I had this idea or feeling for a drawing where an array of beasts with fangs tear at eachother but one of them, the (at least somewhat) human, not giving a gaf and doing a quirky ironically shocked youtube thumbnail pose

I genuinely dont remember why i used dante from devil may cry for this, i think because of the vague overall message about humanity that he carries in the games, chosing to embrace his human side and being unapologetically human, not in the cynical "imperfections" sense but in the sense where humanity means to be unapologetically kind-hearted and hopeful more than anything else.

And especially in dmc4 dante has this very nonchallant carefree attitude towards the horrors he deals with and i really like that

Idk theres something about how he only shows his fangs when he laughs at stuff

The world sometimes seems so incomprehensibly nonsensical and cruel you rlly have nothing else to do but just laugh?? Like wow i live here. How absurdd
The prospect of people reading a childrens bedtime story, specially one of those old ones that were scary as shit and had actual gore, and siding with the literal most cartoonishly evil monster is so utterly stupid, pathetic, maddening, so ABSURD and MORONIC that you just have to point and laugh atp. Sometimes it feels like the world is ran by insecure incel 4chan /b board users who jerk off to gore and unironically think the joker is cool and epic and they think being cool means wearing a comically large golden chain with a pimp hat fedora and a car worth 90% of their fortune and a corny ass 30k watch and having abs and a hot blonde chick with huge tits who they cheat on every millisecond and that being a soulless heartless creature with no empathy is like the most based thing ever like genuinely how do you not just die from laughing what the fuck even is this world.

I guess this is why i love Dante as a character and the DMC series as a whole so much, he is literally the coolest mf by definition, have you seen a single cutscene of this mf from ANY of the games? He breaks shit and kills demons with a motorcycle sawed in half and uses the halves as swords, but hes not just breaking shit for the sake of it or even out of anger, its all in the service of what he believes in: love, even Dante's Divine Comedy which at least is where the names of Dante and Vergil are taken from, has a popular interpretation where Dante (the writer who is also a self-insert in the book who travels trough hell and paradise) sees god and realizes the true nature of it, which is: love, he sees the spark of love being reflected in every human being, and thus every human being has god in them, and in turn are within god. Dante Sparda is also the one in the game lore who embraces the human side of him and respects his father (a demon lord who married a human) for his ability to love Eva (Dantes human mother), while Virgil (Dantes twin brother) respects his father for the horror and power he posessed (or at least thats how im interpreting it rn)(i havent played all the games yet). And so i really love his attitude towards his existance and what he does, you literally play as him walking trough ancient gothic demonic cathedrals in hell while killing demons (which i interpret as humanity devolving into the worst version of themself, like a warning from the future, the true evil, which is a divinely monsterous detachment from humanity. Since the angels that appear in this universe are all also just demons but they just look different. Which i absolutely love, since i think religion is perfect grounds to detach yourself from your gritty humanity and yearn for something alien, something that is a complete other. Its giving "temporarily embarassed billionare" like noo angels are good cus what if ill be one of them if im a reallyy reallyyy good boy and then theyre just vampiric demons in disguise waiting to suck the life out of you to fuel their eternal beauty or some shit idk. Like yeah i can totally see how being an edgy cynic who thinks everyone sucks would lead you to desire some other ascended form which is alien, like an angel, which is ultimately just a demon but in white)
Conclusion: Being a cynical edgelord does NOT make you cool. Rant over

This is Boothill from the (gacha) game Honkai Starrail. In essence he is a character who has his family and planet killed by an imperialist intergalactic monopoly called "the IPC" ("Interastral Peace Corporation") and in his persuit of revenge he discards his human body for a robotic one, to be more capable and powerful to fight back against the IPC. Funnn

Two merch designs for a minecraft building event organized by twitch streamer Roscumber, raising money for type 1 diabetes! The mascot was a kitty called Panko, short for pancreas!
(the light blue kitty in the middle)

I stopped playing Genshin after Fontaine bcs i decided i hate the company and also the main story or any quest for that matter is just kinda ass and also... the

I drew this after waking up in the middle of winter and seeing the most brightly saturated, DEEP blue sky i have EVER seen in my entire life, paired with a bunch of glowing white snow reflecting back into the sky ! (which is becoming increasingly rare these days..)

