#illustration

The Raptor Queen

| Peter Ahola

New character I’ve come up with, the Raptor Queen. Originally this role was kinda an alternate universe version of Kalwa, but I’ve since grown kinda uncomfortable depicting her in such a way, and the concept is too good to waste, so I’m making it into an original character.

Her backstory is she starts of as teenage intern at an archeology site, she’s also incapable of talking, but can make various sounds. After the site finds a strange stone she is flung back in time and ultimately taken in by Raptors. She grows up in the jungle with the pack, communicates with them through screeches and over time starts to grow the pack into a kingdom from various members of the Raptor family.

I’m looking to do this as a stand alone graphic novel, that would be much like Genndy Tarvakosky’s Primal show, with stories being driven more by visuals than dialogue. For the most part only sound effects would be the written words of the book.

Shadow in the Night

| Peter Ahola

I haven’t drawing Sonic characters in a while, but I just felt like drawing my boy Shadow again. When it comes to coloring, I don’t like to make Shadow all black. I draw a lot of my Sonic art from a certain period during the Archie Comics era when the characters were drawn with certain shades and tints. Namely issue 124 (Shadow’s first true appearance in the series) showed him with heavy shades and more of a dark blue tint. That was the first Sonic comic I bought as a teenager and it’s always stuck with me.

Johnathan Crane

| Peter Ahola

Riding off the coat tales of the Rodrick Kingsley art from July, here’s Johnathan Crane, better known as the Scarecrow from Batman’s rogue’s gallery. He also happens to be may favorite super villain in all of comics, provided one doesn’t count Cobra Commander. When doing unmasked pictures like this, my goal is to show the madness underneath the mask. Characters like dear old Crane here really just wear masks to hide their identity, but the real face of evil is what lies underneath…

Kalwa Haunted Mansion Crossover

| Peter Ahola

This was originally uploaded to the Kalwa website last month as the new Haunted Mansion movie was coming out. I’ve been a long time fan of the mansion and it’s mythos, so I kinda went nuts that month with art (did another one with the Owl House). Also these are Kalwa and Zack’s new outfits which will be debut very shortly after the Japan arch concludes.

Kalwa and Kohaku

| Peter Ahola

I’ve fallen pretty far behind on a number of things to upload. I’ve had con prep and a little personal issues that have held me down. So now I’m trying to unload it all over several uploads. Starting with this crossover between Kalwa and Kohaku from Dr. Stone. This is their second crossover, think the other one is on the Kalwa website. So far I’ve loved Dr.Stone season 3 and just kinda sad I got to wait till October for the second half.

Rodrick Kingsley

| Peter Ahola

Shedding some light one of Marvel’s most underused characters, Rodrick Kingsley, the original Hobgoblin. Truly he’s one of Marvel’s best villains given how skilled he was at manipulating people in order to cover his tracks and use his Hobgoblin activities to better his bank account. Sadly once the character’s identity was revealed he got a proper send off and all future Hobgoblin stories just seem more interested in preserving the legacy of the character’s mysterious identity either by introducing a new Hobgoblin or having muliple ones, or even retconning old history. So Kingsley seems to really just get shoved into the background or played as an insignificant joke at times.

Amber and Swishy

| Peter Ahola

New artwork of Amber and Swishy eavesdropping in on a human conversation. I feel like I’ve done a little too much recently with fanart and not enough on my own characters ever since switching to the more heavy shading like art style. So I’m trying to do a bit more with my own characters to balance it out.