Part of my new carousels series! I’m sorry, but these are not available for purchase online. Reblog, please, don’t repost! <3

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if i look back, i am lost
Misplaced Lens Cap

oozey mess
DEAR READER
we're not kids anymore.
Xuebing Du
Sweet Seals For You, Always

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Peter Solarz
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
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NASA

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Cosmic Funnies
trying on a metaphor

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Part of my new carousels series! I’m sorry, but these are not available for purchase online. Reblog, please, don’t repost! <3
Part of my new carousels series! Reblog, please, don’t repost! <3
Part of my new carousels series! So far I have Ariel, Belle, Jasmine and Sally done. Moana’s up next. :)
New piece, called ‘Going Home’
Ramping up for Salt Lake City Comic Con in 2 weeks. Anybody gonna be there? :)
Hi, I love your Doctor Who art of the tenth Doctor and companions and I was wondering if you have one for the Eleventh Doctor :)
Hi, hun!! I do! Check NikkiWardArt.deviantart.com, I have it posted there! :) Thank you!
On Cartoon Maturity
These are the cartoons I personally grew up on. They were fun, they were colourful. They had variety - action, mystery, comedy. But nothing really developed.
One of the main unifying cartoon formats was to use the medium to be zany, silly, and comedic by depicting impossible violence. Each episode was self-contained; an issue would be set up, hijinks would occur, and by the end everything would be exactly the same. There were some occasional new introductions when the same jokes got stale, but usually to the detriment of the show. Most of the time, a cartoon world was held in statis, an impenetrable status quo to uphold gags. Humour was the absolute name of the game. Everything had to be funny, or building up to be funny. Some of these cartoons were old enough and insecure enough in their own format, they actually had laugh tracks. And most of the gags revolved around bad things. Things you could technically label as ‘negative’ - antagonistic relationships, goofy injuries, family disputes, exploitative behaviour.
…And then along came anime.
After the 90s, anime popularity exploded. There were far, far more good examples than those pictures, these were just my personal set. No more random, contextless violence - anime gave all that physical harm a plot and a purpose, as well as weird fantasy creatures, robots, and aliens. It was still zany, but it added one thing the cartoons I’d seen as a kid never had - drama. Despite having the most absurd design choices ever to beam into our TVs, anime plunged into drama at every possible moment. Animal sidekicks helped you deal with separation and loss. Fight sequences resulted in actual deaths. Characters emoted on screen, got angry or upset, for understandable reasons. For those of us thrown into teenagerhood it was exactly what we craved - cartoons like the ones we knew, but with the wrenching, overblown drama we saw in our own lives. It didn’t matter that it was about alien robots from the past or inexplicable hair. We loved it.
And these are the cartoons I’m delighted to see currently being produced. We broke out of the idea that cartoons were all for young children who don’t follow a story. Now we have multiple shows with ongoing plots - and I don’t know how many people realise how amazing that actually is. It’s actually viable for a cartoon to hold back on detail reveals, to develop cultures for nonhumans or fantasy humans, for characters to develop and learn and change. I NEVER had this when I was young. I may not be in the age group seen as the target for cartoons any more, but I can still enjoy these and don’t feel at all bad for doing so. Cartoons are great now, and I’m so happy they’ve evolved out of what they were before and becomes stories of real characters, real personalities, with plots and not avoiding drama for the sake of comedy, with artistry in every area of the work, the designs, the environments, the music, and all the little hidden touches. It’s like the creators aren’t afraid any more to openly care about their creations, they can sincerely write something that moves them and that they want to share. 90s cartoons were fundamentally insincere and insecure by comparison, an art form that was afraid to be serious or require sustained interest after 15 minutes. I’m so glad for the way cartoons are developed now and how they can command such dignity by being sincere and dramatic, and promote messages of respect, caring, and loyalty.
So. Much. This.
art is hard work, in case nobody’s told you today