Boothill from (gacha game) Honkai StarRail, Penacony story (Slumbernana fever dream questline)

Baby Boothil was supposed to be holding a gun here but i hate drawing mechanical things so i just kinda didnt, other than that i was happy with how this sketch looked so i didnt rlly bother detailing it further, i captured the peaceful expression of baby boothill and that was all i needed

Inspiration Cutscene - "Its a shame youre stuck in a dream. Cant lay eyes on the land i love. Its so gorgeous, youd be willing to die, right there."
Lowkey the last part of that scene is kinda cringe but lalalalalala i cant hearr

made with my classmates, if you like what you see you can find their awesome work here on their socials! :
// @menka_art // @persimmon._._ // @tinkarakart // @tommysketchbook // @jurc.art // @flisvanja //

The most whole picture of the entire zine that i have, we set this up for the usual academy exhibitions we always have at the end of each semester. The other pics with the orange background are from another exhibition we set up at Dobra Vaga in Ljubljana.

THE CONCEPT: we decided to make one long illustration depicting a city, divided into 8 sections, where each person could draw whatever they wanted with the theme "city", like different parts of a city or whatever else, leaving some space on each side so we could connect the illustrations together for a more seamless look. Then we got some lore where WE are part of a secret evil corporation that controls the city trough advertisements, honestly some of the lore is a bit lost on me bcs i was absent a lot during this time but its basically just a very chaotic city ran by an evil corpo - thats where the G logo comes from, its like supposed to be a sort of subliminal messaging together with the ads. So on one side of the paper we have our city illustrations that we combined and printed digitally, and on the other side we screen-printed a flashy pattern resembling the obnoxious color and flashiness of magazines or tv advertisements with the "NEW!!!" "20% OFF !!" type stuff, and on top of that is a bunch of ads that we drew up, sorta incoherently layered on top of eachother.
The exhibition space is then plastered with sketches and other random illustrations we could do individually to sorta flesh out the lore in the background if we wanted to. The city is called Gramfall, and the corporation as well i think? Idk why its called that but its 8 letters so each of us could draw one letter and tape it to the wall above.

The obnoxious magazine adverstisement background i made!

(photographs below are not mine)

Okay so my first idea for the city illustration was to pick the city graveyard and do something with that, i think i was in another one of my radio werewolf phases at the time lmao. Since we wanted to do something vaguely socially-critical with the city, i genuinely thought really hard about what i wanted to say here, and i landed on doing something with "retirement". My dad was just about to retire a few months after that, and his last few years at his job were straight up HELL. They deadass exploited the shit out of him, an old ass man. His job was all fine and dandy until the company he worked for got aquired by a bigger telecommunications company in 2019/2020, then everything went to shit lmao. Like 3 people were in charge of a telecommunications net spanning like 3 fucking cities, or a whole ass region in other words, ONLY 3 PEOPLE. So each had a neverending supply of work, but my dad is the eldest and most experienced out of all, so he was pretty much in charge of it all by himself since noone else knew how to do half of the shit. On top of that, they have like some sort of rating system for their work, idk man im not gonna go into details but crazy dystopian shit. "family-friendly company" oookay. Literally didnt even give enough of a shit to look for more employees or even someone to replace my dad after he retired, so now the TWO PEOPLE LEFT have ALL the work but okay anyway-

So basically both my parents worked so hard for their exploitative ass jobs it completely put me off of the entire thing, 40 years working like a dog to make someone else obscenely rich while your body and mind erode, just so you can MAYYBEEEE make it to the retirement age (which is being pushed higher and higher btw) where you BARELY have enough money for anything, and god forbid your health gets bad because then you spend your awesome retirement years writhing in pain and swallowing pills, barely capable of doing any work because yknow youre like fucking 70 years old.
Like idk man its such a scam, because literally every family gathering all i hear is "only 10 more years to retirement!" ?? Every single time its like a calculate retirement age club. I genuinely dont get it, if the retirement age was about 50, like how it was HERE literally 20 years ago, itd be fine, but dude.. 65 years.. at that point you may as well just put me in a casket and let me rest man.. if i even manage to make it to that age by some miracle! Who says i wont just drop dead in 10 years, and then what? Ill be fucking dead!

