Happy 10th Birthday LIFE IS STRANGE!
And also breaking my Only-repeat every third-rule
And thanks for the Butterfly-idea for the anniversary!
10th Doctor - (Friend Request) Not my personal favorite Doctor but the fact that my friend requsted him and seems to react the same way to this scene as I do to the 11th's regeneration, I assume it's hers. So on this year's International Women's Day, here is a gift to my female friend And no, requests are not open, this is just a favor cause she did my request so I felt I had to do something in return. . #fanart #photoshop #photoshopartist #digitalart #doctorwho #thedoctor #davidtennant (på/i Time and Relative Dimension in Space) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiHyZUMaM7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
”There’s no Hogwarts without you, Hagrid” - Harry Potter . #restinpeace #robbiecoltrane #tribute #hagrid #rubeushagrid #harrypotter #wizardingworld (på/i Diagon Alley) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjxO0qRso6z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
So! Last thing I felt I needed to get done before New Year! This Year’s Daredevil-remake!
So, compared with last year’s, I don’t think my art-skills or style has developed that much, maybe changed or refined the vibe somehow. Like how Daredevil’s face looks slimmer and fitter than last year’s, he looks more muscular. Less halloween-costume, more superhero-suit, looking at how Christopher Reeve’s suit sat on him instead of one of my random shirts in the mirror. So I guess the development 2023-2024 was how I could make it more character-fitting and interesting and references.
So, yellow street lights have changed to the red/blue police-lamps, random rooftop has changed to what could be the top of a church, city background has become bigger, trying to showcase how much area this one character has influence and responsibility over but blending in with the noise of the background.
Random lighted windows now have the shape of braille, hinting at his disability and what makes the character stick out, the texts referring to biblical verses and comic quotes if you want to take the time and translate.
The blue sky is now black with a hint of red, connecting more to his color-scheme and I wanted to think more from his perspective of the world. The heartbeats are less of a game-hub and more of just part of the input of the world around him.
Wanted the billy-clubs a little bit more fluid and over-the-top but maybe too much over the top.
So more probably changed than stayed but if I got the basic idea of Daredevil on top of the roof, this would have come up in my head now instead of what I did in 2021.
So… curious on how I will retake this piece 2025.
Is that has been fun. It has been toxic and annoying as well. And I know OW2 will come out tomorrow but still! Thanks to my unnamed but I promise real and existing friend for picking the selection of heroes . #overwatch #overwatchfanart #fanart #roadhog #cassidy #colecassidy #cassidyoverwatch #lucio #lúcio #lúciooverwatch #soldier76 #ana #anaamari #anaoverwatch #blizzard #blizzardentertainment (på/i Watchpoint: Gibraltar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjP9XHbsPqg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
What started as I just wanted to draw Superman ended as the first of a three-parter including upcoming Batman and Wonder Woman-wallpapers
If I had a nickle for every time I got an idea for a post and then see a comic cover doing the exact same and forcing me to scrap it,
I would have multiple nickles. Not many but proud of myself it happened more then once. And I don't even have any real artistic education!
So! Finished Double Exposure!
Well, I liked it. I really enjoyed it! It was super fun to play as Max again and I plan to play again and hunt for all achievements.
But damn, I don’t want to sit and complain and make it out that I hate this and “they ruined Max” “they ruined Life is Strange” but it felt like too little, too late.
I had such an emotional journey playing the first game and well, I was heartbroken afterwards. Cause well, the first game is about Max reconnecting with her childhood friend as they investigate together. And you get to learn Chloe alongside Max as they spend time together. Stuff like, hanging out in her room, break into the school and mess around in the junkyard. So when the final decision arrives, it becomes more personal and feels emotional and intentional that you have to choose between two awful options for this town you have come to know or the girl you come to know.
And after that, I needed closure, which I found throughout the comics. Double Exposure could have been that… if it came out sooner.
Double Exposure feels smaller. You spend all the time at any of the buildings around Campus and you get to know Safi in the same chapter that she dies. The rest of the game is more of a detective story on how she will actually die but when that moment comes, I know more about her and the context, but I don’t actually feel that much closer to her cause an amount of that time between, you never get to meet her and when you do, she’s pissed at you.
I wasn’t as invested in Max’s, Safi’s and Maya’s story. I didn’t get to spend time with Safi until they worked together to expose Lucas which wasn’t satisfying as it was for… a handful of students. "No, my career is over!" Is it tho...?
The stories felt similar in yeah, you help Safi get revenge for Maya the same way as Chloe and Rachel but it felt that Rachel’s disappearance had more of an effect. You learned what she meant to Chloe an you saw her reaction to finding the body as well as Max going through the same torture. Here it felt more like, you’re told what happened to Maya, you kind of saw how people felt but it was so long before Max arrived so they have calmed down about it and I never got dragged into the emotional pull of it.
Well, you understand it was wrong, Lucas stole her work and got famous and she ended herself which is really dark, mature and grounded but when the story wraps up, the end-result ends up being of something that happened without you around so it just felt like Max was an outsider all the time solving other people’s problems.
Max was an outsider in the first one as well but she was closer in the sense as Rachel became this replacement for her and she learns how her appsense hurt Chloe and she works to make up for that lost time during the game. She’s an outsider to everyone except Chloe, where she instead got pushed out of her life and slowly tries to get back in and I was curious on how the relationship would change once they found Rachel.
It didn’t feel Max had anything to lose in this story. She was at the right place at the right time and the right skills to fix it. She also had the maturity of a 28-year old instead of an 18-year old so the climax wasn’t the same emotional rollercoaster. She met her friends, she discovered how to help and crossed them off her to-do-list.
It was fun, I will play it again, I will draw it alot and curious on Max’s next adventure but my opinion in the end can, once again, get summarised in “too little, too late”