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peter is under a lot of stress in his very late 20s

he just needs a pot brownie, clearly

bonus:

(since this is before recreational weed was legalized in ny and he def doesn't have a medical approval)

dialogue transcript:

MJ: Peeeetey~ I know you've been stressed—

Peter: Understatement.

MJ: —so I brought you a special "grown-up" treat

Peter: MJ, I'm almost 30, all treats are—

(herbal brownie)

Peter: —Oh, that kind of grown-up treat.

~time skip~

Miles: Is he dead? He looks dead.

Flash: No, he's just stoned.

Miles: Oh, okay—

Miles: wait, WHAT?!

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I'm posting this now because I'm impatient and also because I just got that commission done by jerribbit (go look at it and admire it 🥰) which is based off of the same thumbnail as this drawing (lol) 'cause I had one of those moments like, "wait this concept is too good for me to not also draw this picture," so even though I paid someone else to draw it, I decided to also draw it. But expanded upon.

anyway it's AU-related and I plan to actually put this in a post with some other images later but I have to like, draw the other images first...

these are both Kaine as he looks in Houston in windowverse; left in mid-october or thereabouts and right in mid-november ish. 2015. he's 26/27/28/6 years old depending on how you start counting. (lol) (he's 27 and a half)

originally, I was gonna put his costume underneath, but I ended up deciding to bare his neck, just for the like... cohesion of the image as a whole.

closeups/details under the cut:

left pic is Kaine in mid-October ish as mentioned, mid-to-late really... he ran out of medication and he's not doing so hot. some breakthrough spots as his immune system kicks back into gear.

some of those spots (the little ones) are just from picking at his skin though.

then he gets eaten by werewolves.

also shaves his head. the white pupil is a cataract he's had for a few years at this point. a combo of meds + physical trauma when he was a few years younger.

also it turns out shaving a character's face and making his cheeks rounder really shaves off the years.

he may be going through some shit and adjusting to new medications and so on and so forth but at least he's eating enough ❤️

stop chewing your lips dude. anyway i spent at least an hour on coloring his scars in the second pic lmao, i just enjoy that. Like, lighting? no. texturing? yes. it's just a bunch of overlapping marks of cain. mark of cains. handprints :) a la Spider-Man: Redemption.

opposite side obviously.

some red hairs in his scraggly little beard :p

his voice is fried, for the record. that scar is right over his voice box. it's like five years old though, so it's well-healed.

and then it gets even more fried, probably. this relatively fresh extremely gnarly scar is from getting his throat ripped out by a werewolf lol.

He died! Then he got better. Obv being eaten by werewolves is directly lifted from his Scarlet Spider solo, though not everything is identical.

i had to bullshit the way it looks also cause idk about you but it seems like asking for trouble to try and google, like, "scars from wolf mauling" or something. lmao.

in the windowverse setting, the Other heals injuries but existing scars stay put, and in this case the life-threatening injuries he sustained made new scars rather than healing away to smooth skin, on account of, hey, he got torn limb from limb by werewolves! not exactly a papercut, you know???

admire his hair. the only reason it's not one big fluff is because of his expensive hair products.

oh yeah blue pullover hoodie because that's what Ben has :)

and the charcoal gray hoodie is a $345 Derek Rose hoodie he got from Saks after Aracely decided that she liked his blue hoodie and it's hers now.

oh right as far as his age goes—

this pic is, as mentioned, how he looks in fall 2015.

he was ''born'' on 4/1/2009 (so if you must be literal he's 6 years old)

he reached 22 the day after Peter's 22nd birthday (10/31/2009) (so he's 28)

but his 22nd birthday wasn't until 4/1/2010 (so he's 27)

according to the birth certificate wally gets made for him in this au he was born on 4/1/1989 (so he's legally 26)

He usually counts from his observed 22nd birthday in 2010 so generally he would consider himself 27 at this point. as long as he can remember his fake birth year it doesn't matter if he forgets what age he's ''supposed'' to be and since he was born in 2009 technically that makes 1989 much easier to remember.

also aracely was born in 1999 in this universe so this makes her both 10 years older than and 10 years younger than him :) which was another factor in why i picked 1989

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i originally drew the lines/sketch for this without the costume underneath to show kaine's scars and then i thought, idk, is that too intense in the context of the image as a whole? (which, like the comm i got, will include the "cut here" dashed line + scissors icon) but now i'm like, you know, i probably should make his scars visible after all.

