It's Raining (Spider) Men

      Hello. Turns out I didn't need to buy a new USB cable for my phone, I already a new one that I wasn't using. Also, it might have something to do with the port I was using on my laptop. I dunno, it's a possibility that happens sometimes with Windows 10. Anyway:

Yes, I was going through a mini-Spidey phase in late summer. No, I have not seen Far From Home. I intended to watch it and then my grandpa died. Stuff happens. So first Spidey is actually Cobweb's son in the future. I wonder if he counts as my second spidersona. He does go by the superhero name Spider-man cuz he firmly believes that Cobweb is his mom's gig. His name is Frankie btw. Anybody wanna guess who his dad is? Anybody? Moving on... With the whole upset of Sony and Disney breaking up and Sony taking Spider-man with them (I actually side with Sony because Disney the past few years has just been absolutely GREEDY), I was inspired to draw a comic. Except I started it digitally and then I had an issue with the pen pressure AGAIN so I just drew the third panel on an index card and left an air of mystery. I did say "And then Venom travels the portal to the other side and terrorizes a couple of Disney bigwigs" giving you an idea of what would happen next if I continued. 

Anybody remember I said I started a YouTube channel? Well YouTube is giving me issues with my third video because it features a Blondie song and it has a strong copyright in the States (where I have lived my whole life), Australia and New Zealand. The video I produced is blocked in my country. So I thought I could find a loophole but nope, they insist. I am considering making an IGTV just so that I can share that video because why else would I go through the trouble of recording a couple of hours of me drawing and then edit it to a few minutes and add music? I'm not doing it for my health - well ok, maybe my mental health. I do have another speedpaint lined up and I want to do a couple of up-to-date videos as well so look out for that (hopefully I won't mind editing them... I am getting better at it and fancier, which would have been evident in my third video if you could watch it). Another hassle I'm dealing with: my dad hasn't been working because he hurt his shoulder real bad and he is under the impression that limiting our internet time will make us the human beings he wants us to be. No it won't because we're too stubborn... But so is he. Anybody wanna help my campaign of getting out of this house of torture? 

Well, till I suddenly produce another doodle, toodles.

Webbed Up Weekend

      Hello again. I actually have two doodles I did on paper that I wanna post here but the pictures are on my phone and I can't back up my phone because my charging cables have all been wrecked to some degree and won't let me back up to my laptop (or my hard drive which is connected to it right now) so guess I gotta post this all by itself:

It's my spidersona Cobweb in her natural element - a web where she has caught her objects of desire, Eddie Brock and Peter B. Parker. I thought I'd make it as a new banner for my Tumblr since my Loki and Hans one is pretty much outdated. This is also the banner for my new YouTube channel (just uploaded video number three WHICH IS BLOCKED FOR SOME PEOPLE (I'm sorry but the Blondie song is the inspiration for the drawing, makes no sense to use another one. You could always cheat by using American YouTube), I'll do videos on my old inktobers once I get video number four done) if you wanna check that out. I had fun drawing these guys again, although Venom was probably the most fun. I need to buy a new usb cable for my phone to back it up to make the next post... I also need to draw something. Whoops. Well, hope you have a nice weekend and till next doodle, toodles!

This post's catchy title was stolen

      Hello, forgive me for forgetting to update in August... For anyone that cares, that is. Well, it's not that I stopped doodling completely (maybe... there was a lot of simming spent), it's just that I was basically living at my grandma's, like you do when your grandpa dies. Anyway, here's some stuff I drew during July (that crazy month) and early August. This paragraph will no longer have parentheses: 

It's a hodgepodge of stuff, mostly OCs but there is that draw this in your style I mentioned in July's post. So first off, I hopped onto the Area 51 meme train with Kenta. Did I mention his story features aliens? That's why I chose him for the meme. His Instagram caption is: Not everything that happens in Nevada stays in Nevada. Middle is the draw this in your style I mentioned last post back in July... If only I could forget July... Like I mentioned earlier, I was basically living with my grandma so I didn't have access to my sister's drawing tablet so I did this on an index card and used my watercolor pencils and my water brush (and this picture doesn't show it, how stupid of me). No clue if she posted me in her story because I didn't check but it was fun. Last is me finally get an OC out of my head after he has inhabited it on-and-off. What I can tell you is that he currently has no name, just options for his first name, he's Japanese-Brazilian (gotta look up the proper term for that if there is one), his job is quite like Kenta's, his work partner is a mulatta girl with awesomely curly hair, he's a carefree playboy and most likely wants to be your friend... or your lover. Depends what mood you catch him in. 

