The Emperor's New Groove (Yzma)

This drawing wasn't part of my original plan for this month, but as it was another Disney movie anniversary three days ago, I simply felt the need to honour it somehow. Why? It's another favourite masterpiece, The Emperor's New Groove!

I already drew Yzma two years ago, but I decided to watch the movie again and try to recreate all her amazing outfits. As you can see, I made only two more, so I guess the remaining three will have to wait for some other time. I drew new Yzma's versions using parts of the original lineart, mostly for her face and the pose in general, but I still had to finish everything else.

I agree that calling this movie a masterpiece is a bit farfetched, because there were many problems with the production and it was a flop according to Disney standards, but it got new fans over the years and became a kind of a classic. And so I got hooked, too!

It's not a typical Disney cookie cutter movie - there's a funny theory it's the most WB's Looney Toons movie Disney will ever make. 😄 But there's so much more to love about it: the humour, 2D animation, buddy-buddy dynamic (Spade/Goodman), a scene-stealer Kronk (Warburton), Perfect World by Tom Jones and unforgettable Eartha Kitt as the villain Yzma! 😍 I was first introduced to this amazing singer and actress while watching her as Catwoman in 1960s Batman reruns, then came the year 1994 with the successful Eurodance remix of her hit "Where is my man" and finally The Emperor's New Groove in 2000.

Yzma is such a cool villain, unapologetically (im)perfect in everything she does. She is often a laughing stock because of her looks, but although she could take one of her transforming potions and choose a better image, she believes she's perfect as she is and she shines with her bold choice of ridiculous outfits. That's why I believe I'll return to this subject one day and finish her other versions.

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Grace (Startup Company)

Yay, I've managed to draw another Grace before the end of this year! I hope you know what I'm talking about, but if you don't, it's one of my personal art challenges: drawing every Grace from Josh's videos on his YouTube channel "Let's Game It Out".

Grace is a recurring name across his videos, where characters with this name often appear and get relentlessly tormented by Josh. You can even find a whole list named "Games where I torment Grace" on his channel. He always finds creative ways to ruin this character's life or job, as well as the whole game (he plays these games the wrong way on purpose). Of course, they don't look the same (for example, in Raft she's a shark!), it's all just in the name, either given randomly by the game creators or Josh himself to make his videos more entertaining.

And this one here is a special Grace, because she's actually the one who started it all, on April 25, 2019! As I mentioned before, Josh didn't choose that name himself, the game Startup Company named her Grace Cross and the legend was born! There are 18 of them on his playlist and this is my 7th drawing:

+ Startup Company

- Rescue HQ

- Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up

- Project Hospital

- Oxygen Not Included

- Flashing Lights

- Meeple Station

- Arcade Tycoon

- Flotsam

- Two Point Hospital

- Crossroads Inn

+ Planet Zoo

+ Foundation

+ Good Company

+ Raft

+ Parkitect

+ Parkasaurus

- Big Ambitions

You can find all 7of them in my gallery (they're marked with + on this list) and hopefully I'll get to draw the rest soon... ish. 🤔

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Treasure Planet

It's no secret that Treasure Planet is one of my favourite Disney films, so it's strange that I've never drawn any fanart. Not that I haven't tried... I've started some sketches a few times throughout the years, but there was always something strange about the process, so I never finished them. As the movie came out on November 27, 2002, last year's 20th anniversary was a perfect opportunity to try drawing again, but although I thought I had a great idea, I struggled with Jim's pose, the whole composition looked like so many similar drawings all over the internet, so I gave it up again. But this year I finally decided to finish it and although I'm happy I did, I never thought that the process of creating something I love could bring me so much pain and suffering. 😄

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Influenzers

There's a saying "A healthy person has a thousand wishes, a sick person just one.” While I was waiting for this one wish to come true, I came up with the idea for this drawing. It's a result of a word play: "influencer" sounds similar to "influenza", so I let my imagination run wild and ended up with what you see here. I'm not sure if it makes sense, but I had fun creating this illustration.

