ART ART ART

Oh, and because I'm such a fucking egomaniac and can't get enough from being the center of attention, I need to use the one free night I have in ages, to put myself even more into the spotlight. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me....
Me did some new Marvel covers and hopes you like them. Or hate them. I love hate-mail as well. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me....


Me, the magnificent me.

I like laughing about myself the most

I consider myself to be the biggest contradiction of the century. The cooler I think I am, the more I realise how much of a douche bag I am. One morning I wake up and want to rule the world, the next second I take a crap and understand that I'm just full of shit. It's like plucking nosehair, it hurts as fuck but the excitement about every hair that you pull out just makes you do it over and over again.


Your two-sided cheeseburger!

2006 - A year in review

OK, I swear to god I didn't predict 2006 to become the most fulfilling and successful year of my life. I don't know how so many things accumulated at once, sitting here looking back I can do nothing but marvel about it. I'm trying to process what happened here so you guys can actually laugh at my lucky ass, while I'm still sitting here shaking my head in amazement.

1. So, things kickstart off pretty crazy in febuary, when I made a trip to germany to visit my friend Nic Klein (fucking awesome artist | check his work on www.nic-klein.com) and hang out with him for a while. One night in the kitchen he challenges me to some cheezy art match, redesigning classic Marvel Villians. Because there is a retarded nerd hiding under my otherwise exalted appearance, I end up redesigning 18 original X-men characters who can be seen here:

X-MEN REDESIGN

I post them on some boards on the net once they are done. They get into the fangs of some hardcore comic fans, who start ripping them apart. People are actually brewing shitstorms against me, I get tons of beautiful hate-mail with recommendations on how to improve my designs skills, if I ever want to make it in the comic industry. Well, well, I think to myself, let's go better eat a sandwich :D

2. Next thing you know I get a call from Marvel. Somehow the X-Men redesigns managed to be seen by the editors in charge and they are offering me a job. I'm like "whoa"! I already keep laughing to myself about all the haters, the flamewars and whatnot, while I'm getting the chance to start working on my first cover gig. X-23, check out the final a few posts below.

3. Right at the same time I meet the girl of my life. It's may now and as if the Marvel gig and my day job at Massive Black isn't enough, I run into the one person I want to spend the rest of my breathing days with. I gasp. For the first time in ages, I am actually freaking out every single minute during the day. I roll around sleepless, we talk on the fone 5 hours a day, I can't eat, can't talk to noone, and on top of that, I'm so sure she's the right one that I want to marriy her on the spot!

4. I gotta move back to Europe I say. Everything starts hammering down on me when my girl and I trip to Berlin in the middle of the World Cup and spend the most beautiful summer ever together. Germany is exploding from the sheer mass of soccer fans coming from all corners of the planet to watch a ball being kicked from one end of the field to the other. We're exploding from sheer love. But will I be able to leave my friends in San Francisco forever? Will I be able to kick my conceptart job just like that? I don't care. She is the only thing that matters to me and if I have to fucking live like a poor drunkass in Jakarta with her, peeling fishcrust from my last tooth just to survive, I don't care. I just know that Love matters more then anything else.

5. August. So, I quit Massive Black and make my way back home. Bye bye San Francisco, I didn't like you anyway. At the same time I'm 6 covers deep into Marvel. They are testing my strengths and my weaknesses, when at once they come along offering me a 3 year exclusive contract. I'm like "whoa"!

What a fucking timing, my ass!!! I can move back to Berlin and have a secure job??? What a lucky fucktard I am!!!

6. Fast forward to december. I get our new Studio set up, headquaters for my better half and me in europe's most beautiful metropolis. I travel back and forth between Berlin and Belgrade, setting up shop and feeling peaceful at the first time in ages, even though everything rushes by in hypervelocity. In the time from august to december, I manage to add another 30 painted Marvel Covers to my portfolio. A feast that I wasn't even sure I was capable off. Guess you got nothing to fear if you got the gear? Or nothing to loose if you have the booze?

Anyways, I keep pushing myself to the limit, and my girl is the nectar to my success. I wake up every morning with my hands on fire. I want to create 24/7. She is my muse, my inspiration and my will to make the impossible possible.