So this was a pretty bitter and frustrating inspiration for my project, and i honestly was struggling with it big time. I kinda wanted it to be light-hearted and fun, but with some dark undertones? So im basically depicting a bunch of pensioners living their retirement dreams, playing cards and talking, but theyre rotting and falling apart materially, kinda like the grandpa in front with the propeller hat playing mario doesnt rlly mean anything lmao, and the people sleeping in the catacombs in the backround are people who died before getting to retirement, kinda like a sinner not repenting before dying so he goes to hell because he doesnt "deserve" to be in heaven lmao, but at the same time i also wanted to present them as doing hobbies that they didnt have time to partake in while they were alive, so just chilling listening to music, reading, chilling in general, not concerned with everyday stress anymore. I deadass dont remember what i was tryna do with the two lover skeletons embracing ... there uhh is also the grim reaper, and also, uhhhmm uhh dracula and also braindead giants in grandpa undies? I guess the overall idea was this:

"The dream youve been working towards for 40 years is just an absurd fantasy", like a piece of propaganda telling you how great and awesome you are if you do this and that. I just dont find it a realistic goal at all, and im an idealist at heart dude. I would love to work until i die if my job didnt exploit the shit out of me, squeezing me out of every ounce of life and energy i have, but thats obviously not the case with most jobs. Even art jobs are jobs at the end of the day, but thats a rant for another day. Ultimately this drawing shows just how confused and bitterly chaotic my thoughts on this topic are (or were at the time). I ultimately decided to persue this idea because i saw a book cover somewhere online that said "How to find purpose in life after retirement!" with like a corny corporate photo that looked like an ad for fruit juice where two old people were smiling on a sun-lit grass field and it pissed me off to no end. "Purpose in life after retirement"??? Holy shit man.. do people genuinely make their entire life revolve around their job and have kids just cus they dont have.. like.. hobbies ? Yes! And it pisses me off, makes me sad! Horrible! What are we doing? 4 day work weeks with 6 hour days NOW!!!!!!!!! Retirement EVERY WEEK !!! If modern society requires this much suffering for it to work then it doesnt deserve to exist at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway heres a totally accurate to real life self-portrait of me if i was an evil (secretly undercover) corporate overlord!

I dont think i really took this project as seriously as i should have, like idk it turned out kinda ass but the bright red dramatic one is alr ig. The point was to make 3 illustrations of the same event (i chose a dream i had where i was rollerskating with the previous president of Slovenia and my highschool english teacher around a huge mall and then ending up in a giant cookie factory but my highschool english teacher already ate all the cookies once we got there) in 3 diff ways - an objective, dramatic, and comedic way. Idk it was kinda boring cus like.. yea dramatic means bright colors and crazy perspective, comedic means absurd, wowww groundbreaking education wowwa!!! When i was glueing together that last one i was asking myself what the fuck am i doing with my life like i couldve been studying something actually useful right now but im printing out silly cats from pinterest and taping them onto paper like what the fuck

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The sudden appearance of goblins may seem random, and thats because it is, i love these painting classes but goddamn.. it gets so boring at some point, i also get super hungry because this shit lasts for 4 hours and by the end of the first hour im just counting down the minutes until i can go home lol. The whole color experiemntation thing was also very much not working for me, idk i just cant do it. Everything kinda looked ass and instead of fixxing it i covered it up with a goblin and the professors didnt seem to mind so yeah. I bet my classmates think i was trying to be funny but i was genuinely losing braincells and was desperately trying to entertain myself to stop me from just leaving and going home, thats why you can see random shit in my paintings from drawing and painting class as well..

