Adding fur to the monkeys takes careful work. The pen strokes should follow the contours of the real fur. The guy hanging from the tree is a challenge because hit coat is relatively light in tone and there are stripes of bright sunlight and shadow...

As promised, here I show a comparison of the first fur rendering to one with more contrast and depth.

Now the leaves are being colored. I purposely posted the image at this point to show the contrast between the areas with color and those without. I have used primarily one color for the leaves but will probably go back and layer on some other color...

My wife snapped a photo of these two monkeys several years ago at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. I really like the composition of this image and the monkeys' poses as they are clearly intent on something happening to the right. The San Diego Zoo...

Now begins the background work. There is a lot of foliage to draw but it is actually going relatively quickly. You can click on any of these images to see a larger view.