Odd One #37

A toxic person ☠☣☢

DIY badge (Captain Marvel)

Here's my new DIY project, a badge I made for today's Captain Marvel premiere in my town.

The materials I used:

- a round wooden tag

- foam rubber (black and yellow)

- colour paper (red and blue)

- a black marker

- mod podge

- multi-purpose glue

- a pin

- a glue gun

As usual, it's a pretty simple project and I had a lot of fun making it. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time to make more, so there'll be no giveaways like for Avengers and Star Wars this time.

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Happy International Women's Day! 🌹

Spider-Gwen

I've finally seen Into the Spider-Verse, which is a very good excuse for me to continue drawing Spider-Persons. 😀 This time it's Spider-Gwen, and although I've drawn her twice so far while I was testing watercolour pencils, this time I wanted to draw a complete digital illustration. Initially I had a more dynamic pose in mind, but then I used one of my poseable art figures.

ZOOcuppations: Lifeguard / Opossum

This is my first illustration for my new watercolour pencils project "ZOOccupations". I used the Custom Generator option in Jazza's Arty Games app to create random combinations of animals (100 entries) and jobs (60 entries). This time the random combo was Lifeguard / Opossum.

Here's some WIP. I used a pencil to draw the illustration lightly, then made some kind of lineart using watercolour pencils. Then I coloured the drawing and used a water brush (with a container for water instead of the holder) to activate the pigment of the pencils. I had to continuously reapply pencils and brushes to get the effect I wanted. Finally, when everything dried, I used a 0.1 fineliner to draw the lineart.

As for the Arty Games application, I'm very satisfied with the Custom Generator feature:

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, it was fun to draw with watercolour pencils again and I'm looking forward to the next challenge! 😂👍

My Spidersona

Finally it's time for my Spidersona! Spider-Man has always been one of my most favourite superheroes and this challenge is a great way to imagine myself in his shoes. I don't have a catchy superhero name, but I tried to present some things and features that define me... to some extent, at least.

One of my most favourite pieces of clothing has for years been my olive green/orange hoodie, so I used these colours for my "spidersuit". I also wear a lot of black and dark grey. I hate cramming things into my pockets, so I usually wear some kind of a bag. In this illustration it opened by accident and some things that I like or usually carry fell out: my glasses, mobile phone, a bottle of cola, a chocolate bar, pills and vitamins, a pack of tissues, a pen etc. And there's also a matching baseball hat, I believe I have quite a collection and I rarely leave my flat without one of them.

I'm pretty tall and heavy, so the spider silk can barely support my weight (you can see it snapping in the middle) and I live in Osijek, which is the 4th largest city in Croatia, but according to European or American standards still a pretty small town with a few blocks of 12-storey buildings, so I mostly have to use numerous power lines to move around.

Sooo... It's your friendly neighborhood... Spider-Esseker? No? Well, I tried. 😁

P.S. Essek = Osijek 😉

PokéHats

It's time for some silliness! While I was doodling, trying to explore some cartoonish facial expressions, I got the silly idea to put some Pokémon hats on my avatar. Don't ask why - I even put one of my more important projects aside, which I've been planning and creating for almost a month! 🙄 But that's me - if I don't finish something right away, I'll get preoccupied by some new idea and postpone (or even cancel) my previous projects. So here are my three PokéHats: Pikachu, Umbreon and Magikarp!

In case you're wondering if I own any of them, the answer is no. 😁 And although I don't really need it, I actually toyed with the idea of buying the Magikarp one at the local sci-fi convention two years ago, but the fact that they were sold out very quickly was an obvious sign for me not to buy it, right? 🤔

Anyway, I've already mentioned somewhere before that my favourite is Umbreon, so... do you have a favourite Pokémon? 😉

Art vs. Artist 2019

Has it already been a year since the last "Art vs. Artist" challenge? I guess time does fly when you're having fun. Anyway, I'm just glad I have the opportunity to show more digital artwork than last year.

