#spider web design

[5t4r-b0y]

mother’s going to kill me 💀

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How Psychoactive Drugs Alter Spider Web Construction

In 1995, scientists explored how different drugs influence spider web construction to understand their impact on behavior and motor skills. This research was initiated due to a zoologist's request to alter the time garden spiders build their webs. The team administered various psychoactive substances, such as amphetamine, mescaline, strychnine, LSD, and caffeine, observing changes in web size and shape rather than timing.

Low caffeine doses led to smaller webs with uneven radii, while higher doses resulted in even smaller, irregular designs. Each drug induced different effects: sleeping pills caused drowsiness and incomplete webs, Benzedrine created zigzag patterns, marijuana resulted in missing inner sections, and scopolamine disrupted directional sense.

The study highlighted how drugs affect spider behavior, offering insights into the broader impacts of psychoactive substances across species.

[toyastales]

Art Deco perfume bottle by Turriet & Bardach, made in Czechia circa 1930.

[deisegal]

New York Traditional Porch Ideas for a massive, traditional stone front porch renovation that includes a roof extension

[mellohiizz]

finally locked in for fantasy eggwatobu redesign sigh. took me a while since i kept not liking how they look, but i think im good with these. didnt change much, just minor details and colors.

[trashcansienna]

Purple characters

[sidekick-syndrome]

2022 art repost. This one is based on the 2004 team-up between these two & a few others. Relevant panel is attached :)

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE 

by John Patrick Gañas

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[vertigoartgore]

1987's Web of Spider-Man Annual Vol.1#3 back cover by Charles Vess.

[amourcherie606]

gwen 2 johnny 1 lol

my krita was crying during this mb king

[regular-gnome]

a door in a forest

[riv3r-rat]

Web!Martin

Because it's unreasonable how much he's been on my mind

117: “It felt good, weaving my own little web”

158: “Honestly, I mostly just said what I thought you wanted to hear.”

186: “I can be a real manipulative prick, you know that?”

196: “Because you always managed to get what you wanted through smiles and shrugs and stammerings that weren’t nearly as awkward as they seemed.”

Self-indulgent process and ramblings under the cut

I did initially try to do some research into spider anatomy for this, especially their eyes and where they sit. I still know nothing about eye arrangements, but I do now possess a lot more knowledge on how haemocyanin works.

So nothing about the anatomy makes sense, but it looks nice. That's... fine, right?

This isn't really how I imagine Martin, but who am I to go against the wishes of the Mother? Blame it on his spider-y-ness.

He only got further from how I imagine him as I went along. (It's kind of hard to tell.)

It would probably have been a good idea to actually figure out what I wanted him to look like before going straight in with a full illustration, but this was supposed to be a "figuring out" drawing. Well. What can you do.

It's been a while since I've done anything in colour, so I figured I'd try doing the flats in greyscale and then using a uniting overlay, which worked surprisingly well.

We all ignore the hands. We all ignore the hands. We all ignore the hands. We

Rendering! Shadows! Highlights! I so rarely have time for a full drawing that I never get to render, and I forget every time just how fun it is, even if I always think I have no clue what I'm doing.

Not planning a light source never helps, but I think the dramatic high-contrast slightly-below lighting worked well enough. Though, looking back... some rim lighting wouldn't have hurt...

It was at this stage that I finally did something about the colour-shaped elephant in the room and gave a) his waistcoat, and b) his hair some life, in the form of some extra red.

And then it was just tinkering and sub-surface scattering (my favorite! especially when it shouldn't be there! little saturated barriers between light and shadow, my beloved! I insist on using it literally wherever possible).

And, a lot of increasing the contrast when I started to notice it was kiiind of washed out.

And apparently at some stage I made it look like he was wearing eyeshadow and highlighter. Whoops?

The philtrum. Does one draw it? How does one draw it? How does one not make it look strange?? Should I just let it loose? Is it dead? Is it a bastard? It has such a visceral effect on me—

I like wasting my time on tiny details, like his little fang, or putting two concentric circles in the middle of each of his eyes, or using my left hand to draw the spiderwebs so the lines are less even, or the drop of tea leaking out of the crack, or making the crack as spider-shaped as possible...

Then it was just fixing details that annoyed me, shoving together all the overlays, reaching out to my best friends noise and chromatic aberration, resisting the temptation to add progressively less noticeable filter layers, and there we go.

Just over 8 hours, and a piece I can confidently say that I am proud of. It's one of those things where I look at it and think "did I really do that? How did that come from my hands?"

Worth it.

[locksox]

forgot these in the big jon post oops lol