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[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Nikolai's Art Book

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This is where you will find a gallery of art torn right out of Nik's Art Book. Bring on the Nightmares!
Comments, critique, and flaming are all greatly appreciated!
But please just be courteous not to overflow my little Book here, I am planning to post more of the stuff up and it'd be nice not to have so much shit in between each post.

Nik draws for fun when in heaps of boredom and it's a shame I don't take pictures because most of the work is drawn on himself, but I will try to post three pieces of artwork each time and at least one of them should be colored.
Except this first post is only going to have one shown, just because.




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Name:
Breathe
Drawn:
April 2 2007
Comments:
This is me really, really bored in Geology class.
It is supposed to be a depiction of water forming to look like a dragon/monster, but it turned out to look more along the lines of a dragon plunging into the water. ^^;
I recall we had nothing to do but watch this nature film in that class because we gave up our classroom to people doing AOL testing (the price of a room with computers). And since we didn't actually have to write down any notes for it, I okayed it with the teach to draw, stealing printing paper first.
And then I got to watch as my picture was defiled not once, but TWICE in front of me when crackhead (yet cute Asian) Jake grabbed the drawing and stuffed it on his lower torso and under his shirt. He said it'd make a great tattoo if I made the tongue longer so it could be tickling his nipple and then seemingly having the dragon come out of his pants.
Ikk...

But it was a nice sight to watch, though the teach didn't enjoy it.
I didn't like my drawing getting all bent though, I hope you can't tell.

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[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Name:
Awakening My Inner Self
Drawn:
April 7, 2006
Comments:
If anyone is familiar with the Juvenile Orien manga they will recognize this Fallen Eraser/Angel as Tsukasa (I have all 5 of the manga series).
I love this angelic beast, especially when I make him show some tummy. XD I just think I might have shaded a bit overboard on his light-colored hair, though.

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Name:
Brotherly Love -?
Drawn:
April 7, 2006
Comments:
Anyone familiar with this manga: Angel Sanctuary?
Well, let me summarize it as best I can:

Setsuna Mudo (the boy in the picture) is the reincarnation of the Lady Alexiel, an angel who rebelled against Heaven and led the demons of Hell, the Evils, in a revolt. She died at the hand of her twin brother's in that war. Her punishment is to be reborn into a tragic life after tragic life and to never succeed in having the person of her love in each of these lives.
This time, her life is Setsuna, whom's love happens to be just as forbidden as any of the others. For he falls for his sister Sara (the girl).
But these days, God does not reign in Heaven and the rule of the highest angels is very shaky in nature.
Lady Alexiel's mad twin brother, was killed just as she in the horrible war of demons vs. angels and now he has been resurrected. His eyes fall on Setsuna in a vengence and he sends his minions to reawaken the dormant Alexiel inside his body.
In an effort to do this, Sara is killed saving Setsuna's life and in turn breaking the curse upon his soul, which does in fact trigger and awaken Alexiel from inside Setsuna. But such a thing is so strong and powerful in nature, that it destroys the world.
Time is frozen in this moment, before Setsuna is fully gone and the world with him, he is given hope from the angel that has done this. She tells him he has seven days to travel into Hell and retrieve Sara's soul, at the end of those days: he will die forever.
He doesn't get there in time, for Sara's soul has already passed into Heaven, where mad Rosiel has already siezed power over all of the angels, devouring those who stand against him. Setsuna must go to Heaven even though a trap awaits him. For the angel that took Sara's soul wishes for his powers. That of Alexiel's powers and her guardian soul: The all-powerful Angel known as Adam.

Name:
Punks These Days
Drawn:
August 30, 2006
Comments:
Not taken from anything, just something I made up off the top of my head. Although, I do think I stole the pose from my NewType magazine. So, all rights reserved to meh and their funky pose!
Drawn in the middle of a power outage during a flood. I had no light, no compy, no PS2, so I made myself do something while I still had enough daylight to see. I colored it later however, the sun going down too soon that night and I never got to finish it until the following day.[/size][/blockquote]

[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Name:
Shades of Rainbows
Drawn:
August 27, 2006
Comments:
This girl was just a figment of my imagination, not stolen from anything, so by all rights reserved: she belongs to meh.
The idea came from an old old thought way back when about how I wanted to draw a child and bubbles. Not exactly what I was having in mind, but this'll do.
And this writing came with for some odd reason:
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She was in awe at the different shades of fluid rainbows that floated harmlessly around her like silent rain.
Rainbows she herself had created.
What wonderful shapes, so fragile and yet so easily spawned from such tiny lips. She twirled in her nightgown, not watching the bottom of her skirts follow the movement really but wishing she could fly like the small spheres that surpassed her height and gazing up at them even as she tried to catch one.

