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An early design of one of my characters: Julia Snader, the, well, snader (snake/spider). I chose to make a snake/spider creature because why draw an embodiment of one animal which far too many people are needlessly afraid of when I can draw TWO animals that far too many people are needlessly afraid of? I tried to achieve a fairly even balance of spider-like features and viper-like features. Some of their features harmonize well. For example, a viper's head just happens to have a shape similar to a spider's cephalothorax, and they both just happen to have a pair of venom-secreting fangs at the front of their face which are folded when not in use.

In her world, Snader works for law enforcement and is the obligatory "bad cop" of her respective buddy cop duo. She uses her appearance (as well as her ability to turn invisible and reappear at will) to intimidate and distract suspected criminals. Snader is capable of speech, but only in a harsh whisper that has the unintended consequence of making her sound perpetually angry. Many people she meets mistakenly believe that she has no sense of humor, as she never seems to laugh at anything other people find funny. In actuality, she does have a sense of humor--it's just one that seems alien to everyone else. Specifically, she finds certain initially-consistent patterns interrupted by incongruities (such as a long row of tiles where a single tile is the wrong color, or an abrupt jump in a number series such as 1-2-3-4-5-95,852) to be uproariously hilarious.

Description
An early design of one of my characters: Julia Snader, the, well, snader (snake/spider). I chose to make a snake/spider creature because why draw an embodiment of one animal which far too many people are needlessly afraid of when I can draw TWO animals that far too many people are needlessly afraid of? I tried to achieve a fairly even balance of spider-like features and viper-like features. Some of their features harmonize well. For example, a viper's head just happens to have a shape similar to a spider's cephalothorax, and they both just happen to have a pair of venom-secreting fangs at the front of their face which are folded when not in use.

In her world, Snader works for law enforcement and is the obligatory "bad cop" of her respective buddy cop duo. She uses her appearance (as well as her ability to turn invisible and reappear at will) to intimidate and distract suspected criminals. Snader is capable of speech, but only in a harsh whisper that has the unintended consequence of making her sound perpetually angry. Many people she meets mistakenly believe that she has no sense of humor, as she never seems to laugh at anything other people find funny. In actuality, she does have a sense of humor--it's just one that seems alien to everyone else. Specifically, she finds certain initially-consistent patterns interrupted by incongruities (such as a long row of tiles where a single tile is the wrong color, or an abrupt jump in a number series such as 1-2-3-4-5-95,852) to be uproariously hilarious.