Art Post - Beauty in Imperfections

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MCU Samuel Sterns / The Leader

It's Spooky Month, so have a ghoul-ish vampire! This art didn't necessarly desserved a whole post and it will be very short, but I loved it so much I wanted to talk about it. I can already tell it's gonna be one of my fav art of the year (and one of my fav overall). I really like the vibe I gave him.

At first I corrected all the mistakes. The too long feet, the too bended thigh, the broken left wrist. But it made him looks way too boring, too "humans". So I started over and left these defaults.

The beginning of a corrected Sam

The "broken" wrist makes him look way more dearticulated, more ghoul-ish. Same goes for the other mistakes I pointed out. I guess it's a matter of personal taste, I suppose some people would rather have something clean and accurate. But for this one I didn't. I tried to let him kinda "sketchy" when I cleaned him up because I loved how the chaotic sketching add to the vibe.

I made this as a joke initially, but it was kinda the idea. Sam just showing off his fang as a way to say "no shit" to someone poiting out he's a vampire. It's not even that he's proud of being one, he just doesn't care.

I created the idea of a MCU Sam vampire a few months ago when I made him on Sims 4. I like playing Sims since the first one came out, it's part of my holy creative trinity. I think I mentionned that here already and I will mention it again but basically I always need to create, in a way or another. It stresses me out if I can't create my own little world. That's why I love playing Sims, Animal Crossing or Minecraft. I can create my own spaces and I also love how you gotta "work" for it, it's rewarding. But because I'm absolutly obsess by Sam in every aspect of my life (because, again, I projects to him and express myself through him so he kinda became my "avatar"), I always made them. I have a "Sam house" in my Animal Crossing New Leaf island even if he's not my main character (DA-1959-4146-9797 if you wanna visit it), I have a Sam villager when I play Minecraft and I have Sam Sims (I have two, comics Sam and MCU Sam). There's no gamma irradiated in Sims, obviously, you have werewolves (which works very well for Bruce), spellcasters, mermaids, ghosts, aliens and vampires. I think vampires matches Sam better, maybe because I have a huge fascination for Dracula since I'm 3, so that's how I made him.

And this idea of a MCU Sam vampire kinda grew in me, so I gave him a whole lore to matches his official writing but in a "what if" kind of universe with vampires and shit. Maybe I'll share the whole lore one day, maybe I'll start making posts about the "what if/AU" I created with the boys but for now I'll stick to this art specifically. I was hesitant for the back eye, I knew I wanted a black eye but I didn't know if I wanted it to be the green eye or the blind white one. I ended doing the blind one, the green is unique and eye catchy enough, if that makes sense. This dark black eye still blind in my headcanon.

I made him crouched to have him be kinda "crow-ish", gave him this very "I don't give a shit" face and added some very emo but damaged clothes. He is very emo in the movie. I gave him crows, the one on the back being his "wings", it's not the first time and it won't be the last either, but I wanna make a whole post about how the crow symbolism matches him and would add to his non-existent duality with Sam Wilson in a dedicated post.

But also because I was always into crows, I didn't wait for MCU Sam to exist to give Sam crows. For some reasons they're kind of related to the only childhood memories I still have and still feel it belongs to me, if that makes sense.

But anyway, I wanted this little doodle (because that's what it was supposed to be lol) colorless at first, but I like adding just one nuance (green here), I think it looks cool and it makes what you want to point out way more visible. I also love this very cartoonish vibe I gave him with big eyes, not much details, very thin members, clumsy lines and proportions etc... I think he looks very very nice like this, with his imperfections. Maybe that's why I love this fanart so much after all. Because it's not perfect and more importantly because this lack of perfection is what gives it this aura. And because I love it so much, have the lineart version, which I usually keep for my members.

Until next time, enjoy~