Fun fact is that I never learned how to play with skateboard and I always feel like I don’t have it in my legs like I do in my hands. Some of my friends were skaters back in the days, so this can also be homage to them. In the last few years I made a bunch of artworks with similar elements, and some of them contained a part of laboratory. Now there’s a really great number of artworks from a few different series that I am considering taking all of those artworks and making them into some future series. It all started inspired by some sci-fi movies, and some futuristic artworks from the 70's & 80's a few years ago and I would never have thought that it will continue until now. I’ve opened my old archive and took one drawing out from back in 2018 which featured just one character, and said to myself why don’t I use it and make it into a regular drawing. Now I have more time to experiment and to check my older artworks… I started this one in summer of 2018, but it’s finally finished. I rarely draw skateboards in my artworks, but this one I really like, because it’s an old type of skateboard that we all used to have as kids, I just added some extra wheels.

There’s a guy on the right side looking out of the small window, which is more like a prison window, or maybe it’s a reference to everyone who is in a quarantine, I am not so sure… Also, on this drawing I drew a vinyl record cover and I am pretty sure that that was the first time I put it on the drawing. This shape of the UFO I’ve already used on few of my other drawings, and I like how it looks here in black ink on white paper. Street lights were directly inspired by the area where I grew up, I guess they’re from the late 80's or early 90's, and they bring back a lot of memories from my childhood. These street lamps were practically everywhere — around the buildings and in all streets at that time. There’re also some more details on this drawing connected to my childhood period, but I will leave that up to you. БЕДА•ЈЕЗА

I often combine one water color with black ink to refresh myself and then I can go back to classic black ink drawings again. For this drawing, I started with one, and then added another color and thought it would be great to add one more… In the end, it’s always great to try something new. This is probably one of the first times that I combined ink with more than just one color, if I remember correctly. For sure, this will not be the last time. I would like to try the same process on my new ink drawings in the near future. There’s also some influences from several animated movies from Japan, as you can see. I love the crew that’s following the prince on this unusual unicorn, and these plants with orange fruit, I don’t know why but they remind me of figs.

First drawing of the 2021. 2020 was hard for everyone, but you made it easier for me as an artist, and I really appreciate that. I don’t have any other jobs, so all that you see here is what I actually do, which is create my artworks. Here’s one drawing that I started, if I am not mistaken, in December 2019, but unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to finish it before. There’s also 20−30 half way done artworks in my archive, all waiting to be finished. This is probably my best homage to Jan van Eyck, maybe some of you will not really get what I want to say, but this drawing is hugely inspired by some figures from his paintings. The subject is of course a part of my narrative and so is the title of this drawing. English bulldog is a portrait of a real dog Taki, who is part of our family. There’re elements, such as plants, inspired by some regional folk art from, and also some details from the basement of the building in which I grew up. Some details are results of longer process of things and trying to keep an open narrative inside the drawing. Some details are probably working well with winter holidays, and I like that part a lot.

One older drawing. I don’t know why, but it reminds me of the path to this moment, the struggle, the danger, and battle… no matter which side you’re on, everyone is in danger… seems something like that to me. I remembered that I started some artworks inspired by sci-fi for the first time during the winter of 2012, and it was all miles away from today’s drawings. But let’s say it was the first root towards the today’s direction. It took a lot of steps to be here from the point when I have started. I like this big white beast and also the scene with laser guns and the blue-skinned gorillas and all those scared faces.

Mostly in the past, one year or so, all my ink drawings didn’t have a deeper second and third plan and perspective, and it was more of a narrow space and compressed details. As you can see, this one has some more background space depth, but is still full of details. Character with afro hair and mustache is inspired by some 70's ex-Yugoslavian fashion moments and I like how it functions with this cyber-robo clothes. I had to put a star makeup on his eye — it’s actually an iconic KISS makeup, but communist party in Yugoslavia used a red star symbol, so that’s why I put it on the face of this character. Other funny detail is the front of a car where there’s no brand logo of that car, but instead of that I put small globes. It’s ridiculous… Some details are too complex to explain, such as animals, a dog with mohawk, a dead fish on the road, a frog on top of the car. I will try explaining the frog character: it’s rooted in old video game called Frogger, but also in the fact that I loved holding frogs in my hands as a kid and tons of times I loved to just watch frogs in nature. I must say that ink gives a lot of possibilities, not just for how you draw, but also which tool you will use it. Mostly my ink drawings are drawn with liners/isograph that can be refilled with ink over and over again. And I love the fact that there’s real ink inside, not just some black liquid that becomes gray on daylights. This is one of the reasons why I don’t use markers. I don’t want to name all the professional brands that I used in the past and did some tests during summer. There were a few different professional brands and for all the color changed 70% or even more, except the color of paper. Ok, back to real ink and make it simple, you’ll live and sleep easily, believe me.