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Maya Petersen
@mayapetersen.bsky.social
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Storyboard artist sometimes animator person.
Previous: Fionna & Cake. Carol & The End of the World. Adventure Time: Distant Lands. Steven Universe.

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Sent this to the design department with the note that I know my character drawings tend to be on the tall side so the model sheets could be closer to this or the other artists' proportions.
Height/proportions lineup reference sketch of Pep, Blaine, Cadebra, and Simon.
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Did I actually forget to post the Wizard City kids boards/designs from the new season?
From Fionna and Cake Season 2 Episode 1 - The Hare and the Sprout. Rough designs for older teen Cadebra and Blaine with some notes and inspirations. Rough design for timeskip young Peppermint Butler aka Pepper Mint aka Pep a few years older than he was in Wizard City. He's rife with teenage attitude and in his pastel goth phase. Storyboard panel of the WizArts trio in Simon's magic artifacts class. Pep heckles Simon. Blaine looks up from their manga. Four doves are perched on Cadebra and a bunny peeks out from her hair. "Mommies say hi". Pep carries a plushie of Timmy on his head, a gift from Marceline and Princess Bubblegum. Put in his place by his grandpa.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Storyboard panel from Fionna and Cake season 2 episode 3 - The Lion of Embers. Princess Bubblegum and Simon react to Flame Princess's dramatic entrance. Several princesses and two banana guards look up from the bottom of the staircase hopeful and with awe FP kneels and leans over comatose Finn like the prince and the sleeping beauty FP kisses Finn. Her hair grows into a huge column of wild fire.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Back to Phoebe-posting
From Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake season 2 episode 3 - The Lion of Embers. A series of storyboard panels of Flame Princess taking off her helmet.
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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A little late but some Flame Princess boards from Fionna & Cake Season 2: The Lion of Embers!
From Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake season 2 episode 3 The Lion of Embers. A storyboard panel of a stately Flame Princess/Phoebe. She is unidentifiable in a full suit of bulky plate armor and a helmet shaped like a clam vaguely reminiscent of Alpha 5 or a Sonic SatAm swatbot. On top of the armor is an asymmetrical cloak affixed to one pauldron by a diamond-shaped jewel. Another storyboard panel, this time of Flame Princess with her helmet removed revealing a majestic mass of wavy, fiery hair and a gentle smile:)
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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And whatever this was.
Storyboard panel of Finn, looking rough as fuck at the top of Fionna & Cake season 2, lying on a bed of branches on the floor of a cave. Two Huntress Wizards sitting next to Finn on the ground look up at an offscreen interloper (spoiler: it's a third Huntress Wizard) The third Huntress Wizard squeezes the juice of an orange between her teeth into Finn's mouth. Gross. But hear me out Actual Huntress Wizard: "Aaa hickory nuts"
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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More Fionna and Cake season 2 The Hare and the Sprout boards. Drawing Huntress Wizard feels like breathing to me now.
Close-up storyboard drawing of Huntress Wizard's done face from Fionna & Cake season 2 Episode 1 - The Hare and the Sprout. Upshot of uhh, Huntress Wizard? Storyboard drawing of Huntress Wizard holding a flask of anti-venom at her tree home. Conk shelving lined with anti-venoms and other tonics cover the walls in the foreground. She looks over her shoulder at Finn who is lying on the floor under a grass blanket, head propped by a log and leaf "pillow" Huntress Wizard reverently greets the Heart of the Forest with her hands over her eyes in the shape of goggles
November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I know what I'm doing.
And another storyboard drawing of Simon Petrikov, having fallen on the floor on his toppled swivel chair, glasses askew. Simon props himself up from the floor and looks over his shoulder cautiously. Simon straightens in surprise at the sight of a Finn laid out on his classroom table. Huntress Wizard (out of her Wild Shape) roughly pulls back Finn's hair to reveal the grisly wound on his back.
