Nicholas Kole

how do I pick 😡

i need to draw pokemon for my sanity and sense of wellbeing and I need to do it aggressively

ty for your service 🫡

Artists writing & illustrating their own ongoing webcomics or graphic novels are braver than our troops and they deserve our unwavering honor and respect 🫡

Good, Fast, Cheap Venn diagram

The only way to survive in comics, at least as I see it, is absolutely to embody the middle of this Venn diagram, you know… where it says “this doesn’t exist”

AND…there is very little out there to match it creatively- comic artists do it all, late into the night, at incredible speed. The sense of ownership and control of your own voice is intoxicating.
The gap between your wildest storytelling ambitions and reality is almost entirely down to your ability

Being a comic writer/illustrator was THE original dream, out of art school.

Learning this in the months after graduating broke my heart- I felt denial about it for years, but everything I’ve seen since continues to bear this out. Comics is the hardest work going, for the least pay on offer 💔

Did a little model of @nicholaskole.bsky.social's dragon 💙

Granted!

Who am I kidding, had to do the set

Concept art of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite by Claire Hummel, showing several versions of her outfit

"but we need to iterate on a bunch of ideas so our artists need to-"

concept artists have been iterating on ideas for decades, they're trained to do it efficiently

if you as a company want to sacrifice quality for quantity then that's on you, and it WILL show in the product, it WILL look sloppy

Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"

wrong

I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI

get good

Good job team!! 🤝

AND SHE SHALL LIVE!!

MUCH WILL DEPEND

oh I mean I can't tell 😅 every competitive online shooter looks awful to play to me, this tempts me more than any of them

what else?

Who am I kidding, had to do the set

new pokemon starter!

Gawwww I love her

I just think he’s neat

But I don’t play FPSes so maybe they truly are missing their core audience? Does it look like a gamer mouse and a european vape shop and a crypto site and an ad for a really cool new keyboard I don’t need? Yes!
I think it still kinda rules, something should look like this

It’s definitely the only fps I can think of that has tempted me with art style. Maybe OG overwatch back in the day, the original concept art for Destiny, and this.

Nah that dude is gross

Something needs to champion this aesthetic and establish it as a tentpole in the industry, imo it’s important for other work to be able to push off from & respond to it. Yes it reminds me of a lot of bad things (vapes, nfts, gamer chair) that have similar aesthetics but…they took a dang swing 🫡

Whatever happens, it’s the best looking fps in the space and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

Karla needs help, I think we can knock this bill out together right quick

WELL yes but also *career

I’m definitely taking care! The brace is mostly preventative and I’ve done a lot to make my setup as ergonomic as possible