You have been, and always shall be, my friend

The world's a little less bright without him in it, but we'll always have Genesis <3

Live Long

clink the link to see it on my page with more words about Mr. Nimoy

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

Burly, Buff, Busty Babe

Meet Moana. She could crush you with her pinky if she wanted. Be nice.

This is my submission for the Buff Babes zine came with some grief. Oh man, do I not know how to draw muscles. Wait, you want a character that doesn't look like they're made from noodles and bubbles? Well, shit. Anyway, after some thrashing around and Tim telling me to stop complaining and just do the thing, I finally got here. Tim often has to be my Yoda.

So anyway, here's hoping they like it and take my submission!

XO – Clare

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!

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! 

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