So this is just a simple little follow-up to Hiro’s role in last year’s Christmas content, but I know some people were wanting to see more Hiro/Tadashi and I thought it might be fun to check back in on them. Nothing much to say about this one other than I hope the Big Hero 6 fans in my audience will appreciate it.
As has become tradition, here is a compilation of some moments from this year’s Studio Christmas party. Hiro Hamada won the lottery to get chosen as the official Studio Santa this year, but as you can see he’s not the only one sporting the look. I had a lot of fun putting together this year’s party, and I tried to fit in an eclectic selection of characters. I hope there’s a little something for most everyone here, and I’d like to wish you all Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas.
This year’s Studio Santa is the first male winner we’ve had for these holiday character raffles. We don’t see Hiro super often, but I feel like he’s well-received whenever he does appear so I hope people will enjoy seeing him this holiday season.
I don’t think I’ve done a 1 Club pic in a while. I started working on this one when I saw we’d be getting some Spiderverse characters in the Studio, and I figured there was a good chance Miles would end up appearing with at least one, if not all of them in Asks or something eventually. I wanted to do this pic first while he was still 1 Club. I’ve seen a fair bit of other fanart involving Miles and Yuji, and I get it. I thought it’d be fun to pair them up along with Yuji’s other big Studio friend.
Tadashi got a little bit of a spotlight recently, but it’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with the Hamada brothers together. I figured a brief revisiting would be fun, and hopefully some folks enjoy seeing them again.
This First Shoot poll was won by Gwen Stacy, specifically the one from the Spiderverse movies. Those films sit in a weird place for me, as there’s several characters I was interested in drawing from them, but a number of factors kept me from doing anything with them. I don’t think I’m comfortable talking about those factors here, but Gwen’s a popular character who’s getting to make her NHS debut now. I figured the most logical reaction from her to arriving in the Studio would be to fall back on her experience with hopping between dimensions, so that’s the angle I took.
So I had this answer in mind pretty quickly on reading the question. When it came to finding a good villainous partner for him, though, I realized I haven’t done much with superhero-coded villains, and my options were limited. I did come up with a workaround, but I ended up going this route instead ’cause I haven’t used Venom in forever and I thought it’d be a fun pairing.
This here’s the One-Shot for June 2024. As always, the script for this comic was submitted by a Subscriber. The theme here is Mark from Invincible hopping to other superhero universes for some fun. There’s an ulterior motive to this script, too, to get in some popular superhero characters I haven’t drawn before, especially in the first and third panels. This script has a few characters that have been popular for other artists to draw, but we’ll see if there’s interest in seeing them show up again after this.
I’d been getting Asks for Tadashi for a little while, but I was putting them off because I already knew he’d won the raffle to be in Tauro’s First Shoot and I wanted his big return to be there. Now that I’ve finally gotten that First Shoot out of the way, I figured I’d do one of the Asks I’ve gotten in for him, and this one seemed simple but kind of fun. I wasn’t sure exactly who to put on the other end of the dildo here, but rather than crop it to be an anon butt I just went with Mako since I figure people who are into Tadashi would probably also like him.
The third and final winner from our last First Shoot poll is Tauro, the enthusiastic archeologist from Tears of the Kingdom. He’s a fairly minor character in the game, but he’s got a good look and I figured some of my followers would be interested in seeing him in action. I was reminded while working on this why I don’t tend to do much stuff with the modern Zelda characters, though, as his design is very busy and it was frustrating keeping track of his little accessories and whatnot. At any rate, he pulled Tadashi from Big Hero 6 for his partner, who we haven’t seen in a while. So that’s fun.
