to me in a number of ways, one because it's my first Kong and Rex image, and secondly because it was my first move away from using photographic reference material... in this image only the heads of both creatures w

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Son of Kong, aaaaaaaaaw look at the little fella.

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Hand of Fate, Kong has Ann in his clutches as he climbs up the ESB... Ann is again based upon some random image of a screaming woman that I googled up, the backdrop is actually a photo of NY (I forgot which building the shot is of), and the hand... oh tha

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He's Behind You, and at last Denham makes his entrance into my gallery. Based upon an old JB photo, as you can probably tell. I added the fraction of Kong in the background when it turned out I had a little bit too much empty space over there, so again

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Grape Ape

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Kong in the Rain, by this time I moved over to working on the Mac, and Kong was well and truly never gonna be anything but purple again.

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Mistakes Are Made, it's fair to say I don't like this image, but I've uploaded for the sense of completeness, so just, you know, skip over this one, ok? This was my first Kong face image without any reference material, and you can tell.

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In the Eye of the Beholder, Kong gazes out across NY and spots the ESB in the moonlight.

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Atop the Tower, there are two versions of this, but the other really isn't as good, it's a bit purple butt shot (honestly, let's not dwell on it) and I already have one of those to add to this gallery (stay tuned).

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Shoot to Kill, and here is the aforementioned Shiny Butt shot... ok so KK is meant to be furry, not plastic, but hey it's art, so anything goes right?

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Face in the Jungle, one of several Kong head images - not really more I can add.

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Homer Kong, oooh I'd forgotten about this shiny butt shot! Please don't ask my why I had a man positioned right there, the more you look at it, the more it looks kinda... weird. And just what was I thinking with Kong, he looks a little too Simpsony for

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Sketch Test, this is certainly just a test image, trying to recreate a pencil sketch style digitally. Not the best Kong, but I learned a lot from making it.

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Kong Face Test, another sketchy style image - this time with that all important purple tinge.

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Kong Portrait version 1, this was my first attempt at creating something more "painterly", most of my work is based on a line-work sensibility: draw the lines, colour it in, job done. But this time I went for something new (to me at least) whic

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Kong Portrait version 2, well really this was the first version (without the post processing), but I posted it to the boards second, so it stays version 2. This is one of my personal favourites, even if I do say so myself.

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Jungle Fever, my first "trees like arms" image, if you look closely you'll see that motif turning up time and again wherever I've drawn trees. Why? I have no idea. It just seems right to me, but heck I think that Kong should be purple, so wha

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the Jungle, here's the digital sketch of the trees. I'm still not sure what the whole hands, arms, tentacle roots thing says about me? But whatever it is, putting out here for you to examine is certainly cheaper than therapy :)

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Kong in Chains, poor fella only wanted to be loved.

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The Face (aka the Kongrin Shroud), I created this as an Avatar image and liked it so much that I posted the big version to the boards. It's another attempt at painting in blocks of colour. For this image I drew half of the face, then flipped it to creat

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Ann, once again using a real image as refence, I smudged and drew all over Ann's face until this came out.

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Ghost at the Altar, this is the third and final version of this image, I uploaded two previous work-in-progressesssess until this fell out of my computer. I think I prefer the idea of this image, rather than the actual image itself.

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In the Moonlight, aaah another of my favourite Kong images, purely for the fact that is was so simple to create... it was drawn with the "it's what you don't see" principle.

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Kong Captured (on film), one of a short series of "Denham's photos", otherwise known as my Sepia period. Thankfully, it didn't last too long.

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Kong Looks Down, the second sepia image. Originally Kong was going to be looking up, but now he's looking down. End of story. No one said these captions had to be interesting, right?

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Rex N' Kong, that old duo are about to go at it one more time... although, looking at it, my Rexes are far more raptory than they maybe, scientifically should be. Still, art you know, you can do anything!

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Some Other Dino, another Denham photo, and another one that I'm not overly enthralled with. Some you win, some you lose.

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My Island, Kong looks out from the shade of his very own tree (again, don't look at the scale issue, it's just a biiig tree, got it? :)

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Big Stone Head, a Skiip-made shrine to the Big Guy, I think they need a few lessons in masonry personally, but there we go.

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Kong Caves, I hear that Alan Lee has Kikn down as one of his top websites, and if that's the case and you see this, let me just say a big Thanks for all of your hard work, and art over the years - I've been a fan for a long time, and this is my little tri

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Kong Falls, just what is the Big Guy thinking as he plummets to the ground? For this image I decided he should have a kind of peaceful, fulfilled look upon his face. Did I achieve that? Only you can tell me...

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Sacrifice, before Ann Kong must've fed upon some of the local skiipettes, and maybe just maybe it was an honour for them to go out in that way?

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Kong v Rex: A real mouthful, another simple Kong versus Rex fight (well, Kong versus a generic lizard shaped dino! ;-)