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OMG! NEVER SEEN MY NAME AS A HASHTAG BEFORE! THAT'S SO COOL! Want anything from the gas station?

Truly made my day! Adding that to the bucket list and crossing it

Another thing I have wanting to do for ages and finally got the time was to redraw this a little bit.

Max’s and Chloe’s pose felt awkward and poorly drawn and didn’t match the vibe of the game I realised so kind tried to just draw them hanging out. Less action-game, more life-game.

Not that this is 10/10, there’s a giant gap in the picture but a step in the right direction

And… done just past the last sec.

This is a remake of a Valentine’s Day-Special from… 2022? Damn. How fast time flies when you cry alone.

But yeah, last sec. So if you find any kind of error (other than the overall art style itself), probably why and if you want to be a saint, please let me know!

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

How Crimes of Grindelwald should have ended

Who Saves the Heroes?

Third time drawing My Hero Academia and not more happy with it then the previous (deleted at this point) posts

Happy 10th Birthday LIFE IS STRANGE!

And also breaking my Only-repeat every third-rule

And thanks for the Butterfly-idea for the anniversary!

When I wrote on my last Miraculous that I had a clearer goal in what I wanted in my art, this was not it BUT sometimes I just have an image in my head and can’t stop thinking about it and needed to get it out of my system

Might do a matching Chat Noir. Depends on the feedback

And yet another Saturday-upload that was planned as a Friday. And the one thing this week that was planned for a set deadline and didn’t actually meet it.

But last year I did a random Winter-Max-thing and I thought it was fun how much I got right with the release of Double Exposure. That green jacket (even if a lot less detailed, I had just discovered my interest in fashion), those yellow-ish gloves, the overall winter-theme and cosy forest.

Not the scarf tho, and she apparently still kept the sweatshirt… which she only uses under the jacket… so a LOT of layers to keep herself warm. I did plan to make the hat yellow as well to match the glow but thought it would be fun for her to just borrow Chloe’s blue one.

But yeah, just me once again wondering how I became a gardener and not a professional… concept artist? Brainstormer? Coffeemaker? Chair? IF I HAD A COIN for every random thing I find myself predicting to my interests, I could buy myself a singular chocolate bar.

"Their World"

Another instance of me finding something cool and not bringing my camera. I always take this long walk in the morning to work behind the blocks and there’s this stone wall separating the neighborhood and the woods and looking up one day, I just saw this doe staring at me at the top of the hill, framed by the trees.

A New Year’s Resolution I made in 2025 is to do more original stuff, do more things I find interesting to show to friends, family, strangers, cool stuff to put up on my walls one day. And also Newt… haven’t started on that part yet… but this is a good start I think on a “observations”-series, has a lot of notes of stuff I’ve seen that would just be fun to put on canvas and share.

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!”

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.

LAST Official Art Post of 2024! The year I promised myself no more Miraculous and then just kept on drawing it anyways. Have like a hundred ideas of stuff I want to do in 2025 as well as no plans to ever watch the show again at the same time. I just lack the pride to keep watching a kids show. This is a fun paradox, don’t remember anything related to this in psychology. Maybe the idea of you watching shows based on stuff you want and this reminds me of a childhood I felt I missed?

Watching these kids finding these friends, skills, confidence and maturity lies closer to what I wished I had as a child and what felt like the lives many around me led. I spent my days staring into the wall in the school corridor or up at the moon before going to bed wondering about my place in the world and finding questions for everything between “what’s outside the known universe” and “do I deserve to breathe the same air as my classmates?” Apparently, my parents’ tactic of constantly reminding me of my diagnosis and differences did NOT have any positive result on my mental health :D, who figured.

I’m glad that I have all that today. A back bone, a small but diverse social life, an actual close relationship with my family and pride to go outside the door. But this show just takes that and makes me regret I didn’t find it sooner.

So my relationship with this show is something I have been wondering about a lot this year and seems to be a mix of escapism and weird sense of nostalgia to small moments of fun and acceptance and also, regrets of why I didn’t just do this or that or blah.

So going into 2025, I have an updated sense of what I want to draw, not to draw, what I want my stuff to say, the overall feeling and vibe of the individual ideas and what kind of artwork I can find myself sharing with my social group. And Miraculous have found a way into that mix.

So cheers to the new year and a happy warning, if you’re still following me, you’re not getting rid of these two. Nor me, feeling sorry for myself, but I’m working on that last part.

Were they ever really that different?

So! Last thing I felt I needed to get done before New Year! This Year’s Daredevil-remake!

