Jonny Quest

Picture
Now this is much better than the other drawing I had of them. I knew I had to redraw it. Although with Jessie and the clothing I gave her, I think I made her look like Claire Redfield from Resident Evil and I made Jonny look like a young Luke Skywalker.

This would be one of a few pictures that would be somewhat of a cover to the story, although many Jonny Quest covers shows the whole team and they’re usually running too or from danger. In the cartoon show The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Jonny, Jessie and Hadji are said to be in their mid teens, so I wanted them to look a little older, like in their early 20s since my character is 24 years old. Drawing characters to look like there in their 20s can be tricky, they could still look like there in their teens. I've seen professional artist draw characters who are in there late 40s but they sometimes look like there in their 20s.

I remember when I was coming up with this character, I even picked a few songs be an opening theme song to an episode or to like a Jonny Quest animated movie.

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) "Opening Credits"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNfDZB_bwQ4

Duran Duran: Out of My Mind (only from 0:01 to 0:26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT65bR8f280

Street Fighter 2 Alph-Lyla with Yuji Toriyama OST Hearts of Fire (Theme of Ryu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czSLfqSd9FQ


Fan Fictional Character
James Ram is a character I came up with back in 1999 or 2000 for Jonny Quest. This is an updated picture and info of this character. His background story in Jonny Quest is that he's part of a strange secret group of people like the Men In Black (not the MIB movie crap) but they don’t work for any Government, there more like the type of people that Benjamin Linus from Lost belonged too, The Others, or like the group The Invisibles from the video game Fahrenheit (also called Indigo Prophecy) since the Quest team deals with all kinds of wired and strange things. The story is that the enemies of the Quest team are growing and almost becoming too much for them, so he would help them in all kinds of ways from the shadows appearing and disappearing, being mysterious and unknown.

Usually when it comes to the mysterious outsider helping a team of characters he eventually joins them... well I would have it that James would remain the mysterious outsider ally for quite awhile or he would always stay that way. Also, whatever feelings Jonny and Jessie have for each other, James would not be the new male character that falls in love with Jessie or that Jessie falls in love with him and causes a soap opera romantic problem. We’ve seen enough those characters and storylines.

When it comes to what type of character James would be... he would not be the troubled teen or the cocky wild out-of-control rebel or the trash talking asshole type of character... we've seen enough those characters as well. James is the loner type, the outsider, silent, a young man of few words, he's tougher and more serious than Jonny. He's a nice guy and has street smarts and book smarts. He's like how Kage-Maru was in the short Virtua Fighter anime series.

When it comes to his sunglasses, they wouldn't just be for looks, they would be hi-tech durable sunglasses. They would allow James to see in the dark in Starlight, Night Vision, Infrared or Thermal Imaging. The shades are also powerful binoculars.

When coming up with this character I looked at other mid to late teens or early to mid 20 year olds who are loners and outsiders like of course Rick from Zillion: Burning Night. The look for the clothing and the sunglasses came from this character. I even thought what kind of voice he would have. One would be Geoff Whitesell who was the English voice actor for Kage-Maru in Virtua Fighter anime or Michael McConnohie who did the voice of Rick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t7U2E-wU_I