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Posted: 2015-12-30T16:25:15Z | Updated: 2015-12-30T16:25:15Z

When youre stuck in suburbia with your parents over the holidays, you, like many others, might look to Netflix for an escape.

The recently released "Jessica Jones" is one of its most binge-worthy shows, centering on a hard-drinking, superhero-turned-private eye (played by Krysten Ritter). At the beginning of the series, we find her a year after she has escaped the mind control of the shows villain, Kilgrave, who held Jones captive for eight months and forced her to act out a romantic relationship with him.

One of the reasons fans praise the series is because it paints an unflinching portrayal of intimate partner violence and the accompanying trauma that survivors must learn to live with. Others praise it as a rarity onscreen for depicting a female crime-drama lead with the same depth and agency as a man .

Luckily for us, the Marvel show has found a fan in illustrator Sha'an dAnthes (better known as Furry Little Peach ). She debuted her watercolor illustrations of Jones and Kilgrave on her Instagram account, where she has more than 96,000 followers. In an email to The Huffington Post, the Sydney-based designer discussed her thoughts on the show and why it inspired her first foray into fan art.

(She joked that "Kilgrave made me do it," but we're pretty sure she's joking.)

What about Jessica Jones inspired you to create these illustrations?

My work is actually quite similar to the artwork of the opening credits -- hats off to David Mack for the incredible visual sequence. I use a lot of bleeding and washes in my works so the way the watercolor is animated and moves at the beginning of the show is reminiscent of what I see when I'm painting.

Besides that initial connection, I've always been drawn to layers -- whether it be layering pigment, or layering images and textures. As I watched the show, it became quite clear early on that there [were] incredible layers to the main characters.