Art is hard work, and it is often unreasonable to come home from your day job or your school or both and then sit down and expect yourself to be a creative font.
Art is hard work. If it’s especially hard for you today I want to remind you it’s not because you are lazy, but that art is hard work.
My newest print, ‘The Lion and the Rose’ just in time for San Japan this weekend.
Oh, Rose Quartz. I love you so much... <3
Hey, friends! We Love Fine is hosting an Adventure Time T-Shirt contest, and four of my designs are up for rating! It would mean the world to me if you could please go to We Love Fine and vote for my designs - I am such a huge Adventure Time fan as most of you know <3 Thank you so much! <3 <3 <3 Here are the links to my individual designs:
Steampunk Adventure Time Shirt “BOO!” PB and Marceline Shirt Fionna in Oooland Shirt Kung Fu Fionna Shirt
Reblogging to boost the signal! It would mean so much to me to win! <3 Adventure Time holds such a special place in my heart <3 Someday, I hope I get to work on the comic or on a cover for the comic, too. :)
I would love your help on this, wonderful tumblr friends! Voting is still open! Please reblog this, and vote my designs 5 stars if you want to see them become shirts! I would love to see my dream come true of my artwork being chosen for an official Adventure Time shirt <3
I completely forgot to post this. I made a thing! This print debuted back in June at Amazing Las Vegas Con. The voice actors of Sailor Moon were there and I gave them each this print :) They were incredibly nice, was a good experience. This is a t-shirt and stuff here.
Hello tumblr friends. I really need your help, please!
Four of my designs are entered in an Adventure Time T-Shirt contest hosted by the lovely We Love Fine! This contest means a lot to me, as I am a huge fan of the Adventure Time franchise and an artist - It is my dream to someday have the opportunity to work on the comic.
You can vote three times. Once with a WeLoveFine account, once with a Facebook account, and once with a Steam account. It also helps if you comment on my designs to let the judges know that you want to see these become real life t-shirts!
It would mean the absolute world to me if you would please go vote for my designs! The higher the rating, the more likely the design will be chosen by We Love Fine!
Here are the links to my designs: http://community.welovefine.com/m/contests/design/38665 http://community.welovefine.com/m/contests/design/38865 http://community.welovefine.com/m/contests/design/38663 http://community.welovefine.com/m/contests/design/38473
Also, if you could please kindly reblog the crap outta this, that would be amazing!
Thank you all so much. You are my heroes <3
Hey, friends! We Love Fine is hosting an Adventure Time T-Shirt contest, and four of my designs are up for rating! It would mean the world to me if you could please go to We Love Fine and vote for my designs - I am such a huge Adventure Time fan as most of you know <3 Thank you so much! <3 <3 <3 Here are the links to my individual designs:
Steampunk Adventure Time Shirt “BOO!” PB and Marceline Shirt Fionna in Oooland Shirt Kung Fu Fionna Shirt
Reblogging to boost the signal! It would mean so much to me to win! <3 Adventure Time holds such a special place in my heart <3 Someday, I hope I get to work on the comic or on a cover for the comic, too. :)
Somanydesignersdothis.psd
Every. Single. Time.
imnotkiddingthistimeFINAL.psd
Hey, friends! We Love Fine is hosting an Adventure Time T-Shirt contest, and four of my designs are up for rating! It would mean the world to me if you could please go to We Love Fine and vote for my designs - I am such a huge Adventure Time fan as most of you know <3 Thank you so much! <3 <3 <3 Here are the links to my individual designs:
Steampunk Adventure Time Shirt “BOO!” PB and Marceline Shirt Fionna in Oooland Shirt Kung Fu Fionna Shirt
When you can’t do the lineart
My life
All day, every day.
Hey, friends! We Love Fine is hosting an Adventure Time T-Shirt contest, and four of my designs are up for rating! It would mean the world to me if you could please go to We Love Fine and vote for my designs - I am such a huge Adventure Time fan as most of you know <3 Thank you so much! <3 <3 <3 Here are the links to my individual designs:
Steampunk Adventure Time Shirt “BOO!” PB and Marceline Shirt Fionna in Oooland Shirt Kung Fu Fionna Shirt
Hey, friends! We Love Fine is hosting an Adventure Time T-Shirt contest, and four of my designs are up for rating! It would mean the world to me if you could please go to We Love Fine and vote for my designs - I am such a huge Adventure Time fan as most of you know <3 Thank you so much! <3 <3 <3 Here are the links to my individual designs:
Steampunk Adventure Time Shirt “BOO!” PB and Marceline Shirt Fionna in Oooland Shirt Kung Fu Fionna Shirt