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.

Venom Doodle Dump: Eddie UWU

      Hello, I return with just a couple hours left til 2019 in my neck of the woods with another Venom doodle dump:

I know it's a lot to process but when I get obsessed, I get obsessed. So the first one is an excerpt, if you will, of an idea I got of something Eddie would do: go shopping for a new over-sized hoodie and come back home with a hoodie dress instead. I just love how cute and cuddly he came out in this so he's my new phone lockscreen/wallpaper. My mom actually caught sight of it the other day and asked me "who's that?". I still haven't answered her that it's Eddie Brock and my family (minus my grandparents) saw the movie just last Saturday. Oh that's right, I finally saw the movie a couple weeks back when it released digitally. I spent $20 to watch a movie on YouTube 😅 I actually came up with the comic idea (second pic) the night I watched the movie because I was hanging around a tree and I sang out Anne's little ditty. When I was sketching out the posing in stick figure form, Venom was a sperm coming out of Eddie's shoulder 😂 The third is me playing around with the idea of a fem!Eddie. Does not help that while searching for a job, Eddie says "I could be a woman." This is technically my first time drawing She-Venom but since it's within an alternate universe with Eddie Brock as a woman, they don't call themselves that because it's pointless to. I omitted Carnage and Riot on purpose because Riot was the villain in the movie and Carnage is guaranteed to be the villain in the sequel, making them bad children that deserve to be in jars. And the last picture is just the variant I mentioned in my last post. Well this has an interesting year. How many great Marvel movies? So many Infinity War and Venom memes. Thank you memes and Venom, for helping me cope with my depression, stress, and those horrific undeserved deaths in Infinity War. What are my plans for 2019? For starters, I wanna watch Spiderverse. I'll be spending at least the next couple of months still obsessed with Venom even though there are movies that I have been waiting years for (aka Frozen 2). I'll keep drawing. I'll try to be more active on this blog, especially since Tumblr is supposedly dying with the whole getting rid of NSFW (which was part of why I was slow to getting a Tumblr). I'd also like to feel more accomplished in life. Well, I feel like I am forgetting stuff, which I probably am, but I'm just gonna end it here and say you next year. (I usually end the year with my OCs but this year has been very different)

Venom Doodle Dump: This man's best friend

      Hey, I said a long time ago that I was going to eventually post the Venom doodles I started doing after suddenly getting obsessed with said movie when I had decided I wanted nothing to do with it so here are some of my doodles:

There's a theme here: Venom as Eddie's pet. The first one started out as a quick pencil sketch on the back of an index card on a workday, then my friend liked it so much that I digitized it. There is a variant with a bluer background but I'll post that one later. As the eldest in a household that loves chocolate, it was easy to imagine a chocolate loving alien stealing bites from its host's snack. The next picture is actually a redraw of a picture I took of my dog and a bottle of chocolate syrup she destroyed but she got replaced by darling little Venom here. Oh, and I didn't draw the background from the original picture. Venom's shadows are actually wonky here but I haven't felt like going back and fixing them, especially when I went through the trouble of giving him shiny desu eyes like in the movie. (For the record, the bottle was empty by the time my dog had chewed it up. We have to keep our recycling bins taller than her because otherwise we'd always be finding empty butter containers licked clean in the front yard or aluminum cans that have been crunched on because they once housed sausages. And she can puncture said cans so that's a problem.) The third one is another redraw but of a picture that Tom Hardy (our beloved movie Eddie Brock) took for PETA with his dog Woodstock. This time I actually followed the shadows in said picture reference so this one looks a lot better. The background bush looked like a brain at first but I fixed it obviously. I find it fun to draw Venom in goop form because you can do whatever with that goop body and he's also much less threatening looking so funny and cute drawings turn out so much better. If you'll notice, though, not that big a fan of his infamous tongue so I don't draw it often. I've got a whole lot more of this stuff where that came from but that's another post for another day. Till then, toodles. 

