Data on the Spider Girl (cw: arachnophobia)
Added 2024-05-28 10:00:05 +0000 UTCIt's Penelope again! But I just wanted to get some details down to make sure that I can draw her more consistently in the future. The hardest thing for me was that I didn't really know a lot about drawing spiders. I still don't! But I figured I should do a quick study on some basic spider legs. Counting the segments and the general shape of the leg segments and figuring out some useful shorthands to draw them will help in the future.
Penelope is probably why I got interested in the idea of SAFE as a setting in the first place. One, she's a pretty cool design, and some of the illustrations so far tell you a bunch about the character. I always saw her as a young, introverted teen, happily reading her comics. But is also a spider. I just wanted to make sure she had somewhere safe to stay and not be treated like a mutant or whatever. I saw X-Men 97; I know how bad mutants have it.
So, out of that, I started growing the rest of the setting from parts I've developed elsewhere. Fairbanks and the organization she runs comes from Pretty Julie Technomancer and Biomancer. There's also some stuff about Drymouth. And then Analog Girl came along, and it seemed like I was building a menagerie of weirdos who just needed a place to stay. I hope it sticks around.
Comments
The umbrella comment made me realize there is a better umbrella shape for penelope: the TU delft storm / Senz long umbrella. It has a kind of diamond / wing-like shape. Originally it was designed for airodynamics, but the long side might be ideal to cover more of Penelope's thorax & abdomen. That, and since you kinda like technical design (?), I thought I'd mention it.
Red
2024-07-24 11:02:11 +0000 UTCDWA Shes adrorable
Ember Saffron
2024-06-01 09:27:51 +0000 UTCSame. I had assumed she was some sort of fey/supernatural/whatever creature that just stumbled into The Mundane World somehow, and ended up developing an appreciation for nerdy teenage girl things. Never thought it was basically the other way around!
Stephen Mumford
2024-05-29 13:18:22 +0000 UTCFor some reason id didn't occur to me that Penelope wasn't born a spider person and this has rocked my world
Ashley Minor
2024-05-28 23:40:07 +0000 UTCAs an spider aficionado I love some nice representation! And Penelope is such adorbs!
Hteph
2024-05-28 16:00:43 +0000 UTCCute and lore. Nice.
Nuzak
2024-05-28 14:13:21 +0000 UTCThe main data I have learned is how cute she is!
Dragon Cobolt
2024-05-28 13:58:33 +0000 UTCMore love for my spider girl.
Tai Korczak
2024-05-28 13:48:53 +0000 UTCAaaaaa so cute
E. Eadgyth
2024-05-28 13:28:41 +0000 UTCShe's so fluffy and adorable!!! XD
Griffin Hawk
2024-05-28 12:42:29 +0000 UTCSame here! I want to give her hugs and books and cool drinks...
Robert Pavelchek
2024-05-28 10:36:08 +0000 UTCI still love Penelope so much, she's adorable π₯°
Tabby
2024-05-28 10:04:27 +0000 UTC
