Mermay 2022

Here's my drawing for this year's Mermay challenge. Yes, just one, as usual with these monthly challenges - I just can't commit to drawing 30 or 31 drawings a month. 😒

The theme I chose for this year was "alien". It wasn't actually my idea, but a combination of this and another May challenge I came across. Fun fact (or maybe not so fun): I accidentally deleted my original file. 😱 It was just a sketch, but after that I just couldn't force myself to draw. Then I decided to start from scratch, but as I also lost my first reference, this time I used a pose reference by @theposearchives. It turned out fun and I'm happy with the final result, although the deleted pose was more dynamic. 

This is my fifth Mermay, so let me remind you of my previous drawings: the first was a reference by J. Scott Campbell, the second Mermista from the Netflix show She-Ra, the third was inspired by Ahsoka from Star Wars and the fourth was inspired by the Croatian participant of the 2021 Eurovision contest, Albina + some Pokémon.

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SFeraKon 2022

If you're wondering what's happening in this illustration, that's just me becoming a villain after my birthday and weekend plans were ruined by a positive Covid-19 test. 😡 I guess it's inevitable and it'll happen to all of us at some point, but I managed to avoid it for 2,5 years and now that I finally made some real plans after so much time being too damn careful, someone somewhere just said "LOL, no". 😔

As for my weekend plans, it was SFeraKon, a sci-fi, fantasy etc. convention in Zagreb, Croatia, one of the highlights I'm looking forward to each year. Last time I was there in 2019 before the pandemic and this was supposed to be my comeback, but... better luck next year, I guess. 🙄

That also means that I had to postpone watching Multiverse of Madness and so far I've seen most of the spoilers but it won't stop me from going to the movies after this damn isolation is over. There are so many annoying things happening at the same time that it actually looks like my own villain origin story. I'm disappointed, sad and furious and while everyone tries to calm me down and make me feel better I'd rather release my inner Scarlet Witch and cause some chaos. 👿

BTW, I used the real poster for my drawing, taken from sferakon.org or @sferakon. The author is a graphic designer Daniel Ille and all names and images on the poster are copyrighted so if there's an issue with including it in my illustration I'll take it down and replace it with something generic.

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Multiverse Of Madness

So it begins!!! But unfortunately not for me, at least not yet. 😒 I'll have to keep fighting off spoilers for a week, although it's been a lost battle for a while. Namely, even the trailers are necessarily full of them and - what's even worse - a horde of fans who have already seen the movie or are going to see it now can't wait to share them with the world... Yay! 🙄 I can't believe it's still a thing. In this case sharing is definitely not caring. 😡

But it is what it is. I'm just happy to see two of my favourite characters together on the big screen. Plus Sam Raimi. 👍 Even if it doesn't turn out epic or it becomes the most spoiled movie ever, it will be one of the best birthday presents. ❤ Just like it happens every year with Marvel movies in May, for that matter. 🤣

P.S. As for the costumes in my drawing, they're not movie accurate and that's because I combined several versions. I also didn't want to explore the trailers anymore because of the spoilers I had mentioned. And if you follow my work regularly you may also remember that magic spell discs were first made traditionally using a spirograph and then scanned and rendered. I'm especially proud of how they turned out although the whole drawing is 🔥,  of course.

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