Springing into Summer (plus some dinos)

      Hello. So I'm back with some cute looking doodles that I wanna share with you:

I came up with the concept for this one two years ago (you can see the original in this post) and since I've been redrawing my seasonal chibis, I redrew this one too. Besides the style obviously changing, I decided to change the boy's outfit to a jinbei. I thought the weird kimono with pants thing was weird so I decided to look up male kimonos and I discovered the jinbei, which are basically pajamas but they are becoming increasingly popular to wear to summer events so, as much as this is supposed to be picturing Hanami/spring, it's getting hot where I live so summer crept into this version a little bit. I made sure to leave his sleeves and pants longer so that it didn't look too much like summer. I also thought of adding a pattern to his clothes and I thought "dinosaurs" so I made a couple of these silhouetted cartoon dinosaurs but only managed to get the sauropod in there:

They're both green because that was the accent color in his outfit but I might do more colors/dinos to add some diversity later. I'll probably draw some more Spider-verse stuff or maybe New Girl related stuff soon (I have a couple of Spider-verse drafts already) but I don't know how soon I'll finish anything so till next doodle, toodles.

Is Your Beach Body Ready?

      Hello. Are you ready to be amazed? Well, are you? I don't think you are but I'm gonna post it anyway because I have to post it, I barely did any art for April. Prepare to be amazed:

Yeah, I made two versions because I got tired once I did my traditional black lineart but the plan was always to do a version with recolored lineart so I eventually spent more time on it. I say eventually because I got into New Girl. I recommend it to my fellow adults who barely feel like adults. Anyway, it has come to my attention that I have improved in my abilities, that includes capturing anatomy correctly, so I had to redraw this masterpiece from four years ago (yes, it has been that long... I hate time). Now he doesn't have pointy pecs anymore and he actually looks he's sitting/reclining in that lousily designed lounge chair. Maybe in another four years I'll redraw a better, more accurate wooden lounge chair. It was nice revisiting a fun drawing concept and improving upon it. I just suck at staying focused on a drawing when it requires lots of attention to detail. I love details, don't get me wrong, but I'm almost considering making my (hopefully) future comics in chibi form to avoid growing tired of every panel. Also, I'd have to draw backgrounds 😬😭 We'll see how that works out. Maybe I can draw the backgrounds as separate images and just copy them whenever I need them. I'll deal with that dilemma later. Expect to see either a cartoon or chibi drawing next because I need a break from the detail-driven art style that is manga. Till next doodle, toodles.

May the Fourth be with you... At the beach

      Hello. So I had hoped to finish some more stuff in April but I also warned that I had a busy month ahead of me so not like I didn't say anything. I'm not totally done with what I'm working on but I have something for today so let's get crackin'. 

I have less than a half hour left of Star Wars day and I spent it grabbing a Spider-Man comic on free comic book day (my local comic book store ran out of the free Star Wars comic when I showed up), wearing a Jurassic Park t-shirt at the beach, and doodling the women that drive the story throughout the saga interacting with water. It's just been nerd day for me. May the force be with you tonight . 

Protect Our Planet (with your fists)

      Hello. I've been working on something and remembered to throw some content on here:

Remember to punch recycle! I just drew this today because it was less complicated than redrawing an old piece that I ended up posting on Earth Day so many years ago (it's been five years... I feel so old). It wasn't in chibi form originally but I was working in my usual manga style before deciding it would be easier and faster if I drew them as chibis. Oh yeah, these are some of my Bittersweet OCs: Saru, Sora, Sandra, and Mike. Mike is very aware that he sticks out like a sore thumb. Don't ask me why I thought t-shirts was the way to go but I thought it was genius and rolled with it. I also thought of an alternate version that has nothing to do with my OCs (surprising? I think not) but I am making an effort to focus on my OCs. I've been neglecting them yet again. The something I've been working on (still working on it) is also OC related so look out for that. I probably could have had it done much sooner if I didn't get caught up with New Girl. After years of wanting to watch it (and then forgetting its existence because we haven't watched our local Fox channel in the longest), I have finally discovered the gold that is New Girl. I've only seen season one but I am most certainly in love. Expect it to creep into future content later on. Well, I hope to be finishing my other project soon but till then, toodles. 

