Rainy Knight

For this week's challenge, I selected to do my favorite Justice League member. 

Batman who is by far the best member in my personal opinion. 

-Ryan

Mermaid Sketches

For this weeks challenge I ended up creating an awesome sketch in my new sketchbook,only to murk it up somehow! I'm so upset! But it's cool, I'm going to try and redo it but for now here's the sketches and the damaged illustration.

 

   

 

 

and here's the ruined piece that would've been great!

wish me luck on the redo!

Oh my Mermaid! By Henry Pope III

Oh my Mermaid! 

By Henry Pope III

First blog post of 2015 for me! Felt I needed to get back on my SN groove! 

So why not do it with some Mermaid chesticles!?!?!

1 hour in Sketchbook Pro 7 on Cintiq 22" 

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Thorin Oakenshield

Today's post comes from my living room couch under a heap of blankets. My annual tangle with the flu happened this week. I managed to finish Thorin before the flu took me down.

XO – Clare

Merry Christmas No-One! (plus 5th Element and Pie catchup!)

HEY

IT'S YER OLD PAL RIBBS

SHUT UP, WE'RE PALS OK

here bringin' you a little anti-holiday cheer for Krampus week!

Ho Ho Ho-OHH NOOOO

and just to soften the blow, here's some catch up of challenges past

5th Element:

the 6th Element is threesomes

Pie:

she says she's Dutch Apple but she dresses like French Silk

well, that's what i got folks! Catch my other stuff at my blog why don't cha~

Fifth Element: Space Diva

That girl can sing! 

30 min sketch using skecthbook pro 7 & cintiq. 

HP3

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A Tribute for Armanda.

Dealing with the death of a loved one is hard. There is no real words, no way to express yourself when you lose someone dearly to you.

When I lost my father earlier this year, I went into a deep depression. Everything that brought me joy didn't and I felt myself falling into a hole that I could never get out. 

So I started to read. ALOT. When I was younger I loved quotes. I'd read anything that talked about overcoming obstacles and inspirational words of wisdom.  I'd write them all over my sketchbooks and journals. They brought me comfort and made me think of the important things that matter.  So I started to look for quotes and stories of loss and ended up finding ones that really stuck with me. Dealing with my father's death became easier once I started to focus on the memories rather than the loss.

So when it came to doing a tribute for Ashley's friend Armanda, I decided to go with something that brought me some comfort and helped me learn what is truly important after you lose someone.

These quote reminds us of what really matters, celebrating the life and remembering that even though they are gone, they are never truly loss to you. Their lives will continue through you and your memories of them.  Rest in peace, Armanda.

throwback to good days

this is a throwback from my sketchbook around September of 2 years ago. It was one of many rarer good days and we spent it eating crepes, sipping pumpkin lattes and makin' a sketch for a friend. The cafe is La Petite Triangle.

Frankenstein's Monster

Frankie's monster seems a little bored with this mundane life of grunting and being misunderstood. It's not a phase. This is who he is, mom.

XO – Clare

That Zombie Show!

Was it just me, or was October a REALLY long month...

A week late on my Zombie theme...So sorry! But It still kinda, sorta, why the heck not works for this weeks challenge as well! 

Pink & Nanook take on some really popular Zombie tv show. 

Hope to meet and greet some awesome fans this weekend at Oddmall!!! 

Till then, Stay Tooned! 

Henry Pope III

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The Slacker Zombie of all time!

When it came to zombies, "Shaun of the Dead" was the first thing that popped into my head. Mainly because it gave me an excuse to make some movie posters!

This movie has been out awhile, so I hope this isn't going to be a spoiler! :D

I decided to illustrate the lovable Zombie Ed!

I also created one with a background. Don't know how much I like this one.

Here's the original sketch. 

I can't wait for my first ever art event with the group! Don't forget to check out Oddmall this weekend! It's going to be great!

White Zombie

The original movie zombie was not a gory, terrifying, undead monster. It was a woman under the power of Bela Lugosi's voodoo spell. I wanted to make a disgusting monster, but this came out instead. I must have used all my gore chips on something else. I rather prefer this anyway.

XO – Clare

They gotta have a place to store all their stuff!

For my Ghostbuster piece, I decided to illustrate the Ghostbuster headquarters. This is the result!

