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Your local psychedelic freak. Happy to meet you, I'm Nik! I'm a comic artist, animator, designer and editor with an emotive, punchy, and psychedelic flair, illustrating both digitally and with pen on paper. I'm bigender(He/She). I'm

Nik Gothic

Twine
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4.7 (3 reviews)

Your local psychedelic freak. Happy to meet you, I'm Nik! I'm a comic artist, animator, designer and editor with an emotive, punchy, and psychedelic flair, illustrating both digitally and with pen on paper. I'm bigender(He/She). I'm all about character design, character interpretation, and storyline ideas. I love placing special emphasis on characters and the way they're created and that moment when they emerge from simple ink strokes, and making forms that manifest their inner being. You will have exquisite

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Your local psychedelic freak.

Happy to meet you, I’m Nik! I’m a comic artist, animator, designer and editor with an emotive, punchy, and psychedelic flair, illustrating both digitally and with pen on paper. I’m bigender(He/She).

I’m all about character design, character interpretation, and storyline ideas. I love placing special emphasis on characters and the way they’re created and that moment when they emerge from simple ink strokes, and making forms that manifest their inner being. You will have exquisite comics, still drawings and animation that tell colourful, exciting, and dramatic stories - and if that’s not in your fancy, there’s always video editing, motion graphics, and general design.

If you need someone to make comics, design characters, concept art, produce animation or make sprites, art assets and UI elements for video games, ol’ Nik will happilly oblige you!

I’ve exhibited comics and illustrations internationally and won awards, everybody adoring my flexibility of style, and drawing everything from Franco-Belgian and Amercian-inspired to anime/manga-style comics, and also making graffiti and demoscene artwork. There’s always generally an emphasis on vibrancy and cuteness as my favourite artistic direction, although I also work gritty true-crime, film-noir kinds of illustrations for hit multi-million subscriber Youtube channels, and I’ve also designed podcast art, logo art, game art, and written game lore.

Before this, I used to work for five years for my university as a video producer and editor, working on all stages of production and including motion graphics and special effects. You can see one example of my filming, editing and effects work on the showcase video to the left. Today I still work on video editing on occasion: I work with popular indie groups when making music videos, and also provided splendid 2D handdrawn animation for Youtube channels, music artists, documentaries, and environmentalist initiatives.

Therefore, it’s not surprising that my videos have a “music video”-ish sensibility to them.

I always like fueling my inspirations. My biggest sources of creative energy are the 1960s counterculture, the Beatles, psychedelic art, science fiction, high fantasy, the demoscene, and films, video games, comics and music of all kinds.

I’ve shown you my fantasy. Want to show me yours? ;D

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Skills

Mo
Motion Graphic
Pe
Pen and Ink Illustration
Fr
Freehand Digital Illustration
Pe
Pencil Illustration
Co
Comic Strip
Ro
Rotoscope
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Experience Level

Motion Graphic
Expert
Pen and Ink Illustration
Expert
Freehand Digital Illustration
Expert
Pencil Illustration
Expert
Comic Strip
Expert
Rotoscope
Expert
Character Design
Expert
Anime
Expert
Artwork
Expert
Cartoon
Expert
Krita
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Expert
Music Video
Expert
Adobe Audition
Expert
2D Animation
Expert
Adobe Premiere Pro
Expert
Adobe After Effects
Expert
Microsoft Office
Expert
Explainer Video
Expert
GIF
Expert
Adobe Illustrator
Expert
Illustration
Expert
Poster
Expert
Book Illustration
Expert
T-shirt Design
Intermediate
Short Film
Intermediate
Vegas Pro
Intermediate
Infographic
Intermediate
Google Drive
Intermediate
Freelance Gig
Intermediate
Fantasy Illustration
Intermediate
Adobe Animate
Intermediate
HTML5
Intermediate
CSS
Intermediate
Carrd
Beginner
Childrens Book Illustration
Beginner
Adobe Dreamweaver
Beginner
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Language

Serbian
Fluent
English
Fluent
Russian
Intermediate

Education

Bachelor of Interactive Media Design at Univerzitet Metropolitan
October 1, 2012 - September 1, 2018
Work in various digital arts applications such as photography, video-editing, sound-editing, graphic design, motion graphics, 3D and 2D animation, game development and web design. I also worked as an intern for five years during that time as a production assistant in the realm of video for the university's own official channels. Finished with an excellent grade.

