Morrigan Bewitched a fan art

Every minute of every day inspiration can and often simply lunges from out of nowhere; usually in the form of a day dream or even as I'm trying to drift off to sleep (which is even worse).

So up until the time I had a phone on which I could keep and record notes this quite often resulted in some kind of panicked search for a pen and a scrap of paper.

I'm a big fan of fighting games, I'm not terribly good at playing them though the "Angry Button Mash Combo" and the "Rage Quit" are some of my specialities. If you've ever played one of these games you know exactly what I mean, one minute you're using muscle memory and reflexes to play then all of a sudden BOOM! Calculous Pop Quiz!     

Darkstalkers is one of those fighting games that is pretty close to having it all, take some awesome anime re-imaginings of classic monsters and have them duke it out Street Fighter style. Like the accidentally discovered recipe for chocolate chip cookies, there's a justified sublime genius to it. 

Morrigan Pop Culture Pin-Up Princess April 2012

My pop culture pin-up princess for April meet Morrigan, unofficial representative mascot for the Darkstalkers fighting game franchise from Capcom. I love the Darkstalkers series which I find far more interesting and immersive than the Street Fighter games so for this fan art piece I decided on a comic book art style beginning with a basic pencil under sketch followed by inking with brush tip marker and finally colouring and composing digitally. The pose was something I'd wanted to do for a while obviously I wanted to go for seductive and yet relaxed but at the same time I wanted to draw upside down. 

Some of my source material ^_^