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commission for @biqueuerious 🔮✨⏳

This awesome person paid me to draw my Mysterio design for them! I had a ton of fun working on it, and I'm super pleased with how it turned out!

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me when I see your Otto design:

Otto fell back, crashing into the machine, damaging the screens and more. The collision caused the console to explode in a terrifying display of light and smoke. Overpowering the servers of nearby appliances, activating the actuators, and electrifying anything within reach.. or within contact.

writing is a snippet from my fic: [you can read it here]

Wanted to do this for @oswaldthehero's little art collab you can find [here] !! Wanted to join in since I didn't even know about a prior one cuz it looked like a lot of fun!

I decided to go a little above and beyond with this piece, as I always do-- But I'm happy to say I'm finally done!! And I'm quite happy with the end result! I did 2 versions, 1 that somewhat more closely resembled the original comic panel, and the other with my rendering attempt!

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Hello~ 👋 I hope you’re well. Listen 🙏 your Mysterio design is driving me crazy like he’s sooo handsome oh my god. Do you take commissions? I would literally pay you to draw more of him. If you don’t I totally understand! Your style is so cool! Have a good day!

I don't currently have an easy way set up for people on the internet to send me money, but I'd definitely be interested in setting something up for ya! (I live in Canada, so it may be a little complicated) I'd love an excuse to draw more of him.

I'll message you later this afternoon and we can talk shop 👍🏼

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Decided I needed to break out of my creative rut with a more interesting and dynamic piece. I regretted missing Mermay, so I had some fun with a kelp mermaid.

+detail shots

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More drawings of my Spiderverse Mysterio; this time alive and post-resurrection.

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If there's a single underrated anime I would pick to bring into the mainstream (or just force every single one of my friends to watch) it would be Heike Monogatari, or The Heike Story. with gorgeous visuals and more symbolism than you can shake a stick at, this adaptation of the the downfall of the Heike clan in medieval era japan is one of my favorite animes of all time.

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The weather's finally warming up, and everything is in bloom!

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Her design has definitely got some serious variation depending on who's drawing and/or colouring it.

I think a lot of the issues regarding her appearance (including in Octo Girl) stems from the fact that there are LOTS of different types of dwarfism, and she isn't canonically any specific type. So depending on the artist, her proportions tend to vary pretty wildly. Someone should make a decision on that, and have all future artists work from consistent references.

In her original appearance, she's pretty pale. I personally prefer the darker look, specifically in ssm v2, since the way it was done gives her a really pretty, flattering colour palette. However, I'm pretty sure she's just a tanned white woman, not a person of colour. She has an Italian last name, and in her first ever appearance is stated to have made two authentic Italian dishes from scratch. It's pretty safe to assume the writers intended to portray her as being Italian, with a *slightly* darker or more olive skin tone.

I think we need to talk about how Anna Maria Marconi doesn’t have a SINGLE good design outside of comics. (this might get a little long, this topic bothers me, see my fit of rage below) (also open to criticism if any parts of the point I’m trying to make can be proven wrong)

(Ssm v2) (ssm v1) (ssm v1 issue 32-33)

For example here is traditional comic Anna Maria, who I adore and would die for,

And then there are the other ones..

What’s funny about these, all the issues are WILDLY different and it’s insane,

And the first one isn’t so bad, just heavy makeup and her expression that’s off putting to me (not sure on the source I just don’t remember it in the comics)

Spider-man : octo-girl I have issues with though, what is that. She looks 8 years old?? It bothers me to an insane degree considering the comic releasing at nearly the same time was this and what was almost directly before it

The latter being my personal favorite, these are good comic iterations of Anna Maria, she’s a grown ass woman and is it a crime to want her to be drawn as such?? I will stress this is not about her having dwarfism, I could not give less of a shit. This is about Anna Maria being drawn almost exactly the same as the 14 year old character (who also looks 8) next to her. When I first read octo-girl I was unfamiliar with her character (I was also just not paying that much attention to what I was reading in the first 7 chapters) and I quite honestly believed her to be Otto’s child or some shit. And that’s not okay?? I fear??

This is the worst one though. Anna Maria looking younger I can understand, this is her when she’s roughly 15-17 (I think). The real issue here is that she’s like- heavily whitewashed?? Like even marvel comics doesn’t whitewash her that bad, what the fuck is this? What do you have to say for yourself Marvels Spider-man (2017)? She has literally never been depicted with any of these features? She has always been depicted with a tan, black hair, and brown eyes. in every. Single. Appearance. I can’t even give her the benefit of the doubt since this released over six months AFTER ssm v2(2019), and even before that Anna Maria was appearing in amazing Spider-Man from 2015-2017, so it’s not like she was a “forgotten character” that was a vague mention of her, these are her MOST active years.

Anna also looked almost exactly like she does in ssm v2, so no excuses there

And god her designs in other media piss me off so much because I was SO hyped that superior Spider-Man and Anna Maria were animated in any way shape or form and you can imagine my disappointment when that dogshit animation fell through yet again. I cannot STAND that show.

But that’s all for my tirade about how much I love Anna Maria and how much I hate literally every non-comic depiction of her, cause at the end of the day she is one of my favorite Spider-Man characters and I think it’s a crime how poorly she’s been adapted into other mediums.

(Ps : I still love Octo-Girl, I just despise how some of the characters are portrayed(in size and in age), it otherwise has fantastic designs that I think are really well done)

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Finished my design of Mysterio. I went for an archaic, litch inspired look.

Quentin Beck was a previously mild visual effects artist who turned to a life of crime, exploiting his expertise in illusions to trick people during his robberies. However, Spider-Man quickly learned to counter his tricks, and defeated him again and again. Poor Quentin found himself as a washed up member of the Sinister Syndicate, undervalued, underestimated and underpaid.

It was out of desperation that he turned to a different source for power, the demon Kindred (who, in this universe, is just a demon; because screw that whole nonsense). He formed a pact with the demon, doing Kindred's will in exchange for genuine magic, allowing him to ensnare minds, inflict nightmares, and cast fireball.

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they think she’s a weird-looking ocktoid

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First day at my new job. Found out that I'm the youngest on my crew by at least five years, and was struck by the sudden realization that I'm not just working a teen summer job. I'm fully a blue collar worker. Kinda wild.

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I mean, that is... an opinion you're allowed to have.

I'm sorry to all the Doc Ock fans when I say this, but the man looked like Dr.Evil from Austin Powers during the presentation scene in Spider-Man 2 with that terrible outfit he had.

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Parker Industries founder Peter Parker, and his wife, actress and model Mary Jane Parker-Watson photographed together at the Stark Expo in New York.

I'm doing a bunch of dumb meme redraws featuring the main characters from my 'spidersona' universe. Since different comic runs have different names, I've decided nickname mine Spider-Man: Legacy.

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ARCANE | Evolved Cultists Design | Adrien Genilier

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Doc Ock doodle page... I'm a predictable person. 🫣

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god, having character design thoughts...

I love the way Octavius looked in NWH, but I just can't resist the urge to give him longer hair a la Molina in Matador. I can theoretically justify it, too, since Ock had longer hair in the Ultimate cartoon...

I like the concept of him having slightly scruffier hair. It gives a bit more of a stern but weary impression, which fits for a variant that's been running the Sinister Syndicate for over a decade.

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Couldn't resist the urge to draw my Otoha in Otto's big long coat <3 I love the idea of tiny little small for her age 14 year old Otoha in a floor length coat meant for a 6'2 man. She's barely up to his chest, so it absolutely drags behind her on the ground. Also just wanted to colour something atmospheric.

Also I wanted to draw what she looks like from his perspective.