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Kang the Conquerer

| Peter Ahola

This project was started before the news broke at SDCC about the future of the MCU. It was originally just supposed to be a project showing my love for the Marvel villain Kang, whose my second favorite villain after Dr. Doom. But now I suppose it’s a tribute to what has been lost.

Although I’m happy that Dr. Doom is finally entering the MCU (though not too happy about the actor playing him), I’m pretty upset that the whole Kang story is just getting dropped. I was looking forward to a possible adaptation of the Kang Dynasty storyline, and now the great Kang the Conquerer is now trapped to only be in an Ant-Man movie. It’s so sad because the character has so much more potential. As a time traveler, he’s equipped with virtually all weapons across time. Weapons from the future, tatics from the past and knowledge of historic events. Truly Kang is a very creative and overall fascinating character see.

As a multiverse hopper, the MCU could’ve produced essentially the same results. But sadly we’ll never know now, and Kang will probably go down as that “big bad” that just got dropped. Very sad, but at least we still have the comics, where us Kang fans can only dream of him being properly portrayed on the big screen.

Miku Nakano

| Peter Ahola

I’m so behind on my uploading. This image is quite a few weeks old. So here’s Miku Nakano from the anime the Quintenssential Quintuplets. She’s my favorite of the sisters, plus she’s voiced by Felicia Angelle who also voices Kohaku from Dr. Stone (pretty sure you know how much I like her).

This was drawn on the some extra time. I was rewatching the Quintessential Quintuplets for like the tenth time while working on Kalwa pages and just felt like drawing her in a fanservice like pose.

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.

Luigi’s Mansion

| Peter Ahola

A little spur of the moment based on a old game I love. While I haven’t always been a fan of the Mario World in general, though my opinion has changed very recently, I have always loved Luigi. Mainly this is due to the video game series Luigi’s Mansion in which the little coward is facing his worst fears in order to save his captured brother Mario.

In particular the original Luigi’s Mansion has a special place in my heart as it was a launch title on the Game Cube, and I got both the system and the game on Christmas Day 2001. Every time I turn on the game and see the title screen I’m flashed back to the Christmas Day when I first played the game on our first new game system in years.

This is kinda a little darker and more mature take on the game, hence why I’ve tried to make Luigi a little more proportionally correct and the Boo more fierce.

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.

Evil Belos

| Peter Ahola

New Illustration of Belos, the main villain from the Owl House. Just wanted to draw him in a really dark and menacing way just cause I was in the mood. Kinda putting some emphasis on his genocidal plans.