Jon Snow

Commission from C2E2 2012; Copic marker, ink, white paint pen.

When Comf and I were approached at C2E2 to do a sketch of Jon Snow & Ghost, I practically shoved her out of the way to take it myself. He's my favorite character in the Ice & Fire series (probably the same for 90% of all readers) and is just so damned bad-ass in the HBO show that I really wanted a crack at drawing him. And when I did... I kind of went above and beyond. Not that the commissioner minded, I guess.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and presume the reason most people for whom Jon is their favorite character feel that way because he's pretty much the only more-or-less morally pure, unambiguously good, NON a-holes in the series. There aren't a lot of people like that in the books, and pretty much all the others get killed. In a world where almost everyone is morally gray or a major dick to somebody somehow at some point, Jon is just a good person. That goes a LONG way in helping to get through some of the harder parts of the series.