Art Post - Easter 2k25

Samuel Sterns / The Leader comics & MCU version (Marvel)

I have a love-hate relationship with this art. I like the colors (that's when I went back to something more vibrant), I like their expressions and interaction but at the same time something is very off in the lineart and the lack of details of their hands (which is a recurrent problem in a lot of my arts), MCU Sam's hood and it's annoying because I can't draw hoods but I love the idea of Sam wearing one to hide himself. Even if it was meant to save money by limiting CGI I think it matches him so so well, it gives him this very emo grumpy emotionless aura but it also gives him a somewhat "Phantom of the Opera" one as well by having him hide his deformation. It makes him look more "ghostly", "shadowish", if that make sense. So while it's a 10sec shot watch me put him a hood in most of my fanarts lol.

Me from Sept 2025 : I had to rush this art a lot to post it in time because I had too much work (as always), becuase I was still recovering and so sleeping a lot and because I was visiting my family. And it's one of the biggest I can give you, don't post something if it doesn't feel "finished" to you. I'm not saying yo shouldn't post doodles or WIP or unfinished stuff you're proud of but rather don't finish something that isn't finished, if that make sense. If I took a few more days to redraw the off parts of this one, I would have loved it. We often tell artists to be kind to themself and to learn to accept flaws. Which I do honestly everything I do is flawed, I'm far from being the artist I wish I was but like I tell people "as long as you have fun it's all that matter". But that's the thing, I wasn't having fun. I wasn't having fun and everytime I expressed that I needed a change people would just go "you're too hard on yourself", "it's perfect as it is". There's a huge difference between the need to change by pointing out what you need to improve in yourself and your work and putting yourself down that people don't get. The same way there's a huge difference between admiring some part of you and being proud of yourself and egocentrism that people can't quite understand either. But like I always said, in the end the only person you need to satisfy is yourself and I was definitly not satisfied with the direction I was taking at this moment. Most likely because I was going through a lot of changes myself. If you read this later know that I'm in peace with what I do now and you'll see that in the next art posts. Until then, enjoy~