...i say as if half of his face isn't literally melted.

was thinking about coming up w/ something for someone else to draw

i think i will still draw my own version of this, cause it would be fun to compare the commission i'm buying vs my own art

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I swear this wasn't just me trying to find a way to justify the fact that Peter and Kaine's hair are different textures every time I draw them. secretly it's been humidity all along!! lmao

No, actually it was mostly me trying to figure out colors so I could figure out how to deal with Kaine's hair color specifically, and so I could have a more consistent reference for myself... lol

also his beard, secretly kind of orange. technically by the time ben bleaches his hair and is also around kaine, the long hair + beard combo is gone though. just because of various events that happen.

anyway, spiritual companion to the kaine scar ref i'm still not done with (i just keep getting distracted by other things 😔)

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i didn't keep track of how long I spent coloring the scars and skin here as I work on this pic, but probably at least an hour...

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made myself a (probably not entirely accurate) cheatsheet for eye bullshit

the problem with being a sicko for reflective pupils on fictional characters is that i never know when i should or should not include the reflection in a drawing. i mean, logically i know that if light is being reflected back, the pupils will be reflective, but trying to decide whether or not light would be reflected back for a given drawing is like, idk lol cause sometimes even in low light a cat's pupils will still be black 🤷

generally i think the answer is "most of the time the pupils will look black, but if the person/cat with reflective pupils is in a darker area and the viewer in a more lit area, the pupils will reflect."

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a little WIP... the baby face when he's shaved and gained weight.... he looks so much younger 😅

most likely the finished versions of these drawings will be going onto a larger set of images which i would like to put together (i have to draw the other stuff first though)

the comm i'm getting has me like 👀 also... very excited to get that 😁

was thinking about coming up w/ something for someone else to draw

i think i will still draw my own version of this, cause it would be fun to compare the commission i'm buying vs my own art

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was thinking about coming up w/ something for someone else to draw

i think i will still draw my own version of this, cause it would be fun to compare the commission i'm buying vs my own art

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my favorite thing to do is to have a character gain weight when they are healthy and safe 👍 also i needed to figure out what Kaine's build should actually look like compared to Peter, so I was like, may as well go all the way in and show his different weights.

technically this is for the scar reference I'm making (very slowly) but I figured it would stand on its own fine, so here it is.

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drawing some hands

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quick sketch 'cause I saw something and had the irrepressible urge to draw Nico.

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warmup: peter parker inappropriate novelty shirts collection part (???)

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Oh, right—

this was for Ben's costume lineup, which I've updated with a red and blue costume:

meant to imitate Peter's, like so:

a WIP which has already significantly changed, and a little doodle about drawing webs.

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a WIP which has already significantly changed, and a little doodle about drawing webs.

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tonal whiplash—a scene out of context.

Trying to draw 616 Scarlet Spider Kaine is so hard for me 😂 I think my problem was the cheekbones, which I tried to fix, so I think he turned out alright here. I'm just so used to drawing him smashed up. Obviously. Also. It's really hard to draw windowverse Kaine's nose in profile. I need to find some reference photos or something.

It's smeared off to the side lol (different WIP/sketch, making a scar reference lol—it actually came in handy for this pic a little bit)

Anyway, here are the lines without any colors—

beef

I did not necessarily originally intend to blanket everything in solid black, so there are lines that aren't visible lmao — but in the dream sequence thing this is part of there is a lot of pure darkness and voids of negative space so i was like, you know, i should probably invoke that here. I GUESS I could have colored 616 Kaine's pants dark gray or something but I decided to leave it all invisible so I could keep the palette simple and focus more on the... copious quantities of blood lol

tfw your hair is just soaked with blood. I was just about to say "in the nature of dreams, this isn't realistic, and his hair isn't actually soaked in blood irl" but then I thought about it for a sec and... no, it definitely is soaked all the way up to the back of his head because of the fact that he ends up lying in a pool of his own blood for like... at least fifteen minutes. if not longer. maybe thirty minutes?

it gets chopped to chin-length after this (when he gets ✨hospitalized✨ because he's ✨dying✨) on account of the blood being a radioactive biohazard and also a hazard in general (tripping hazard, tangling hazard, etc.)—the buzzcut in some other sketches I've posted is not until a week or two later and is something he does because of some complex emotions.

they go to a renfair like three weeks after this 😂

Anywho~

he is m— he is my poor little meow meow,,,

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some silly AU doodling...

I thought it would be fun to send them to the renaissance festival... especially since I cannot send them to the rodeo due to the timing of specific events in-universe 😅 and hey, an excuse to put Kaine in a skirt 😂😂

Also I thought it would be fun(ny) if either Donald or Wally went all the way in on the costume theme. I picked Donald because he had a fancier shirt at the rodeo in the comics LOL but the idea of Wally being extremely dressed up is also very funny to me... instead he looks like a square. because he is a square.

oh yeah here's one without the dog so you can see wally's socks:

i have a scene where kaine ends up at the petting zoo w/ aracely, petting a bunny, and i wanted to sketch it but the sketch turned out bad so i'm not posting that

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oh yeah if you're curious about process or whatever here's a timelapse of me doing the lines for that comm