7. Still december and things are spinning out of control now. Together with my friend Thomas Murphy we found the company SIXMOREVODKA Ltd&co.Kg, an art label and publishing facility, focusing on creating high end art books, prints, merchandise and fashion with a spin. Website, Artbooks etc. hit production behind closed doors and will be unveiled on the internet in a month or two (You better keep checking back on updates right here).

8. My DVD goes on SALE. Finally. Next thing you know you can buy Marko Djurdjevic Action-Figures with different clothing styles. I'm happy it's done, I'm happy it's over. And there is still sooo much left to do. I need to fly to San Francisco for the next Workshop, BUT FIRST, I need to do what a man needs to do...

9. ...GET MARRIED! I make Jelena my wife. Because she is the best thing that ever happened to me...

Long story short, it was quite a year. And I have the feeling this is just the beginning. 2007 may come, I'm braced for impact :P

DVD on SALE

So yeah,
it's THAT time of the year again!
Christmas is approaching and your wallets are filling with money and you're trying to figure out what to spend it on. Well, here's the perfect solution. Get me on DVD. My Character Design/Ideation DVD that I made early this year is finally on sale and waits for hungry customers to buy it. The disk easily contains 3 hours of instructional Character design, me drawing and designing 4 characters from start to finish, quick tips, a documentary part about my life and work as well as a portfolio gallery showcasing a ton of my work.
It really came out awesome.

You can check out the trailer here:
TRAILER

And buy it here:
BUY!

All of the above for
45,00 $

Enjoy!


M

NEW MARVEL COVERS

I'm in a rush lately and have neglected this Blog for too long. I spend more time on trains or in airports these days, sleeping in seats that are made for sardines instead on humans, plucking nose hair, eating plastic vegetables and drinking double espresso mixed with Red Bull. I can't remember a time where I slept less. It seems like for every problem I manage to solve 5 new ones pop out of the blue, waving their skinny arms in the evening breeze. I looked over the horizon yesterday and found nothing but some sleeping pills. Everything is good as always...keep on smiling and see the world spinning. Dance monkey dance, the days go by, the moon is full, the end is nigh.
Oh yeah, two new Marvel covers just got released. I still need to fix some stuff on the first one. Will post the final here later.

Hellgates

I woke up with a pimple on my forehead this morning. BEWARE, IT'S THE MARK OF THE DEVIL! Spent the first half of the morning squeezing that little S.O.B. out of my pores, watching the yellow worm press trough my skin and curl around in agony. Maybe my body is a rotting paradise, and pimples are hellgates into the inferno that rests within me. Speaking of hellgates, I made this picture for a game called Hellgate: London earlier this year. Also worked on the concept side of things and created some of the demons for the game, which is supposed to be released by Flagship Studios sometime soon. Flame on!

Serbs and French

What do serbs and french have in common?

French drink wine, serbs get drunk on slivovitz.
French eat frogs, serbs sustain themselves with pigs.
French are born with artistic skills pouring out of their veins, serbs wage wars and yell alot.

I could go on like this forever, but still I heard a couple of times that french people actually like serbs. Well, I'm serbian, and I have a very special french friend that I want to spotlight today.
His name is JS Rossbach, aka Living Rope, and I've been loving this guy from the day we met. I draw my hat in front of his artistic vision and consider him one of the best designers alive today. This guy needs some serious applause for his skills, talent and sheer will. He is also one of the sweetest guys in existence and my astrological polar opposite. Hail the Leo who conquers all.!
Check out his work, dive into his imagination.

http://livingrope.free.fr


Enjoy!

Marko

Bad luck!

Whoa, it's the end of the week finally!
I had some crazy dipshit action going on for the past couple of days, really nasty bad luck that accumulated into a behemoth of stupid situations I found myself in. I guess it's cosmic Karma or some other stupid joke played by elder gods from beyond the horizon. I actually can't wait for the new week to begin. Sun shines bright on mondays.
A paparazzi caught me on camara while I was doing grocery shopping yesterday. A herd of cows applauded, a lightbulb nearby exploded out of sheer terror, mexican terrorists hanged themselves, ants were chanting the german hymn to bystanders and I ate my french bread.
Bad lucky me...