Neil the Seal

He's back! Once again Neil the Seal is spending his moulting days (shedding old skin and fur) in beachside towns in Tasmania, causing commotion and filling the social media feeds with his shenanigans. 🦭

He's practically still a "baby", just a 5-year-old elephant seal weighing a tonne but still growing. Apparently, he's lonely because of lack of his peers at the beach, so the nearby towns with their infrastructure became his playground.

He's all over my feed too, so I decided to dedicate my next drawing to him. As he's treated with caution and respect, I imagined him as a king sitting on a "Game of Thrones" style throne made of everything he breaks on his way, especially traffic signs, poles and traffic cones.

But as entertaining as it is now, there's also a reason for concern. He's a "teenager" and expected to grow and no one knows what will happen once he's 4 tonnes and doing the things he does. They even tried to relocate him, but he eventually came back to the beach where he was born and continued with his usual activities. I hope they'll find some solution before they turn to sad alternatives that have happened before with wild animals in similar situations. 😞

And when it comes to this drawing, I also hope you'll appreciate my idea and creativity in this case.

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#neiltheseal #tasmania #gameofthrones #grdi #grdilicious

Pokémon Summer 2026

It's time for another Pokémon Summer drawing; my OCs Umberto and Espina, with their Umbreon and Espeon are back!

This time I wanted to try out a challenging perspective and it took me too much time to figure things out. I found inspiration in one of Instagram stories posted by vloggers Scotty Sire and Jac Anderson, but even with their pose it was very difficult to finish this drawing. Fortunately, this is digital art, so I got to move and tweak lines a million times before I managed to get this final pose. I just hope it follows at least some rules of foreshortening. Please be gentle if you decide to criticise it.

As for drawing Umbreon and Espeon, I often look for dog references, but then draw them like they're cats. 😄 Anyway, it's been fun trying to draw the way I "saw" the final version in my head, almost quitting several times during the process and eventually returning to finish the damn drawing.

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#pokemon #summer #grdi #grdilicious

ToonJune 2026

For the last day of June (and as my only #ToonJune post this year) I chose one of my favourite quotes from the 1952 episode "Water, Water Every Hare", a funny interaction between Bugs Bunny and Dr. Frankenbeans, who was making a giant robot and needed a brain to bring him to life.

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#looneytunes #bugsbunny #grdi #grdilicious

Kaijunicorn (TBT) 2026

For this week's "Throwback Thursday" I decided to merge two monthly art challenges, Kaijune (drawing monsters during June) and Junicorn (drawing unicorns during June), so I reposted my 2023 drawing of a creature that falls into both categories. Yes, I should've drawn a new pose or version of Dinocorn (as I named it), but unfortunately this is all I can post at the moment.

So, happy Kaijunicorn, I guess. 😄

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#throwbackthursday #kaijune #junicorn #grdi #grdilicious

World Cup 2026 (TBT)

This Throwback Thursday is reserved for my old drawing from 2022, when I complained about ridiculous amounts of salaries and money involved with sports, especially football (soccer) vs other occupations (more precisely education). As the World Cup 2026 is about to begin, it's the right time to dust off this masterpiece. I'm not going to repeat myself, my point of view is still the same, so feel free to look for the original post if you'd like to know more.

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#worldcup2026 #football #soccer #money #grdilicious #grdi

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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#throwbackthursday #starwars #themandalorianandgrogu #grdi #grdilicious

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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#drawingchallenge #mermay #mermay2026 #icon