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The real danger ☠

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Time to go 🚾

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Winter Wonderland ❄

Miles Morales

Believe it or not, I still haven't seen Into the Spider-verse! 😱 Yep, guilty as charged. 😔 To be honest, I don't even know if there was a subbed version in our cinemas, because in my country animated movies are mostly dubbed and I'd like to experience the original version. I believe there are still some early projections of dubbed versions for small children at 10 a.m. or something like that, but, as I said, meh. 🙄

Anyway, it didn't stop me from drawing Miles in one of his famous outfits. I wanted a dynamic illustration with a challenging perspective, so I used unusual references of some anime poses, as well as my own (don't ask 😁). The new thing that I hadn't used before is the thick outline around the character, which supposedly makes the whole illustration kind of pop up and I like how it turned out. Maybe I'll use it more often, we'll see.

Winter Joy

Finally, my first illustration for 2019 is here! Yes, it was supposed to be posted about a month ago, but as usual, when it comes to my plans or my schedule, it's never that simple.

This is my avatar (basically me) in my favourite winter clothes. Of course, I don't wear this hat very often, but I do like it. As you can see, it's not a typical Santa's hat, but his helper's hat and is much longer. It's very thin and the quality of the fabric is bad, because it's meant to be worn just for fun, on New Year's parties and similar. I wear a dark blue winter jacket and a long grey scarf that I usually wrap two times around my neck and chin.

I spent way too much time on this illustration, but I hope it was worth it. I repeat, I need to speed up this whole process somehow. It should be one of my New Year's resolutions, but knowing me, I'm not sure it'll help much. 😂

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My New Year's resolution? 🤔

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The five-second rule 😩

Yuckly (Summer)

Let's continue with my avatar's redesign - here's my summer version of Yuckly! 

Yuckly (Spring)

As you can see, I keep redesigning some of my early creations. This time it's my Facebook and deviantART avatar Grdi, a monkfish/frogfish that also got an international name this time: Yuckly (yuck + ugly). I used most of its previous design, but made it look more cartoony and friendly: it's smiling, it doesn't show so many sharp teeth anymore and the eyes are a little bit closer together. Also, the pectoral fins and the tail look more like arms and legs. As this is my spring avatar, I used familiar details from previous versions: grass, daisies, sky, sun... This time Yuckly is holding a colour pencil to remind visitors or subscribers it's an artist's account and I plan to change its colour according to the season presented in the picture: green (spring), yellow (summer), brown (autumn/fall) and blue (winter).

Jedna od zadaća ilustratora je osmisliti prepoznatljiv avatar koji će ga predstavljati. Već godinama je to kod mene Grdi, lik grdobine koja na raznim crtežima upada u razne situacije. Odlučio sam ga malo redizajnirati i više angažirati u svojim ilustratorskim pothvatima, koristeći tehnike i savjete uspješnijih ilustratora. Dobio je i međunarodno ime Yuckly, što je zapravo složenica riječi "yuck", kao "fuj" i "ugly" kao "ružan" - u biti, skoro kao Grdi, a da opet ne bude neko ime koje se često koristi na internetu.

Iako se vani tako ne čini, došlo nam je proljeće, a znate da ja uvijek promijenim Grdijev avatar na početku nekog godišnjeg doba. Dakle, vrijeme je i da osvježeni lik Grdi/Yuckly dobije svoju šansu i ovom prilikom doživi svojevrsnu premijeru. Lik je očito baziran na starom avataru, ali nakon nekoliko pokušaja izabrao sam malo dopadljiviji, "prijateljskiji" dizajn, s manje vidljivim oštrim zubima, smiješkom i malo više približenim očima. Paleta boja će ostati ista kao ranije - zelena za proljeće, žuta za ljeto, smeđa za jesen i plava za zimu. Također je, osim prepoznatljivih elemenata koje inače koristim za godišnja doba, dobio i drvenu bojicu u spomenutoj boji za to doba, kako bi naglasio "umjetničku" stranu "brenda" GrdiArt.

Toliko za sada. Čitamo se uskoro!