22.5.14

Artist review - Nicholas Kole


This man with a the funny moustache is Nicholas Kole. For quite a while I've been following his work on tumblr, read his blog and stalked him on twitter (we even played words... I won!).
The artist american artist has always influenced me in the freedom and fluidity that is iconic to his style. Recently he did the illustration book for the film Maleficent for Disney, but his work goes way beyond that.




He's very versatile in themes that he chooses for his work and no matter what kind of commision he does, he pulls something elegant and full of vibrant colours. He has shown before his workflow and basically all he does is sketch, shade with one tone of water colour and retouch colours digitally. Obviously this is not the only way he works, but certainly he seems to have a quick way of working that brings loads of ideas, specially when it comes to character creation

It's hard for me to say 'I want to be like him' when he's only a year older than me (got a lot to catch up to). 
He also has a working comic called Dawngate Chronicles  which looks absolutely fantastic! (with full colour pages...). Do follow him on his tumblr  and blog, you wont regret it. 



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