Let me know how you feel about both this image and the fact that I'm drawing something other than Sonic and Zelda!
I get the award for most crappy titles...

First off, let me make something clear: I have never played a Jak and Daxter game in my life. Waaaaay back when Jak II came out (and that's 2004), I watched my friend play it, so I've seen VERY little gameplay and VERY few cutscenes.
But, anyway, so I've been burning myself CD of video game music, and I thought to myself, "You know, the music from Haven City in Jak II sounded pretty cool...", and so, I burned that on the CD. That got me to realize, wow, Jak's a pretty cool character. After that I watched a couple of cutscenes on YouTube (and by a couple, I mean about four), and I decided that I wanted to draw Jak.

For a first timer, this actually came out seriously, surprisingly well. Really, the sketch came out better than I expected. In fact, it has to be one of the cleanest sketches I've ever done. See for yourself. It even looks clean saved as a low-quality JPEG!

So, I've been working on coloring this for a long, long time now. "less dodgy/burny more painty/painty", is what ~Rising-Phoenix87 told me back with Marine, and so I tried doing a little painting-like thing for this. I did use the dodge and burns at times, but hey, I'm getting there! There are plenty of things that I think I've could have done better on, but I don't think that it's too shabby, either. The thing about Jak is that he's too simple, and his body is so thin that I kept making him look like a girl while coloring. I exerpimented a lot when it came to the metal effects, along with the cloth. His eyes actually came out pretty nice.

Moving onto Dark Jak: he was a last minute addition. If it looks like he is a recolor, that's because...well...he is. I just modified the colors and added what needed to be. I HATE his horns, though, trying to blend it in with the hair was a pain. The idea I was going for this was a playing card sort of design. One flaw I noticed while combining the two, however, was that they were not made to blend in with each other. I then thought that perhaps adding Daxter in the center might have looked nice, but I was so sick of coloring this, and I couldn't find ANY good references for him, along with Dark Jak. Jak had plenty. I finally went with a bolt of lighting (that's 1.21 Gigawatts!) to seperate them, as a reference to the official art.

His shoulder pad looks like a Koopa shell...

I like this all the same, anyway, cheap background and all. Unfortunetly, I'll never know the awesome of playing a Jak game, since I lack that wonderful creation I would like to call a PS2. But there's no way in HELL I'm going to get a PS3, not until the price is WAY down.

Anyway, I hope you like it! Fun fact: green and yellow are my least favorite colors!
Try to stay away from critiquing Dark Jak, I know I was lazy with him...
Jak Layers: 44
Darl Jak Layers: 42
Finally getting done with this: Priceless.

Jak belongs to Naughty Dog, this belongs to me. If there's one thing I realized, it's that when I draw something for the first time, I put in in a crappy pose.

Hope you guys like it!

EDIT: And just now I realized that I forgot the straps on the side of his shrit. Damn it!