And… Done Just Past The Last Sec.

Working on something and it ended up with me searching up this thing for research and ended up finding the file and refining it a little

Hope it's possible to see which one is supposted to be the rifined one

This MIGHT be 99% pre-downloaded brushes that came with Photoshop that might also not work well together BUT I saw this cat a while ago sitting on a well and looking over her home and I did not have time to pick up my camera SO here’s a ruff concept of what it looked like.

Magnificent.

Was out of ideas and my sister wanted to see some Wanda

I kind of love making these kind of drawings and just curious if there's a character I should add? Do have plans to try to make X-Men or Teen Titans but can be other stuff as well. Some Villains or stuff outside of Marvel and DC perhaps

22-04-15 v 23-11-08

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!”

Can’t say the weekend at Comic Con was the best weekend of my life but it had its moments. One highlight was seeing all the cosplay. Got a photo with some fellow Hufflepuffs, got a selfie with my favourite Doctor, stood behind a Newt in line and never saw him again so sadly no photo there. But I also saw a lot of young girls dressed up as Rey. These dedicated homemade costumes.

I’m not really the biggest Sequel-fan but after years of hate and negativity and toxicity online, it was fresh to see in person that these new films have their own fans. These films which for so long have been associated with such negativity and conflict is given some love as well.

85 Years of Ideas

The idea started as an interest 3 years ago to an Alex Ross-inspired piece, all these characters posing for the camera in front of a blank background. And it was something I worked on on and off again and rebooted as many times til I learned the lack of motivation was lack of originality. So I redrew the idea. 85 years of history, 85 characters, in one piece. Comic book-events and milestones. The literal birth of the universe till today. Starting of meta with a mix of Celestials and Galactus, present at the birth of the current universe, alongside the World War II-veterans starting the company. Paying respect to all parts of the evolution; Nick Fury’s war-stories, Hellcat’s romantic adventures, Groot’s Sci-Fi-Horror, Fantastic Four’s rebirth of the Superhero-comic. In the centre, we have what I consider the big three of Marvel’s early days. The man out of time, Captain America connecting the past to the modern day. The first family, Fantastic Four showing a new kind of storytelling and the first solo teenage-superhero and poster-boy Spider-Man leading the future. And around them, everything. The wasteness of the Marvel Universe has space for multiple religions, Asgardian, Greece, Jewish and Egyptian. All kinds of superheroes, from the self-made suits of armors, spies and soldiers, to the science-experiments gone wrong and the naturally gifted children of the atom. We have representatives of the mechanical as well as the mystic arts, the Kree-Skrull-wars, the Inhumans, the afterlives.

And references. The tears of an android, Spidey’s strength to fight when there seems to be no chance, Days of Future Past that would forever haunt them thereafter, the Death of Captain Marvel and Night Gwen Stacy Died changing comics forever. The Infinity Gauntlet inspiring the cinematic universe, House of M increasing the mutant-population and lastly Secret Wars bringing a new generation of young heroes forth and centre.

A link to the drawing in its full glory and true size: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VHVlvQRKp3Y83xgOgjfrJBG_FviXpgmV/view?usp=sharing