This is a piece done for the R3 Illustration Jam, the subject being Kraven the Hunter.

Sergios Craving-Bird’s parents were killed by a costumed villain, in hiding from the authorities. The young Chumash, studying for his PhD in Chemistry, dedicated his life to avenging the death of his family, and took inspiration from his father’s passion for big game hunting. He began tracking and apprehending masked vigilantes and delivering them to the authorities, creating a name for himself as a normal man fighting back against the dangers of unchecked superhuman conflict.
In order to capture the infamous urban vigilante, Spider-Man, he recovered samples of abandoned webbing and resynthesized the compounds to create a restraining material that Spider-Man’s web material could not adhere to, and used it to ensnare and overpower him.

My redesign revised Kraven’s origin, from a Russian big game hunter, to a Native American chemist.
References:
- The name: Sergios is a variant of the Latin name that Sergei is based on, from Kraven’s real name in the comics. Craving-Bird, obviously that’s my take on the comics’ Kravinoff. In this case, Craving-Bird being a name taken voluntarily to represent his desire to avenge his parents, and having ‘flown’ far from home to study.
- The equipment is tracker/ tactical gear, in a dark jungle color. I DID include weapons, unlike Kraven, but he HAS captured Spider-Man without their use, which is more consistent with the intent of the comics.
- Bare feet, surgical gloves: the bare feet allude to the comics’ Kraven’s use of bare hands, ie. his own abilities, to subdue his prey. The surgical gloves are to remind us that he is still a man of science.
- The scar on his cheek and shredded ear are a reference to the lion fur the comic version wears
- the outline of a skull and bones tattoo is to allude to death, his suicide after capturing Spider-Man in the famous arc.

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You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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