Name:
Where have you gone?
Drawn:
November 13, 2005

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Comments:
This was a drawing done for a fellow DA friend. It's her character, and my favorite one, Paulif from her story: Water Wings.
I don't remember much about him except that he was king of the elf realm or something and fiance'd to the demon prince Kaiba.
I do, however, remember that this was the first time I ever used pen in a drawing to outline anything and that the pose is screwy, hands disfigured, and his earring not penned in. >.<

Name:
Riku Has Returned
Drawn:
April 13, 2006
Comments:
If I have to explain who this is, I'm going to cry. I drew him a couple days after the initial release of KH2. I beat the game on the 2nd night and immediately began drawing this during a study hall period the following day.
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[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Name:
Wings Doesn't Mean Angel
Drawn:
April 7, 2006
Comments:
This is the drawing that goes with my Brotherly Love drawing from before.
Meet Lord Rosiel, twin to the heroin/hero of the manga volume: Angel Sanctuary. He also happens to be the 'devouring' angel and Heaven, as well as Hell's, greatest threat.

How can an Angel be evil?

It can in this storyline, especially if he's an angel raised from the dead and seeking revenge/love from his sister (who's chosen the demon's side in the war).
That's why I named it this. Just because he is beautiful and has wings, doesn't really make him qualify as a 'good' angel.

Name:
What Side Am I On?
Drawn:
August 28, 2005
Comments:
A drawing done for a friend named Erik who was in a very devastated state at the time being. He kept referring to himself as a demon, a devil, that might be hurting the friends around him without meaning to.

I told him, that even though he very well might have the horns of a devil, he definitely had an Angel's wings.

I also sent him this reply with the drawing later:
Demons come in all shapes and sizes, in twists of fake smiles and warm welcomes; they have strong and gentle embraces, smothering worries. There are many kinds of demons with certain abilities that seem so fictional, a different type of demon for every different race and feeling that's alive on this trivial Earth. In another person's sight, everyone could be labeled as such if they don't know what they're seeing. If their gaze is so innocent that everything seems different they would see everyone as a new demon.
Every person has a deep circling cloud of demonic blood flowing through them, it's just how you use it to see who will be more friendly and who will be more trusting. A friend to a friend, accepted and loved -something that's very rare to find.

The encouragement wasn't needed from me apparently though, his girlfriend's words were more than enough to bring him around without my help.
But at least I tried to be there.

Name:
Great Master Wizards
Drawn:
May 30, 2006
Comments:
This is Mel from Magical x Miracle manga.
I only have volume one, but I was in the middle of a study hall, I had finished the manga, and I had over an hour to do what I wished. Naturally, I got a little too carried away and because I had no shader on me, I just blended it in with my hands and ended up being smudged from cheek to neck in graphite. XP I still remember my English teacher's face when I went into her class next period.
This was actually done a year ago. Go figure.

[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Name:
Phantom Reaper
Drawn:
August 26, 2006
Comments:
Me+Flood+No power+Pencil & Paper=This.
^^;

This was actually inspired because I was asked to draw a Reaper for this guy's tattoo. But because I hate the guy in question, I told him no. But I drew this then to well -spite him? xD

I wrote these words with it:
Nothing more than a phantom, a demon, a shadow; emanating such an obscure presence the grim makes all who near it tremble with uncertainty.
Death isn't an evil but the inevitable.
It's not a thing you can fight because death always wins in the end, it always gets who it comes for. And death's faithful servant just happens to be this grim, something not alive or dead but a force, a force that carries out the works of life's uncanny and ironic ends.

Name:
Eat Me
Drawn:
January 27, 2007
Comments:
Wow, I finally have up a recent drawing of my work!