I like vectorizing buildings, so this was pretty fun to do. Expect another famous building/house in the near future!

We Ain't Fraid of No Ghosts!!!

What's Up Nerds! It's me the RBA, dropping Toon's like weights!

So as a Recap, if ya didn't know. I have a little comic book called "Pink & Nanook" that I am creating that stars two furry mutant chica's Pink Panthette and Nanook Bear. I am striving to have this book completed and in the publics hands come January 2015. Pink & Nanook Ink just celebrated its one year anniversary and I am now putting together the plans for 2015 to be even bigger, better and more badass then before!

So Nerds your treat is being first to learn that one of those new PANI products will be a Cosplay Print Series of faux magazine covers featuring my furtastic duo! These 14in. x 20in. beauties will be coming soon to the PANI online store (pinkandnanook.storenvy.com) and with me at conventions in the new year!!! Holla!!! Here come's "Tooner Illustrated!"

I hope you really like this Ghostbusters piece! Please let me know what ya think! I enjoy everyone's feedback! Peace till next week!

-HP3 (www.pinkandnanook.com)

Old school feel on new school Frank.

One Classic Halloween Monster. 

Frankenstein. Check. 

Two weeks of posts. 

Check. 

Lets keep the party going shall we! 

Next! 

Henry Pope III

www.pinkandnanook.com 

Shadowcat and Lockheed for Anti-Bullying!

My contribution to the Bully Awareness month!
It doesn't take much not to be a bully, but it takes courage and respect to be a hero! Bullying is never the answer and it doesn't make you cool, it makes you a mean and hurtful person. Something I think no one wants to be!
As being Mutants in an Anti-Mutant world, Shadowcat and Lockheed (though he's an alien) know first hand the problems with bullies and understand the importance of awareness!

Deadpool: Anti-hero/Anti-Bully

So, I love Deadpool.

A LOT of people love Deadpool for a MULTITUDE of reasons. But the reason I love Deadpool, the reason I think despite his antihero status he represents this sticker just as well as any Avenger, is that at the heart of him is a guy that wants to see the good guys win. A guy with incredibly low self esteem and a lot of hidden vulnerability due to his abusive childhood and living with a disfiguring illness whose favorite hero is Spiderman. Who fanboys out at the chance to team up with the X-Men. Whose one true love is Bea friggin' Arthur.
He's got layers, and ones I think readers of all ages and especially bullied kids can identify with.

Also he breaks the fourth wall and that's, like, hella cool.

HELLA

oh look at that, more HELLA RAD stuff at my blog!

Be a Hero, Not a Bully She-Hulk Sticker by Henry Pope III

Be a Hero, Not a Bully!

Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters knows a thing or two about getting bullied and how to fight back! Either in the courtroom or on the streets she's more then capable of hitting her opponent with a powerful OBJECTION!!! 

My little contribution to this social effort! Thanks you John Dudas of Carol and John's Comic Shop and the rest of the Scribble Nerd team for putting this together! 

Henry Pope III

Pink & Nanook Ink

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Sunday Catch-up: Kaiju

Few weeks ago, we had a kaiju challenge that I was really excited for. I'd been playing around with Godzilla ideas for awhile and thought the challenge was perfect. Too bad I took on more than I could and didn't finish on time. But you are in luck! I finished the illustration and it came out better than the original idea.

Here's the version without the gradient on the buildings.

Taking the extra time to flesh this out really made a difference. I'm trying to find a style of my own and this is one piece that really shows how far I'm coming along in terms of digital art. I'm nowhere near where I'd like to be, but I'm getting there, so I'm pretty satisfied with that!

Gunnm.

The first manga I ever read was "Battle Angel Alita" (Gunnm).  I was still pretty into western superhero comics when I was 15/16 but that all changed when I started hanging out at the library. Around that time Manga was just really starting to pop up more in the US and the library that I frequent had  a pretty good collection. Since I was already into Cowboy Bebop and Akira animes, I went hunting for  mangas and I wasn't let down.

Battle Angel  was full of sci-fi, violence and chaos, all lead by a sweet faced cyborg. It was glorious.

So here are a few sketches of Alita. I'm going to put these through illustrator but couldn't in time for this challenge! In time though!