Super Princess Peach: Mario Kart

People who say that they don't love Nintendo made games fall into 3 categories: 1.) People who never played video games and have no interest to 2.) People who are clearly lying to themselves 3.) People who just want to watch the world burn.  Those are the facts.  You can't say that you don't love Super Mario, or Legend of Zelda...and especially Mario Kart.  The concept of Mario Kart sounds like all sorts of fail, but in practice, it really is a great experience.  I loved Mario Kart the first time I played it on Super Nintendo and have been in love with the franchise ever since.

So when I thought about doing some fanart for Mario Kart, sure, Mario, Luigi, and Bowser came to mind....but I thought that Princess Peach doesn't get enough shine, so I drew her instead (and Princess Daisy gets even LESS shine...so, you know what that means..).  

Anyways, above is the initial sketch after cleaning it up some.  I wanted to draw her with like a Toadstool pit crew, but it wasn't coming together how I had pictured it in my head, so I simplified the idea, which makes it much less busy.

And as always, clicking on the images will allow you to see them in much higher resolution.

If you would like to purchase this illustration as a 17" x 11" print, you can do so either on here on my blog, or on my print purchase page!

Without Wax,

-Charles

Morrigan of Darkstalkers

I seriously think that Capcom's Darkstalkers is a severely underrated game.  Granted, there are some other games Capcom has made that I have given little to no chance in playing for whatever reason (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure comes to mind...), but the Darkstalker's franchise shouldn't be overlooked.  Just from its art direction alone, it ranks as one of my favorites.  So it would be no surprise that I would choose to draw one of its main characters for a Halloween themed print

Morrigan Aensland of Capcom's Darkstalkers

I'm actually amazed that I finished a Halloween themed print before Halloween.

And if you would like to purchase this Morrigan Aensland illustration as an 11" x 17" print, you can do so either on here on my blog, or on my print purchase page!

Without Wax,

-Charles

African American Samus of Metroid sketch

Yeah, I know...I just drew a picture of Samus from Metroid...but I decided to draw another anyways.  I'm not really a fan of her Zero Suit because it doesn't make much logistical sense to have a suit like that without any contacts to her outer power suit.  And plus, I just wanted to do something with a lot of detail in it.  I got like 80% done with this sketch like a day ago, and photoshop crashed and gave me a black image with red noise all over it.  I wanted to just trash it, but I started over, and it didn't take nearly as long this time.  But anyways, moral of the story...save often, and backup often to avoid such headaches.

This one may take a little longer to ink and color...but I guess that's half the fun.

Without Wax
-Charles