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|| nic || they/them || general art blog || some writing- & worldbuilding-related drawings || currently fixated on: naruto 🍥🦊 || main: @no-nic

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hi! i'm nicolas (nic for short), a self-taught artist from czechia 🇨🇿

my likes vary but art remains:

art goals for 2026

make a multi-page comic

draw better backgrounds, in perspective

take part in three zines or similar projects

run an event

copy of the tag system page under cut (if you can't find it under the main header)

art goals for 2025

draw a short comic (at least a full page) ✅

take part in three zines or similar projects ✅

learn to combine ink and watercolor effectively ❌

speed up digital drawing process ✅

stretch goals (as in "it's a stretch")

record art timelapses ❌

increase blog followers by order of magnitude ❌

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tired of endless scrolling? looking for a thing but the search function would deny its own mother? worry no more!

by technique

traditional art – typically touched up a bit digitally, most pictures taken with iphone

digital art – before you ask, i use photoshop cc 2015 & xp-pen tablet (star 03 i think, 10 inch)

mixed media – mostly older pictures, major digital coloring & editing

by fandom

tolkien – the lord of the rings, the hobbit, the silmarillion, whatever by jrrt. older pictures, the obsession subsided. temporarily. much fëanorian content

naruto – yeah. send asks to my main if you want a rant.

death note – symbolism

neon genesis evangelion – actually don’t talk to me about this one before you read my short fics (ao3 link)

attack on titan – huge design potential

doctor who – doo wee doo

good omens – older art

steven universe – only mcu crossover ocs (gemheart au)

gravity falls – unashamedly an old man fan

the witcher – hundreds of hours on the witcher game. yes, the first one. i spam igni, exploit the meteorite loophole to get swords without losing material, and follow the elf route because i always forget i can’t romance yaevinn.

fullmetal alchemist – (chimerahood au)

misc

gift art – pictures i intend to frame and throw at family members as gifts

nic art [main blog, opens in new link] – reblogs from here + messy stuff

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the backstory for her so far:

naruto canon-typical organ trafficking

iron lung canon-typical prisoner treatment

met god. was impressed. was scared. was turned inside out and pieced back together anew. just because she is alive doesn't mean she isn't dead.

"you are safe now," they tell her, under sky and among trees. for a moment she thought she reached heaven, but that was just wishful thinking. the god is within her, watching

#irin lung au; playing with my toys... for every simon saved from the lung au there is an equal and opposite reaction...

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got out of one death cult obsessed with trees, only to then drop into konoha ^^

experimenting with comics. decided to give rin her own dead obito variant!!! is she this everything-is-perfect!obito's replacement rin? or was there never any nohara rin here at all?

#irin lung au; the rin escaped the lung. it gets worse

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alternate phm movie universe where eva stratt sings prayer in c at the karaoke night while maintaining intense eye contact with grace

(see, our world is slowly dying // i'm wasting no more time // don't think i could believe you // (...) // and see the children are starving // and their houses were destroyed // don't think they could forgive you)

any wings sprouted later are unrelated

(full lyrics under cut)

yah, you never said a word you didn't send me no letter don't think i could forgive you see, our world is slowly dying i'm wasting no more time don't think i could believe you yah, our hands will get more wrinkled and our hair will be grey don't think i could forgive you and see the children are starving and their houses were destroyed don't think they could forgive you hey, when seas will cover lands and when man will be no more don't think you can forgive you yeah, when there'll just be silence and when life will be over don't think you will forgive you — prayer in c (lilly wood & the prick)

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two-page spread for the LeviHan Zine

@levihanzine

it's been a joy to work on this project; my first physical zine i got to hold! 💚 and we've donated over 1,200 dollars to PCRF! 🧡 i'm not super active in the attack on titan fandom anymore, but it was a big part of my formative art experience & the art produced by this fandom overall is excellent.

