Art By Nik

More About Me

I’m an experienced artist but ongoing experimenting on style, coloring and rendering

I’m adopted from Yekaterinburg, Russia, but I don’t speak any Russian since I was just a baby when adopted

I’m a Kentucky based artist

I’m a former black belt in tae kwon do, but I still remember a lot of what I’ve learned and can physically defend myself

I’ve been a tumblr veteran since the day this site was even started (I think like 2010-2011 was when I first joined the site, so I know a thing or two because I’ve seen a thing or two)

I mean that, I’ve been on the internet for quite a long time enough y’all can refer to me as a “fandom grandma”

I’m a visual person and sometimes having a pinterest or ref board is the way to go for me

I love horror, especially analog horror and found footage horror, but I’m an absolute weenie afterwords 🥴

Also music definitely helps give me a mood to draw, but I have yet to make a polished playlist of my OCs, so I just jump on youtube and have something on repeat lol

I dream of being an illustrator or a graphic novelist some day with a focus on adventure, horror, fantasy, subtle romance, feminine rage, and LGBTQIA+ themes

Despite this, I work full time in a grocery store and my whole day is spent standing for over 8+ hours a day and having the closing shift lately, and I still live with my parents, so I pretty much have little to no time for myself (I am thinking of trying to get a studio space for myself)

I do have multiple learning disabilities (ADHD, Auditory Processing Disorder, Expressive Language Disorder, and most likely autism) so my communication, both verbal and written, can be very jarred and my vocabulary is pretty limited, so please be patient if my wording doesn’t sound right or make any sense (the brain to mouth pipeline is very much broken lol)

Even with said disabilities, I am actually a lot friendlier than I appear and just want to make friends my age

Favorites

Movie(s): Silence of the Lambs, The Green Mile, Spiderverse, Star Wars Ep. III: Revenge of the Sith, Nope, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mad God (TW: unsettling imagery, slight nudity, disturbing themes), Noroi: The Mask, The Lone Ranger, Shawshank Redemption, Pirates of the Caribbean

Shows/Series: Arcane, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hellsing: Ultimate, Bob’s Burgers, Cowboy Bebop, Attack on Titan, Smiling Friends, Local58 (TW: unsettling imagery), Gemini Home Entertainment (TW: unsettling imagery and themes), Vita Carnis (TW: unsettling imagery), Ed Edd ‘n’ Eddy, Chowder, Neon Genesis: Evangelion, Moonknight, Black Sails, Fallout

Band(s)/Artist(s): The Hu, Sleep Token, Metallica, Guns N Roses, Slipknot, Bloodywood, Heilung, Eiscbrecher, Evanescence, Nickelback, Rammstein, Fall Out Boy, Stray Kids (another guilty pleasure), Stevie Ray Vaugh, Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, Reverend Gary Davis

Sports Team: Buffalo Bills (#BillsMafia)

Original Character Story Themes

Zoey Kilduff

Eldest daughter trauma

Feminine rage

Protector and caregiver

Growing up too quickly

Overcoming and adapting with physical disability

Heart of gold

Loves like a dog

Father-Daughter hatred

Reclamation of self

Valentina Solovyova

Gender nonconformity (Physically)

Strong family bond

Not everyone can be saved

Finding ones self

Protector and caregiver

Unlikely bonds

Expect the unexpected

Dr. Eliza Kupper

Found family

Adoption

Mother’s wrath

Lowest period

Vengence

Angel of death

Not everyone can be forgiven

What To Expect

Nonstop discussion of canon x oc (it’s my blog and I do what I want)

Some character analysis

Fanfic writing

S P I C E

Sporadic posting

Support of marginalized groups (ie. LGBTQIA+, Indigenous groups, uplifting BIPOC voices)

Support of a free Palestine

Overall just minding my own business

Disclaimers/Boundaries

As stated multiple times, I do work full time in retail food service, so activity will be low at some points

I am actually raised Catholic, but I don’t mind NSFW posts, and am a safe space for anyone in the LGBTQIA+ community

That said, I don’t mind NSFW art and writing of my OCs and/or their ships as long as it’s not going into over sexualizing them. All my OCs are adults well over 21 unless stated otherwise

I will not tolerate any one far right leaning, whether that be MAGA, Neo-Nazis, Zionists, incels, or Christian fascists (specifically Americans). You are not welcomed here, you never will be, and you will be blocked right away if you ever leave me a message