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Nicholas Kole

@nicholaskole.bsky.social

Character Designer & Illustrator, Jesus-follower, married to Erkshnrt 🎨: Spyro, Crash Bandicoot 4, Disney Lorcana, Sonic Prime, Wingfeather Saga https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/3952-fantasy-character-design-in-procreate/nkole www.nicholaskole.art

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A dragoness with orange scales sits on a grassy hill and looks into the distance at the mountains. The evening sky, a full moon rises above the mountains

#runasolarisart

A dragoness with orange scales sits on a grassy hill and looks into the distance at the mountains. The evening sky, a full moon rises above the mountains #runasolarisart

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03.03.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1856    πŸ” 592    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 1

These words are designed to slide off of our brains and be forgotten.

Say it plainly: No murdering children overseas. No locking up children in concentration camps here. No pedophiles in government or any positions of authority. No Republican freaks inspecting children's genitals.

03.03.2026 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 922    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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Hell yeah this rules

03.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Huh? No, I definitely want the sun around as late as you can manage in the winter, mornings can kick rocks

03.03.2026 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Let’s see, a new pinned post maybe.

I am an illustrator and I also make pictures with my own hands for animation and games sometimes.

02.03.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1892    πŸ” 456    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 3
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holyyyy shitttt dude, parody is impossible, they are the cartoon version of evil we used to think was too stupid to be real

02.03.2026 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 877    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 9
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To Slay the Great Regurgitator

01.03.2026 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7952    πŸ” 2766    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 17

i was! only in the final volume- I was in book 8, and it was a real honor

01.03.2026 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
27.02.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8561    πŸ” 2939    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 11

Oh no I have so much to do but I HAVE to draw the cute pokemonnnnn

27.02.2026 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, I tried a keyboard years ago, and a macro pad once and none of it stuck

27.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah! I think my iPad is about just a little over a year old or so by now? Work replaced it for me when I joined up at my current studio! But before that upgrade I was clinging to an aging and well loved 2nd Gen pro with the pencil you had to charge in the port

27.02.2026 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

*RUDE*

27.02.2026 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh heck no, procreate all day every day!

26.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I bet a lot of students & fans are out there thinking β€œman __ used to be so good, then they tragically stopped posting & fell off” when actually the people they think vanished into artistic irrelevance got so successful that everything they do now is secret and they have no time to perform in public

26.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

A horrible wrinkle about the (wrongheaded) idea of peaking as a professional artist is that (if it were a thing), within the system that exists- like statistically most of us would be quietly peaking and falling away behind the curtain of a thousand NDAs and that’s- that’s-

26.02.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

LMAO see I was *destined* for this career even then

26.02.2026 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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dang it, I was trying to share my cringe highschool harry potter art with my friends

26.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

woahhh did discord just implode for everyone?

26.02.2026 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

This man HELPED

26.02.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah! iPad Pro- the 12+ inch version!
And you’re right- Spyro and the Wingfeather saga were two of the earliest big projects I took on as iPad-only. At the time I really needed to be able to travel flexibly, and it stuck

26.02.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lmao apparently πŸ˜‚

26.02.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haha yeah I love coffee, I make my own espresso and I’m a huge snob about it I will never give that up πŸ˜…

26.02.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sofa corner is where I paint! the desk chair is mostly for emails and meetings

26.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very observant! I’ve been iPad-only since 2014! Packed my cintiq away a long time ago

26.02.2026 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha!! No it does that, but that’s a feature not a bug

26.02.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

when in canada, get a goose they say

26.02.2026 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My wife made it for me!! From a Michael's wooden ball 😭

26.02.2026 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

hey, little sporadic social media posts are like a nictotine patch to the discord's pack-a-day power to sap away time and we both know it

26.02.2026 07:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0