Area 51 (2026)

One of my own quirky art challenges is keeping the memory of Storm Area 51 event (Sept 20, 2019) alive by drawing my avatar saving an alien from that secret facility each year.

So far I've "saved" a common green alien, a baby xenomorph and a facehugger, my favourite childhood alien Alf, then T. Ocellus from Alien: Earth and now ET!

And, no, nothing really happened on that day, it all ended as a music and art festival in the middle of the Nevada desert and an Internet meme.

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#digitalart #area51 #stormarea51 #alien #et #extraterrestrial

Nightwing (Batman Day 2026)

For this year's Batman Day (the third Saturday of September) I chose the next best thing, Dick Grayson (Robin, later Nightwing and eventually the next Batman).

Pose reference: @theposearchives

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#digitalart #batmanday #robin #nightwing #dickgrayson

B'Elanna Torres

Here's my entry for Star Trek Day (which was actually two days ago, on September 8). For this year's drawing I chose one of my most favourite characters from Star Trek: Voyager - Lt. B'Elanna Torres, a Klingon-Human hybrid, ex-Maquis, later a Chief Engineer on the starship USS Voyager.

Pose reference: @theposearchives

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#digitalart #startrek #startrekday #stvoyager #belannatorres

My 10th artyversary

This month is special because 10 years ago, around this time, I decided to take my creative hobbies more seriously  and started this GRDI "brand". In the beginning I tried with different art techniques, such as pencil, ink, papercraft, collage, polymer clay, cosplay accessories... but somehow mostly digital art stuck.

I'm not complaining, it was fun narrowing the overcrowded field and searching for my own style, changing drawing tablets and programs until I ended up here where I am right now.

And just to be honest, this wasn't my first try, but I guess whatever I'd been doing before wasn't that serious. Instagram opened new possibilities and for a relatively short time everything seemed right. That is, until they changed it to a video app flooded with a ruthless algorithm. Today's abomination of Instagram doesn't seem that important anymore and it's even less artist friendly, especially because of the rise of AI, but that's another story.

Anyway, happy 10th artyversary to me! 🥳

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#digitalart #anniversary #artyversary #grdilicious #grdi

Summer with Pinea and Cado

Summer with my OCs, Pinea and Cado.

Pose references: @theposearchives

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#digitalart #characterdesign #originalcharacters #pineapple #avocado

AI Attack

It may be too late for Throwback Thursday or Flashback Friday, but here are two of my drawings mixed into one to make my point about using AI.

One of many things I hate about AI is that it seems to be normally included into more and more programs and apps, without asking us if we really want it. 😡

I'm trying so hard to avoid it and luckily it's mostly just one of the suggested options (at least for now), but it's inevitably present, which in my case makes it difficult to rant against and still use apps that are AI-infected, such as CapCut. 🤷‍♂️

In this drawing I combined two of my characters from my Grdiverse project. Davorachnid is one of the good guys, but AI Bot is trying to recreate or clone him, making a digital version that could fight and eventually replace him. I see it as my creative idea to represent my issues with AI and what troubles it may bring one day.

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#grdiverse #davorachnid #noai #stopai #grdilicious

Spider-Man BND

Hard to believe, but as someone who's been obsessed with Spider-Man my whole life, I actually drew Peter Parker only once, and that was in 2017, when Homecoming came out. Until now there have been only Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and my OC Spidersona Davorachnid in my digital gallery. Now it's time to change that for Brand New Day.

I still haven't seen the new movie, but it's definitely going to happen. Hopefully soon, before I inevitably stumble upon some spoilers. The story is supposed to go back to the character's comic book roots, away from the Avengers, with New York as a background, original suit etc. I can't wait!

Pose reference: @theposearchives

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#spiderman #brandnewday #peterparker #grdi #grdilicious