// RADIOACTIVE ☢️🕸️

I wanted to do some Spider-Gwen fanart that was interesting outside of technical ability or sex appeal, but still made people stop scrolling on socials. That's when I fell in love with horror artwork. It makes you feel something visceral. Although the feeling it isn't pleasant, something about it felt revealing; something in it was almost human. I decided to take my work into a similar direction. I wanted to make piece that made me feel uncomfortable, yet intrigued and at home.
What better way to test this than doing fanart. If I could succeed in injecting this new creative direction into a pre-established character, then I could more easily bring that workflow and philosophy into my own designs/ stories as well.
To do this, I drew Spider-Gwen in a hunched pose. To play off of the beautifully wide eyed anime eye, I made them more angular, and so toxically vivid that she feels like a predator with a hero's face. I bathed the piece in toxically vivid colors and scratchy yet subtle strokes to give us the delightful panic that she may feel. Instead of the cute and rebellious hero that she was, it now feels like the spider has taken over and Gwen is gone. Without showing her fighting or interacting with anyone really, I wanted to bring into question Gwen's motives and the validity of her role as a webslinging hero. I think this is where I want my work to go in the grand scheme of things: The Art of Madness