Some more Spiderverse to spice up your life

      Hello. Last time I posted, I was hoping I would return sooner with more doodles. But guess what? I still have my crummy job and I've just been managing to crank out doodles in the little bit of free time I have after work (but mainly on the weekends) so I keep forgetting to post on here. Please accept this dumping of Spiderverse fanart if you will: 

I think you can tell who is my favorite. The first doodle was just I wanted to draw Peter B. Parker so I did. I originally wanted him to be eating something but I couldn't figure out what so I asked out loud "what should his arms be doing?" and my sister replied with he should have his hands on his hips. I couldn't draw him with his hands on his hips without him having an expression to match, thus the eye-roll was born. I used a polka dot brush that is in FireAlpaca for the attempt at comic book screen-tone dots. I might find another brush that I can download and use for the same purpose. The second doodle is an idea I got at a party: Miles Morales is half Puerto Rican. It is part of Puerto Rican culture to dance Salsa. As a Cuban American, I thought it would make sense for Rio to teach her only beloved son how to dance to this genre. I'm probably the only person that has thought of this because everybody else just focuses on how Miles is black and American raised so he doesn't come off as very Boricua. The movie, however, displays him being able to speak in Spanish so I came up with this headcanon of Miles teaching Gwen how to dance Salsa. Yes, Gwen got frustrated because she was too busy keeping count on her steps while Miles just goes with the flow so she ended up getting lost and stopped to look at his feet. I don't keep count anymore but my mom still loses me while dancing so I have to stop a quick moment and watch in order to catch up. I also dance kinda sideways to her because she's 5'1" while I am 5'4" so I have a naturally longer stride than she does and she learned how to dance in a completely different manner from me. And the third doodle is inspired by an Instagram contest by spidertams to draw Peter B. Parker as attractive as possible so I jumped on board with my own self-indulgent doodle of him in the famous "draw me like one of your French girls pose", except he'd say "draw me like one of your French fries". I don't care if I win to be honest because I'm not even following this girl but I've seen her art and I understand her sentiments toward this character so yeah, I joined in. Maybe I'l post on Wednesday after work if I finish any of my latest projects so stay tuned. 

Enter the Spiderverse

      Hello. First post of 2019 happens to be on the first Monday of the year... oh, and I'm already terribly upset. Damn retail job and the entitled rich people I have to put up with at said job. So I'm just playing Venom by Eminem on repeat for a bit as I type this out. So, even though I'm listening to its hit song as vent music, Venom is no longer the only object of my affections as I finally saw Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse this past Saturday so here's some Spiderverse related stuff:

The first doodle is me developing an OC in response to the Spidersona movement that started on Twitter but was also present on Instagram so naturally I joined. She goes by Cobweb, is inspired by Tarantulas (but someone else came up with a Tarantula spidersona so I just renamed mine) and her preferred method of catching baddies is to build giant webs in alleys where they are known to frequent. Cobweb is capable of shooting her body hairs like a Tarantula's urticating hairs (she usually prefers to use her arms for this), can lengthen her canines and produce venom, and I plan on giving her biological webbing like Tobey Maguire's Spider-man because I swore that was how Spider-man's webbing worked, not some doo-hickey that he invented to be more like the fursona (bugsona actually, although technically arachnid) he acquired after one incident in a laboratory. She's a nerd and makes frequent spider jokes and sometimes when she gets impatient, she fingerknits with her webbing. I was debating her insignia and haven't actually gone back and put more thought into it yet. I've been thinking of saying that she lives in Venom's movie universe because so far there's no Spider-man there, which gives me an excuse to have Cobweb be obsessed with Venom and have an infatuation with Eddie Brock even though both have questionable ways of dealing with criminals. But I have also gone and fallen in love with Peter B. Parker from Spiderverse too so maybe she somehow met him and decided he was option no. 2. Idk, it's a possibility. The two doodles underneath are fanarts after watching Spiderverse. I was originally going to sketch the main trio of Peter, Miles and Gwen in my sketchbook Saturday night but my neck hurt while trying to draw Peter in the movie's style (which I didn't capture quite right) so I quit. Then last night I decided to sketch them digitally in my style and I like it. I love how the brown ended up blending in Gwen's hair. So I loved the movie, my family loved the movie and it's just so great. I didn't watch the Golden Globes last night but I heard they won and it's like yes, I had said that they deserved to win all the awards. Not only is it great in its writing but also in its groundbreaking animation style. It's like watching a comic book come to life and I am starting to think that Spider-man is just better off animated because there are so many more possibilities with him in that arena than in live action where some things have to be animated (by a computer) anyway. I know pretty much all animation now is done by computers and this movie was too but it isn't your run-of-the-mill 3D animation; it is unique and I think that's beautiful. I'll probably post more doodles by the end of the week because I'm trying to work on drawing my OCs and I have a completed doodle just waiting to be unleashed so let's see. Let's see if I still have a job by the end of the month because tbh, I've been wanting to quit since last summer. My body wasn't built to handle that stress and my personality doesn't mesh well with it. Till next doodle, toodles.