I started an official YouTube channel where there are currently two (2) old speedpaints (currently in the process of editing a third) so if anybody wants to check that out, it's michdoodles. Plain and simple. I see my Brady bunch meme has become popular again. *SIGH* i knew as soon as I saw ESPN was one of the traffic sources. Why ESPN allows access to that cringy meme of mine I do not know but my blog still getting views while I'm not active on it? Guess I'll accept it. Till next post because I have like three more doodles i wanna post here before I make more art, toodles.

10 Bittersweet Years

      Hello. I know I disappeared again but this time it was because of something serious, but first, doodle:

I drew Sandra! I actually started sketching her in a new sketchbook (that one of my former co-workers gifted me) in late June at a baby shower but finished her July 3rd because this month this OC of mine turns 10. To think that reading collections of 60's era Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Supergirl comics ten summers ago would inspire me to create a new character that would last this long considering how prone I am to obsessive phases and that I've actually created lots of characters over the years that just never had a continuous existence in my imagination like she and her story (both of which have gone through changes over the years) have. I'm actually working on her story as of lately, I'm just slow going.

The sad thing is, I finished and posted this drawing on my Instagram and Tumblr while my grandpa was in the hospital. He ended up dying on the seventh. He was the only grandpa I had ever had really (long story) so losing him so fast and so sudden has pretty much wrecked this month for my whole family. Out of the three of us most involved with him in his last days, I have actually been handling it the best oddly enough but I have my moments. I haven't been doing much in the way of doodling though, it's mostly been shutting out the rest of the world by playing sims. I also have a couple other doodles and I sketched a draw this in your style by Pernille Ørum today that will hopefully get some coloring soon so I can post it on Instagram. I quite like the skecth, I hope I don't screw it up with the colored pencils. Well, hope to see you soon.

Spidey Saturday

      Hello. I was close to posting this last Friday of May but... I didn't feel like typing at that moment (I was posting at night, which seems to be my new drawing routine) and I was also working on a sketch dump that I hoped to have done last week (but didn't, obviously) so I left this guy for later:

It's Peter B again. I really love his sweatpants so that's what I draw the most. Also, I don't feel like figuring out and drawing the webs on his boots (?) So it's just easier for me to slap some sweats on him and call it a day. This started out as part of a short Spiderverse comic I still haven't finished working on, but I like this pose and expression so much that I wanted it as a separate bookmark for myself so here he is. And now for the other doodle I was working on that delayed this post:

It's a gang of spider gals! I felt like sketching Mayday one day and it escalated to including Jessica Drew, Cindy Moon, and Gwen Stacy (comic book rendition). I have been reading Spider-Man comics since March and at this present time, I have read issues featuring all of these Spider-Women. The only one who's titular comic books I have read is Spider-Gwen's, having read her first run of comics with only five issues to it (sadly leaving the story arc on a cliffhanger with no resolution) and being stuck on issue three of her second because the site I'm using for some very odd reason won't load the page once I get to that issue. Everybody else has appeared in at least one issue during the time I read Spider-Man/Deadpool (that's actually where I started. You can yell at me later) and the Amazing Spider-Man leading up to the original Spiderverse event. For the record, I hate Morlun and associates. Idk if it's one of his weaknesses but I wanna bury him in garlic and flat out murder him with a shovel, I hate that character so much for even LOOKING at Spider-Man like he's lunch, much less that he has actually eaten Spider-Man multiple times. Only Spider-Man I don't mind being killed by him is Patton Parnell but that whole issue of Edge of Spiderverse was hard to read since they went with a sociopathic monster with that guy.

Anyway, got sidetracked there for a moment. It was fun drawing these gals because I love them all. I only drew four and ironically, as of when I made this drawing and posted to Instagram and Tumblr, the only spider-daughter who I read of in the comics was Annie May aka Spiderling, not Mayday, because I have read Renew Your Vows, first run anyway. And then Mayday showed up in a comic I read last night so yeah. Gotta read/draw a whole bunch more Spider-Women because besides leaving out Annie May, there's Ultimate Jessica Drew (a clone of that universe's Spider-Man), Anya Corazon, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin... I might do a part two to this doodle but I'll probably take a break and then doodle something else that I put on the back burner. Enjoy your weekend and your summer (winter for the southern hemisphere), guys. Till next doodle, toodles.

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.