Ghost (from Ant-Man & The Wasp)

Here's my drawing of Ghost from this year's Ant-Man and The Wasp. As it usually happens in movie adaptations, she looks different than the original from the comics, but I fell in love with this design and, of course, Hannah John-Kamen's performance.

Ghost's power is phasing through solid objects and she's also a skilled fighter and assassin (hence the dynamic pose). Here you'll find my usual four stages of creating digital artwork - a pencil sketch, lineart, colours and the final version:

This illustration may be long overdue, but I've known for months I'll finish it some day. I'm more than satisfied with how it turned out and I hope you like it too!

Mermay 2018

I didn't participate in the #MerMay challenge, but I decided to draw at least one mermaid just to see how it would turn out. Actually, I've always wanted to do it, so the choice of what kind or type of mermaid exactly to draw wasn't too hard, because a few months ago I came across some photos of a statue of Ariel and I fell in love with the design. It was The Little Mermaid Statue from J. Scott Campbell’s Fairytale Fantasies Collection. Google it, I think it looks amazing!

So, the reference for the pose is obvious, although I decided to change some things. As usual, I drew it on a piece of paper, scanned it and finished in Inkscape. I added some shadows and highlights the only way I know - not caring too much about the source of light, but trying to draw what I believe would look effective and interesting and trying to have fun in the process. And the background is simple, of course.

As for MerMay itself, I'm usually interested in different art challenges, but drawing 31 mermaids would just be too much for me. So far I've managed to finish two #Inktober challenges and I'm actually considering joining #JuneToon, although it has already started, so I guess we'll see. I'd also like to congratulate all participants who finished the #mermay challenge, with a special shout-out to @xelgot whose characters and style inspire me to try something like this one day. And to draw more, because you know how lazy I am, even when I have some good ideas (unfortunately, I often give up and never finish some projects if I procrastinate for too long).

New GrdiArt logo

I decided to reimagine my GrdiArt logo, trying to expand its meaning a little bit. Before the redesign it included two pencils, but this time I wanted to emphasize the digital part of it, so I added a mouse, but also left one pencil as its cord (although I use the wireless mouse, but you get the point). I hope I succeeded in combining two main features of my artwork: drawing sketches with a pencil and then turning them into digital drawings. Of course, I still intend to dabble in my other hobbies, but I'd like to retain drawing and digital artwork as my main focus.

Black Panther

My Black Panther fan art is finally here! It's all done in Inkscape and I tried drawing some kind of perspective again (which was expected anyway, I guess). I hope I succeeded, but I'll let you be the judge. I used a reference, more precisely it was a photo of a toy or an action figure I found on the internet.

Kao i uvijek dosad, nacrtam i objavim aktualne likove tjednima nakon što je film došao u kino ili nakon što su napustili sezonu neke serije. Zašto bi onda s Black Panther bilo drukčije, zar ne? Istina, još uvijek se može naći pokoji fan art na društvenim mrežama, ali najaktualniji crteži su se pojavljivali protekla dva tjedna. Nadam se da sam uspio "uhvatiti zadnji vlak", ali ako i ne, trebao bih biti zadovoljan što crtam nešto što sam doista i htio.

Inspiraciju za pozu sam našao u fotografiji igračke za film Captain America: Civil War. Zato je odijelo više iz tog filma nego iz ovogodišnjeg Black Panther. Dolje možete vidjeti pojednostavljen proces nastanka crteža, kao sto sam to nekad prije objavljivao - sketch, lineart, flat colours, full illustration. Ali, najiskrenije, veći dio tog konačnog crteža se svede na nagađanja i pronalaženje najboljeg rješenja koje će vizualno najuvjerljivije izgledati. Pozadinu radije izbjegavam crtati i uvijek izaberem neko jednostavnije rješenje.

Npr., zadnji korak - shadows i highlights - je zapravo metoda pokušaja i pogrešaka. Počnem s nekakvom logikom, odredim zamišljen izvor svjetla, ali na kraju popunjavam neke dijelove onako kako mi se najviše svidi, čak ni kad nešto nema smisla. Zato mi ponekad bude smiješno kad me netko (npr. u grupi za Inkscape, gdje povremeno objavljujem svoje radove) pohvali za tu "igru svjetla i sjene", jer kao što rekoh, iza toga se nalazi puka sreća. Ali, ajde-de, očito nekad i nešto dobro ispadne.

Za kraj evo jedan prigodan vic, koji nisam ja osmislio, već sam nedavno pročitao na Twitteru:

"Have you seen the film?"

"Of course! Wakanda question is that?" 😂

Sinara and Kasius

My favourite villains Sinara and Kasius, the Kree (alien race) from the 5th season of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, sketched by hand and done in Inkscape.

Ovo je crtež koji se "kuhao" veći dio veljače, iako zapravo nije postojao konkretan razlog. Ukratko, moglo je to biti gotovo i prije, ali što je, tu je, konačan uradak je ovdje.

U pitanju su Sinara i Kasius, pripadnici izvanzemaljske vrste Kree, koji se pojavljuju u petoj sezoni Marvelove serije Agents of SHIELD. Dizajn likova je odličan, kao i glumci iza maske, pa iako su glavni negativci ove sezone, vjerujem da su pokupili dosta simpatija.

I ovaj put sam prvo nacrtao skicu rukom, skenirao i završio crtež u Inkscapeu. Poze sam našao na nekakvoj stock fotografiji na internetu, a one dvije lebdeće kugle koje sam dodao su Sinarin zaštitni zrak i smrtonosno oružje kojim često i vješto barata u seriji. Kao što rekoh, ukupno mi nije trebalo puno vremena i nadam se da ubuduće neću toliko odugovlačiti.

Imam nekih novih planova za ovu godinu, ali ne smijem brzati s najavama, jer vjerojatno ću nastaviti ovako polako, korak po korak i to će se, po svemu sudeći, još mijenjati tijekom idućih tjedana. Zato, do idućeg puta i idućeg projekta!