42 pieces. 42 figures from my mind. 42 thoughts and characters from my life and experiences in my 42nd year on this planet.

This series is a continuation of my journey that began in the late 90s. Creating, visualization and imagination. I didnt know it yet in my younger years, but I was destined for creating. At least Id like to think that. But I lost my path before I even knew I had one. Years went by with mindless existence until I got my first digital camera in 07.

Since then, I have been photographing, just the joy of pressing the shutter, and a moment is frozen, was magical. It wasnt until last year that I opened Blender and started learning it, I felt that I had discovered my path.

I didnt know I had a path. But now Ive found it.

Extant is a shape of me, my thoughts, memories, and future.

The NFTs are minted on a custom Manifold smart contract with a maximum of 42

Extant

42 pieces. 42 figures from my mind. 42 thoughts and characters from my life and experiences in my 42nd year on this planet.

Extant #29 - Thor

Nick de Jonge Editions

A Field of Dreams, a piece that represents happiness and that dreams can come true!

Happiness and colourful days, something I hope I can spread with this edition (and my other work of course).

I have been very fortunate to be able to capture these beautiful foggy mornings. When I"m out photographing and all elements come together it always put a big smile upon my face. With this edition I hope I can do the same to you and this great community from which I have learned so much from. 

Why 21 pieces? Natural things follow the Fibonacci sequence. It appears in biological settings such as branching in trees etc. 21 is part of that sequence and because I love to photograph landscape & nature, 21 would be a good number to use!

A Field of Dreams #13/21

 ZO is greek for "life"... not just the medical definition, but the act of living life. This is what I felt when creating these pieces, bringing life back into my art with a spontaneous single line. Created by digital artist Mike Campau. Visit this project and other work at https://mikecampau.com/projects

MikeCampau

Bringing life back into my art with a spontaneous single line.

ZO: Solar

A ghost of the original ZO project, appearing out of nowhere... one at a time.

Ghost of ZO 9

ZO: Solar PFP

The original arcus collection by Rik Oostenbroek

Arcus

The original Arcus collection by Rik Oostenbroek.

Arcus #9 - Balance

Arcus #4 - Tangent

Arcus #39 - Flow

Arcus #37 - Silent Wave

Arcus #36 - Levitae

Arcus #3 - Bezier

Arcus #2 - Arc

Arcus #1 - Genesis

JAXE

The piece that helped me find myself and my style.  
In times were lost, we can sometimes find inspiration.

This happened to me.

After starting with digital art back in 2001, I always just played around and enjoyed Photoshop.  
No goal, just enjoying my time creating.  
Thankfully, This helped me become a versatile Designer and art director in my professional career.

But, I never really found a style for myself. 

Then in 2020 the Pandemic hit. I was burned out and strained my back. After weeks of recovery I was feeling at my lowest. I started up Photoshop and doodled these eyes as an expression of how I was seeing the world. A burning ship and I was going down with it.

Once I took a step back and looked at it, I found a spur of inspiration and wanted to continue with this glossy, 2D yet 3D looking hand brushed type of art.

Feeling better than ever before, and not stopping now.  
I am grateful for art and being able to share this with you all. 

Thank you for finding me.

Burning Beginnings

The Line 

The Line Artist 101 to 201

Unknown Being

SHAPES&PATTERNS V1  PT.4

A self initiated project of nine 1/1s, originally only going to be R&D for my iconic cloth style, using the original supplied textures through a CC by 4.0 license from https://normform.art/.

Following tons of feedback, I recreated them with my own couple twists, while keeping their original colour schemes and stylistic approach alive.

This series is my first real art collection. 

Thanks to all my friends and fans of my work for your unreal support, this goes out to you.

SHAPES&PATTERNS V1  PT.4

HANDIEDAN Vector Equilibrium

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