Snail Conditioning

What do you do to keep cool in the hot, sweaty, hellish summer?

Monstrous Pizza

Here's my illustration for this week's challenge by @jimbobdrawingshow. The prompt was "Monstrous Pizza"! I had a lot of fun creating this lovely cheesy sleazy creepy little guy and during the process I believe he even helped me with my today's lunch choice. 😉

Summer 2019

If you think that a turkey float is a strange choice for my new summer illustration, in my defense, it was inspired by a last year's funny tweet about flotation devices. Morana Zibar, @gurwoman (a famous Croatian professional quizzer or "the chaser" from our version of the quiz show "The Chase") made fun of popular beach floats, such as flamingos and swans on Twitter and suggested some other types of birds for the next season, putting emphasis on turkeys for true hipsters - and the rest is history!

So, what kind of fads do you expect to see this summer? Have you already seen or heard about anything strange, unusual or even stupid for this season? Let me know! 😉

Mosquito

Just a quick illustration of your companion, tour guide or even your best friend in case you decide to visit , Croatia this summer - your friendly neighbourhood mosquito!

Yep, my town is known for frequent mosquito invasions, but this summer hasn't even really started and we're literally drowning in blood sucking swarms. You can't safely make a few steps from your house to your car, parents can't take their children to parks and even some sport events or open air events get cancelled. Around this time it's usually the topic number one and we often end up in the news (try googling "osijek" and "mosquitoes").

You'd think that we, the locals, must have got used to this situation so far, but it seems like each summer brings new challenges.

Dazzler

Here's Dazzler, one of less known mutants (played by @halstonsage), who made her surprising debut in X-Men: Dark Phoenix!

Why did I choose her among all other mutants? It's actually a funny story - she became an ongoing inside joke among my friends that started a few weeks before the movie, during a quiz on this year's SFeraKon (a sci-fi convention). So you can imagine my surprise when she appeared on the big screen!

I used several references and the version of the character in high heels and not the roller skates. As usual, there's my WIP:

Odd One #34

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X-Men Dark Phoenix logo badge (DIY)

The time has come for the X-Men saga to finish, so let's celebrate the latest movie premiere with another DIY project - here's my Dark Phoenix logo badge!

It's actually really simple: I designed something similar to the original logo in Inkscape in three sizes and printed it out. Then I copied the shapes on thin foam rubber sheets in three colours (red, orange and yellow to represent tones of fire), cut them out, glued together and in the end glued a pin - and that's it!