Meet my alias character: Fenrisulfr
A Greek name for the half-breed godchild born of a giantess and the god Loki. He was a giant wolf of magical prowess, no mortal blade or iron could pierce his skin and even the gods couldn't capture him. The god of war, Tyr (a name you'll have seen I use a lot too), had his hand bitten off when he finally captured the beast. They couldn't kill him and the capturing of him would only last until the end of the world, Ragnarok, in which case he'd eat the good guy gods.

Lovely, isn't it? Although usually he's never called by that longass name, just: Fenrir, Fenris, Fen-fen, Fenny, or Rear.
Well, I play him usually as an obnoxious, pacifistic Werewolf born with unsightly powers he can't control. He was my ultimate 'flaw'-filled character, a goal on imperfection and seeing how I could perfect him in the end after his hard work. ^^

Name:
Reflection
Drawn:
September 28, 2005
Comments:
And here we have a very old drawing of mine that I still forgot to re-scan. I've fixed up the picture since this one and have inserted the 'ripple effect' so it actually looks like the stupid leaf is floating on the water!
The only landscape (sort of) picture that I didn't mind and was inspired to draw after some weird episode of Inuyasha.

Name:
Master of Arts
Drawn:
Fixed: April, 27, 2006
Comments:
This is Zane Tengyo, a demon of mine. Yes, mine. So again, NO STEALING!
You have no idea how much stuff I went through over this stupid piece of art because someone wanted to get so uncreative and say it was theirs after looking at my original sketch.
Anyway, he went along with a short story of mine called Creating Destruction/Darkness. I can't remember which one I had decided the name to go with, I think it was Destruction though. O.o
And if you guys want me to put up the short story in the writing section, then just ask because I won't mind doing so at all.

And yeah, I know. He has funky hands. Which is very depressing and not done on purpose. ^^;
This drawing is over four years old but I only recently colored it last year.
And at the time of its making, I still sucked with hands.

[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Name:
Can't Stop Thinking About Him
Drawn
January 1, 2008
Comments
Poor Niki, he can't get the bugger out of his head now.
I had fun with this one a little too much in the shading department. And I do believe this is one of his more vulnerable looks. A slightly curious, 'Oh shit, what do I do?' look. xD

Name:
Found You
Drawn
January 3, 2008
Comments
Did this one today for no apparent reason.
Yeah, it's supposed to be snowing. lol But anyway:
Saito Ren and all rights reserved to: Yellow-love

Name:
Posing
Drawn
January 1, 2008
Comments
Again with getting too carried away with the shadowing. Saito Ren for you people and yes, this is him posing for Niki when he finally asked to draw the flirting bastard. xP

Name:
Pushing To The Breaking Point
Drawn:
January 2, 2008
Comments:
The only colored one of them together that I have scanned right now.
Well you remember that little comment about taking the boys to the beach sometimes? Heh heh....This is what came of the idea.

Name:
"They're in the way."
Drawn:
January 2, 2008
Comments:
Last night I drew this on a whim.
Read right to left people and enjoy! ^^

[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Name:
Aggressor
Drawn:
January 4, 2008
Comments:
Chose the name because I can't really tell in the picture whose the Aggressor or not. I mean, I know Niki would definitely be if you got him worked up and all, just because that's the way he is and Saito just seems to prefer it that way too. ^^;;
But I can't tell in this one.

Name:
Break Down
Drawn:
January 5, 2008
Comments:
Drawn today under the thought of what it would be like to have so many of the 'nightmares' to bombard you all at once. Scary. >.< Poor Niki, how I torment him so.

[Kiyoshi Nikolai]

Name:
Picturette
Drawn:
January 4, 2008
Comments:
This is one of his 'rare' smiles. An actual smile, one that isn't altogether fake or snipe-ish. ^^
Don't ask why I drew it or what was I thinking -because it was fairly random.

Name:
Classroom Kisses
Drawn:
January 5, 2008
Comments:
Aww, aren't they cute? But, they're at school. >.> Bad Sai-chan, you know you could really get him in trouble.
And wait-----Is he actually sitting correctly in that chair? Oh, guess not. It looks like the chair legs are raised slightly in the air. xD