So, last year I drew characters on the spectrum in coordination with me telling stories how aspects of my diagnosis have affected me in periods of my life. But I just have so many meaningful stories so this year’s Autism Awareness Month, I will talk more about the characters themselves and the parts of their characteristics that I enjoy. So starting is Max Caulfield from Life is Strange, who I fell in love with from scene one. From her awkward posture to the need to put on music walking from the classroom to the bathroom, she was just a character I enjoyed in another light than literally any character I ever came across before. (Other than you, Newt. You will always be my nr. 1) As well as her interest in photography and classes matching my own interest in the subject and the history of art and so on, born from the need to capture the moment as my senses are usually just so overstimulated 24/7 leading to majority of memories either getting messy or just overwritten completely by newer memories, she really became a comfort character. So because I fell for Max so early on in the story, I felt it was fitting for her to represent the overstimulation of sound and the rest of the senses. I wanted the background to be crowded but you see glimpses of an empty hallway throughout the lyrics of the song that’s tuning it out, but the text ended up so small so it’s not as clear as I had hoped.
Wow! Couldn't be further away!
This game doesn't come out til Oct and I already have ideas!
Tony Stark!
Re-checked some sources before this by Stan Lee and more in depth about writing an "unlikeable hero" and the readers being anti-war so in response, Iron Man became a weapons-manufacturer and industrialist and etc. so I got the idea to make the background and the armors in the shape kind of like a war-poster and the suits forming this V-shape like air force planes.
Iron Man has also become about always upgrading and evolving so it's iconic suits from every era, 60s, 70s, 80s, and up to the 2010s.
Tony's arm was originally up in the air but I wanted him to hit the metal (of screen) and the "idea" of the Iron Man would be born from the sparks and lights of the hit but changing his arms kinda messed up the body and after hours, I never really got it to work so a little blur, a little darkness and I hope it doesn't affect this otherwise meh-character poster.
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And… done just past the last sec.
This is a remake of a Valentine’s Day-Special from… 2022? Damn. How fast time flies when you cry alone.
But yeah, last sec. So if you find any kind of error (other than the overall art style itself), probably why and if you want to be a saint, please let me know!
World Mental Health Day!
Mental Health has become a larger life issue for me than I expected. (Life issue? Life focus? Might not be the right word, there is a word for it…)
I have struggled with mental health, I have friends that do, family that does. I have social anxieties and panic attacks and days it’s hard to get my foot out of the door and it’s important to me to work on myself and try to help everyone around me in every way I can. And it had led to periods of loneliness and dropping out of university and problems with job-hunting. But I also read psychology in my last year of high school and a lot of articles about everything between earth and the sky and it really helped me overcome a lot of old obstacles.
And I love it when fiction handles mental health. The sole reason I like Miraculous so much is that they handle anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Big reason I love Life is Strange so much is Kate Marsh and the effects of bullying and hopelessness. Big reason I like MCU Spider-Man is Mysterio, his special kind of brutality, mind games and effects of his lies on Peter’s life and mental health. Same with RDJ’s Tony Stark or Anakin Skywalker or really any famously unhealthy fictional character.
So yeah, a big part of fiction is escapism and to get away from stuff, but also fun when they handle it and helps me to easier explain and understand my mental stuff.