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I am Sakuyamon

| Peter Ahola

Yet another Digimon piece, this one based off of season three, also known as Digimon Tamers, aka the best season yet. The whole Biomerge concept is pretty cool for Digimon, the idea of Digidestined fusing with their Digimon and both enter the battlefield. It was also similar to Spirit Evolution in which a kid is fused with a spirit to become a Digimon. It was a cool idea, but was used in my opinion in a lame season, that being Frontier.

Anyway, here’s Sakuyamon, the fusion of Rika and her Digimon Renamon. Of course I was gonna do Rika, she’s my favorite character from Tamers and one of my favorite characters in the whole Digimon Franchise.

Diaboromon

| Peter Ahola

Very recently, I’ve fallen into a Digimon group on Facebook which has kinda reignited a spark in me. Digimon was a major part of my childhood and it’s remained kinda that one special fandom I’ve grasped onto through childhood into adulthood, much like how people grasp onto Power Rangers or their favorite movies.

So here’s a recent artwork I did of Diaboromon, my favorite villain of the franchise. Debuting in the movie Digimon: Our War Game, Diaboromon is a truly fascinating creature. He lives within the confines of the internet and travels all around hacking into systems and causing mass chaos. His ultimate move came when he hacked into a nuclear facility and launching nuclear warheads at Japan.

I specifically remember when the Digimon Movie came out in the USA, they gave out free cards with tickets. My card was Diaboromon and I was initially upset cause I wanted his more heavily promoted previous form Infermon. Years later, I’m so happy I got Diaboromon, and yes I still have the card.

Cryptkeep (Tales from The Crypt Fanart)

| Peter Ahola

Everyone, the Halloween spirit is starting to BOIL in me right now. I know it’s still July and we got like three more months to go, but already I’m longing for Halloween time. You all know each year I do the big Halloween draw off where it’s a full month of art featuring monsters or other horror icons from pop culture, as well as some Halloween stuff for my own creations. For me personally it’s also a time for horror movies and books, and last year was so much fun. But oh, the waiting.

Anyway, the feeling boiled to the top and here’s a drawing of the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt. He’s not currently on the list for this year’s draw off, but trust me, we’ll have some great stuff. Just hang on a little longer, October is only three months away.

Triple Digimon

| Peter Ahola

The heat here in AZ is really wearing me down. Mixed with the physical labor of my day job I’ve been coming home exhausted and really just feel like crashing on the bed and playing the switch. So it’s a little hard to sit down at the computer and work.

Well here’s a few more belated art works, all centered around Digimon. Yes, Digimon was my bread and butter as a child, and it’s kinda that special thing from childhood that I continue to invest in as an adult, similar to Power Rangers or Pokemon to others.

So we got my two favorite Digidestined, Tai Kamiya and Rika Nonaka putting the throttle on Digivolution. We also got one of my favorite villains Puppetmon, which is actually a remake of piece I did MANY years ago. This is kinda meant more to represent Puppetmon as he was in the original Japanese version of Adventure 1. While the American dub kinda portrayed Puppetmon as a somewhat goofy, yet still lonely, villain, the Japanese version was far darker. The original portrayal of Puppetmon was more like a sadistic psychopath with the mentality of a child. He loved playing rather dangerous games with his prey, such as a game of war with real guns, and relished in drawing out their suffering. He was also prong to temper tantrums and was more than willing to kill his own minions if they upset him, making him a somewhat more scary threat to be around.

MermAy 2024

| Peter Ahola

Long time no upload. This may was kinda getting hyped for Fan-Fusion and working on other illustrations that I haven’t had a chance to upload. So it’s time for some major super pack uploads. So here’s the art for Mer-May 2024. Didn’t really have much planned this past month so I pulled out two quick ideas involving She-Ra and Ariel. Also there’s a crossover involving Amber and the Gill-Man (Creature from the Black Lagoon). This originally meant to be Amber’s piece for last years Halloween Draw Off, but it was passed on one because of time constraints and it kinda clashed with the all the other drawings cause it was more silly than scary. Also the joke doesn’t have much relevance to the actual Creature of the Black Lagoon film and I felt it was just kinda a desperate grab for the Halloween season and I kinda felt I’d get bored with it and just rush through to get to the others. Still it was kinda a cute idea, so I decided to save it for Mer-May.

Luz and Amity Alien Encounter

| Peter Ahola

Once again the creature from Alien Encounter comes to terrorize our website, this time crossed over with the Owl House characters Luz and Amity. This was the original project I was working on at first, but the alien was so much fun to draw that I started to draw a solo for it.

This is the first of a series of Owl House crossovers with Disney Park attractions, they won’t all be dark like this, some will be quite cheerful hopefully. Course I can’t say the same for when they encounter a certain Yeti… just have to see more coming soon.

Extraterroresstrial alien encounter

| Peter Ahola

For those Disney park fans this might be a little familiar. So this is vicious alien from the now closed attraction ExtraTERROResstrial Alien Encounter. It’s widely considered to be scariest attraction Disney has ever made, as it was sit down theater ride that encloaked the audience in total darkness and used binary sound and special effects to simulate this vicious beast moving about the room. It was so intense that there were warning signs all around the the attraction warning it might be too intense for younger children.

These signs however didn’t stop the attraction from gaining notoriety as being too scary and it was shut down after only eight years. It was later replaced with Stitch’s Great Escape which quickly became an unpopular attraction that closed itself, leaving the theater at Magic Kingdom currently deserted. While I never rode the attraction myself, I do remember seeing it when I went to Disneyworld back in 2000. I was only ten years old then and I was scared to go on many rides, so of course the signs chased me away. I’ve since kinda become fascinated by the attraction cause I’ve grown up to be a horror lover and really just eat up anything scary. Though I admit I’m not a fan of haunted house attractions just cause I don’t like people jumping out at me.

Kalwa Japanese Festival

| Peter Ahola

This was a little piece I designed for my studio featuring Kalwa, Zack, and Reko enjoying a Japanese festival with many other characters they’ve met along the way. Group shots like these can be a little nerve racking as I feel I can get tunnel vision and get a tad sloppy. Still I think it’s a real pretty piece.

Izzy Snake Dance (again)

| Peter Ahola

I haven’t drawn dear old Izzy from Total Drama in a while. Everytime I draw her it’s always in the hypnotic rattlesnake dance pose. It’s just a fun pose play with and all you can do with it. This time I wanted to put emphasis on the hypnotic nature of the dance with a couple of wild effects to build on it.