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About Nuchtchas

Self proclaimed Artist, Dreamer, RolePlayer, The Podcast NINJA!, Gamer, Klingon, Walking Corruption and Geek Queen, Nuchtchas is the owner and operator of NIMLAS Studios with the life goal of highlighting the awesome and good in the world and to spread the love of all things geek!

Daily Creativity: ClipArt

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Mr Blue as Clip Art
I’ve been working on a poster for one of my clients and I wasn’t happy with the clip art I was using.  Sure the clipart al looked good but it didn’t match, it wasn’t cohesive for one poster.

So I took out my sketchbook and pencils and came up with this little guy.  I don’t have a name for him but I figured he was generic enough and cute enough to work.  I then scanned it and made vector art out of them.  There are more, but I thought I would share five of them as my Daily Creativity for today.

(As stated on the photo info, all rights are reserved on these images, these are ©copyrighted by me and I am licensing them to my client.  No one is allowed to just copy this and use it without my permission/payment.)

Daily Creativity: Yark, Yark! A Kobold!

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Kobold still hate you
I love D&D, I also play a game DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online) and for the past ten days I have been not killing Kobolds but helping them mine crystals.  So, in honor of that I drew a little Kobold pretesting as part of the “Ethical Treatment of Kobolds” movement :)

Some of my favorite lines from the event/kobolds were
“Yark, Yark” (of course)
“Kobold still hate you”
“kobold family eat fresh rat tonight”
“we never forget waterworks!”
“not in the face, not in the face”
Yeah, I guess you had to be there.

Daily Creativity: Crane, Wishing for recovery in Japan

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Japan Crane

You’ve heard the Japanese folktale that if you fold 1000 origami cranes you will be granted a wish, right?

I have been thinking of Japan since the earthquake, I wanted to draw something for Japan, but didn’t know what. Last night as I lay awake in bed, being kept awake with a flurry of ideas, I thought about the cranes. I could have folded one, but for me drawing it means more. It means more because of the process I go through when I draw. I get into it, my thoughts go into the drawing, the moment in time is mine.

As the viewer, a drawn crane or a folded crane has the same meaning to you. You don’t experience the process, you don’t experience my thought process or emotions, you just experience what you are seeing. So I hope this works for you too.

If you have a moment, and if you have the funds, please, give a few bucks to the red cross, for this tragedy and for the next one.

Daily Creativity: Nobilis as Pop Art

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Nobilis Reed as Pop Art
I started something when I did my Pop Art for other people.  First I did Robin, then Viv asked for me to do her, then the requests rolled in.  I’m spacing them out, but you can expect to see more of this :)

I really do love doing this, it’s weird to explain why, I’m not even sure I can say why.

First I draw the subject in flat color, then I add details, put some nifty graphic background, then I make the original image all newsprinty, and overlay it.

Today’s subject is Nobilis Reed, author, podcaster and all around good guy.  I can’t wait for my yearly meet up with Mr. Reed at Balticon, and hopefully some book tour stops for our author friends.