Robinnygrenart - Robin Nygren Hiltunen

“I want my stuff to have thought and meaning behind it” Shut up past me, sometimes I just want to admire Parisian architecture and this time I wanted to draw their crowned street posts… and the crown itself quickly disappeared when I had to draw feet over it.

Happy 10th Birthday LIFE IS STRANGE!

And also breaking my Only-repeat every third-rule

And thanks for the Butterfly-idea for the anniversary!

Happy Birthday to my oldest of friends who many moons ago taught me how to play Minecraft

So at Comic Con Stockholm, I went to an activity where you would learn to design your own hero or villain, expecting it to be held by some kind of indie-company I never heard of to learn… It was held by a high school teacher and his top students… yay.

So, not exactly the most in-depth or professional insights, he mostly just showed pictures from “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way” and kept on calling Stan Lee an artist instead of a writer…

But I had an hour to kill so I stayed and the assignment was to create an element-based character and I felt “wow, fire’s often compared with destruction and water’s healing” stuff like that and to turn the tables so I wanted to make a fire-hero. And I had no clue what to do. So I started with the villain instead.

So yeah, basic stuff, he was big, towering, inspired by the sharp form of the triangle. I was creative and used fur to exacerbate the shape a little. I also taught one of the students about the bts of Star Wars and talked about how Stomtroopers and Vader’s helmet are supposed to look like skulls and wanting a little bit of that to hide my character’s humanity and make him look a little bit scarier.

Never got to the colours but imagined him in cold colours, white, blue. But also a little bit of brown for a fun contrast. I did sketch a few logos but decided to go without.

They were also supposed to have some artefact so I gave him a water-gauntlet, imagining the source of his powers and since I had also bought a bag with the “Great Wave of Kanagawa” printed on it, I decided to use that as the decorating of the gauntlet.

But with a kind of basic idea of the character, I think I have ideas on how to make his hero-counterpart.

85 Years of Ideas

The idea started as an interest 3 years ago to an Alex Ross-inspired piece, all these characters posing for the camera in front of a blank background. And it was something I worked on on and off again and rebooted as many times til I learned the lack of motivation was lack of originality. So I redrew the idea. 85 years of history, 85 characters, in one piece. Comic book-events and milestones. The literal birth of the universe till today. Starting of meta with a mix of Celestials and Galactus, present at the birth of the current universe, alongside the World War II-veterans starting the company. Paying respect to all parts of the evolution; Nick Fury’s war-stories, Hellcat’s romantic adventures, Groot’s Sci-Fi-Horror, Fantastic Four’s rebirth of the Superhero-comic. In the centre, we have what I consider the big three of Marvel’s early days. The man out of time, Captain America connecting the past to the modern day. The first family, Fantastic Four showing a new kind of storytelling and the first solo teenage-superhero and poster-boy Spider-Man leading the future. And around them, everything. The wasteness of the Marvel Universe has space for multiple religions, Asgardian, Greece, Jewish and Egyptian. All kinds of superheroes, from the self-made suits of armors, spies and soldiers, to the science-experiments gone wrong and the naturally gifted children of the atom. We have representatives of the mechanical as well as the mystic arts, the Kree-Skrull-wars, the Inhumans, the afterlives.

And references. The tears of an android, Spidey’s strength to fight when there seems to be no chance, Days of Future Past that would forever haunt them thereafter, the Death of Captain Marvel and Night Gwen Stacy Died changing comics forever. The Infinity Gauntlet inspiring the cinematic universe, House of M increasing the mutant-population and lastly Secret Wars bringing a new generation of young heroes forth and centre.

A link to the drawing in its full glory and true size: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VHVlvQRKp3Y83xgOgjfrJBG_FviXpgmV/view?usp=sharing

How are some artists so fast with uploads??

Don't they have any boring normal daytime jobs??

I guess I think about the afterlife a lot. And it just hit me that why do we assume it’s just a skeleton in a robe? Does it have to look human just to make sure we can perceive it?