So, compared with last year’s, I don’t think my art-skills or style has developed that much, maybe changed or refined the vibe somehow. Like how Daredevil’s face looks slimmer and fitter than last year’s, he looks more muscular. Less halloween-costume, more superhero-suit, looking at how Christopher Reeve’s suit sat on him instead of one of my random shirts in the mirror. So I guess the development 2023-2024 was how I could make it more character-fitting and interesting and references.

So, yellow street lights have changed to the red/blue police-lamps, random rooftop has changed to what could be the top of a church, city background has become bigger, trying to showcase how much area this one character has influence and responsibility over but blending in with the noise of the background.

Random lighted windows now have the shape of braille, hinting at his disability and what makes the character stick out, the texts referring to biblical verses and comic quotes if you want to take the time and translate.

The blue sky is now black with a hint of red, connecting more to his color-scheme and I wanted to think more from his perspective of the world. The heartbeats are less of a game-hub and more of just part of the input of the world around him.

Wanted the billy-clubs a little bit more fluid and over-the-top but maybe too much over the top.

So more probably changed than stayed but if I got the basic idea of Daredevil on top of the roof, this would have come up in my head now instead of what I did in 2021.

So… curious on how I will retake this piece 2025.

So! Finished Double Exposure!

Well, I liked it. I really enjoyed it! It was super fun to play as Max again and I plan to play again and hunt for all achievements.

But damn, I don’t want to sit and complain and make it out that I hate this and “they ruined Max” “they ruined Life is Strange” but it felt like too little, too late.

I had such an emotional journey playing the first game and well, I was heartbroken afterwards. Cause well, the first game is about Max reconnecting with her childhood friend as they investigate together. And you get to learn Chloe alongside Max as they spend time together. Stuff like, hanging out in her room, break into the school and mess around in the junkyard. So when the final decision arrives, it becomes more personal and feels emotional and intentional that you have to choose between two awful options for this town you have come to know or the girl you come to know.

And after that, I needed closure, which I found throughout the comics. Double Exposure could have been that… if it came out sooner.

Double Exposure feels smaller. You spend all the time at any of the buildings around Campus and you get to know Safi in the same chapter that she dies. The rest of the game is more of a detective story on how she will actually die but when that moment comes, I know more about her and the context, but I don’t actually feel that much closer to her cause an amount of that time between, you never get to meet her and when you do, she’s pissed at you.

I wasn’t as invested in Max’s, Safi’s and Maya’s story. I didn’t get to spend time with Safi until they worked together to expose Lucas which wasn’t satisfying as it was for… a handful of students. "No, my career is over!" Is it tho...?

The stories felt similar in yeah, you help Safi get revenge for Maya the same way as Chloe and Rachel but it felt that Rachel’s disappearance had more of an effect. You learned what she meant to Chloe an you saw her reaction to finding the body as well as Max going through the same torture. Here it felt more like, you’re told what happened to Maya, you kind of saw how people felt but it was so long before Max arrived so they have calmed down about it and I never got dragged into the emotional pull of it.

Well, you understand it was wrong, Lucas stole her work and got famous and she ended herself which is really dark, mature and grounded but when the story wraps up, the end-result ends up being of something that happened without you around so it just felt like Max was an outsider all the time solving other people’s problems.

Max was an outsider in the first one as well but she was closer in the sense as Rachel became this replacement for her and she learns how her appsense hurt Chloe and she works to make up for that lost time during the game. She’s an outsider to everyone except Chloe, where she instead got pushed out of her life and slowly tries to get back in and I was curious on how the relationship would change once they found Rachel.

It didn’t feel Max had anything to lose in this story. She was at the right place at the right time and the right skills to fix it. She also had the maturity of a 28-year old instead of an 18-year old so the climax wasn’t the same emotional rollercoaster. She met her friends, she discovered how to help and crossed them off her to-do-list.

It was fun, I will play it again, I will draw it alot and curious on Max’s next adventure but my opinion in the end can, once again, get summarised in “too little, too late”

So. Earlier this year we lost James Earl Jones who in his long career was probably most known as the voice of Mufasa as well as Darth Vader.

As I was busy with my Marvel 85 Anniversary, I took a day and stressed out a tribute to him as well as to Sebastian Shaw and David Prowse but now with actual time on my hand, I wanted to draw my favourite Vader-scene and what he gave to this character.

My favourite scene is the small hallway scene from Ep. 6 where Luke retreats to Vader. It’s the same character from the previous films, the same suit, same voice and all but none of that fear that came along. It’s no longer the monster slaughtering in hunt of the Death Star-plans, choking left and right over the smallest errors. It’s not the man who cut the hand of his own son in rage. It’s a father talking to his son.

