Artist's commentary
Teresa
Teresa of the Faint Smile, from Claymore.
This picture will be part of an artbook focused on badass anime/manga girls and it will be available in the first months of 2014 I think, and sold at conventions (don't know if it will be french conventions only or not) and here : boutique.brigade-sos.fr/
When I think about a badass girl, I'm thinking Teresa ! Well basically she is so overpowered that you don't have to actually show her fighting to be badass, so I chose to represent her awakened gentle side and the motherly figure she became.
I have a curse on me : when I really like a character, I just can't draw him/her right like I would like, that's über frustrating.