Comic Female Art

I absolutely love the way women are drawn in comic books... over exaggerated facial features such as eyes and lips and overly curvy body shapes, the colours are usually vibrant and colourful and they're always beautiful. I have always practised drawing them, drawing doodles and also very detailed drawings of comic book heroins or characters that have either been completely made up, based on a character or has elements from other characters that I have taken inspiration from...
For example.. here are a few examples of my work and the inspiration that lead to them...

First example: 'Ice cream lady'

I created this image myself, the facial features are based on an image of myself but I have cartoonised them and added my own creative flair by transforming the hair into ice cream. The whole body was created from scratch as you can probably tell because most of it isn't correctly proportionate to the head or other parts of the body but I love this image because it is a creation of my own, I love the ice cream hair and the polka dot bathing suit- it's a curvy girly image that reflects what type of things I like to draw/ create etc... it reflects my personality in a way and that's what I like about it. It's simple but effective and creative and also an example of a self created drawing of mine inspired by the comic book heroin world...

This is an example of a drawing of mine (can be found in portrait book) where I have used multiple origins of inspiration as 'poison ivy' is a very popular marvel character so therefore there are many images, drawings, variations of her and I have collected little pieces of other images and used them on my own... for example the costume, hairstyle, facial features and body pose would be little pieces of other drawings that I like the look of and would use the technique or shape and change them slightly to create my own little variation of her... some people think this may be boring or unoriginal but I like this experimental way of drawing and getting everything perfect so that I can create a curvy, sexy, big eyed, big haired comic book style woman in my own way and I like my way!... Here are some variations of poison Ivy that inspired this piece and some artist information to go with them: 

This image of poison Ivy gave me the costume designs for my image, I added more detailed leaves I think and changed the belly piece but kept the same shape around the breast and leg areas... also I thought her eyes where beautiful so I added the same sort of shading around mine and the vines around the legs and arms... making sure I don't actually copy anything but definitely inspired by certain pieces such as this one by an artist I found on my favourite website "deviant art". This artist specialises in professional digital art and designs these images to be used on websites games and computers and was born and bred in Hong Kong- his main focus is on female characters such as this poison ivy portrait that he has created on his special digital art software and he also creates many other comic book heroins/ villains such as this one..
This is "Black cat"- drawn with copic markers it is a beautiful example of the specific type of images that I like to draw- Images of beautiful comic book women.













Here is another example of a drawing of mine, I don't have any of the drawings that inspired me- I didn't save them because this is a very old drawing but what I can tell you is that it was inspired by a character that I used to read about in comics when I was younger but I can't remember the name of the comic book! She is based on a magician assassin, a villain from an old comic book. I've called this piece 'Martina the assassin Magician'

(This image can be found in portrait book)
It was drawn with graphite pencil, charcoal and small hints of black pen, I remember changing the body shape, outfits, hairstyle, adding in the wand and playing cards and the face is based on angelina jolie (even if it doesn't look like her)... It's considerably mis- shapen and wrongly proportionate and the shading is dodgy but I like this image... I have found some images that link to this subject that are similar to this image.

The images above are similar to the character out of the comics I used to read and are the most similar images I could find to the ones that inspired me to create Martina... They are detailed, beautiful, there is alot of magical imagery, harsh dark lines and tones accent all the necessary features that make these images perfect. They were created by an artist called Marcio Abreu and where found on deviant art.. he is a professional traditional artist who creates comic pencil drawn images such as the above he has worked in titles such as Grimm fairy tales and other big titles... he is from Brazil and is a very talented artist creating thousands of images over the years similar to these which are quite clearly my favourite style to draw in....