Dar-Vell (GRDI-Verse)

It's been a weird month so far. I've been sick for 20+ days and still can't see the end of it or get a reasonable explanation. So, apart from forcing me to be more creative in battling exhausting symptoms, it also prevents me from seeing The Marvels at the movies. I know, many would say not to worry, I didn't miss much, but in this time of superhero movie fatigue, MCU is still something I hate to miss. 🤷‍♂️

So no real fanart before I see the movie, but I just couldn't keep still. It took me more time than usual because of dealing with three consecutive illnesses or their combination or some kind of new mutated illness, but I managed to draw another character from my ever-growing GRDI-Verse. It's my avatar with Carol Danvers's powers, Davor Grdobina from another universe, who didn't become the new Spider-Man but Captain Dar-Vell!

The moment I got the inspiration, I knew I had to combine Captain Marvel's latest redesign and Superboy's '90s costume. They're pretty similar, both of them wear a jacket and sport similar colours. I also chose Carol's mohawk and that strange piece of cloth that doesn't have any purpose but it looks cool fluttering in the wind (which is one of my favourite things to draw, including a scarf, a headband etc.). Plus, I drew it in the shape of the symbol for infinity, which is pretty self-explanatory when it comes to Captain Marvel's powers.

P.S. It seems I can't keep avoiding major spoilers because "some people" think that "the movie is out long enough for everyone to see" - well guess again, you... people! 😡

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Martial artists

This weird combination is a result of playing with Jazza's Arty Games application again. I was trying out the random character feature and created six prompts just for fun. Two of them were kind of similar, something about fighters - or more precisely - "a weak martial artist with long black hair that is obsessed with cheese" and "a fighter's apprentice with the ability to fly that can't keep off their smartphone", so I decided to create this unusual duo.

I've always admired artists who can cleverly incorporate any given prompts in their drawings, for example Jazza or the Drawfee crew, but I must admit I struggle with it sometimes. While I'm happy with the apprentice, the martial artist turned out really weird. I decided to interpret "weak" as "clumsy while using shurikens" and I presented his obsession with cheese by his choice of clothing and also as part of his training process - he's trying to hit a stack of cheese with shurikens and accidentally knocks it over... I'm not sure if it's imaginative enough, but that was my best idea for this piece. 🤷‍♂️ I believe I've had much better ideas over these decades and some of them are among my proudest works, but no matter how brilliant or awful something turns out, the result is usually the same (lack of acknowledgement, low interest, a few likes etc.). So I'll just accept this drawing as it is and move to the next one.

But on the other hand... while the martial artist feels and looks like some kind of a failure, I'm very satisfied with the apprentice's design, so I'll probably make her a hero in my GRDI-Verse saga as Davorachnid's ally and friend. 👍

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Nightclown & Sailor Titan

Halloween may be over, but as I was sick at the time (curse you, damn TN!) and couldn't complete everything I had planned, here are some "leftovers". It's a redraw of two of my Halloween monsters from 2020 whose designs I liked the most.

You've already seen them, in fact some of you helped me create them. It was a Six Fanarts challenge - I chose six spooky creatures and asked you to suggest any familiar characters I could combine them with using Jazza's Arty Games radom generator. I was particularly proud of these two combinations, DC's Nightwing + Killer Clown (aka Nightclown) and Sailor Moon + Annie from Attack On Titan (aka Sailor Titan), and decided to draw them from head to toe this time (the original ones had to fit the Six Fanarts template, so there was no need to draw the lower part of their bodies).

BTW, I finished watching Attack On Titan (the finale came out last week), so drawing Annie was some kind of a goodbye to this beloved anime. I can't believe I didn't draw more AOT fanart throughout these 10 years! I admit the unfolding of the story kind of killed the initial mystery (I definitely didn't see it coming!) and although everything made sense in the end, the first season remains an amazing masterpiece that I've already watched several times so far.

The anime also introduced me to a band called Linked Horizon and their unforgettable hits like "Guren no Yumiya" and "Shinzo wo Sasageyo!", which found their permanent place on my playing lists. 😍 And not to diss the "dub-lovers", but I always prefer watching movies or shows in their original language. Maybe it's easier for me to both read the subs and follow the plot because that's the only way we've been watching everything for decades here, but I like how Japanese sounds and although I don't understand it, it seems more natural while watching an anime.

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Odd Yuckly #64

 A not-so-fantastic job 😫

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After The Horror 2023

There was a drawing competition by Jazza in 2019 named "After The Horror", where the participants were supposed to draw familiar horror villains spending their time after the cameras and lights go out. I drew Freddy, Michael and Jason sitting next to a phone, feeling bored and expecting a call from producers to find out what's next for their franchises. This year I decided to expand that challenge and add three more characters each Halloween. I chose Chucky, Ghostface and Pennywise for 2023.

I also had to change the scene a little bit, which will become a challenge for my future additions, because I'm not supposed to change much from my previous versions. Here we can see Chucky trying to cut the phone line, while Ghostface is shocked because he's also expecting the call for his next movie and Pennywise even encourages Chucky to do it because his story was limited and he isn't expecting to film anything new. Freddy, Michael and Jason are not aware of what's going on, they're either focused on the phone or sad and worried, so let's say it works. 👍

While I was scrolling and looking for that 2019 drawing on my IG, I remembered it was the time when I used to pay for promotion of some of my drawings (at least three if I'm not mistaken) and After The Horror was one of them. I was sick and tired of drawing so much and not being acknowledged, so I thought paying for promotion would help. Well, it actually did, but only for those promoted drawings - but I didn't get new subscribers or likes for regular drawings so I stopped paying to see what would happen... and nothing did, my account vanished again in the depths of anonymity. That "false interest" was useless and although my drawings keep getting up to 10 likes, I've made my peace with that fact and I guess that's just the way it has to be. The algorithm's become my frenemy for life now. ❤

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