Official Art

The art of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest was never released through an artbook, instead manifesting piecemeal through other sources. This leaves the collection incomplete and in imperfect condition due to lossy .jpg compression. There seem to be seven primary classes of art.

The first includes high quality personal pictures—the big Dr. Quest and Jonny heads, Jonny's molecule picture, underwater Race, Jessie in QuestWorld and Hadji deep in thought.
The second are six simply-colored sketches of the characters displaying full physiques, released through the Style Guides with a color reference.
The third class are myriad sketches and situational drawings depicting the characters in different lights and several scenes. Most of the situational ones have been colored, as have a few of the personal sketches. While all are represented in the Digital Style Guide and many situational pieces have been used with other Real Adventures merchandise, high quality source pictures of these have never really materialized other than a few basic sketches for each character.
The fourth class involves images with no clear source at all, such as this and images geared specifically for the Questworld.com website.
The fifth class consist of production sketches for characters and episodes, probably released through AOL.
The sixth group comes from the promotional video for the show's premiere, and features concept art which is otherwise unreleased or seen in any other materials.
Finally, the seventh group includes stills or renders of QuestWorld released by computer animators such as Casey Dame or Francois Lord.

If you have art or images of a higher quality than the ones seen here, or something missing from this page, please e-mail questfanmail@gmail.com. The best sources currently known are the Style Guide, and Press Kit. To download scanned collections of these, click these links:

Digital Style Guide (RAR, 10 MB)
Print Style Guide (ZIP, 380 MB)
TRAJQ Press Kit (ZIP, 74 MB)

Color Art

Calendar

Scans courtesy of JQStyle.

Cels

Actual cels are sometimes taken home by the artists and later put up for auction on Ebay.

Rage's Burning Wheel - Race, Jonny, Jessie
Unknown Hadji
Jonny
Ghost Quest - Jonny, Jessie, Hadji
Ghost Quest - Jonny, Jessie, Hadji
Ghost Quest - Jonny, Jessie Hadji
Ghost Quest - Jonny
Ghost Quest - Jessie
The Mummies of Malenque - Jonny and Jessie
Bandit (Begin Nemesis cels)
Bandit
Bandit
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
Benton Quest
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
General Yala
Hadji
Hadji
Hadji
Jonny and Bandit
Jonny and Bandit
Jonny and Hadji
Jonny and Hadji
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and General Yala
Race and Jonny
Race Bannon
Zin
Zin
Zin (End Nemesis cels)
The Robot Spies - Zin
The Robot Spies - Zin
Unknown - Benton
Unknown - Race and Jonny
Unknown - Jonny and Bandit
Unknown - Zin
Unknown - Zin Yelling
Unknown - Zin Smiling
Unknown - Zin Laboratory
Unknown - Hadji Lying Down
Unknown - Bandit

Cover-Up At Roswell

Jonny Quest
Jonny Quest
Jonny Quest Sky
Jessie Bannon
Hadji Singh
Race Bannon
Dr. Quest
Molecule Team
Questworld
Jonny sprite
Jessie sprite
Hadji sprite

The Roswell Packaging also contains art on the box.

Those amazing "molecule" art pieces were made for the launch of the show, but have unfortunately never appeared anywhere else on the Internet. They were used to decorate the outside of Hanna-Barbera's offices at the time of launch:

The last image was displayed on this website.

Jonny Quest Digital Style Guide

Jonny Quest
Hadji Singh
Jessie Bannon
Race Bannon
Dr. Quest
Bandit
Situational art
Jonny color guide
Hadji color guide
Jessie color guide
Race color guide
Dr. Quest color guide
Bandit color guide
Team size comparison

Concept Art

Promo Video

Faded Jonny face
Faded Jessie face
Faded unknown male face (possibly the alien VP)
Faded unknown female face (possibly Estella Scheele)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jessie)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jessie)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Race)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jessie)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jonny)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jessie)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jonny)
QW concepts
QW concepts (unknown female)
QW concepts
QW concepts (unknown female)
QW concepts
QW concepts (unknown female)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jonny)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Jessie)
QW concepts
QW concepts (unknown female)
QW concepts
QW concepts (Race)
Globe faces (Jonny)
Globe faces (Jessie)
Glob faces (Hadji)
Jonny art
Hadji art
Jonny face fade in
QW concept
QW concept
QW concept
QW concept (Race)
QW concept (Jonny)
QW concept (Jessie)
Concept art for In the Realm of the Condor
Concept art for In the Realm of the Condor
Concept art for In the Realm of the Condor
Concept art for In the Realm of the Condor
Concept art for In the Realm of the Condor
Concept painting for East of Zanzibar
Concept painting for East of Zanzibar
Jonny art (face close-up)
Hadji art (face close-up)
Jessie art (face close-up)
Dr. Quest art (face close-up)
Race art (face close-up)
Bandit art
Jonny art (body close-up)
Hadji art (body close-up)
Jessie art (body close-up)
Dr. Quest art (body close-up)
Race art (body close-up)

World of Hanna-Barbera

Takashi Art
Takashi Art
Takashi Art
Takashi Art

Larry Navarro Sketches

Trio on a Hot Day
Jessie combat
Trio and Cat
Trio
Helicopter scene
Draft line
Final group

Feed Your Mind Behind the Scenes Video

Art (seen only in Cover-Up at Roswell)
Character Art - Hadji
Character Art - Jessie
Character Art - Race
Surd (in background)

Other or Unknown

According to an Ebay auction, the Takashi Masunaga poster print was somehow affiliated with a Galoob promotion.

