Nicholas Rubatino
@nicholasrubatino.bsky.social
Chapter 2 of The God Labs starts with bathtime for The Boys. #illustration #godlabs #digitalpainting #graphicnovel
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Chapter 2 of The God Labs starts with bathtime for The Boys. #illustration #godlabs #digitalpainting #graphicnovel
Went straight into working on chapter 2, but every once in a while I've been messing around in Krita. I really like Krita so far and might be tempted to do a whole chapter in it instead of photoshop. #krita #illustration #digitalpainting
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Went straight into working on chapter 2, but every once in a while I've been messing around in Krita. I really like Krita so far and might be tempted to do a whole chapter in it instead of photoshop. #krita #illustration #digitalpainting
The God Labs Chapter 01 is released! It begins right after The Satan Killers and is around 70 pages. It is meant to be read in guided view horizontally, panel by panel, but do whatever you want!!It's out!!! #godlabs #graphicnovel #illustration #digitalpainting #comic
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October 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The God Labs Chapter 01 is released! It begins right after The Satan Killers and is around 70 pages. It is meant to be read in guided view horizontally, panel by panel, but do whatever you want!!It's out!!! #godlabs #graphicnovel #illustration #digitalpainting #comic
a.co/d/flUS1kF
a.co/d/flUS1kF
Dr. Fiona Katsubana talks a bit about her backstory. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel
September 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Dr. Fiona Katsubana talks a bit about her backstory. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel
Made a reusable cup sleeve out of an old belt! Also I just finished all the photoshop paintings for chapter 1 of The God Labs! 70 pages; going over it again then doing the layouts in the kindle software next. #starbucks
September 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Made a reusable cup sleeve out of an old belt! Also I just finished all the photoshop paintings for chapter 1 of The God Labs! 70 pages; going over it again then doing the layouts in the kindle software next. #starbucks
September 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Going through old artwork I found the original Crow and Raven background. Put a few items around for scale #crowandraven #ink #illustration #evangelion
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Going through old artwork I found the original Crow and Raven background. Put a few items around for scale #crowandraven #ink #illustration #evangelion
August 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
August 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I finally got an actual HM-2! Of the HM-2s I've made the Boss sounds most like the Aion HM-2 clone. The one on the right is Dunwich Amps 2021 edition and also is awesome with a lot of control and versatility. #guitarpedals #diypedals #HM-2
August 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I finally got an actual HM-2! Of the HM-2s I've made the Boss sounds most like the Aion HM-2 clone. The one on the right is Dunwich Amps 2021 edition and also is awesome with a lot of control and versatility. #guitarpedals #diypedals #HM-2
An example of the process, going from ink to pencil to photoshop. Hieronymus leads a press tour to spark interest in volunteers for The Gate to Heaven. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
An example of the process, going from ink to pencil to photoshop. Hieronymus leads a press tour to spark interest in volunteers for The Gate to Heaven. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
Another idea for covers, complete non-sequiturs of events that possibly never happened, like this nice May Day outing. I finish finished all the pencil drawings for chapter 1 and I'm around page 21 of 71 with the photoshop paintings. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
July 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Another idea for covers, complete non-sequiturs of events that possibly never happened, like this nice May Day outing. I finish finished all the pencil drawings for chapter 1 and I'm around page 21 of 71 with the photoshop paintings. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
The first page of The God Labs. Now that I have some momentum my goal per day is to complete one page in pencil and one in photoshop. That's the aspiration but it depends on how complicated the scenes are, if they can share backgrounds, etcetera. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel
June 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The first page of The God Labs. Now that I have some momentum my goal per day is to complete one page in pencil and one in photoshop. That's the aspiration but it depends on how complicated the scenes are, if they can share backgrounds, etcetera. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel
Another Cover Idea, looking at the God Labs tower in the reflection of Remus' helmet. I was thinking of making all the covers all have a reflection of the tower, but I'll probably do a variety instead. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
