Nicholas Rubatino

I finished the Cool Fiona cover for Chapter 2 already but I thought I'd redo it in Krita. I have a lot more fun painting in Krita #godlabs #illustration #graphicnovel #digitalpainting #krita

The Overseer parties with the Generals #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel #krita

As established in The Satan Killers, Jim had an office next to Satan. Maybe The Overseer feels he should have done something when he no doubt heard all the shooting. Also I edited my watermark for MMXXVI #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel #comic #krita

At the table I was working there was a little girl sitting next to me, it severely limited what I could work on since she could see my screen. So every time I caught her looking over I started drawing bunnies #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel #krita

Done a few pages now exclusively in Krita, this is how I ended up setting up the workspace. I like that you can paint a thumbnail for a brush preset in the brush tool, so I did that for all the ones I made. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel #krita

More Krita testing, I think I've made all the brushes I need and got the workspace and hotkeys how I like them. It's taken a lot of time but so far it has been totally worth it. #krita #illustration #digitalpainting

More Krita brush making and testing. Amazon sent a message saying I could set up my books on kindle so they can be downloaded as PDFs or ePubs, so I did that. Think they said it will be an option some time mid January, for all current owners and future buyers. #illustration #krita #digitalpainting

I'll be switching to Krita sooner than I thought. My dutiful Intuos 4 finally started occasionally disconnecting so I got a new tablet and Photoshop decided to occasionally ignore pressure sensitivity. Here I was testing every brush before making my own. #krita #illustration #digitalpainting

Christmas presents 2025! I got a bunch of little frames and did mini water colour paintings for everyone in my family, and for me I did a little version of this Francis Bacon triptych. I gave away all the extras to the baristas at the Starbucks I made them at. #watercolor #drawing #illustration

Might pursue a different direction for the rest of the chapters of The God Labs #godlabs #illustration #graphicnovel #digitalpainting

The Boys in Their Tanks (censored)
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Chapter 2 of The God Labs starts with bathtime for The Boys. #illustration #godlabs #digitalpainting #graphicnovel

Went straight into working on chapter 2, but every once in a while I've been messing around in Krita. I really like Krita so far and might be tempted to do a whole chapter in it instead of photoshop. #krita #illustration #digitalpainting

The God Labs Chapter 01 is released! It begins right after The Satan Killers and is around 70 pages. It is meant to be read in guided view horizontally, panel by panel, but do whatever you want!!It's out!!! #godlabs #graphicnovel #illustration #digitalpainting #comic

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Dr. Fiona Katsubana talks a bit about her backstory. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel

Made a reusable cup sleeve out of an old belt! Also I just finished all the photoshop paintings for chapter 1 of The God Labs! 70 pages; going over it again then doing the layouts in the kindle software next. #starbucks

The Masseur #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel

Going through old artwork I found the original Crow and Raven background. Put a few items around for scale #crowandraven #ink #illustration #evangelion

The Newspapre. On page 47/~72 of chapter 1 #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel

Hieronymus talks to the press #godlabs #illustration #graphicnovel #digitalpainting

Damn that does sound like a good dead, I'll have to keep an eye out

I finally got an actual HM-2! Of the HM-2s I've made the Boss sounds most like the Aion HM-2 clone. The one on the right is Dunwich Amps 2021 edition and also is awesome with a lot of control and versatility. #guitarpedals #diypedals #HM-2

An example of the process, going from ink to pencil to photoshop. Hieronymus leads a press tour to spark interest in volunteers for The Gate to Heaven. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting

Another idea for covers, complete non-sequiturs of events that possibly never happened, like this nice May Day outing. I finish finished all the pencil drawings for chapter 1 and I'm around page 21 of 71 with the photoshop paintings. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting

The first page of The God Labs. Now that I have some momentum my goal per day is to complete one page in pencil and one in photoshop. That's the aspiration but it depends on how complicated the scenes are, if they can share backgrounds, etcetera. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting #graphicnovel

Another Cover Idea, looking at the God Labs tower in the reflection of Remus' helmet. I was thinking of making all the covers all have a reflection of the tower, but I'll probably do a variety instead. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting

Another cover idea. Like the monolith except with the sun coming in from the bottom instead of the top. I finished roughing in all the pencil drawings for chapter 1 and am about half way through cleaning them up, started working on the photoshop paintings too. #godlabs #illustration #digitalpainting

Does it generate games for you for any other platforms or just GameBoy?

A week ago we spread my childhood friend's ashes at the beach we all spent a lot of time talking about stories we were going to make. I always thought his art had an interesting and unique look, even his final drawings still had his familiar style, just much scribblier. #mspaint #drawing

The God Labs opens with a touching and beautiful Satanic Funeral Service. I like that you only need to know the title of my last book to have most the context for this. #godlabs #illustration #drawing