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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
Red
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.
Ember Saffron
DWA Shes adrorable
Stephen Mumford
Same. 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!
Ashley Minor
For some reason id didn't occur to me that Penelope wasn't born a spider person and this has rocked my world
Hteph
As an spider aficionado I love some nice representation! And Penelope is such adorbs!
Nuzak
Cute and lore. Nice.
Dragon Cobolt
The main data I have learned is how cute she is!
Tai Korczak
More love for my spider girl.
E. Eadgyth
Aaaaaa so cute
Griffin Hawk
She's so fluffy and adorable!!! XD
Robert Pavelchek
Same here! I want to give her hugs and books and cool drinks...
Tabby
I still love Penelope so much, she's adorable 🥰