left side: warm world, levi in colder colors (hange in the background) right side: cold world, warm levihan

see the saturated outlines on everything, the main stylization in this piece? all traced by hand because the photoshop tool wasn't working with my vision. a moment of silence for my wrist please (since recovered) then applause for one of photoshop's default pencil brushes (carried most of this piece). also there's a tree in every other zine piece i've made; i just keep doing this to myself

earlier workspace:

full spread:

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breaking though the atmosphere etc

new watercolors can do some wild shit. fun granulation. "dark blue shadows" truly dark as fuck. testing them on good paper first. metallic paints to be unwrapped. stay tuned for more nonsense

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javorník ~ ??? ~ červená lhota ~ ??? ~ ??? ~ loket ~ karlovy vary

tiny paintings of aesthetic places in czechia ( found through @allthingseurope ) & random other parts of the world (pinterest); testing out new watercolor set & handpicked pans 🎨

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new profile picture! 📸

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an encounter 🍊🪢

secret santa gift for @chinnuri

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taking passable photos of drawings in metallic frames & behind glass was the most difficult part of this 🏞️🌳⭐

i'm a terrible hoarder when it comes to cheap photo frames. these were 30 czk per piece; that's like one small soda from a vending machine.

an attractive picture enticing you to visit the north cascades national park in washington state, easy to reverse search (christie fitzpatrick, 2022) 🍁 vs 🍁 an often repurposed pinterest classic i finally sourced: putorana plateau, krasnoyarsk krai, siberia. i hope (kirill uyutnov, 2014)

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i like to make fun of old man madara sitting in a cave, but that's just to distract myself from how devastating those obito flashbacks are.

in pain, covered in bandages, missing an arm, confronted by a creepy man who claims to be a legendary rogue ninja and talks about debts and stealing his sharingan... he just wants to go home!!!

his only thoughts are about kakashi (he already imagines how cool their combination attacks will be now that each has a sharingan) and rin (to be protected at all costs)

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i can't believe kakashi invented the put lightning chakra in your hand no jutsu. you'd think someone in the land of lightning would have the idea first, but no, our pre-teen genius is on the case!

(less than 2 hours = sketch)

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nov 13: corpse 💀🩸

ghost | memory | corpse

second day of rin week 2025 features the girl in her natural state: dead & impactful

you can tell by the presence of typical blood-from-mouth, which is a common signifier of death. also the hole in her ribcage 🕳️💔

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a lovely bouquet of flowers 🥀

how was the manga? i have three pages of notes written in miniature font. what do you think

ok so the tshd zine reportedly had like 500 artist applications. my chances are about zero. just give me the rejection email so i can stop checking my inbox every hour...

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🦋 theory time 📃

water + earth = mokuton

water + earth + wind = mokuton + wind = paper?

-> konan has a kekkei tota (like kekkei genkai but with three nature types) but she has more important things to think about (also her bestie has the legendary rinnegan)

but canonically she is even more impressive. she just came up with all that paper bullshit! weapons & clones & butterflies & the pièce de résistance: six hundred billion bombs no jutsu

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sakura & sasuke & the worst exams ever

taijutsu prodigies

basically impossible written test

general aura of bloodlust

snake freak distributing visions of violent death & evil hickeys

naruto is there!!! in extra annoying mode

my damn inspiration is one random still from a music video (love wins all by IU) & two manga panels

& a blue-pink gradient map just for them

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please ignore the stray hair; i can't take another photo because the picture got split into two gifts 🏞️✂️

my patented method:

find suitable frames; 5 minutes

measure and mark the actual picture size, because whatever the frame is promising? always bold lies; 5 minutes

scroll pinterest for a reference, check if it's even a real photo, get it in the biggest resolution available; 20 minutes

procrastinate; 120+ minutes

decide on an art medium; 15 minutes

blank out while watching youtube, follow the reference while inserting your own ✨vibe✨; ???

pat yourself on the back, document your success, cut it out, frame it, offload it on a family member (or two) as a birthday gift

source: lake of the angels, washington