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Dar-Vell (GRDI-Verse)

It's been a weird month so far. I've been sick for 20+ days and still can't see the end of it or get a reasonable explanation. So, apart from forcing me to be more creative in battling exhausting symptoms, it also prevents me from seeing The Marvels at the movies. I know, many would say not to worry, I didn't miss much, but in this time of superhero movie fatigue, MCU is still something I hate to miss. 🤷‍♂️

So no real fanart before I see the movie, but I just couldn't keep still. It took me more time than usual because of dealing with three consecutive illnesses or their combination or some kind of new mutated illness, but I managed to draw another character from my ever-growing GRDI-Verse. It's my avatar with Carol Danvers's powers, Davor Grdobina from another universe, who didn't become the new Spider-Man but Captain Dar-Vell!

The moment I got the inspiration, I knew I had to combine Captain Marvel's latest redesign and Superboy's '90s costume. They're pretty similar, both of them wear a jacket and sport similar colours. I also chose Carol's mohawk and that strange piece of cloth that doesn't have any purpose but it looks cool fluttering in the wind (which is one of my favourite things to draw, including a scarf, a headband etc.). Plus, I drew it in the shape of the symbol for infinity, which is pretty self-explanatory when it comes to Captain Marvel's powers.

P.S. It seems I can't keep avoiding major spoilers because "some people" think that "the movie is out long enough for everyone to see" - well guess again, you... people! 😡

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Martial artists

This weird combination is a result of playing with Jazza's Arty Games application again. I was trying out the random character feature and created six prompts just for fun. Two of them were kind of similar, something about fighters - or more precisely - "a weak martial artist with long black hair that is obsessed with cheese" and "a fighter's apprentice with the ability to fly that can't keep off their smartphone", so I decided to create this unusual duo.

I've always admired artists who can cleverly incorporate any given prompts in their drawings, for example Jazza or the Drawfee crew, but I must admit I struggle with it sometimes. While I'm happy with the apprentice, the martial artist turned out really weird. I decided to interpret "weak" as "clumsy while using shurikens" and I presented his obsession with cheese by his choice of clothing and also as part of his training process - he's trying to hit a stack of cheese with shurikens and accidentally knocks it over... I'm not sure if it's imaginative enough, but that was my best idea for this piece. 🤷‍♂️ I believe I've had much better ideas over these decades and some of them are among my proudest works, but no matter how brilliant or awful something turns out, the result is usually the same (lack of acknowledgement, low interest, a few likes etc.). So I'll just accept this drawing as it is and move to the next one.

But on the other hand... while the martial artist feels and looks like some kind of a failure, I'm very satisfied with the apprentice's design, so I'll probably make her a hero in my GRDI-Verse saga as Davorachnid's ally and friend. 👍

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Nightclown & Sailor Titan

Halloween may be over, but as I was sick at the time (curse you, damn TN!) and couldn't complete everything I had planned, here are some "leftovers". It's a redraw of two of my Halloween monsters from 2020 whose designs I liked the most.

You've already seen them, in fact some of you helped me create them. It was a Six Fanarts challenge - I chose six spooky creatures and asked you to suggest any familiar characters I could combine them with using Jazza's Arty Games radom generator. I was particularly proud of these two combinations, DC's Nightwing + Killer Clown (aka Nightclown) and Sailor Moon + Annie from Attack On Titan (aka Sailor Titan), and decided to draw them from head to toe this time (the original ones had to fit the Six Fanarts template, so there was no need to draw the lower part of their bodies).

BTW, I finished watching Attack On Titan (the finale came out last week), so drawing Annie was some kind of a goodbye to this beloved anime. I can't believe I didn't draw more AOT fanart throughout these 10 years! I admit the unfolding of the story kind of killed the initial mystery (I definitely didn't see it coming!) and although everything made sense in the end, the first season remains an amazing masterpiece that I've already watched several times so far.

The anime also introduced me to a band called Linked Horizon and their unforgettable hits like "Guren no Yumiya" and "Shinzo wo Sasageyo!", which found their permanent place on my playing lists. 😍 And not to diss the "dub-lovers", but I always prefer watching movies or shows in their original language. Maybe it's easier for me to both read the subs and follow the plot because that's the only way we've been watching everything for decades here, but I like how Japanese sounds and although I don't understand it, it seems more natural while watching an anime.

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