Odd Yuckly #53

Vicious circle 🛒🛍

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Art vs Artist challenge 2021

This year's Art vs Artist challenge, but a little bit different - with my avatar sitting in the dark in the Gendo pose in front of my gallery.

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Odd Yuckly #52

Finally! 👍

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Invincible

If you're a fan of superheroes, another must-see TV show is, of course, Invincible.

It's animated and it's based on a comic series of the same name. Among other things, I believe it's become more popular because of their treatment of violent and bloody scenes, which we don't see often (or at all) in some "mainstream" family-friendly comic book movies. I guess you've noticed a rise of popularity of superheroes who don't mind getting their hands dirty, such as Homelander from The Boys or US Agent from The Falcon & The Winter Soldier and even Jupiter's Legacy tried to do something similar. Well, Invincible goes at least one step further.

OK, maybe it's not the best way to sell you this show, but it's not all about that. There are many interesting characters and storylines and it's definitely worth watching.

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MerMay 2021

My mermaid for this year's MerMay challenge has an interesting background story. I was inspired by the pose and the looks I saw in the official video by a Croatian contestant for this year's Eurosong contest (singer Albina, song "Tick Tock"). In fact, if this drawing had been finished before the Eurovision, it would've been my way to support my country, but as you can see I'm late, it's been about two weeks, so... I decided to leave the pose but scrap other initial ideas.

In the video she's sitting surrounded by teddy bears and they were my first choice too, but then I thought - wait, what about water-type Pokémon? So now she's sitting on a rock surrounded by sea, hugging a plushie Magikarp, accompanied by a little Staryu. I wanted to keep it simple, with the emphasis on the mermaid, so I didn't want to overcrowd the drawing with too many Pokémon.

And also, I wasn't sure how to draw a plushie, so I hope you can interpret my Magikarp as such by the "texture" and the button instead of his eye. It would've been more obvious with a teddy bear or if I had drawn Magikarp more like a toy or a rag doll, but I hope it's not so bad. At least I got to draw some more Pokémon again.

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Resident Alien

 An absolute gem of a TV show! Don't miss Resident Alien starring Alan Tudyk if you get a chance to watch it. The first season was amazing, can't wait for more. 👏

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Marvel characters (2016-2020)

 Here's a collage of most of my drawings of #Marvel characters in the last four years. But don't think that this passion started with the #MCU - Marvel's been around long before I even knew what Marvel was.

It all started in 1980s with some unknown brand of chewing gum containing a set of tiny collectable pictures of some superheroes I'd never seen before. Constantly drawing and doodling, I tried to copy, enlarge and colour them. Around that time it was all about Superman and Batman and the only comics we could buy were Italian and Belgian (Zagor, Alan Ford, Asterix...). I didn't even know there were DC and Marvel comics, let alone the difference between them.

For years I'd been imagining stories about these "new" characters and although I recognized Spider-Man, I wasn't sure about others until the 1990s and the 2000s with the first X-Men movies and later the MCU. Now I know they were Cyclops, Wolverine, Captain America, Spider-Woman, Storm etc.

Of course I still loved DC heroes, but something about Marvel just hit me differently. They didn't hide their identity (except for Spider-Man, Daredevil and a few more) and their struggles seemed more down-to-earth. And after the first X-Men movie I guess my Marvel fanboy destiny was sealed. Everything after that, especially the MCU, just cemented my admiration.

On the other hand, I know neither Disney nor Marvel "love" us back, it's obviously all about the money. But the feels, the goosebumps... just because of that it seems worth it. And I don't believe that even my friends really get that. They support me, their birthday presents for me are usually Marvel related, but often I feel like there's actually not a single soul in this world I could share my points of view with.

And even other fans seem to often forget how to relax and enjoy some movies or projects and are constantly looking for reasons to be angry or unsatisfied with... anything? I'm aware today's generations experience everything differently and they can't go back 30-40 years and find themselves in their childhood room with that tiny chewing gum picture, a piece of paper and pencils and feel happy that some of their dreams are coming true.
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