#jellybots

[shoomlah]

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by the stream with me and @nicholaskole earlier, y'all were so lovely and I DEFINITELY was not expecting to go for five hours!! Very thrilled to come away from this with my eel-son and my attempt to ape Nick’s style with my own rock-based Jellysona :D

[nicholaskole]

Took time a couple months ago to talk with my friend Brookes Eggleston about character design, the professional struggle to draw what you love, and my personal journey with the color pink! We had a great time, and his channel is good stuff!

[artyrie]

Watercolor study based on @nicholaskole art Trying to get the jelly-like effect was fun :D #watercolor #art #painting #jellybots #study #illustration #aquarela #pintura #estudo #ilustração #arte

[theriu]

Inktober #2 - Murphy and Kendra

For those who don’t know, there is a most excellent comic project being put together by one Mr. Nicholas Kole called Jellybots. Without getting too complicated for this short post, it is based around school kids who operate high-tech machinary combined with semi-sentient jelly creatures that can come in all shapes and sizes, based on the kids’ imaginations. (That doesn’t nearly do it justice, but I’m trying here. XD) For those who already know what Jellybots IS, here’s the bio of my above-depicted fancharacters, Murphy and Kendra:

Kendra is a Sophmore at Frontier Academy. Fascinated with exploring the Soup and frustrated by the teachers’ safety restrictions (sensible though they may be), she designed modifications for her pangolin jelly in order to give her better protection from the many dangers and unknowns. Dubbing him Murphy, after Murphy’s Law - “If anything can go wrong, it will (so be prepared!)” - she can now trek safely through many of the permitted areas of the Soup. The protective ‘scale’ pieces provide constant front and back protection and can shift to create a solid barrier against attack, and the claws can be used both in offense and for digging. (I did a terrible job drawing the Defense Mode example, please ignore that.)

Just to reinterate, Jellybots is NOT MINE; these are purely fan characters. And boy were they fun to design! =D Go check out more Jellybots on Nicholas’s DA or at his Patreon!

[nicholaskole]

We've been cooking up some fun stuff over on the Jellybots Patreon in the last month and a half! Including a new hour-long Color tutorial video by yours truly (and a new one coming up this month!) Get in on Jellybots' videos and designs: www.patreon.com/jellybots Looking forward to working for you :) -n

[nicholaskole]

patreon.com/jellybots

Yesterday was a really great day- thanks so much to everyone who has shown their support so far! I realized I haven’t caught up tumblr on some of my favorite work that came out of last month’s #JellyJam- it was a blast seeing how far I could push myself each day to expand the world of Jellybots.

If you’re interested in seeing more of this world, please consider supporting me on Patreon at the link above- at any amount you choose!

Enjoy :)

-n

[nicholaskole]

Jellybots started as a number of character designs back in 2011- (which started as an attempt to prove to a friend that Beard Holograms are a sweet idea) then some more designs, and eventually a mini comic and a longer comic pitch (very just *almost* a series of GNs) and persistent dreams about wanting to do something bold and colorful and sci-fi/fantasy about growing up and mixing in major personal influences in a very particular sort of way that haven't left me alone (despite never feeling like I have enough time or followthrough to do it justice). A quick googling should fill in some of the details but suffice it to to say: Jbots is my little personal project about kids and monsters, and a story world I've been taking trips to for years. Most characters are based, if loosely, on my irl friends. #DailyJellyJam is a month long attempt to take some of my own advice: one push-up is better than no push-ups! And a little bit of dreaming a day is better than no dreaming at all. So, at the suggestion of @erkshnrt, I'm making time to do some low-stakes worldbuilding at the glacial pace of no money, and I sincerely hope you guys are enjoying it! :)) Above is a sampling of some of the work that's come together across the last few years- it's all evolving and much is outdated and likely to be revised, but hopefully it gives you more of a sense of The Thing, or at least how gelatinous sausage gets made ;) new art momentarily! Daily updates and process videos on Instragram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholaskole/

[nicholaskole]

#DailyJellyJam continues :) More info, notes and details over on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholaskole/ This has been my month-long daily discipline of getting one design or piece or sribbly idea down a day to try and develop and keep dreaming in the world of Jellybots- a project I’ve been chewing on since 2011! I’ve been so excited and deeply grateful for the feedback and support folks gave given me during this month so far- a few more to days to go :)) Cheers! -n