About Nicholas Ivins Art & Illustration

Nicholas Ivins is an award-winning artist, illustrator, and graphic designer, born and raised in San Diego. His artistic pursuits began at the age of three with crude drawings of undersea life and autobiographical comics. They have developed admirably since then, if only in the smaller amount of tantrums a drawing necessitates. Nick’s ink and digital art is heavily influenced by the comics and cartoons he grew up on (and still enjoys), as well as his years of academic study of fine art and contemporary illustration. His approach is to find unexplored and subversive angle on subjects, and his offbeat but technically precise approach to art places him among the lowbrow/pop surrealist art movement. Above all, he enjoys exploring the dark beauty of a wide variety of subjects, including Día de los Muertos figures, meticulous animal portraits, illustrative explorations of music, and more. Nick enjoys pushing the boundaries of his own skills, while continually searching for new depths of meaning and unique perspectives of our increasingly complex world.Read their story