Claire producing a monkey from a hat... is actually the best job description for her. She doesn't have an official title (aside from Roger's aide/assistant), but her early duties were keeping tabs on Mac, making sure he kept his nose clean and magically making him appear at boring events he'd normally skip out on.

This was drawn for 2 reasons. To just do something 'cute,' and to test the inking with brush n' ink + copics combo, to make absolutely sure that medium would work before committing the method to my pencilled pages.

Originally I was going to draw her straightening Mac's tie, both looking kind of stuffy and put-out. But I made the comment to Neil that Claire would wear a suit/tuxedo much better than Mac ever could.

So I started drawing and then inking her in a suit, before I drew this one. It was okay. Coloring came, and disaster struck.

Turns out that copics/prismacolors + Dr. Ph. Martin india inks = FAILURE.

So much ink smudging. But, I discovered my Windsor and Newton indian ink works beautifly with the markers, and drew the version you see here.

I'll include the failed Claire drawing in a sketchdump of practices and doodles I'll scan soon.

Anyway, this was originally just gonna be 'claire looks good in a suit', but the sketch turned into this and I ended up liking it alot.

... her hair is a smidge darker than I'd have liked, but eh. LESSONS LEARNED.