Why do images of superheroes and pin-ups have to be white people? Well, obviously they don’t. So when model Iyah Simore asked me to do a piece on her, I immediately thought of doing her as a super heroine. After shooting the reference, I built the entire piece in Adobe Illustrator CS2. I like working in vector art, since it means that I can work at a scale that feels comfortable without worry about how it is going to look enlarged to poster size or bigger.