#nicky ash

[finalpam8000]

Let Me Close Your Eyes

My first original song in over 2 years is out now on Bandcamp! A love letter to off kilter synthpop and the first of many new songs to come in the next few months. Take a listen through the link bellow!

[vickivalentineart]

"Vicious games, vicious games With different names, different names"

An older piece of art from this summer, but still one of my favorites! Based around my OCs Nicky Ash and Mickey Millan. Two college friends who's public access marionette show made it big before Millan's sudden disappearance. This piece was heavily inspired by the band Yello and their music videos, and I'm super proud of how I captured the lighting in it! I'm hoping to draw more pieces with such bold color like this soon.

And be sure to give my most recent song a listen if you liked the art!

[vickivalentineart]

This past week I released my first single of the year, "Let Me Close Your Eyes" which I painted the cover for! I'm very proud of how both came out, and how well they fit together. I think I managed to fill them with a lot of care and detail without cluttering either composition!

If you like the cover be sure to check the song linked here, plus the bonus alts Under the Cut!

I decided to base the cover for the single around two of my characters from a short film I've been working on the past year! They're Nicky Ash and Mickey Millan! The themes of romantic dysfunction and hypnotic synth pop just seemed very... them. I actually started the piece based on a different unrelated song but after getting the sketch down realized it would fit "Let Me Close Your Eyes" to a t! It was definitely a tricky one to flesh out though! I'll probably post a sketch to finished art piece in a few days for the full process. But the biggest stumbling point was how much depth I wanted to impart in the background, and how to render that! I think once I finished the curtains, and changed the heart from being cut out from the wall, to being a light source in itself was when the piece really clicked! And the lighting is 100% the part I am most proud of in this piece! Though the pose was also a fun puzzle to solve!

Thank you for reading all this! I for sure have more art coming soon, in fact I should have some more to post tomorrow, so stay tuned! Hopefully I can give Mickey and Nicky a proper introduction, as well as making a little visualizer for my recent musical projects before my next song comes out in the spring!