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!

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!

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!

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! 

Happy 75th Batman!

Hello everyone! It's Batman's 75th and to celebrate I decided to illustrate two of The Bats favorite villains, Catwoman and Poison Ivy!

These two beauties will be showing at Carol and John's pop up art gallery Saturday, in celebration of Batman's first appearance. Tons of things going on that day at CNJ so check it out!
These two illustrations also kick starts my Sweetheart Project. It's going to be a great personal project that I am really looking forward too and I'm sure you'll like it as well! 

Peach Baby! (Last Week's Challenge)

Playing catch up. This is for last week's Mario challenge. I HAD to draw Princess Peach in a pin-up, because that is what I do! Anyway here's Peach in all her glory!

They're coming for you, Peach!

There is plenty of art out there of zombie Super Mario Bros, but I was surprised to find so little of the characters actually surviving. C'mon guys, you don't think the guy who could defeat Bowser could survive an outbreak of zombie koopa troopas? If that little brat, Carl Grimes, can make it through the zombie apocalypse, Mario can do it and  kick serious koopa shell in the process. *Mic drop*

Original art is drawn with Micron pens on brown toned paper, and colored in Photoshop. The text was made in Illustrator. Everything was assembled in InDesign.

XO - Clare

BONUS!
I was fiddling with layers and kind of liked the look of the original drawing with just the blood and grit layer.

Ok for real this time, XO – Clare

If there's a steady paycheck...

"Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?"

"Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say."

Who doesn't love Winston Zeddemore? When we first decided to do a Rule 63 (gender-bender) theme for the week, I had some trouble coming up with a subject. There are just so many great characters to choose from. Tim mentioned that I do something Ghostbusters themed, and so Winnie Zeddemore was born. I wanted her to be a bold and sexy Ghostbuster with a 70's Pam Grier kind of vibe.

XO - Clare

Intro Post! Mark Laubenthal, Illustrator & Super Nerd

Hi all, Mark here.
Today's post is a quick "about me" and showcases some of my art!

I'm a digital illustrator who works in vector art, and I pay the bills by working freelance on children's products like coloring books, stickers and craft kits.  I also work on game-app projects occasionally as well.  The main thing I am known for in my work is my use of cute, quirky characters and a childlike sense of wonder.  I consider myself someone who really understands the concept of "cute" very well, and as such, my work is also often characterized by a "toy-like" feel.

As far as my personality/personal interests go, I'm a proud nerd, a hopeless romantic, a lover of all things cute, obsessed with toys and toy design, a huge fan of pop culture, and to top it all off, I also love to bake (almost exclusively cookies, because COOKIES).  I'm also super inspired by animals.

Here are a few of my pieces:

You can find me at the following:

Portfolio Website: marklaubenthal.com
Twitter:  https://twitter.com/MarkLaubenthal

I also blog dessert recipes and art projects for:
The Darling Apartment

Logo Challenge: The last one is hopefully a good one!

Hello! After seeing everyone's great logos, I decided to scrap my first idea and come up with a better one! 
I really like making logos. I also really like using circles in my logos, so of course when it came to the challenge I went with my usual signatures!

I'm also really big on adding textures. I think it really adds to the logo without being overbearing.  One of my favorite places to get textures from is Lost And Taken. They have every texture you can think of AND it's free!

Oh I'm Shawny and I am really excited to be apart of this group! If you want to check out some of my work,  click here!

Logo Challenge! Player Clare, Fight!

Alrighty, here goes! Like I said yesterday, this is the new and improved Scribble Nerds. I love everyone else's logos so far. They are all such unique versions. Imagine what will happen when we start pumping out art? Woah-ho-ho! Here is my crack at a logo design. Wha-bam!

Here are some other color scheme I fiddled around with for a hot second:

The Tarantino Challenge - Mrs. Mia Wallace

Hello and welcome to Scribble Nerds! I'm so excited to start doing these drawing challenges. I love Quentin Tarantino movies. They always have such a quirky and dark sense of humor, and his characters have that same air about them. Mia Wallace may be one of my favorites. It's hard to choose, but I could watch the Jack Rabbit Slims scene over and over and not get sick of it. My scribble was a sketch then drawn over in illustrator.

XO - Clare