Seasonal Chibis Return: Fall 2

      Hey, I promised I would come back with more doodles so here they are before the end years and I forget: 

I redrew Wilhelm and Ariana's fall chibis too. Yay, now I have a complete collection. I finished Wilhelm like two weeks ago but I was waiting to do Ariana to post him here, but with the holidays making work busier (I work in a grocery store, remember?) and getting sick last week, there was either no time or motivation to draw so yeah, that sucks. I finally finished Ariana yesterday because I had no work so I opened up FireAlpaca and played some Spanish music to get into the mood. And when I say Spanish music, I mean Selena then Azucar Moreno followed by Peret, the latter two being artists from Spain. Wilhelm got a hair recolor to look more natural and if you notice, he's the tallest chibi out of all them and bulkier too. Only thing that got recolored with Ariana was her shoes because it turns out they were much bluer before when I was going for a soft black. All right, I'm gonna do a venom doodle dump (or two... or three, I have too many doodles amassed already) and I have no clue if I return Monday night with anybody. We'll see. 

Seasonal Chibis Return: Fall 1

      Hello! I'm finally back and I brought some OCs with me! 

Maybe you recognize them, maybe you don't. Either way I'm going to talk about them sooooo.... These are redraws of this thing I started doing years ago of drawing seasonal chibis of my OCs. It actually started with Aidan (the redhead up top) because it was feeling like fall where I live and I wanted to draw him in a sweater for once (his canon attire is usually a tank top with jeans and sneakers). Then I couldn't leave his friends out of it. And then I went to continue the trend with my other OCs up until the summer I messed up the drawing tablet. So the old drawings are from 2015 and I did them in my Powerpuff chibi style from back then. I felt the desire to redraw them for a good while but I was doing inktober and then I fell into the Venom fandom. That was unexpected because I never liked the character before and was NOT interested in watching the movie. Anyway, with fall fading rather fast, I felt the need to get these done soon, so here's half of them, Aidan and Tamiko sporting their own takes on fall fashion. Tamiko looks better prepared for New York weather than Aidan but Aidan likes to look cool and is fully capable of making himself warmer than everybody else, so why not wear just a long-sleeved shirt/sweater? I actually tweaked some of the colors in these because Aidan's hair used to be an unnatural red color, Tamiko's jacket was kind of an ugly color, and her skin and eyes were darker than they should have been. Other than that, the most change between the original 2015 chibis and these are the style and my skill in drawing. It's nice to look back at old art and cringe because you realize you have gotten better, it's a nice motivator to keep going. Speaking of cringe, I've got some nice cringy art from my childhood that my mom dug up and gave to me that I am planning on posting later in the year. I go back to work on Monday and I won't have freetime to draw after work because I'm closing the store 😫 It will basically be just come home, good night for me, which sucks. Anyway, I hope to return soon with more doodles, but till then... toodles.

Five Years of Frozen

  

      Hello, I'm just going to drop off something a quick moment and run because oddly enough, I don't have anything to say:

Ok, there's the drawing. Yay! Bye for now.

Edit: Ok, wow. So I was slow to do fanart of the comfy princesses from Wreck-It Ralph (I still haven't seen the movie yet but I'm not worried about it) and I just noticed Elsa's body looks so weird. The CRINGE. I love Anna's outfit. It's so cute and it's so her and I was going to buy her shirt from Shop Disney UK on Cyber Monday but my bank kept declining my purchase 😠😤 So I had Anna hold both a sandwich and a chocolate bar and managed to control myself and not insert Venom in here. Speaking of inserting Venom, I have quite a lot of Venom fanart already and I haven't posted any of it here. But I have redraws of OCs that I have been working on so I'll post those first (hopefully soon. I already finished one) and then I guess I'll just end the year with Venom. 

I took a week off from work and I am not looking forward to having to go back on Monday. I don't want that job anymore, even if they are paying me good. It's just the stress, having to deal with people and please them when they are so hard to, the long hours... I have been feeling my brain falling apart since the summer and my current obsession with Venom is just helping me cope and sort of embrace that I am going crazy. I was supposed to paint my room today but, like everything in my life, it has gotten severely delayed. Wow, I did more ranting on my personal life than this piece of art. I'll see myself out.