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Games/media/software lecturer 🎮 2D Digital Art | 3D Modeller & Sculptor 🖌 Mental Health Advocate 🌗 Nick Miller Energy 🤙 I paint/sketch a lot of dragons, elves, and dudes in armour 🐉⚔️
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Was meant to be writing meeting notes. Got distracted and sketched some creature busts instead...

Doomscrolling < Picking up random hobbies (still not doing art though because I'm an idiot)

Learning guitar without any musical background is fun. For the longest time, I've been thinking, "What is/how the hell do I palm mute?" I just accidentally did it, and it was a real "oooohhh" moment. It's great when you figure things out!

An original How to Train Your Dragon design DeviantArt hired me to draw back in 2019 that I never ended up posting I think. (arttag)

Old DnD concept for a water Genasi character

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I have acquired a new addiction

Got challenged by some students today to see who could make the best character bust. I enjoyed their reactions as I made this within their session in an hour with no reference. They seemed impressed! I miss teaching 3D.

I love games, but the curriculum for teaching games can be so dry. Like, who wrote this stuff! I feel bad for my students. I literally feel like Colin Robinson draining them of their energy/motivation to pursue the roles within the games industry.

Majestic. I need to design a creature with antlers like this.

Old sketches

Do you ever just ignore passive aggression because you think "grow up and actually talk to me about it or I don't care"

"Onyx" The black dragon Onyx guarding her treasure hoard in the ruins of Xak Tsaroth. Painted in acrylics for the D&D 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide!

Sunday feeling when you know you're back at work tomorrow (I've worked all weekend)

Now I just need to slap some colors on this thing 😤 #art

Predator vibes

I think I may have to just accept the fact that this is another platform that I just don't get and probably isn't for me. The bird app was bad and oversaturated. Instas algorithm is just anti-artist. BSky seems to have minimal interaction. Or am I just not an interesting person/artist, idk.

Thinking about all the free time away from teaching responsibilities that I get to work on personal projects

Tribute to the Pike Emperor #pixelart #art

Normalize this reaction #art #artists

I always miss her lipstick stain on me

The Darth Maul of Dragons. Awesome!

#art #starwars

Please algorithm gods, tell me how to appease you so I can find my audience 🙌

Anyone got any advice for going into freelance illustration? I used to do it years ago before uni but it seems like the landscape has changed since then. Any advice would be appreciated!

Some sketches from recent train journeys. I'm actually glad I can't work on the train due to terrible WiFi/data as its nice to unwind.

cool texture I found in the Cainhurst Castle files

Actual footage of me teaching today after a week of insomnia 🙃

Baby frog 🐸

Anyone played the mobile game 'Pirates Outlaws'? I haven't played a deck building rougelike before, but the game is sick! Most similar game I've played was 'Darkest Dungeon' (also amazing) but they're both unique and charming in their own ways.

Slowly running out of old work to post (that I like) whilst I try to manage my work/life balance.

Just restarted Pokemon Soul Silver the other day. I love how much charm and nostalgia it has to play through

It's always fun explaining symptoms to neurotypical bosses. Because you know they're sitting there thinking "I hired a crazy person" but legally they can't say it.

Some old Dragon bust sketches. One of my favourite things to draw 🐉

Weaponising hypomania to get all my tasks done at 3am. That's an effective method with absolutely no downsides, right? #bipolar

My favourite part about 3D modelling has to be sculpting. I'm going to make it my goal to complete at least one model before the end of the year 💪

Some random old unfinished sketch. Should I have kept working on them?

Most of us have that inspiring story of that one particular teacher/mentor who inspired us and helped us to pursue our dreams. I appreciate mine even more now knowing how difficult it is to maintain with how many things are stacked against you.

Dragons and Knights are some of my favourite things to paint 🐉

Here's a quick demonstration I did for some students to show how to digitally paint from difficult prompts. The prompts were randomly generated themes: Film Noir & Kaiju 🐟 It's just a sketch as I mainly wanted to help my students but here's the detective fishman I came up with!

I'm a bit worried my art won't suit the style I see on here predominantly, but either way it'd be nice to find a community of artists to help keep me motivated to complete more work. So here's a forest nymph I painted a little while back! #art