MaaaY...

Another Post.
Slim pickings once again. but hey, the show must go on.
And the news from my life...
My brother is sure fun to have around. He has a couple of weeks of his visit left, and I already know I am going to miss him quite a bit once he departs.
Last time we truly spent some time together was when he was 14, so meeting him again at the age of 28 sure was fun. I realized we have heaps in common and he is truly a resourceful person.
Two things I've learned from him so far:
1- All the electrical equipment runs on this thing called blue smoke.
Proof of that is the fact that once the electrical equipment releases blue smoke, it stops functioning.
2- Should you choose to test the dept of a bucket filled with sulfuric acid by putting your bare hand in it, you will discover that, no matter how deep you push your arm in the bucket, you can not reach the bottom.

:)

He's really cool.

Anyhow, in regards to other stuff, I saw that game called GTA 4 and I have discovered that the main protagonist of the violence fest that it is is a fellow countryman named Niko Billic.
Fucking awesome.
All that war and all those lives lost are finally paying off!
Who could hope.
Now all the geeky kids who dream about stealing cars then fucking some whores and shooting them in the head afterwards, or even better- running them over with their vehicles, can do that while playing in the shoes of some thug from the old country.
Yes geek kids, go ahead do it.
Fuck yeah!
I wanted to see more gameplay but apparently my fancy neighbor's kids with their fancy color TV have issues with people standing on their front lawn and peeking through their window at 11 PM, so long story short, now I have a brand new restraining order and a federal police record.
It sucks when it happens for the third time in one month.
Anyhow.
That's all for today.
Ah, yes, I also discovered this mexican dude called Bazaldua or something, who does illustrations for this Mexican pornographic magazine called Chambeadoras, and I loved his work, so for my next post I want to try some of that style.
Hope it happens soon.

Cheers to you all,

Milenko

Woo-hoo, two posts in one month!

Now, how cool is that?
Ha?
I have a lot to talk about, but it's 2 AM now, so I will just upload this here sketches.
If you expect something cool and sweet, you could and will get disappointed...
Ah well, I will update the post with more stuff tomorrow.
Cheers to you all and thanks for visiting,

Regards,

Milenko

Holy crap!

it sure was a loong time.
Well, what can i do?
I have a perfect excuse- I forgot how to draw and I had to learn it from scratch again.
And I am not joking.
On the other side, My brother has arrived from the old place and I want to spend as much of whatever little time I have left from work to be with him and catch up on 13 years of stuff.
Having him around has been fun so far :)
Also, stuff at work is draining all the juice I can gather, so it's been tough this last month or so.
I also have spent a week in LA , due to some company sponsored research, and what an experience that was!
Well, not really.
Hollywood is kind of smallish, so I ended up fairly disappointed.
And the rest of LA is ridiculously big.
Dude.
Anyhow, I will talk about this and other stuff much more next time.
And here's a bunch of digital sketches based arround sme of the collected reference images of Monica Bellucci, which I may or may not have stolen from the message boards of Frank Cho, very boards I may or may not have been trolling for some years now.
Anyhow, I am not sure about getting the likeness, for all I cared she could have been anybody, I just liked poses and colours.
And I had fun.
All done in 2 evenings, a couple of hours each time.

Anyway,

Will talk here again soon,

Thanks for visiting,

Milenko

Laame!

Bunch of sketches.
My shame.
Nowadays, I sketch so little, I have to resort to posting half arsed jubble which I scraped off the lunch napkins telephone notepads and toilet paper...
I also finished "Hero in the Shadows" and it was awesome!
it was also the last Gemmell's book I had to re-read.
Aaawesome!
Also, a funny story, or just half of one: I have this habit of putting stuff behind my ears. Usually it's cigarettes, pens and pencils stationary and stuff, but another day, I lost my mind so much that i tried to put a sandwich behind my fucking ear. I got mayonnaise all over my hair, but I could not be fucked to wash my hair again, so I just put the cap on and went to work.
At work, I made myself a cup of coffee, and proceeded to smoke my fucking Staedtler brush pen, one of very few I still have left. After I realised what I have done, I replaced pen with the cigarette, and all was sweet.
But then, half an hour later, i went to the toilet and freaked out when I saw that my lips were totally black. I did not realize that the cap on the pen fell of brfore I've put it in my mouth, so I was walking around the office like an idiot with black painted lips and no one said anything, I guess because my misery was bringing them joy, or because I looked as if I got sand in my vagina, and no one wanted to upset me further...
Aanyhow, that's it.
Apologies and promises of better work next time,