Qualifications

3rd place for Handdrawn Art in Function 2021 demoparty
September 12, 2021
3rd place for Handdrawn Art in Function 2022 demoparty
September 11, 2022
2nd place for Handdrawn Art in Function 2023 demoparty
September 10, 2023 - September 10, 2023

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Gaming, Education, Non-Profit Organization

Testimonials

Aug 2023
by Private

Dreamy and Moody Illustrations for Video Project

he is a very talented guy with unusual work hours ;) and delivers!
Aug 2023
by Private

Vintage Illustrated Poster for Motorsport Project

We've hired Nikola for multiple projects because he continues to be reliable and very communicative. Will continue to hire.
Aug 2023
by Private

Vintage Comic Book Animation Artist

Nikola had great enthusiasm for the project and we appreciated his efforts.
    uniE621 Poster for a psychedelic rock documentary!
    A Peruvan filmmaking team approached me because they were making a documentary about the rise of Peruvan rock during the 60s and 70s, an ambitious interactive website/film project called "Etcetera". They wanted an eye-catching, busy, MAXIMALISTIC poster, reminiscent of those 60s
    uniE621 RPG character profile
    This was a project where I conceptualised and drew a player character for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. She is Dia Dia and she is a Chaotic Human Cleric, with a buckler, a cape, and a small handaxe used for offense. Drawn it with real ink and pen on a sketchbook which I subsequently scanned,
    uniE608 Animated gangsters
    My client was making a documentary about the history of the Indy 500, tracing back to its roots with a look specifically in the roaring twenties and thirties, and he needed animated segments with characters that would appropriately fit the sensibilities of the era. My client deliberately asked me to
    uniE621 Comic for a Rock & Roll Music Video
    A music video for a hard rock band was to be done in the form of an animated comic and these are a handful panels I've taken from it. illustrator
    uniE608 Elegant watercolour calendar animation
    I was tasked to make a short animation of a calendar flipping in a watercolour style for a documentary about Cuba (specifically its brief flirtation with racing in the late 1950s), and I wanted to make it seem amorphous and fluttery. I'm very happy how I managed to make the calendar sheets fly away
    uniE621 Concept art for an adventure game
    These characters and scenery are parts of a series of concept art I made for a 3D adventure game set in Africa and Asia. It's about grave robbers who travel around the world on adventure and go treasure-hunting in ancient tombs and temples while fighting monsters and bandits. It's a kid-friendly
    uniE621 Retro 1960s comic
    "The Ingrids Manoeuvre" is a pilot episode for a comic set in 1960s Britain; the time of mods and rockers, new fashion, and changing social attitudes. I wrote the story, inked, coloured and did the lettering. This is an excerpt of four pages. For the full 16-page comic, see the
    uniE608 Flash cartoon about car racing
    A compilation of scenes from an animated biography of a racing champion. Animated in Adobe Animate, with character design and storyboarding. Dialogue's not mine! animator
    uniE608 Motion graphics compilation for Metropolitan University
    A sample of motion graphics I made during my peak years of working for Univerzitet Metropolitan 2014-2015. The last one in particular displaying statistics and projections. That graphic is about the lack of IT experts working in Serbia's business sector, and I made this lively animated section with
    uniE621 Selfies in the 1960s
    A fun little illustration of Jeremy and Nelly, two of my comic characters. Nelly's got an old 8mm camera and is testing it out for the first time. I used this mainly as an exercise in lighting, shadows, colouring and texture. I drew this entirely digitally on Krita, and added some film grain textures and other
    uniE608 Let's Play cartoon animation
    This is a short 10-second animation from the popular Let's Play "Half-Life VR but the AI is self aware" on Youtube and Twitch. I made this as a fan collab where fans each take a 10-second snippet of the original video and try to recreate it in their own animation styles. The audio is the only unaltered
    uniE608 App hackaton promo + lightsabers!
    I made this for my university's mobile app contest, where high school kids are invited to group into teams and develop a mobile app project in a 24-hour jam. I personally planned, storyboarded, filmed and edited the project, with the 3D logo provided by a dear colleague. At the time this was produced,