I Think You're Gonna Be a Bad Parent (actually he'd be a dream)

      Hello! I finally finished a comic I have been working on since February so here it is:

Yeah, Noir and Ham show up (to congratulate Peter on his baby I guess) and Peter decides to just crush Ham's hopes and dreams... while holding a baby. His baby, obviously. I did my best to leave the baby as gender neutral as possible but adding eyelashes made the baby feminine to me although my cartoon style has feminine characters with defined lips. Tom Hardy is the exception with me incorporating his lips in my style but doing it in a way that still makes him look masculine. Notice I left out lips on the baby so you could look at it as a lashy boy named either Ben or Miles (this is after the events of Spider-verse, after all) or a little Annie May/Mayday (I like both names so I can't decide who this baby would represent so I just did a reddish brown for hair, that way you know MJ is the mom). I got this idea after reading a tweet on Instagram that says pretty much what Noir says. Makes sense to me since fairy tales, lullabies, and nursery rhymes have rather dark origins. (shouldn't we be questioning the little piggy eating roast beef?) So yeah, I came up with this idea of the two human Peters messing with their swine counterpart. To be fair, Noir is probably saying this because he thought it was common knowledge. Because it took me so long to finish this comic, I thought I'd gift you with a little bit of my process:

Oh wow... he... um... looks bloody with just the red there.

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse. It is a very good thing that the classic Spider-Man costume has a pretty significant amount of blue to counter that rather bright red. I've been taking a break from drawing today (because I need it) but I do have plans for another Spider-verse comic and to get back to work on my OCs. Also, I should finish setting up for that video series I thought of doing which I mentioned in my last post. I have a busy month ahead of me so just bear with me. I posted this last night on both my Instagram and Tumblr and I was surprised with how popular it got on both sites. I'm not used to getting over twenty likes on anything. A couple of the rebloggers on Tumblr feel sorry for Ham so I should probably take it easy on him next time. Well, till next doodle, toodles. 

I return...

      Hey, I've been missing from this blog for all of March... I suck. It's partly because my last week of work was a busy one (you read that right. Last week of work. I retired myself from working retail. It was fun getting a weekly paycheck while it lasted), and then I have been spending the past couple of weeks just doodling all over the place (I started a comic last month and I still haven't finished it, instead just hopping from one doodle to another and back again) and reading Spider-Man and Deadpool. Yeah, I'm finally reading a Spider-Man comic series and it happens to be the one he shares with Deadpool. It's ending soon and I have become obsessed with Spider-Man as of late so I decided to give it a try. I pulled myself away from starting issue #46 to post this, you're welcome. Before this paragraph keeps going on this tangent, scroll down and behold:

Something of a reference sheet for my spidersona Cobweb (oh yeah, spoiler: she's just an alternate version of me when unmasked), the color scheme she almost had, and this quick doodle I did Wednesday of myself upset over Thanos snapping half the MCU out of existence. Did you scream when you saw Shuri's poster? Because I did. And I was sick so my voice wasn't all that normal. I may turn crowbar Michi into a series. Imagine: me/Cobweb approaching a fictional bad guy that has somehow wronged Peter Parker (more like killed), and then beating them within an inch of their life with a crowbar. Sounds like fun. You know what else sounds like fun? Me recording videos of myself criticizing critiquing comic book art because this girl is picky when it comes to art. I'll put a manga back simply because I wasn't happy with the art style. And then when I read that manga, I realize I'm an idiot because it happens to be a story I love. Anyway, I've been thinking of doing videos where I look at comic book art and nitpick at whatever doesn't seem right to me. I may also focus on character design, staying in-character, different interpretations of characters, the logic and loopholes within story arcs, etc etc. Technically, I'm an amateur and haven't taken a single collegiate class in my life but I fancy myself an artist and story writer, I am observant, and I have opinions. Would I do this regularly? Probably not, I am an inconsistent human being. I also have a busy April ahead of me, considering I still have projects I would like to finish. Plus, I don't know where to start so it might take a while just to launch. But this is better than me doing that weird AU-roleplaying-Frozen thing in the Sims, right?  Speaking of the Sims, why is there no Venom or Spiderverse custom content? Do I have to make it myself? Well, enjoy your weekend. Hopefully I'll come back next week with something. I have two old drawings I wanna redraw next month, hopefully I'll get around to that. Till next doodle, toodles. 

Ha ha, Sony beat Disney

      Hello. I'm still working on a personal project here so i'm just gonna post this stuff here since one of the pieces is overdue for a posting on this blog:

(No, I did not draw that for Valentine's Day.) After the first kiss comes claiming dating status, right? I wouldn't know, I've never had someone to call our my boyfriend. I actually drew the Venom doodle the first weekend of this year, I've just been holding off on posting it here for X or Y reason, usually Spiderverse. Speaking of Spiderverse, THEY WON THE OSCAR! I knew my babies could do it. As much as I was waiting for the other nominations (Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet), I still haven't seen them and am totally in love with what Sony has done with this "cartoon Spider-man". My natural reaction was to scream when they were announced as the winner. For that, here's a Spider-Ham sketch I worked on in order to familiarize myself with drawing him for something I'm working on. I colored him so that he doesn't look plain. Well, that's about it. I got work tomorrow so I gotta cut this short. I hope next month will be different because things are about to change, somewhat for the better but we'll see how it goes. Till next doodle, toodles.