Cheers,
Milenko

Quickie

This is a quick PS sketch (by quick I men about an hour and a half) based on a photo of a girl who calls herself Lacey.
I believe she's a fellow artist who's young and likes to take photos of herself.
I liked this one, there was something about the atmosphere in it when I saw it so I decided to have a stab at making it worse :)
And I succeeded, bringing more misery to my anyhow screwed up life.
As for the rest of my life, let's see...

My funds are totally depleted, because I wanted my younger brother from the old country to come and visit me and the rest of my family here,and, unfortunately, Australian immigration office had decided they do not trust me, being the filthy Bosnian- Australian rat that I am, and demanded I deposit $8000.00 as a security bond, which they will keep to themselves, should my brother try to make a quick buck here by cleaning toilets or mixing concrete or should he miss his plane home.
At first, I was angry, being treated as a second class citizen, a liar and a cheat, and even the attempts from some of my Aussie friends who tried to explain to me how such measures were necessary since my kind can not be trusted, could not cheer me up.
And then I thought about it a bit more and said "fuck it all!"
And fuck you all you cockheads who find it necessary to fucking explain to me why it is as it is and why it is justified action for the government to fuck me in the ass.
Anyhow I took another personal loan to get the money I needed for the deposit, being forced to take $1300.00 bucks worth of the "loan protection insurance" which was put on top of the amount of my loan so I pay interest on that amount as well, and now all is sweet and mellow in the land of Milenko.
Also, since financial burden and fucked up life full of mortgages and shitheads selling you crap you do not need is not enough to beat an idiot such as myself in submission, healthwise I felt like shit for the past few months so I went and saw a doctor, did blood tests and found out that fucking Hashimoto autoimune malfunction is banging my thyroid real good, and now I have to take fucking tyroxin to bring it back to some sort of normal level.
To top it up my body good cholesterol levels are shit, I have fucking chest pains and joints on my fingers are sore as hell and all that pisses me off.
And yet I live another day.
God , if such a being exists, must be pissing himself laughing, and I am his joke.
Whatever.
Anyhow, it will all pass and get better, or it won't. I do not give a fuck.
On a positive note,
Me, LF Webber and Lachlan C are having some sort of intimate art exhibition somewhere here in Brissie called "three tenners", as there is three of us and we are submitting 10 pieces of art each. We will be trying to flog the art and squeeze some buck out of it. In my case, I will charge at least a hundred bucks a piece. I decided to donate the money to the "Milenko's self preservation fund" meaning that I will try to hide it from my wife and kids and use it to purchase some goods and services which should help my tortured and malnourished body to regain some of it's strength and flexibility.
Also, my wife nowdays looks better than ever (at least to me), still loves me, and my son has got himself a girlfriend.
Awesome.
Anyhow, this has been a long rant and I feel like sleeping now, so...

Cheers to you all,

Regards,

Milenko

Ah , man, it's been soo long

eh


I am glad this thing is still here :)
First of all, apologies to anyone still stopping by for not posting anything in a month or so.
Reasons are many.
It was a break, I turned 38, got depressed, got the whole lot of David Gemmell's books as a birthday gift from my lovely wife, and I just could not put them down, so instead of drawing, I spent all my spare time reading.
It was a wonderful experience, almost like going on a vacation in a place and time that never was, and observing the lives of some awesome characters.
Druss the axeman aka Deathwalker.
Waylander the assasin.
Lion of Macedon.
Jerusalem man.
These are only a few of the shady heroes that can teach you about honor and heroism, supported by hundreds of others.
David Gemmell, it is truly a shame you went away so soon.
May you rest in peace, and may you know that your words still bring me joy.

Anyhow.

I will say more when my mood gets better and I hope to update from now on on a weekly basis.
As for the work I share here, it is pretty lame, but all I scraped for this occasion.
A bit of a lifedrawing, some sketches, and not too great digital painting.
Ahh well it's only the beginning of 2008, and I hope that my skill gets better and I pick up the pace :)

Cheers to you all,

Milenko

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Cheers and everything.
Kind regads,

Milenko