Two Years Today (I Think) I Have Been Drawing These Two On A Regular Basis! Time Sure Flies By

Eclipse-gazing

Introducing… a new eye color! A slightly toned down blue! I like it.

And also… team Chloe or team Warren?

So, my nephew gave me this Spider-Man drawing he had spent all day in Kindergarten putting his soul in and it’s the best birthday gift I have ever received and unbiased I might add, the best piece of art I will ever put up on my wall, including my LEGO Great Wave off Kanagawa. But I felt like wanting to return the favor and gave it a few hours on Photoshop.

Suit is based on the one in the Spidey and His Amazing Friends-cartoon as it’s where I assume my nephew knows off Spider-Man and the background is just a traced photo of a random road in the Spider-Man PS-game in the colorful palette of the cartoon-NYC.

But I thought this was interesting. I was born in the early 2000s, grew up with the Raimi-trilogy and the Webb-films. I watched the 90s cartoon, the Spectacular-cartoon, Peter Parker was everywhere and for me there’s nobody else under the mask hearing the name Spider-Man.

So, receiving this drawing, my genuine first thought was the concept art of the Symbiote-suit, with the red logo instead of the final white. But after realising my 4-year old nephew probably doesn't know what a symbiote is, what Secret Wars is, what concept art is or what even the 1900s are, his dad started to talk about how much he loves Miles Morales. And I think it’s super cool that well, my Spider-Man; Peter Parker is old news. He’s not the golden boy for much sooner. My nephew doesn’t care about that nerd.

Like, there are so many Spiders out there, different genders, different ethnicities and the fact that Stan Lee talked about with Spider-Man’s design, “anyone can wear the mask” has truly become the modern reality. Peter will always be my favourite, will always be the one I relate to the most but damn, there’s Miles now becoming mainstream, there’s Gwen back from the dead. More knows about Michael and there’s even Otto Octavius in his fun little corner. Marvel has expanded and it will be so fun to teach this kid about all these characters as much as he will teach me. And to put on my reading glasses one day and tell my nephew that “in my days, Spider-Man had organic webbing!”

Let's see, how many Doctor Who-fans are in the room?

I don't know if I love or hate how much I can relate to this

I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

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Requested by my sister

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