Variety April 1995
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Concept art from Ebay
Quest team (1), from Preview Press Kit
Jonny QW
Jonny
Jonny (from DVD)
Jessie (from DVD)
Jessie (from DVD)
Jonny, from Takashi Masunaga print
Jonny, from Takashi Masunaga print
Jonny, from Takashi Masunaga print
Jonny, from Takashi Masunaga print
Jonny, from Takashi Masunaga print
Jonny, from Takashi Masunaga print
Jonny, preview press kit
Jonny, Jessie, Hadji, including horse scene from unproduced episode
Frank Squillace QuestWorld Demon Concept 1
Frank Squillace QuestWorld Demon Concept 2
Tiger Lithograph
Tiger Lithograph
Tiger Lithograph
Tiger Lithograph
Tiger Lithograph
Quest Compound, from Titan issue 2

QuestWorld Renders

Casey Dame

Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel
Dark Sentinel

Questworld.com Images

Most are based on the Digital Style Guide, but like the colored Bandit image, there are a few rarities.

Jonny
Jonny and Bandit
Jonny Icon
Jonny Bio
Hadji Bio
Jessie Bio
Dr. Quest Bio
Race Bio
Bandit Bio
Jonny Menu
Hadji Menu
Jessie Menu
Dr. Quest Menu
Race Menu
Bandit Menu
Group Menu
Friends Icons: Bandit
Friends Icons: Dr. Quest
Friends Icons: Hadji
Friends Icons: Jessie
Friends Icons: Jonny
Friends icons: Race

YTV Website Images

DVD and VCD Art

Mini-DVD
Cliff scene art
Cliff scene art
Cliff scene art

Magazine Article Art

From Animation Magazine Producer Interviews:

Questworld Cycle
Questworld Race
Ezekiel Rage
Questworld Jessie
Questworld Jessie
Questworld Jessie
Questworld Jonny
Questworld Jonny
Questworld
Concept art for the "Dark Skies"/horse unproduced episode; Variety June 19, 1995 article

Magazine Ad Art

Boys' Life magazine page
Broadcasting Cable, January 13, 1997
City Children's Weekly, issue 342 (April 13, 1997)
City Children's Weekly, issue 342 (April 13, 1997)
Magazine unknown, 1994
Magazine and date unknown
The Reporter, 1995; artist possibly Takashi Masunaga
The Reporter, 1995; single scan
Feed Your Mind Behind the Scenes segment showing the art
Magazine and date unknown
Magazine and date unknown
Magazine and date unknown
Magazine and date unknown
Magazine and date unknown (toys)
Wired Magazine November 1996
"5 million in the first week" with ship scene art (Variety)
Virgin Ad 1 (unknown magazine)
Virgin Ad 2 (unknown magazine)
Virgin Ad 3 (unknown magazine)

Click here for a clean PNG version of the unknown ad's Jonny art.

A folding ad from yet another unknown magazine was also issued:

TBS Print Ad 1
TBS Print Ad 2

Program Exchange Syndication Booklet Art

TV Promotional Slides

These French slides were recovered through an auction.

These were also up for auction:

Other

Cel print from Season 1
Autographed Season 2 Cast Cel
Boys' Life magazine page with helicopter situation
Coloring book cover
Gift Bag Art
Rage concept art from Animation Magazine Producer Interviews
Galoob catalogue with Jonny colored sketch
Mummies of Malenque promo high-quality photo
Pog Art (Benton is unique)
Promo card
Promo Card Reverse
Takashi Masunaga Jonny Quest promo art (sold on Ebay within wooden frame)
Trivia card
Valentine's Box Front
Valentine's Box Back
Alternate Box
Valentine's Cards
Valentine's Cards
Valentine's Cards
Ezekiel Rage, from Titan comics #2
Questworld scene, from Titan comics #2

Unknown Source

Jonny (art print, unknown provenance)
Jonny small
Jonny
Jessie
Jessie
Jessie (both wings)
Jessie small
Jessie sketch
Jessie
Jessie (Upper Deck Questworld)
Hadji
Hadji small
Race
Race small
Dr. Quest
Dr. Quest
Dr. Quest small pog example
Bandit small
QuestWorld preview thumb
QuestWorld preview thumb
QuestWorld preview thumb
QuestWorld preview thumb
Jonny, Jessie, Hadji
Jonny, Jessie, Hadji
Jonny and Bandit
Quest team sketch amalgation / coloration
Quest team sketch amalgation / coloration
Quest team
Quest team
Quest team
Cliff situation
Cliff situation
Elephant situation
Parachute situation
Plane situation
Scuba situation
Shark situation
Train situation
Helicopter situation (autographed by artist?)

Season Examples

These are screenshots of character profiles from certain episodes comparing character appearances. Three sets are presented for season one, which was animated by several different studios. The disparity tends to follow two patterns; most episodes seems to have been animated by Mook Studios (which did season two), using soft lines and uncomplicated backgrounds. The other group (including The Darkest Fathoms, In the Realm of the Condor, and others) feature extremely detailed background paintings, heavy lines, and substantial digital animation and post-processing. Examples for Bandit and the villains are also included.