Art vs Artist 2025

Here's the clash of a few art callenges again: 2025 Recap meets My Top 9 meets Art vs. Artist meets the Toon Me challenge! The complete collage of my 2025 artwork will be posted as usual in a week or so.

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Xmas 2025

This year, DeMona and her faithful helper Aresmo tried to ruin Christmas again, but the brave guardian of the Grdiverse, Davorachnid, showed up one more time to save the day!

Merry Christmas, happy holidays!

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Marcus The Worm

I had an idea to end this year with a collage illustration of 2025's most popular memes, but there are too many to choose from. I guess I used my phone way too much this year and dove too deep into the social media algorithm. 😭

So I decided to post only one of them and the final choice fell on Marcus The Worm, an unusual VR Chat character with a deep monotone voice and the weirdest things he says and does. He's usually seen in company of Robert, a kind of an alligator avatar or something like that, who comments on and reacts to Marcus's behavior, helps him, saves him from danger etc.

It's that kind of a meme where you click on just one funny video and then you forget about it, but before you know it, you're cooked and it'll flood your algorithm with a million more videos. There are many "classic" quotes and I included some of them in my drawing, as well as a few of his unusual poses.

I know this doesn't sound like it makes any sense, but if you know what I'm talking about, what is your favourite Marcus The Worm quote? 🪱💬

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Bella 2025

Dear Bella, thank you for sharing your world with us. I hope that you felt loved and that we provided you a good life. 🐶❤️

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Hooligfan(s) 2025

 I'm not sure if you remember, but Hooligfan is one of the villains from my Grdiverse project. I created him about two years ago and this is his redesign, but in Chibi style. His power is multiplication, hence all the duplicates attacking our hero in this illustration.

If it's not obvious, I was inspired by the so-called "culture" surrounding football/soccer, spiced up with money, manipulated nationalism and raging hooliganism. And no, this isn't against sport and everything good it provides; it's about every weak minded fool who puts on a black hoodie and thinks their mistaken ways mean progress and change. And they've been rapidly multiplying in real life, too. 😞

In my drawing, my superhero Davorachnid is trying to fight them, no matter how outnumbered he is. And in real life... well, it's more depressing, because it looks like they're allowed to do whatever they want and their actions evidently meet with conservative politicians' approval. And not just in my country. 🤷‍♂️

So, my original design included a baseball hat and a buff (a face cover), but this time I changed it to a mask similar to Deadpool's, but with soccer ball patterns (pentagons) to match the whole theme. But don't let the mask fool you, it's just a detail, because he's a typical villain. OK, more like brainwashed by his evil bosses and false convictions, just like his real life counterparts.

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National Cookie Day

 

Happy National Cookie Day (Dec 4)! As you can see, this post is just a filler until I finish my next drawing. So... let's talk about cookies.

A locally famous brand of cookies, Moto, may not be the best there is, but in my opinion it's definitely better than Oreo. There are also other much better cookies, such as Domaćica, Napolitanke or Jadro, but let's use Moto for this comparison, as it's visually the most similar to Oreo. They both are round cookies with two parts and a filing in between.

And yet, everything's been all about Oreos for a quite some time. They keep coming up with new flavours, combining them with Milka chocolate or ice cream, baking Oreo cake for various celebrations... Ugh... it's not even that tasty! I believe they use a different type of cocoa or something like that. And they're so sweet that they make my teeth hurt, which is ironic coming from someone who has a sweet tooth and is ready to eat anything, just add sugar to it.

Moto both tastes and looks better. It's shaped like a flower, one of its parts is darker because it has cocoa in it, the other one doesn't, it's lighter and has a hole in the middle, and the filling is made of tasty chocolate cream. They've got some new versions and flavours lately, but all in all, it's not that widely known and as far as I know, there's no recipe for a Moto cake.

Anyway, my decision  is not based (solely) on nostalgia, I really believe Moto is a much better choice than the worldwide more famous Oreo.

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Odd Yuckly #72

 

Happy belated birthday, Britney! (Dec 2)

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