Fashion of the pattern

I'd imagine these shapes floating out of a fashion designer's head at all times.

1960's style Op art

Some assembly required...

This how I've worked for years now. I pencil & ink my work in various pieces usually on to three to four pages of paper. Then I scan them all into the computer and do the layout in Photoshop. I suppose my background in Ad design now lends to my control freak nature (the only thing in my life were I have this "OCD" problem) where I can completely manipulate the drawings. I'll do some abstract water colors to round out the eventual background of the image. The Soldier Goose and the Maple Seeds will all make sense in a couple of days. Nah... it will still be confusing I suppose...

BABOON!

A quick illustration printed on acrylic.

Silly.

What are your thoughts?

Relearning watercolors

I did some watercolors with my Aunt on Saturday. We essentially just played all afternoon. She has a great teaching style, no pressure. She taught me to lay the colors down loose - and let them dance together, it was very relaxing.

IF: Unbalanced

Hello Mr.Kickree!

One year of throwing things up... to see if they stick.

So I’ve been posting on this blog for a year now. I cannot believe how lucky I am to live in a time period where I can display my art for free to the public. Also thanks to all of you for your inspirational comments over the last year, it really keeps me going.

Cheers,

Nick

IF: Skinny

Poster

I think I maybe becoming the promo designer for July Fighter.
Its a pseudo anaglyph. I didn't want to make it too unreadable.

Finished... whew!

500 kids - 6 tons of candy given.
My company also donated $400,000 to the B&G club.

Back to normal posting of my personal art

Set up at the Boys and Girls club in Boca Raton Florida

Mounting the vinyl on gator board.

350 feet of vinyl, 45 sheets 4X8 gator board.

Illustrator Files

8x8 feet

Small Scale Models

Still around!

Hello all.

Just to let you all know I haven’t abandoned this blog. I’m knee deep into the largest project of my professional artistic career. My Art Director wants me to wait until it becomes public domain in late October, then I can post it all.

Cheers,

Nick

Trial by Fire

Photo Shoot Number Two

I know this is my drawing blog, but this idea has been kicking around in my head for awhile. Luckily my musician friend Nick Rod, let me run wild with the big self recording little self concept.

Foray into photography

I was graciously asked to do a photo session with my friend’s band July Fighter. I had a lot of fun, and the guys were easy to work with. The vinyl sticker was designed by me. I had some worries it wouldn’t stick but after the nervous application (and a few winkles) it stayed up.

I had the guys hold the sparklers up, and it made a heart shape. It made the photo shoot for me.

IF: Tango

Sea Monster

Thanks ArtSparker.

ugh...

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whatcha got there?

Panera sketches

I had some down time waiting for my buddy to get off work, so I drew my Mediterranean veg sandwich and a creepy mist eyed freak. Don't go see Transformers2, while ILM did a bang up job... the rest is a complete mess.

Embrace/ Reunion 2

Protect the young one!

Busy couple of weeks. Work has been eating up all my art time, plus I've been having scanner driver problems... I rely too much on it to get my drawings on the computer.

IF: Unfold

A quick five minute IF.
Lots of Friday projects to do...

A Character Study

It seems I've been on an alien kick for most of my life.
And now I'm planning a short comic on a concept I've been brewing on for awhile.
More later.

A new variation drawing

More about my dream I had the other night.

This little punk kid kept shouting louder and louder, and a word bubble began to grow.
Out popped a strange teal alien. It couldn’t talk, but it tried to communicate with me by pushing shapes out of his head. I started to get dizzy and woke up.