June 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Another Cover Idea, looking at the God Labs tower in the reflection of Remus' helmet. I was thinking of making all the covers all have a reflection of the tower, but I'll probably do a variety instead. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
Another cover idea. Like the monolith except with the sun coming in from the bottom instead of the top. I finished roughing in all the pencil drawings for chapter 1 and am about half way through cleaning them up, started working on the photoshop paintings too. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
June 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Another cover idea. Like the monolith except with the sun coming in from the bottom instead of the top. I finished roughing in all the pencil drawings for chapter 1 and am about half way through cleaning them up, started working on the photoshop paintings too. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
A week ago we spread my childhood friend's ashes at the beach we all spent a lot of time talking about stories we were going to make. I always thought his art had an interesting and unique look, even his final drawings still had his familiar style, just much scribblier. #mspaint #drawing
May 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The God Labs opens with a touching and beautiful Satanic Funeral Service. I like that you only need to know the title of my last book to have most the context for this. #godlabs #illustration #drawing
May 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The God Labs opens with a touching and beautiful Satanic Funeral Service. I like that you only need to know the title of my last book to have most the context for this. #godlabs #illustration #drawing
Been meeting my quota to finish 2 pages of the pencil drawings per day, and working on a cover here and there too. I call this the "Cool Fiona" cover. #godlabs #illustration #drawing #bonezone
May 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Been meeting my quota to finish 2 pages of the pencil drawings per day, and working on a cover here and there too. I call this the "Cool Fiona" cover. #godlabs #illustration #drawing #bonezone
I thought it might be good to start with introducing the characters in a Pseudo Tree of Sephiroth style. When I looked up Köse I found it meant 'beardless' so I thought that was appropriate. Kelvin is from my favorite Tarkovsky movie Solaris. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
April 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I thought it might be good to start with introducing the characters in a Pseudo Tree of Sephiroth style. When I looked up Köse I found it meant 'beardless' so I thought that was appropriate. Kelvin is from my favorite Tarkovsky movie Solaris. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
It is written. 8 years late, but The God Labs is finally written. I counted, and at the cinematic 3 panels per page I'm planning it is 725 pages in 10 chapters + a coda. I'll be doing each page in pencil then doing photoshop paintings from that. #godlabs #illustration #writing
April 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
It is written. 8 years late, but The God Labs is finally written. I counted, and at the cinematic 3 panels per page I'm planning it is 725 pages in 10 chapters + a coda. I'll be doing each page in pencil then doing photoshop paintings from that. #godlabs #illustration #writing
It's amazing how long it takes my hand to feel better, then how quickly it hurts again when I start using my tablet. Working on writing the last few pages of the last chapter of The God Labs #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
April 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It's amazing how long it takes my hand to feel better, then how quickly it hurts again when I start using my tablet. Working on writing the last few pages of the last chapter of The God Labs #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
Did a drawing of a lady at in IBM terminal in the 70s then I got bored and drew a sharkgirl. I'm a little over halfway done writing the last chapter of The God Labs #illustration #godlabs #digitalpainting #drawing #IBM
April 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Did a drawing of a lady at in IBM terminal in the 70s then I got bored and drew a sharkgirl. I'm a little over halfway done writing the last chapter of The God Labs #illustration #godlabs #digitalpainting #drawing #IBM
Converted my thermometre to Kelvin, which I think should be the standard, that way no one is happy! #metric #kelvin #absolutezero
March 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Converted my thermometre to Kelvin, which I think should be the standard, that way no one is happy! #metric #kelvin #absolutezero
Just started writing chapter 10 of The God Labs, which will be the final chapter. I thought about opening it with a dream of a line of people jumping into a Hellmouth in the woods rather than The Gate to Heaven. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
March 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just started writing chapter 10 of The God Labs, which will be the final chapter. I thought about opening it with a dream of a line of people jumping into a Hellmouth in the woods rather than The Gate to Heaven. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting
March 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM