#asters-sandbox

Pose reference:

The original image:

And the background (still ripped from the show)

^ This is the original (S1E2)

I gave Peter more bug-like/round eyes because I wanted him to look a bit more like a spider aesthetically. In general, Peter is made of rounder shapes to give off a friendlier vibe, but eventually I’ll give him more sharp edges, bc he’s not just uwu baby boi, he has issues and he’s competent as a hero, especially once he starts getting mentorship

Bonus Peter picture:

I hc that Peter goes through a kind of second puberty for his spider mutations. At some point, he ends up getting massive headaches and weird pimples? He’s also eating a lot, as if he’s going to have a growth spurt. Considering he’s pretty short, he’s very excited for that at least. Later, it turns out that they weren’t pimples at all, and he wasn’t having a growth spurt. He was just growing new eyes. They let him have a wider range of vision, and they’re retractable so he can hide them at school. He did not grow an inch

For Harry, I gave him sharper features. A lot of people consider sharp facial features on men attractive, and he is very charming. However, he’s also volatile and has anger issues, which is also indicated by the sharpness. He also has substance abuse issues, which is why he’s currently high. I wouldn’t say it’s super obvious, because he needs to fly under the radar so he doesn’t get in trouble, but all his friends definitely notice

I personally would have preferred it if Harry got to keep the Venom symbiote as opposed to it bonding to Flash, and since canon is my bitch, I decided to make that how it happened in my little universe. Obviously this isn’t how it looks fully activated, but this is one of the ways it can be partially showing

For most of the characters, I referenced their canon USM designs, but for Ava I pretty much completely made her from scratch. I very much wanted her to look like a cat, thematically. So, I gave her siren eyes, cat eyeliner, and a wide nose bridge. I also gave her a sliver of green under her pupil to indicate the power that her amulet gives her

When she’s actively using her amulet, the sliver of green under her pupils gets brighter

Originally, I was trying to get Danny’s eyes as close to canon as possible (while keeping them different enough from everyone else’s eyes), but I kind of accidentally made a shape like that, so I just used it since I felt like it was distinctive and fit. I stole his eyebrows off of a model that I felt like might look like Danny if he were live action (once again, have not seen anything from the MCU, I don’t know what Iron Fist canonically looks like). I gave him circles for his eye-shines to kind of represent balance, since that seems like it’d be something important to him

Similar to Ava, he has a sliver of gold under his pupil that gets brighter when his powers are in use. I debated making them glow, but I felt like that was too flashy for him

Once I figured out what shape his eyes kind of were, it was actually pretty easy to exaggerate that difference in Sam. Honestly, the hardest part when making him was figuring out the colors. I was having a hard time making sure that the colors looked a bit cartoony and alien while still being plausible for a human to have, since he’s only half alien. I was also having a hard time making sure the colors looked nice together, but honestly when am I not. I’m still not sure I’m happy with it, but oh well. (Honestly with the green eyes and orange skin, he kind of reminds me of Starfire). I gave him shooting stars for his eye shines for obvious reasons

I haven’t watched the show in a while, so I don’t remember if this is canon or not (probably not, I probably just made it up), but it feels like it. When Sam’s powers are activated, his eyes glow

The last three characters don’t have bonus versions, but I do have more yapping to do!

For Luke, I actually stole his eyes from Danny. I drew Danny’s eyes on Luke but hated it, and I had been iffy on how Danny’s eyes initially looked anyways, so I just switched them. It ended up working out pretty well, because I like them both a lot better now. I also couldn’t find a lot of good quality pictures of Luke without his glasses, so I actually stole some of his features from his parents (namely, I grabbed his eyebrows from his mom). His eye shines are pretty blocky, because his whole thing is physical strength, so I figured that worked

I actually was no thoughts head empty for MJ, because I had already drawn her before I started thinking about all this stuff, so I feel committed to the design I already gave her atp. Like, everything is subject to change, but I didn’t feel like thinking about it that much

Ned’s eyes look quite a bit like MJ’s eyes, mostly because they are! I accidentally made MJs eyes too uhhhh, droopy? That’s the word we’re going with, sure. So instead I accentuated it more and gave them to Ned. His eye shines are also the exact same as Peter’s because they’ve known each other since forever, so they’re really close atp. I feel like he looks really plain, but I was losing steam, so I’ll figure out what it is later ig

Anyways that’s all of them! Well, not all of them, there’s a lot more characters, but that’s all 8 that I drew. I’m pretty happy with this, and I definitely want to continue, because I feel like this was a good exercise. I’ll probably take a break and do something else first though lol