Lucha Scouts! (in progress)

So, today's post comes to you only half finished. Hopefully I can get it done and show you the rest by Sunday. This week I imagined Girl Scout cookies as luchadoras, and Samoa is a total badass. Don't mess with her. Keep an eye out for the rest this weekend!

XO – Clare

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!

Big Barda!

When this challenge came up, the first character to pop into my head was Big Barda. Here's some info on this lovely buff lady.
Barda was born of the race of New Gods about 250 years ago, on Apokolips. She is a product of Granny Goodness' Home for Orphaned Youth. Granny's motto is "Die for Darkseid" (the planet's evil ruler). Granny grooms Barda to one day lead the Female Fury Battalion, a ferocious pack of women warriors. However, during a raid Barda meets Scott Free, Darkseid's adopted son, and, sensing a peace about him, falls in love.

So here's my (crappy non scanned) version of Big Barda, I've added some tattoos of course!

I'm going to clean it up and make it nice and purdy for the Buff Babe Zine!

Ariel Dallas Multipass Under the Sea

For The Fifth Element theme, I chose to draw Ariel as Leeloo and Flounder as Korben Dallas. I chose this interpretation in honor of the 25th anniversary of The Little Mermaid, my wife's favorite Disney movie. I thought this would be a fun way to incorporate the weekly theme and the anniversary of The Little Mermaid. 

Ryan

Fifth Element: Space Diva

That girl can sing! 

30 min sketch using skecthbook pro 7 & cintiq. 

HP3

www.pinkandnanook.com

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.

In Memoriam of Armanda

In Memoriam of Armanda

for our fellow Scribbler Ashley. 

May her smile now warm the heavens as it did here on earth.

-HP3

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!

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

(www.pinkandnanook.com)

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!

American Hero, American Princess

So for this Challenge I choosed to combine America's favorite superhero with America's Princess!
So here is Tiana (The Princess and the Frog)  dressed as Captain America!

She tempts her enemies with delicious bake goods before knocking them out! It works pretty well!

Shawny. With a Y.

Here's my self portrait for this weeks challenge!

I really like purple.
My sister saw this and told me to make the boobs bigger...Nope. I don't want my boobs taking up the whole illustration!

Mr. Pope Selfie, Toon Filter...

Can't shake these two...geez!

What's up Artsy Folk!!!!

The Resident Badass has been away a few weeks, but I been watching all the awesomeness that's been going on!!! I wanna welcome our new doodler and master pencil technician Ryan Finley to the group! I also wanna give a shout out to the folks emailing and liking and commenting on all our posts on the blog and on Facebook! Seriously, its that kind of love, attention and appreciation that motivates us artists to keep drawing, keep improving and keep sharing!!! It's scary stuff putting your heart out there for the world to see so Thank you all, big hugs and stuff!!! 

What's up with me? Well I am going to be heading down to the Cincy Comicon, September 5th-7th

(www.cincycomiccon.com) I will be bringing the full Pink & Nanook Ink show to this event! I will also be attending the big Drink & Draw Event at the real life Hall of Justice!!! Should be a great adventure and I am looking forward to sharing a stage and meeting many Comic Book Industry Pros! 

If you are in the Cincinnati area or just love going to Comic Con's then make the roady on down! Love to meet and spread the Scribble Nerd love down by the Ohio River! 

Audi 5000

Henry Pope III

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Best Part of the Movie!

Before I saw Guardians of the Galaxy wednesday, I was going to draw a full team action illustration, but then I saw the movie and fell in love with:

The whole movie was great and all, but you can't beat a baby tree dancing to Jackson 5. Nope. No way. 

Be prepared for some more GOTG fan art coming soon! 

Street fashion at it's finest

I have to admit, I kind of have a little thing for fashion, especially street fashion. I used to get Shojo Beat magazine as a kid and every once in a while they would do a feature on Japanese street fashion. Before the days of fashion blogs and trend trackers, these articles were the best part of the magazine. I instantly fell in love with the incredibly unique fashions of the Shibuya and Harajuku districts.

A lot of what I absorbed from those photos informed how I dress even to this day. The whimsical mixing and matching of patterns, textures, silhouettes, and materials is addictive. With a few exceptions of the more strict subcultures, a lot of the fashion I like comes with the "I wear what I want" vibe. Crazy random pieces come together to make a cohesive look. As Dee said to me once, "The don't give a fuck attitude is an accessory all it's own."

the original photo page

XO – Clare