It’s Anakin Skywalker, a master engineer admiring his son’s work on his lightsaber. It’s Anakin warning Luke of the dark side. Same mask, same voice, now portrayed as a slave more than a fist. It’s Anakin thinking back on Obi-Wan and the mistakes of his life and the prison he put himself in.

It’s Anakin saying it’s too late, son.

Well, a lot is of course the passivity of David Prowse’s performance and Mark Hamill leading the conversation but James Earl Jones gave the final push to make Vader more man than machine in his final hour of privacy, before the two entered the Death Star.

This moment between the two is important to strengthen Luke to yell out to his father in pain, to Vader to finally turn after all this time and for them to get a moment to say goodbye and Luke to attend his father’s funeral in the midst of a celebrating galaxy. Without this, Luke would probably still have hope, but now he has evidence of the light side in him.

Or I’m just overthinking. But damn, James Earl Jones was brilliant as Darth Vader and the AI hasn't been close to replicating what he gave to this character.

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

God, it feels wrong to upload stuff like this, being vulnerable and things. But, kind of a thing I only can acknowledge once in a lifetime.

It’s not like I kept a diary or anything so can’t say with 100% certainty but quite positive 2024 has been my tenth bonus-year.

And, damn. It’s been hard. The demons have gone up and down and there was this 2-year period where I thought they would be gone for good before the pandemic just NOPE.

But, a major thank you to all my friends, family, colleagues for always being there and supporting me and lended me a hand whenever needed and yeah, bullies and obstacles that have challenged me and forced me to grow. And a major thanks to my nephews and nieces for bringing a new light in the end of the tunnel.

Every second with you is more heartwarming than I could ever have imagined 10 years ago.

New Year Resolution: More Newt

Another thing I have wanting to do for ages and finally got the time was to redraw this a little bit.

Max’s and Chloe’s pose felt awkward and poorly drawn and didn’t match the vibe of the game I realised so kind tried to just draw them hanging out. Less action-game, more life-game.

Not that this is 10/10, there’s a giant gap in the picture but a step in the right direction

Some things I want to get done before New Year are just some re-drawings of stuff I wasn’t happy with.

First was the Chat Noir-post which itself was a redrawing of an older Miraculous Day-post.

This new one is closer to the original and more symmetric. Doesn’t feel as all-over-the-place as V.2 and looks better side-by-side with Ladybug.

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

anxiety cycles🌀

EDIT// I didnt expect this so get so many notes lol. But real quick, I’d like to add some context: this post is about the way anxiety affects me! It’s not meant to be an infographic or an all encompassing list of anxiety types/ symptoms. It manifests differently for a lot of different people (like having panic attacks, which are sort of a combo of mental and physical distress, as several folks have pointed out). I think it’s cool people are discussing more about it in the notes! I just want to clarify the original post is about the way I personally experience general anxiety symptoms.

Needed a short break from the Marvel-diorama, so here’s some Chloe and Max!

Redrawing my old art of Newt 💛

The Choice

The Choice. The important choice. For some, the final choice. The one needed to be made every single day. Choose if you can find the search for strength to fight just another day. Weak legs, fake smile, empty heart. The thoughts, the bullies, the oppressors, the search for the light in the end of the tunnel. The quiet fight. The unseen fight. The one bypassers won’t know about it until it’s too late.

The maths’ not perfect, I didn’t keep it in a journal or anything but 10 years ago now, I made a choice. I stared down into the abyss and said No and I have been saying No everyday since. Some days have been easier than others. And I’m grateful I did what I did. 10 years later, I have strengthened my bond with my family, I went to the most amazing high school and made friends. Once a childhood bully is today the best of them. I’ve travelled, I’ve made memories, I’ve gotten awards, met idols. I got to hold my nephews, hear them speak and walk and laugh with pure unfiltered joy. I got jobs and earned colleagues’ respect and proved myself and my oppressors that they were wrong. I’ve been a rock, I have inspired others to follow their dreams. I do matter, I should breathe this air too.

10 years and this topic is still as important to be as ever. 4 days ago was Suicide Prevention Day. I really wanted to make something about it but couldn’t come up with anything worth presenting until now.

So a friendly reminder, keep in touch with the people around you, check up on them, be there for them. Be a rock. Or ask for one. Turn to your contacts, you might be surprised how much they care if you let them.

Keep fighting, it will be worth it in the end.

Did a piece a year ago based on Reaching Out from the movie and wasn’t super happy with how it turned out. Quickly after I got an idea how a mirror could work instead but didn’t want to make it too soon.