VisionQuest

This VisionQuest weekend is a great opportunity for me to post my drawing in expectation of this new Marvel show that's going to be released on Oct 14.

It's the last part of the trilogy which includes WandaVision and Agatha All Along. During the weekend there are some creative art exhibitions with Marvel's twist on famous paintings,  props from the movies and sets, interactive elements etc., basically everything that has to do with Vision, Ultron and other characters.

This drawing is actually an older drawing of Vision I made, I just changed his original colours to white-ish and grey, like in the finale of [SPOILER]. I also expect for Vision and [SPOILER] to reunite, and [SPOILER] and [SPOILER] to meet for the first time, as well as the return of [SPOILER] in his human form. But we'll see, gotta keep myself spoiler-free until Wednesday, right? 😉

Pose reference: @theposearchives

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#digitalart #fanart #marvel #vision #visionquest

Mystique & Co.

I know the Nightcrawler's heritage story is a bit complicated because it has changed a couple of times, but I like the 2003 version with Mystique as his mother and Azazel as his father, so here they are!

Pose references: @theposearchives

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#digitalart #xmen #nightcrawler #mystique #azazel

Area 51 (2026)

One of my own quirky art challenges is keeping the memory of Storm Area 51 event (Sept 20, 2019) alive by drawing my avatar saving an alien from that secret facility each year.

So far I've "saved" a common green alien, a baby xenomorph and a facehugger, my favourite childhood alien Alf, then T. Ocellus from Alien: Earth and now ET!

And, no, nothing really happened on that day, it all ended as a music and art festival in the middle of the Nevada desert and an Internet meme.

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#digitalart #area51 #stormarea51 #alien #et #extraterrestrial

Nightwing (Batman Day 2026)

For this year's Batman Day (the third Saturday of September) I chose the next best thing, Dick Grayson (Robin, later Nightwing and eventually the next Batman).

Pose reference: @theposearchives

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#digitalart #batmanday #robin #nightwing #dickgrayson

B'Elanna Torres

Here's my entry for Star Trek Day (which was actually two days ago, on September 8). For this year's drawing I chose one of my most favourite characters from Star Trek: Voyager - Lt. B'Elanna Torres, a Klingon-Human hybrid, ex-Maquis, later a Chief Engineer on the starship USS Voyager.

Pose reference: @theposearchives

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#digitalart #startrek #startrekday #stvoyager #belannatorres

My 10th artyversary

This month is special because 10 years ago, around this time, I decided to take my creative hobbies more seriously  and started this GRDI "brand". In the beginning I tried with different art techniques, such as pencil, ink, papercraft, collage, polymer clay, cosplay accessories... but somehow mostly digital art stuck.

I'm not complaining, it was fun narrowing the overcrowded field and searching for my own style, changing drawing tablets and programs until I ended up here where I am right now.

And just to be honest, this wasn't my first try, but I guess whatever I'd been doing before wasn't that serious. Instagram opened new possibilities and for a relatively short time everything seemed right. That is, until they changed it to a video app flooded with a ruthless algorithm. Today's abomination of Instagram doesn't seem that important anymore and it's even less artist friendly, especially because of the rise of AI, but that's another story.

Anyway, happy 10th artyversary to me! 🥳

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#digitalart #anniversary #artyversary #grdilicious #grdi

Summer with Pinea and Cado

Summer with my OCs, Pinea and Cado.

Pose references: @theposearchives

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#digitalart #characterdesign #originalcharacters #pineapple #avocado

AI Attack

It may be too late for Throwback Thursday or Flashback Friday, but here are two of my drawings mixed into one to make my point about using AI.

One of many things I hate about AI is that it seems to be normally included into more and more programs and apps, without asking us if we really want it. 😡

I'm trying so hard to avoid it and luckily it's mostly just one of the suggested options (at least for now), but it's inevitably present, which in my case makes it difficult to rant against and still use apps that are AI-infected, such as CapCut. 🤷‍♂️

In this drawing I combined two of my characters from my Grdiverse project. Davorachnid is one of the good guys, but AI Bot is trying to recreate or clone him, making a digital version that could fight and eventually replace him. I see it as my creative idea to represent my issues with AI and what troubles it may bring one day.