The folk tale i illustrated was from a slovenian village about a wolf who encounters a fox, tells her hes going to visit the king (lion) and give him gifts because he is sick, and asks her if she will visit him too. She says no and the wolf is on his way. The fox realizes that this sleezy ass bitch ass wolf will probably snitch on her to the king for not coming to visit him, so she hurries behind him before the wolf can snitch, and lies that she knows the cure for the kings illness, which includes cutting off the wolf's whiskers and tickling the king with them (idk)

This shit was driving me crazy bro i spent SOOO LONG ON THIS i had another moment of "what the fuck am i doing with my life spending literal weeks of my life drawing a furry folk tale" because it wasnt even looking right so yeah whatever. Honestly the colors and rendering look kinda crazy good but i didnt have enough time to gaf abou the composition so its kinda random and chaotic in that department. Also looks a bit stiff cus i focused so much on it looking pretty instead of it telling a story but ummm yeah

If youre wondering how i achieved this type of rendering/texture, its with normal student grade acryllic paints and a 10 year old paintbrush which has like 5 hairs on it and theyre all bent into an L shape bcs i keep forgetting my paintbrushes inside my water cup for weeks on end.. anyway so basically you just put some paint on, for the base colors/larger fields of color you use some water but then for the details you use NO water and just apply the paint DRY and do circular motions with the brush to blend it out and the texture of the paper does all the texturing for you, and if the brush isnt completely losing its shape and isnt practically begging for its life then youre doing it wrong

I really don care for FuXuan bcs shes boring asf ingame but i drew this bcs i liked her character design and because somehow i genuinely thought i had even a sliver of chance to win a Honkai Starrail fanart competition and get some money which is actually insane, i know, but i digress - when i checked out the website where the other entries were posted all the whimsy left my soul upon seeing multiple drawings of Clara (a child) with her dogs (bare feet) out, in suggestive poses, in the TOP RANKED ENTRIES (the entries were boosted by the community) and i never dared interact with the community again in this way

You can download the font completely free of use, here!
(there is no numbers or special characters but i will probably add them eventually)

The theme for this series of illustrations was to depict a passage of time. Originally i considered making a depiction of how beauty standards change troughout history, but then the professor said something about depicting an original character and how they chage troughout time and i was like yessss... but thing is, i had absolutely zero concrete conceptualizations of any OCs, i had some random quotes and notes written but i was nowhere near to starting to actually build the world and story and all i had was a passing note i wrote in highschool about a robin-hood type character, and for whatever reason i chose to depict this random ass nonexistent character who like.. starts off as a servant of the kings, then supposedly revolts and starts robbing them when he breaks free, then becomes a greedy son of a bitch, which is like.. i get the message but... oh boy... actually nvm what the fuck even is the message? Dont rob snobs because then youre just as bad as them? HHUUEEGHHGGHRHRHRGRRR (vomit hurl sounds) I HATE myself when im forced to shit something out bcs of deadlines brooo omg

Mister Beaster is cooking čevapčiči (i didnt get the chance to paint the čevapčiči on the grill cus i was lazy and i also lost the painting), ice king from hit tv show Adventure Time is trying to freeze the čevapčiči bcs he doesnt like čevapčiči but because Mister Beast is the antichrist he uses his demon powers to un-freeze the čevapčiči, thus they are stuck in an eternal loop of inedible čevapčiči. Shinji Ikari is very hungry. Behind them is a robber who is missing the lower half of his body and has no purpose in this story whatsoever. There are moon and stars out which means it is night time. Whitewashed Gunther is watching the events unfold as the forever-present witness of history. Mister Beast is shocked as always. If i had the chance to see this painting again i would for sure add neon green sound waves beaming from mister beast's cranium and a red circle pointing to an empty area in the room. Thank you for reading

Literally did not care about Albedo not even a little bit. Absolutely hated drawing this. Strange phase in my life..

Yuhhh what a perfect end to my highschool years, didnt even start thinking about the graduation project until 3 weeks before it was due, didnt show it to my mentor even once, experienced the single most stressfull week of my life while trying to draw a graduation worthy project in 7 days, and then got the highest grade somehow. The professors who graded me were very chill so i got lucky.

