Pokémon Summer 2023

If you follow me regularly, I hope you'll remember it's time for another Pokémon Summer post. Every summer I give my best to draw a little bit more complicated drawing of my OC Pokémon trainers Umberto and Espina with their Umbreon and Espeon, doing something summer related.

This year I found inspiration in a viral Barbie and Ken mugshot meme, but I expanded it and created a different scene. In my version they wear outfits from the movie but they're sitting together with their Pokémon, they're not arrested and instead of placards they're holding pictures of two Eevees (their Umbreon and Espeon before the transformation). A similar idea has been on my mind for years, I'm just glad I found the perfect way to recreate it now as this popular meme.

I just love how different they are: Umbreon is always angry and suspicious and Espeon is calm and friendly. Although in their Eevee forms they're basically the same and they don't manifest that kind of behaviour, it was fun to draw their different personalities on photos Espina and Umberto are holding.

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Kaijune / Junicorn 2023

Two art challenges for June - Kaijune and Junicorn combined - are just a perfect opportunity for me to redraw another OC of mine, Dinocorn, a dinosaur-like monster with unicorn features! When I created it last year, it was a silly experiment for a specific post and I didn't think I'd draw it again, but here we are, this is my third version of this creature.

Dinocorn was one of three monsters I created to illustrate a rant about my neighbours' children who kept playing in our parking lot, damaging our property (cars and parts of the building) and making insufferable noise (such as hitting a ball against metal garage doors pretending they're goal posts). The creatures were chimeras representing kids' interests in toys, superheroes, video games etc., so among others I came up with a combination of a dinosaur and a unicorn and named it Dinocorn. It was supposed to be a one time thing, but I realized it could be an interesting character, so I keep drawing it.

Unfortunately, as this kind of behaviour is sadly still encouraged by their parents, this drawing becomes relevant every summer. Hell, I can hear them under my balcony right now, doing their devilish deeds as I'm typing this... 🙄 I'm glad there are kids today who choose to play outside, but due to the nature of their games I secretly hope for scorching weather by day and armies of mosquitoes by night so they would be forced to stay inside and play on their phones or whatever. 😒

In order to redesign my creature as a kaiju, I added some kaiju elements, for example the strength and the ability to use electricity (the horn is some kind of a lightning rod or a conductor). It's fun coming back to your old creations and experimenting with their looks, accessories and styles, so I'll probably add more features as time goes by. The background and other effects for this illustration was created by using CSP brushes.

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Colour Wheel Challenge

I know I'm a little late for this challenge and I'm aware I'm not doing it right. The point is to ask you, my followers, for a character you want me to draw for each colour, but here I am, filling in the colour wheel with the characters I'd already drawn before.

Red - The Flash (DC)

Orange - Ahsoka (Star Wars)

Yellow - Invincible (Image Comics)

Green - She-Hulk (Marvel)

Light Blue - Stella (Interstella 5555)

Dark Blue - Captain America (Marvel)

Purple - Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)

Pink - Eleven (Stranger Things)

Still... if you want to help me draw something new, could you give me your suggestions?

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Odd Yuckly #62

 

School first! 👨‍🏫

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Davorachnid (Evolution)

My last post about Across the Spider-Verse encouraged me to go back to some of my abandoned versions of my Spidersona, so here are 3 versions and the story behind their evolution.

Version 1 was a funny try to present myself as a Spider-Man, but also include as many features and habits I have. He's fa... I mean, "heavy" like me and wears some of my favourite colours: orange, green and gray. I often have to carry almost everything I'll possibly need in any moment, so he has a shoulder strap bag. I'm also notoriously famous for my cap or hat collection, so that's why he wears one.

Version 2 was a try to show my face more. I mean, the full mask is an iconic Spider-Man feature, but I wanted to try something else. I ditched the hat and tried with a hood, inspired by Miles and Gwen. As it's an imperative for a Spider-Man to hide his identity, I still wanted to keep some kind of a mask and I also added goggles that looked more like sunglasses.

Version 3 is a current version that I keep drawing with no or little changes. The sunglasses became some kind of a visor or eye shield and the mask was inspired by another Spiderperson, Silk. I kept the hood, but the suit became a bit tighter (not a baggy hoodie anymore) and with more details. I think that's the design I intend to keep - the only thing I shouldn't have changed was the spider logo, so I'll probably use the previous one again (a plump spider with orange outline).

I'm also planning to create other characters, as well as a rogue gallery. I already have some ideas and names for them, although I don't think I showed my imagination while concocting the name "Davorachnid" for my Spidersona. But let's keep it for now. After all, it's just for fun and no matter how poor my posts perform or how deep the algorithm buries them, I'm definitely having fun drawing these characters. 😉

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Davorachnid - Across the Spider-Verse

Across the Spider-Verse has been trending non-stop since the movie came out and my feed is teeming with some great art (both  original and fanart), so I decided to hop on the bandwagon and put my OC Spidersona Davorachnid in their world - even though I haven't watched the movie yet!

It's also another great opportunity for me to draw my favourite OC and try to imitate the Spider-Verse art style. But basically I drew Davorachnid as usual and then used tons of CSP brushes (mostly hatches and halftones) to create some kind of an atmosphere that could resemble the movie design. And I guess I couldn't go wrong because there's no one specific Spider-Verse style, it's a combination of everything. I also added silhouettes of my previous Spidersona versions (let's call them Davorachnids from other multiverses 😉). I hope I got the visual tone of the Spider-Verse right, or at least pretty close.

The reference for the pose is a royalty free stock photo by Dreamstime.

P.S. I'm obviously sticking to the name Davorachnid, although I don't think it's the best I can think of, but at least it sounds unique and it's a witty portmanteau. It looks like everything else with "Spider-" has already been taken. 🤷‍♂️

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MerMay 2018-2023

Now that May and the MerMay drawing challenge are behind us, let me present you all mermaids I've drawn do far. I know that the point of the challenge is to draw one mermaid each day during May, but I decided to draw only one for each year.

2018: My first mermaid was inspired by J. Scott Campbell's The Little Mermaid statue. It also set some kind of a standard for my future drawings - a mermaid leaning on a rock in the sea.

2019: The new version of She-Ra became popular on Netflix, so my choice was Princess Mermista. I didn't really like the show, it was the actress Vella Lovell who voiced Mermista that actually inspired me to draw her character.

2020: The idea to draw Ahsoka as a mermaid came in the last minute. I had something else in mind but somehow I ended up with this and I'm still not really happy how it turned out.

2021: I'm very proud of this drawing, especially because I included some Pokémon! I was inspired by a photo of Albina, our Eurosong contestant who was holding a stuffed teddy bear. In my version she's holding a Magikarp plushie (plus there's a Staryu).

2022: This was another "I don't know what kind of mermaid to draw" challenge, but somehow I came up with some alien and galaxy themes, so... here it is. Just like in 2020, I'm not so happy with this one.

2023: This year's choice was influenced by another challenge, DTIYS, so I knew immediately what I wanted to draw. Just like in 2021, I'm also very proud how this drawing turned out.

So here are my final thoughts:

• The best: 2021 and 2023

• The not-so-good but still OK: 2020 and 2021

• The most popular: 2019 (I still get a lot of likes for her, especially on dA)

• The one I thought would be more popular: 2021

• I changed my logo in 2019

• Somewhere around 2019/2020 I started avoiding backgrounds, drawing an ellipse instead of a shadow and using white outline more often

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