Data on the Spider Girl (cw: arachnophobia) (Patreon)

It's Penelope again! But I just wanted to get some details down to make sure that I can draw her more consistently in the future. The hardest thing for me was that I didn't really know a lot about drawing spiders. I still don't! But I figured I should do a quick study on some basic spider legs. Counting the segments and the general shape of the leg segments and figuring out some useful shorthands to draw them will help in the future.

Penelope is probably why I got interested in the idea of SAFE as a setting in the first place. One, she's a pretty cool design, and some of the illustrations so far tell you a bunch about the character. I always saw her as a young, introverted teen, happily reading her comics. But is also a spider. I just wanted to make sure she had somewhere safe to stay and not be treated like a mutant or whatever. I saw X-Men 97; I know how bad mutants have it.

So, out of that, I started growing the rest of the setting from parts I've developed elsewhere. Fairbanks and the organization she runs comes from Pretty Julie Technomancer and Biomancer. There's also some stuff about Drymouth. And then Analog Girl came along, and it seemed like I was building a menagerie of weirdos who just needed a place to stay. I hope it sticks around.