CORALINE CONCEPT ART

I'm busy busy! Working on videos, putting an animation portfolio together, AND I got a few commission jobs out of last time's post, too! It's all top secret projects for now, but I'll share them here soon! ((Remember! if YOU'D like a cartoon commission by me, I'm still taking orders. Drop me an email! hint hint!!!))


SO in the meantime here is just a simple post I wanted to make to keep track of all this great Coraline concept art that I've been collecting over the internet! These pieces are credited to artists Shane Prigmore, Shannon Tindle, Stef Choi and Dan Krall.
Yeah, I'm pretty obsessed with this movie. It's only in theaters another week or two, so if you still gotta see it, time's running out!!!

FUN BIRTHDAY XTRAS! PLUS: TAKING COMMISSIONS!

Nico Commissions!!!!!

That's right! I'm taking CARTOON COMMISSIONS, folks. Help me survive in this jungle we call Los Angeles! Want something fun drawn by ME, just for YOU? Caricatures, cute girls, famous Hollywood characters? Contact me via email through my blogger profile, and let's talk! Prices will be determined by the subject and medium desired. (psst... I'm pretty flexible!)

Here's a just-finished commissioned piece that Darby hired me for. Thanks for the work, man!

More from the genius of Ben!! Below is Katie Rice and I, straight outta Ben's cartoon world!! He drew the roughs, but the characters below I inked myself, just for fun!

And, here's my contribution from a few months ago to the Our Hospitality blog... the theme was "target practice". So here's what I drew. Ha, ha. Ha?


SO if you like my art and want some made just for you, drop me a line! Okay enough business, PARTY TIME!!!!!

Katie and Luke had a shindig at their house last night!!! We watched bad movies (IMMORTAL COMBAT!!!), admired Ricky's long curly hair, and ate pizza and Katie's homemade world-famous sausage puffs. Deee-licious!

Also, I was in for MORE bday surprises! Take a look what Katie drew for me!! I DIED when she handed this to me.

How spectacular is this? Skadi drinking with my character, Debbie!! My knees got weak and I almost dropped when I held this genius piece!! Katie, you are too kind!!!

CHRISTINE!!! Oops, I mean, Miss Withers! ;) She created TWO fabulous pieces for me:

This is so much better-looking in person! My scanner is OLD and SUCKS, so all the colors here (not to mention that big annoying digital smudge taking up the left side) aren't doing these justice!! But still, I was completely starstruck that Miss Withers took the time to make these for little ol' me. Thank you Mama W!

Meanwhile, David Gemmill tries to hide the wrath of my camera.

Look here! A masterpiece by the one, the only, Gabe Swarr! This was a complete surprise, and I wouldn't ever expect that a cartoon bigshot like Gabe would be so nice to make something for a nobody like me! This RULES Gabe! I hope between gasps of air from being so starstruck, I got a chance to thank you enough when you presented this to me. In a fancy manilla envelope, no less!

Also, this is something Shawn drew for me LAST year! I just found it and realized I NEVER scanned it! So here it is, in all of it's 1-year old glory!! HAHAHA, THANKS BUDDY!

Finally, here we see Katie finally being united with her Skadi painting that Ben made for her! She LOVES it. In fact, they went to bed together shortly after this photo was taken. HEY-O! Too much information? G'night everybody!

MORE STUFF BY COOL PEOPLE I LIKE

A couple posts ago, I challenged some artists to draw my beautiful friend Molly! So here's what our hero Katie Rice came up with!!

I love these!! Molly loves them too. There is sooo much love to handle! These are so pretty. You rock Katie!!!
Kali did this next piece as a gift for Molly and Carl! I think it's fantastic and really captures them! It's hanging up on the wall of their living room! Did you know Kali's having a caricature booth at their wedding later this year???

Some gifts for me:

Niki drew these fun sketches of Kali and me. Thanks buddy! He also has some really nice cute girl drawings on his blog, so check 'em out!

Darby drew this of me. Hahaha! Thanks man. Mr. Potato Head- The Nico Edition!


So these next drawings need a little back-story... David Gemmill and I went to a nightclub a few months ago here in LA. We were both dressed casual; normal t-shirts, normal jeans, normal shoes. We get up to the front doors and this short little jerkoff bouncer says something like, "You know in our establishment, we appreciate the customers being well-dressed." We thought he was kidding, and kinda just laughed and said, "okay." Then he gets really serious. "I'm not joking. We're running a club here and you guys show up in your pajamas? What is this?"


Suddenly we realize he's not joking. Pajamas?? What we are wearing is the same thing that everyone else walking on the street is wearing. So then, instead of apologizing for what the bouncer just said (which I THOUGHT she was gonna do), the hostess says it'll be $5 to get in.
...Sooo, we're supposed to be insulted by the bouncer and then pay $5 for it? David and I just looked at each other and the situation was so ridiculous that both ended up just laughing, turned around without another word and walked right out. What a bunch of little assholes. If that's the way they treat customers at *nightclub name unmentioned*, I don't see how they do much business!

We were joking about returning later that night ACTUALLY in our pajamas. We totally should have done this!!!!!

And then it would have been a happy ending for us, and the many many lucky babes inside. BOOYA!!!!



Stay tuned! My next post has a VERY SPECIAL surprise!!!!!!!!