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
🎨: 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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Nicholas Kole
@nicholaskole.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Something to pin, I think- a sampling of some of my favorite recent(ish) work!
I'm a character designer, except for when I'm an illustrator, which is all the times I'm not a teacher, and the rest of the time I'm...asleep ✨
I'm a character designer, except for when I'm an illustrator, which is all the times I'm not a teacher, and the rest of the time I'm...asleep ✨
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oh i had this realization once
January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
oh i had this realization once
A DM has been sent :))
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 AM
A DM has been sent :))
SO- to that end, anyone out there have experience with different printing methods/platforms? I'm looking into Printninja, but I'd love to vet it and get a really solid sense of the quality and folks' experiences!
This year I am going to make not one but two physical art books, or so help me 😤
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 PM
SO- to that end, anyone out there have experience with different printing methods/platforms? I'm looking into Printninja, but I'd love to vet it and get a really solid sense of the quality and folks' experiences!
oh thanks for the heads up! She's moved her site to a new address www.erikaschnellert.com and I just hadn't updated my link- I'll do that now
January 4, 2026 at 8:56 PM
oh thanks for the heads up! She's moved her site to a new address www.erikaschnellert.com and I just hadn't updated my link- I'll do that now
Hell yeah that’s a great drawing
January 4, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Hell yeah that’s a great drawing
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
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I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
January 3, 2026 at 9:13 AM
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now.
happy new year everyone!
happy new year everyone!
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 AM
while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now.
happy new year everyone!
happy new year everyone!
This year I am going to make not one but two physical art books, or so help me 😤
January 1, 2026 at 7:42 PM
This year I am going to make not one but two physical art books, or so help me 😤
And it’s just the google doc from the server
January 1, 2026 at 7:40 PM
And it’s just the google doc from the server
Print. Books.
What are your art ambitions for 2026? Make sure to post them here so we can publicly shame you if you achieve none of them!!
January 1, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Print. Books.
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Happy new year to all the artists who haven't had time, energy, passion, or any other needed resource to draw enough personal stuff to join end-of-the-year memes in 2025. May we find more of all of the above in 2026, as well as compassion for ourselves if we don't!
January 1, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Happy new year to all the artists who haven't had time, energy, passion, or any other needed resource to draw enough personal stuff to join end-of-the-year memes in 2025. May we find more of all of the above in 2026, as well as compassion for ourselves if we don't!
2025 was *brutal*, in all those personal hard to explain ways I don’t really share online.
It was also marbled with love and little moments of sweetness that made it survivable. I don’t know if I have the right to expect better in 2026, but I’m gonna look hard for the love
It was also marbled with love and little moments of sweetness that made it survivable. I don’t know if I have the right to expect better in 2026, but I’m gonna look hard for the love
January 1, 2026 at 4:57 AM
2025 was *brutal*, in all those personal hard to explain ways I don’t really share online.
It was also marbled with love and little moments of sweetness that made it survivable. I don’t know if I have the right to expect better in 2026, but I’m gonna look hard for the love
It was also marbled with love and little moments of sweetness that made it survivable. I don’t know if I have the right to expect better in 2026, but I’m gonna look hard for the love
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Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
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The petition calling for #Everhaven 's return has reached 10K signatures. There are voices. Voices that Forte intentionally ignores, but many others can see. Others that include investors, game studios, etc. #BringBackProjectDragon #ProjectDragon #cancelledgames #cozygames
Signez la pétition
Bring Back Everhaven (Project Dragon) - Phoenix Labs
www.change.org
December 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The petition calling for #Everhaven 's return has reached 10K signatures. There are voices. Voices that Forte intentionally ignores, but many others can see. Others that include investors, game studios, etc. #BringBackProjectDragon #ProjectDragon #cancelledgames #cozygames
Legit a good reason to start watching
December 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Legit a good reason to start watching
Haha no it’s a genuinely fun watch imho
December 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Haha no it’s a genuinely fun watch imho
let me tell you I will never get plurbed, you cannot plurb me no sir, don’t like those plurbs at all and you can quote me on that
December 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
let me tell you I will never get plurbed, you cannot plurb me no sir, don’t like those plurbs at all and you can quote me on that
Pretty sure the plurbing from pluribus is what the shiny glasses man wanted to do in evangelion. Get the definite feeling that plurb is just the regional term for orange instrumentality goo
December 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Pretty sure the plurbing from pluribus is what the shiny glasses man wanted to do in evangelion. Get the definite feeling that plurb is just the regional term for orange instrumentality goo
I’ll cremate it and sip it down as microplastics in your memory
December 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I’ll cremate it and sip it down as microplastics in your memory
The bread used to be cheaper and the circuses were more entertaining
December 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The bread used to be cheaper and the circuses were more entertaining
Posting a reply to this bc I can, to rub it in the face of the angry babies who can’t reply
December 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Posting a reply to this bc I can, to rub it in the face of the angry babies who can’t reply