November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Time to post some Fionna & Cake season 2 work! Starting with some Simons from my boards for The Hare and the Sprout.
A crop of a storyboard panel of Simon Petrikov from Fionna & Cake season 2 sitting backwards on a swivel chair to better ingratiate himself with the wizard youths. Another storyboard panel of Simon. He "arti" give you the "facts". Simon gestures widely and dramatically (still seated backwards on this swivel chair; he's very committed) to a blackboard with 'History of Magic Artifacts with Simon "Prof Kov" Petrikov' written on it in chalk. The Farmworld Enchiridion and a poorly-drawn Roman dodecahedron sit on a table in the foreground. Simon, on the ground, sharply recoils at the sight of "Big Beagle!", actually Huntress Wizard in the shape of a giant eagle right behind him.
November 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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One of my few unsullied good memories was getting to sit in on the voiceover recording of this episode. Zach said he wanted this image as a poster and that this might be his favorite episode (who knows –maybe he said that about every episode he recorded). Made my LIFE at the time.
A storyboard panel close-up of Peridot having been turned around by Steven. Her expression is unreadable and her visor and gem are overlaid with the smpte color bars. I really ate with this one if i say so myself
June 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Another Steven Universe Future ep, 'In Dreams'. I think this one has the most "me" in it. Super meta, it wove together with my waking and sleeping life that sounds cool in retrospect but was kinda overwhelming at the time.
Storyboard panel of Steven as he "slowly edges his way along the wall east from between yellow and cyan bars" while yelling "I don't think I know how to be a friend [without something to fix]!" Storyboard panel of Peridot standing expressionless cast in red light from the SMPTE color bar wall A storyboard panel wideshot of Steven and Peridot standing on the "ridge" of a wall that is the SMPTE color bars. Steven calls out to his friend "We've always had something to fix together!" Storyboard panel of Peridot taking off her visor to wipe a tear. She's totally cool to hate-watch the new Camp Pining Hearts now. jfc, i can't believe i remember this in 2025. Action note says: "idk what her eye color is. Green, gold, blue, black? i didn't think this far."
June 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Steve Universe Future 'Volleyball' was my first time boarding an episode of anything. Kicked my ass but my adhd loves all-or-nothing challenges and I had an incredible (still an understatement) board partner in Etienne. It beats ass.
Promo art work-in-progress of the 'Volleyball' episode of Steven Universe. Sly false advertising. Two teams of rowdy Gems in beachwear – Steven's on the top half, Pearl's on the bottom half –are goading each other, ready to face off. Steven holds a volleyball with a single, conspicuous rip across its surface. Pearl is the picture of a smug anime team captain, a jacket hanging on her shoulders and a gleaming visor obscuring one of her eyes. The composition is bissected by the episode title and the air date. A storyboard panel from 'Volleyball' with Pearl and Pink Diamond's Pearl/Volleyball reacting to an offscreen Steven becoming increasingly incensed. A storyboard panel of Steven turning pink in a fit of explosive, probably earned anger. You know it's dynamic cuz there's like, speed lines. A third storyboard panel of Pearl rushing in to shield Volleyball from the destructive effects of Steven's (offscreen) outburst
June 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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WIPs of a promo piece I never finished for Steven Universe: The Movie. Based on some Rockman & Forte key art bc parody is about the extent of my imagination.
Abandoned it cuz I was busy boarding on Distant Lands?
Rough lineart of Steven and Spinel standing back-to-back in poses referencing Hideki Ishikawa's Rockman & Forte key/box art. Steven's fists are bubbled and he is bleeding from one nostril. Spinel sneers, standing tall with one giant corkscrew arm. Same thing except I started cleaning the lineart. It's whatever I guess.
June 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Oldposting Steven Universe doodles on my phone I still like.
