shatterstripes

These trails have caused numerous navigational troubles for interstellar truckers, having to rechart several times in the confusing web-like nebulae.

Yes, it has been a buggy season. More Illustrator, I presume?

When is it ever not?

VERY slick, Peggy and has an even greater sense of volume than some other recent work (and that's not a sleight of any kind). I love the Steranko-ishness of the lined cloud in the background. There's some Kirby there as well, and it's wonderfully flat in comparison to the depth. Suggests an other-plane-ness to me. Keen piece!

Yeah, I've been being flat these past few months for a variety of reasons.

I've never really gotten into Steranko much; the lined cloud is just me continuing to throw Op-esque stuff into my work. IIRC Steranko's most famous look came from, well, throwing some Op trickery into Marvel-type stuff...

If you really want to see some other-plane-ness, check out the second alternate version that's my current desktop. I think that's the version that needs to be printed out hugemungously.

I think lots of your stuff would look great printed out HUGE, or really, PAINTED huge, like tens of feet wide by like ten feet high. Imagine one of your favorite mural-like bits hanging somewhere like the MFA... see, THAT'S what I'm talking about!

Yeah, I wish I had the resources and space to do something like that!

On the other hand I just realized: with what I've done this year, and what's in my sketchbook, I could probably spend a week and a half with my nose in Illustrator, and assemble an entire show of nothing but spidergirls...

Pretty!

Saw this year's DW Christmas special yesterday, and couldn't help thinking of you when the villain made her appearence... there's a definite resemblance between her and your latest spider-lady. (Tragically, she has little to do in the story besides shout a lot. Russell strikes again.)

I was pretty much going to post the same thing.

And she was pretty much a Shouty Villain.

amilori made an interesting observation: Your spider-ladies are right on the cusp of old Japanese mythological monster-girls.

I did a little looking and you know, she's right.

Just a thought in case you decide to wander into that neck of the woods. Very nice indeed.

I'm faintly aware of Japanese monster-girl traditions, but for various reasons, have never actually delved into it. And there's also the odd bit of formalism in my work that I know is third-hand Chinese/Japanese traditionalism...

Fascinating picture! The green works very well with the white.

Damn pretty graphics there :)

Ooo extra arms and eyes, yaay!

...pardon me while I try not to go fangirl-squeeee here.

I've played Charlotte the Anthro Black Widow for years and years and years, even before I brought her to FurryMUCK -- and I always thought your art style would be the ideal way to depict her.

Last year, I got sucked into Second Life, and when I finally put a spider avatar together, it definitely had the cyborg thing going -- so I rewrote my backstory as someone who was redesigning her body for life in space.

And then, a week and a half ago, someone pointed this picture out to me on DA.

SQUEEEEEEEE! ::::D

♥

There are so few people out there who really appreciate spiders. Most of the time when folks draw them they're nasty, cruel beasts. And the 'realism' desire of a lot of fannish artists tends to want to make them unapproachable. But people using them as inspiration for a post-human lifestyle? Such a wonderful excuse to keep them pretty!

Oh, and the screengrabs you posted of your cyberspider av make me go 'rowr', too...