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#grdiverse #davorachnid #noai #stopai #grdilicious

Spider-Man BND

Hard to believe, but as someone who's been obsessed with Spider-Man my whole life, I actually drew Peter Parker only once, and that was in 2017, when Homecoming came out. Until now there have been only Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and my OC Spidersona Davorachnid in my digital gallery. Now it's time to change that for Brand New Day.

I still haven't seen the new movie, but it's definitely going to happen. Hopefully soon, before I inevitably stumble upon some spoilers. The story is supposed to go back to the character's comic book roots, away from the Avengers, with New York as a background, original suit etc. I can't wait!

Pose reference: @theposearchives

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#spiderman #brandnewday #peterparker #grdi #grdilicious

Medusa Zara

Once again I found my inspiration in combining two art challenges: DTIYS by @markocomix and DTPYS for July by @theposearchives.

It's Marko's OC Medusa Zara on a beach, preparing for a swim and, as usual, turning other beachgoers into stone.

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#artchallenge #markocomix14k #dtpysjul26 #mythology #medusa

7 Deadly Sins

I got the idea for this drawing about three years ago, while I was watching The Seven Deadly Sins, a fantasy anime about a group of legendary knights who protected the fictional Kingdom of Liones. They were each named after a biblical sin, although I didn'treally get the symbolism behind that. 🤔

It was interesting, but I wouldn't put it in my top 5 favourite anime. So, back then I made a sketch of all seven knights plus the princess and their animal companion and I haven't touched it until now. I'm not sure why now, I guess I got tired of looking at that file in my "TO DO" folder.

The original name is Nanatsu no Taizai and it was and is still very popular among fans. It's silly, with unusual characters (as you can see), a lot of questionable fan service and familiar but still problematic relationships and inappropriate behaviour. I mean, I guess I recommend it, although I don't think I'll watch it again. If you read the manga or watched the anime, is there anything interesting or important you'd like to share, maybe something significant or more specific I should've mentioned?

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#fanart #thesevendeadlysins #nanatsunotaizai #anime #grdilicious

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.

My socials: https://linktr.ee/grdi

#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

SFeraKon 2026

And again I spent my birthday weekend at SFeraKon, a popular Croatian sci-fi and fantasy convention! Please visit @sferakon to see what it's all about. 😍

Just like last year, I brought my tablet with me and used some free time to draw my avatar again in front of the traditional SFeraKon banner. First I had to find a pose (I kind of recycled parts of another pose from a few months ago) and then take a photo of the banner from a specific angle. And of course, I had to wait for the right moment when it wasn't too crowded. 😄

I drew my first SFerakon related illustration in 2018, and then again in 2022 and 2023, and then last year I decided to make it a tradition, a personal art challenge. I guess the theme is exploring unusual perspectives and blending the finished digital drawing with real photos. Hope you like it!

BTW, this was my Marvel inspired outfit for Friday. Nothing special, a T-shirt with Marvel logo and a hat with Avengers logo. But I also wore badges with my drawings on them and QR codes for my galleries, trying to promote my art, which wasn't very successful, if at all! 😭 But one of the volunteers made my day by asking me what I was drawing and when I said it was just a hobby, the unexpected reply was "Well, I wouldn't say it's just a hobby!" 😊 On Saturday I wore something about Star Wars (mostly the Mandalorian and Grogu stuff) and Sunday was a mix of everything. Until next year! 👋

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#digitalart #sferakon #sferakon2026 #noai #grdilicious #grdi

Anime TBT 2026

Yes, it's time for Throwback Thursday again and I decided to make a collage of all my anime related drawings. But... Surprisingly enough, there weren't as many digital drawings as I was hoping, because in the beginning I did many pencil, lineart or polymer clay stuff etc., which I obviously couldn't put in this digital mashup. 😐

Anyway, these characters you see here are from only a few anime shows I've been watching, and some very important ones are still missing. I need to change it ASAP.

If you're an anime fan, how many characters can you recognize?

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#anime #characters #collage #grdilicious #grdi