Halloween 2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃

As you can see, my Halloween illustration from 2019 keeps getting more and more crowded! Little by little, I've been adding new characters to my original drawing. There's no real plan, just my curiosity to see what I can do next with this idea.

At that time, I was inspired by Josiah 'Jazza' Brooks's art challenge called "After The Horror". The theme was to draw what famous monsters and villains do when the cameras turn off. My idea was to show Freddy, Michael and Jason waiting for a phone call about possible new sequels of their horror franchises.

And then I started adding more and more horror legends so it became my own challenge to continue updating it from Halloween to Halloween. The latest additions are Billy the puppet (Saw), Samara (The Ring) and a xenomorph with an egg and a facehugger (Alien).

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Slap Your Coworker Day 2025

Happy Slap Your Coworker Day (Oct 23)!

Join the crowds of people hurrying to work, eagerly waiting to slap their favorite coworkers across their smug faces! 👋🥰

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Evil Bosses 2025

Happy National Boss's Day (Oct 16)! I guess even villain masterminds can have their day, so here are three evil bosses from my Grdiverse project, the so-called RIT team.

Expeditor, or simply "Boss", is the oldest. Legend says that he started off as a human but was eventually transformed into a slug-like creature. He's intelligent and has significant connections in both the government and the criminal underground. He represents the letter "I" (for "indulgence") in the RIT team. I found the inspiration in Jabba The Hutt from Star Wars.

Litterer, a.k.a. Tox, puts the letter "T" in the name of the RIT team (for "toxicity"). He carries some kind of a machine on his back that mixes different kinds of waste into a toxic liquid, and he uses it in his fights against superheroes. He's stubborn, toxic and quick-tempered, difficult to have a conversation with. He might not seem to be the boss material, but he's the force to be reckoned with nevertheless. He's partly based on Bane from DC Comics.

Dr Anemonica, or shorter "Mona", is the youngest but the fiercest among them. She's very ambitious, extremely intelligent, success-driven, and ruthless on her way up the crime ladder (she puts "R" in RIT for "ruthlessness"). I found inspiration in Olivia Octavius or Doc Ock from the Spider-Verse, but also in evil Queen Vanda from Sport Billy, one of my favourite childhood cartoons. 

And there's their devoted helper with his own powers, Aresmo, one of Mona's experiments. He's actually a manifestation of souls of her loyal subjects who she used to create this ghostly entity. Even in the form of a ghost leprechaun, they try to help her with her evil plans.

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Davorachnid Summer 2025

I haven't drawn any interaction between Davorachnid and the Grdiverse villains so far, so this is the closest to their fight you can get for the time being. And by "fight" I mean him swinging away from the danger. 🤣

This version of Davorachnid is my latest drawing, but Dr Anemonica and Aresmo are from 2023. I haven't drawn any new poses of these two, I just keep recycling the original drawing. I believe it's the third time in two years. 🤔 Well... this should change, maybe even next week. Stay tuned!

In this illustration, Davorachnid is wearing a T-shirt and shorts because I still can't let go of the summer, and it seemed a good idea to draw a summer variation of his usual costume.

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National Hair Day 2025

 Celebrating the National Hair Day, Oct 1! And not without the reason - although I have no hairdressing skills whatsoever, I've been cutting my own hair since 2011!

Two main "ingredients" for this success were YouTube videos and curiosity if I could actually do it, so the rest is history. Somehow I managed to master the double mirror technique (a wall mirror and a hand held mirror), "contorting" my way around my head and gradually getting a hang of it throughout the years. I don't use just hair clippers, but also scissors, and something that has started as a hit-or-miss adventure, eventually became quite a professional process. Plus, it's economical, which has become a very important factor nowadays.

This illustration is an example of a haircut I had this summer. I was very proud of it and I got a lot of praise for that style, but it was also a high maintenance because I was sweating a lot, it often lost its form and I would end up looking like a wet rat. At the moment, I'm sporting a crew cut with a moustache.

As for the laws of physics, don't take this drawing too seriously or analyse it too much. I had to think of foreshortening, angles and reflections, and it may have turned out a little bit messy. Just like the mess I leave after cutting my hair. 🤣

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Pokémon Summer 2025

Although the summer's over, I owe you this year's Pokémon summer adventure featuring Umberto, Espina and their two pet Pokémon.

It's getting harder to think of new situations, so here's a simple one, the four of them relaxing in the sea and holding on to a surfboard.

As usual, Espeon looks happy and lovely, while Umbreon looks irritated and angry, I just love drawing them that way. I believe it adds a comical tone to my summer Pokémon illustrations. ☺️

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