Nefarious Nightjar Arts

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[nightjar-jack]

𝕲𝖗𝖊𝖊𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖋𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖗!

My name's Jack, it's very nice to meet you. He/They, adult

Main blog → @nefarious-nightjar

✦ I am a traditional artist who loves collage work, sculpture making, wood working, painting, inks drawings, and much more! I don't often work digitally, but when I do I find it to be a very fun challenge

✦ I also like to draw fanart, because sometime drawing the blorbos gets you through the day :)

✦ Currently a full-time Visual Arts major perusing a BFA

✦ My asks and dm's are basically always open; feel free to say hi!

Tags!

Big updates and announcements are tagged under #updates Anything minor or un-art related under #jack rambles

I have now added year tags to all of my art pieces (be they in-progress or complete)! You can now search though my art by the year it was made. I may work on adding month tags in the future

Some other recurrent tags: #uni work #sketchbook stuff #digital art

Commissions: Currently closed

updated as of: 14-03-2026

All terfs, lgbt+phobes/queerphobes, ableists, racists, and other such bigots are NOT welcome here.

[nightjar-jack]

when your boss is pissed at the state of the space battle out front and he won't stop scowling at the jedi from behind your station

Tagging you @generalgrievousplzfuckme because I think you might find it funny to be tagged in the "big forhead grievous" posts lol (though do lmk if you find the tagging annoying and I'll stop 👍)

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well I guess I'm drawing grievous now

I don't know if I like his ears high or low :/

dang it both is better

[frosty-skull]

IM NOT LATE YET, ITS REVENGE OF THE 5th

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MORE

@generalgrievousplzfuckme for you, grievous with his even bigger forehead :)

:)

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Phantom Menace maul screenshot redraw

hear me out I just think he's really neat, fellas hear me out...

maul is my freaking chew toy right now. he means the world to me, and since I've been on a Prequels kick lately I thought I'd use him to both stretch my digital art muscles; test out how to download brushes, and learn to use the Multiply function! lot's of learning and fun with this bad boy.

oh also I wasn't sure which version to post so have this too–

:) <3

[nightjar-jack]

I'm back on my bullshit. love him and his big ass forehead..

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"Dire Consequences!" March 2026

variable size, matte vinyl and photo paper

From the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, Third-Year Project Exhibition "OK, Now What?"

"For this exhibition, inspired by a recent exploration of vinyl cut-outs, the work takes a step away from his more sculptural builds and leans towards a playful, text-based, and pattern-driven piece. With dreams of throwing caution to the wind and the absurdity of yearning for a want of reckless, childish joy; Dire Consequences! invites the viewer to imagine what causes can lead a person to the bizarrely fatal outcomes of kissing on coin-operated pony rides."

Click for better quality! Close-up's and my interview about the piece under the cut :]

Interview conducted with my classmate, whom I've labelled as "V" for her privacy

V: So, what from the initial joke inspired you for this work?  Jack: Outside of the murder and the dead body? I think it would have to be the casual, blunt absurdity of the joke. I found it quite compelling. V: How do you think you incorporated that into your work?  Jack: It feels silly, but when I started thinking about a casual sort of absurdity, I kept circling back to dumb meme’s and jokes you find online. There are pictures out there of really strange places, and someone posed the question of “oh, well what if we kissed at..?” say, the Brutalist McDonald’s Play Place..? Or on the Jouch..? And so on as people kept finding more absurd places and imagining more outlandish scenarios. But I thought, well, what if we (amorphous) did kiss in that absurd place? And what if we passionately answered the question and all that we left behind were fragments of the circumstances that led us there? So, I thought it would be interesting to put my brave little cowboy, James —a reckless little character I’ve used in past works to explore themes of nostalgia with— through a bizarre and fatal happenstance (much like the original joke), and leave it to the viewer to wonder how on earth he ended up there. V: Would you say that’s your intention for the audience?  Jack: Yes, definitely. I want my viewers to look at these pieces I’ve left behind, let them take the rains, and start imagining wild scenarios of what happened. I want them to have lots of fun with it —I’m explicitly asking them if they’d want to make-out on a kiddie ride for christ’s sake— but I still want the viewer to question what brought James to this point in time. To think and ask about what kind of childish joy (or mid-life crisis) (or mad stroke of genius) James would have needed to have, for him to confidently carry through with something as inherently stupid as kissing on a kids pony ride.

[nightjar-jack]

One window from two places. Featuring a crane!

From the 2025 backlog

My cat had waaay to much fun obstructing my photo-taking

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lake-dock, bird watching

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a body in space...

An old piece of mine for last year's drawing class (i'm going through my art backlog today) . We were given a massive sheet of parer on the floor, tasked with not moving from it and drawing “the impressions of your own body”

It was really fun exercise! would highly recommend!

[privatejoker]

it's okay to draw for glory. don't let anyone convince you that art has to be a hobby. you don't have to rest or take breaks. if you feel yourself hitting a wall feel free to lose sleep over the process. you can forgo friendship if you need to. it's completely fine to want to want your art to win you immortality through your influence and canonization as a master. you don't have to take it easy

[nightjar-jack]

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Pūkeko deserves a smoko)

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a full kettle of vultures. prepped and ready for the vinyl cutter..!

[the-haiku-bot]

a full kettle of

vultures. prepped and ready for

the vinyl cutter..!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[nightjar-jack]

oh my gosh HI AGAIN HAIKU BOT! 👋🫶

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a full kettle of vultures. prepped and ready for the vinyl cutter..!

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Champion

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I love playing with jpegs :)

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horsie