Here is the description / ideological basis of my project. Very romantic and stuff. The drawings dont really show the poetics i had in mind and are more akin to facebook comics but okay lol. Interesting that i still deeply believe by these words but they just hold much more meaning now since ive grown up, like.. back then they were kinda empty to my conciouss mind, but i guess subconciously i knew it was important to me to express this. Kinda cool? Might be a bit corny? (its an absurd conversation between the universe and humanity) Anyway here it is:

To live a human life is to find small meanings amidst the absurd.
I could listen to your new thoughts and discoveries for millenia, your curious ventures into the unknown, your bravery to challenge that which is stale and unmoving, and your unquenchable thirst for life.
You held the world in your hand and you molded it for yourself, you made it into something which does not exist, something new and exciting. You wrote stories of heros and villains and you made me love them both equally, made me care to see how their ventures end and start agian.
Creations were not meant to create. yet here you are, homosapien, hominid of hominids.
I could observe and wish to live like you, until the end of time. So when time ends, and space enters a new age, will you be there amidst this bottomless void, will you sit here in this abyss and sing me your songs, write me your poems as stars form anew around us? Will you be here with me and tell me stories of humankind, your brothers and sisters, will you tell me of the things which you have experienced for the last time, and see them goodbye as you close your eyes at your cousins birth, and welcome a new beginning? Tell me your stories, sing me your songs, speak to me about your poems, your love, your life, show me your creations, and let me be your audience - forever, and ever, and ever ,,
Exist with me, as what you have created into life and what life has created of you - has inspired our creators - homosapien, i love you, i love you, i love you. for finding this strange joy in your creation has inspired them to love the life they created trough your eyes

So live on, until the clock beats that fatal hour. when your life merely takes another shape. but as your mortal body decays back into the roots of the trees, your creations and your memories will live on for you, a monument for what once was (Her's reference haha.. anyway), in this small slice of time you inhabited so dearly, and changed the course of history solely by existing.

The actual english voice actor for Colt Grice commissioned this to sell as a print! (Griffin Burns)
Literally my first ever commissioned illustration, poor guy had to wait like 2 months for this bcs i was too depressed at the time to gaf and he kept requesting changes to his face and i totally get why now LMAO.
Also i am so sorry for drawing something as serious as a warzone as if its a melodramatic baroque religious scene where the guy is like sliding across the floor in slow motion and mogging you at the same time as bullets fly past him in slow motion and its just ummmm a bit weird. In my defence i was like 18 yo which is basically 12. The lighting fucks hard though, just not for a drawing depicting the stress of a warzone lmao my bad

i was so over working for quackity at that point i unironically drew him as a villain

i hate this one with a burning passion so its going in the comment-box of hellfire

This fucker (quackity) genuinely only picked the designs i made in 2 seconds bcs i wanted to make the sketch page look more full than it actually is, the duck is even ripped from sketchfab, i just rotated the duck and copy pasted the silhuette on with icons that are stylistically completely different, and the original color of the hoodie wasnt even like this, it was like some super saturated blue color that you see on 'boys toys', yk like that super saturated blue plastic color so it looked like the most fortnite skibidi rizz kid hoodie of all time AAHHH
And dont even get me started on the purple car design bro they fucked my shit UP bro the actual printed design was completely washed out and colorless, also on the brightest most obnoxiously purple colored fabric of all time and im so sorry to anyone who bought that abomination bcs it was actually supposed to look good TT and also literally why is it a front design, i swear none of this was my decision all the bad decisions werent made by me trust

i thought this went soo hard in 2021

inspired by eevee's music, i was obsessed at the time, specially "Lily" and "I believe in dreams", soo dreamy

this is what 10,000 pixels of pure cringe looks like

Literally my FIRST EVER commissioned work! For my favourite youtuber at the time! Wow!

A redraw of this image from like.. 2017 maybe?

later i redrew her eyes bcs i figured out that its like a cone shape or whatever and it changes soo muchh, like it actually gives her a soul

There was some story about humans ruining nature but i removed the text bcs i was 16 and it was cringe af (and it was literally just an Avatar rip off (the blue ones))

idunno whats going on with her lips either man

I did a redraw of the image below with my online friend at the time and i swear my knowledge of english wasnt very uhhh expanded

Digital footprint is NOT real and it cant hurt me (i became quackitys merch designer a year after this btw)