Mando & Grogu

Instead of drawing something new for the release of The Mandalorian & Grogu in the cinemas, I decided to use this Throwback Thursday to repost my old drawing from 2019. I mean, the idea was already brilliant: Mando as a babysitter pushing a stroller that looks like the Millennium Falcon with AT-AT "legs", plus toys such as a C-3PO plushie and a R2-D2 baby rattle... perfection! 👌 If only it brought more attention to my work, but ugh, stupid algorithm, you know how it goes... 😮‍💨

I haven't seen the film yet, so if you have, no spoilers please. 🙏

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MerMay 2026

I decided long ago I wouldn't be able to draw all 31 prompts for the MerMay drawing challenge, so I usually choose only one for each year. Thanks to @mermay_official, it's one of the most creative challenges of the year. 🧜‍♀️

This time it happens to be for the 28th day and the prompt is "ICON", which helped me a lot, because I desperately needed an inspiration. I found it in an 90's Eurodance icon, Amber and her hit song "This Is Your Night". The visuals from the video were amazing, somehow I knew I had to do something with the scene where she's singing in water, surrounded by lilly pads and wearing some kind of pearl chain mail headpiece. The pose itself is a combination of ideas from @theposearchives.

It also happens that this dance music icon celebrates the 30th anniversary of her album and the title song "This Is Your Night". It became a Top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a Number 1 hit on the dance chart and it also earned a cult status because of appearance in the movie "Night at the Roxbury". Currently she's releasing the the 30th Anniversary Edition vinyl of the album, including new remixes.

I bet they'll be great, but as it usually goes with 90's music, I'm staying true to the original song, which is on my forever list so I usually listen to it a few times a week.

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SFeraKon 2026

And again I spent my birthday weekend at SFeraKon, a popular Croatian sci-fi and fantasy convention! Please visit @sferakon to see what it's all about. 😍

Just like last year, I brought my tablet with me and used some free time to draw my avatar again in front of the traditional SFeraKon banner. First I had to find a pose (I kind of recycled parts of another pose from a few months ago) and then take a photo of the banner from a specific angle. And of course, I had to wait for the right moment when it wasn't too crowded. 😄

I drew my first SFerakon related illustration in 2018, and then again in 2022 and 2023, and then last year I decided to make it a tradition, a personal art challenge. I guess the theme is exploring unusual perspectives and blending the finished digital drawing with real photos. Hope you like it!

BTW, this was my Marvel inspired outfit for Friday. Nothing special, a T-shirt with Marvel logo and a hat with Avengers logo. But I also wore badges with my drawings on them and QR codes for my galleries, trying to promote my art, which wasn't very successful, if at all! 😭 But one of the volunteers made my day by asking me what I was drawing and when I said it was just a hobby, the unexpected reply was "Well, I wouldn't say it's just a hobby!" 😊 On Saturday I wore something about Star Wars (mostly the Mandalorian and Grogu stuff) and Sunday was a mix of everything. Until next year! 👋

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Anime TBT 2026

Yes, it's time for Throwback Thursday again and I decided to make a collage of all my anime related drawings. But... Surprisingly enough, there weren't as many digital drawings as I was hoping, because in the beginning I did many pencil, lineart or polymer clay stuff etc., which I obviously couldn't put in this digital mashup. 😐

Anyway, these characters you see here are from only a few anime shows I've been watching, and some very important ones are still missing. I need to change it ASAP.

If you're an anime fan, how many characters can you recognize?

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Star Wars Day 2026

Cal Kestis and BD-1 wish you a Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth Be with You!

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Forever Young

This "Throwback Thursday" is for my digital drawing from 2017, just perfect for my upcoming birthday. I called it Peter Pan Syndrome/Generation and wrote about staying a kid in heart. I'm not sure if I used the term correctly back then, but it's more like being unapologetically myself, at least when it comes to my hobbies and habits, especially because of new technologies and opportunities I didn't have when I was younger.

I didn't just repost my old drawing, I changed it a bit. The lines were crunchy and pixelated, which was the style I preferred at the time, the proportions were off etc, so there was place for improvement. And I added a part of my art collage in the background to show that no matter what I'm supposed to do with the burden of all these decades on my shoulders, I'm not giving up drawing and supporting the geeky pop culture.

Fun (or disturbing?) fact: when someone asks me how old I am, sometimes I ask back: You mean "old" old or "in my head" old? 😄

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Superhero Day 2026

Happy Superhero Day! Here's an updated collage of all my digital drawings of various Marvel characters since 2016. Yep, this year is special to me, because soon it will be my 10th anniversary of drawing digitally. 😲

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