A couple little Steven sketches in his Pink Diamond costume from the episode Familiar (and prob other eps, it was such a long time ago gimme a brek). A couple loose doodles of Peridot in fluorescent green hues – one with the limb enhancers, the other without. A simple colored digital drawing of 16 year-old Steven from Steven Universe Future floating down, his jacket billowing upwards, commemorating the airing of the final episode in March 2020. Geez, what rotten timing. Loose, simple magenta-on-white doodles of Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl. Pearl is raring to go correct someone who wrote "defiantly" when they meant "definitely".
June 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Some more close-up views. Really like how the Nina constellation turned out. It was this rare frictionless case of "I have a concrete idea. Here's how I want to realize that idea. I'm executing upon it. Oh cool, it looks exactly how I wanted"
June 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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And now my piece for the Adventure Time & Fionna Cake show at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social in its entirety!
A large digital illustration with a roster of 35+ feline characters from Adventure Time. Notably, Cake the Cat, Shoko's white tiger, Box Prince, The Vampire King lion, Shermy, Me-Mow, Science Cat, the Demon Cat and a dizzying many more. They are exploding out from a giant cardboard box in a counterclockwise arc against the starry backdrop of outer space. It's like a beautiful cosmic birth of all cats. A nebula that resembles the vampire king's essence looms like the Eagle Nebula pillars of creation in the top left corner. A constellation of Nina, an honorary cat, rests in the top right corner. In the bottom right, far below everyone else, Rumble Jaw jets by on a comet.
June 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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A few more peeks of my artwork that'll be on display at Gallery Nucleus for the C'mon Grab Your Friends show that opens this Saturday the 31st.
A crop of a larger digital artwork featuring a cute monochromatic, black-and-white cat (not a tautology), Officer Davis, of BMO Noire. Another crop that teases other notable and less notable Adventure Time felines Yet another crop with more cat characters featured in Adventure Time.
May 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Tiny crops of my piece for the Adventure Time 15th anniversary exhibition at Gallery Nucleus beginning on the 31st
A crop of a larger digital artwork with a focus on Adventure Time's Box Prince Crop of a larger digital artwork focusing on Adventure Time's Me-Mow (in her Western getup from Angel Face, gdi, i forgot the spurs) and Gunter's kitten.
May 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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My "notes" while attending @kendramelton.bsky.social's online character design class last year. The coffeemaker robot guy was a really charming design by a classmate i couldn't help doodling myself.
March 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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And the strawberry tart I baked for Christmas. I made lettuce wraps for everyone for dinner, and oden for New Year's Eve as well but oops, no photo evidence.
January 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Pic before I went to town on this snow day udon. Not my best arrangement and my worst hard-boiled egg ever but I was starving and it tastes great.
A photo of a bowl of udon topped with microgreens, shimeji and enoki mushrooms, yaki-imo, narutomaki, and the half-assed-est hard boiled egg you've ever seen.
January 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Small highlights from this week:

-Cheat day pancakes
-Increasingly rare home-cooked meal.
-Fox friend. Seeing lots of foxes, deer, blue jays and cardinals on these chilly autumn morning walks.
-No pic but dentist says my gums and teeth look gr8. Payoff for cutting added sugars and bubble tea.
A photo of a stack of fluffy pale pancakes, topped with berry compote and whipped cream, and dusted with a light coat of powdered sugar A photo of a bowl of black bean soup topped with diced avocado, grape tomatoes of various hues, red onions and chopped cilantro, with two pieces of cornbread tucked into the side of the bowl. The toppings are heaped on unceremoniously, but the end result is colorful and appetizing. Served in a black bowl resting on an earthy plaid placemat. A grainy zoomed in phone snap of a cute fox resting and lying down in a wood on a chilly fall morning
October 18, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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Me googling "Is sincerity still cringe 2024" and running into my biography
July 11, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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Realized after the fact I had my mic on the entire duration of this week's Discord figure drawing. Fortunately for the other guys it must've been the first time in my life I wasn't soliloquizing.
This guy had ONE umbrella pose in him.
April 24, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Perspective on this phone photo was bothering me
March 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM