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About the Artist...

My name is Nick Lattey ( Nickel ), and I have been drawing manga for ... hmm well that first sentence hasn't changed since I started this site so I'll keep it. I dont like calling what I do 'manga' although in the strictest sense it is. The problem with giving it that name is that it inherently is linked to the japanese style of comic drawing. While on a large degree I agree with the way they show emotion and character, I am not japanese and I will never know or understand much of the way they think. I then seek to call this a comic, but then one looks at the american styles of either cartoon comics like Garfield with little to no story or character development, or the insanely detailed Marvel/DC styles where so much detail and information is packed into every pane.

Gah! So typically balingi!
One would probably say my style is closest to manga, for that is what I used as a base for where I am now, and certainly looking at the picture to the right of this text one would even say an uninspired and predictable form of manga, I now try to break from this stranglehold typecast and develop a style that suits my own way of drawing and expressing character. I would like to say I'm aiming towards a "Blade of the Immortal" drawing style, but again I then have to admit I am a dumb kiwi trying to be japanese.

"Balingi" I think it was that Jeff calls me, I'm told that however its spelt it means stupid white person, or pretender or wannabe or something. I guess that's what my drawing style is, a bastardisation of everything else pulled together into my style. Yet as it is, it seems my drawings will forever be 'balingi', seen as mediocre manga drawn by another stupid white person that really has no idea.

Andraz said to me that noone should ever call themselves an artist, that a true artist is called as such by other people inspired by someone's work. This is certainly true of me, my drawings are nothing but a way for me to tell a story. 'Art' affects people, I just scribble.

This 'balingi' was developed mainly as a practise sketchpad for me, originally I was working to deadlines on this and while it stacked the pages out it was not the best way to do things. These days I draw and post when I can, I have a lot of story to tell but I'll get there eventually.

VITAL STATS

Age: 26
Location: New Zealand
Religion: Asatru ( Nordic )
Board Names: SuikoX: Falcon Critical
Currently Doing: Service Desk Analyst at Sytec Resources Ltd

OTHER USELESS INFO...

Likes: RPGs, drawing, reading, football... am I getting more boring as I get older?
Dislikes: Eggs, war, licorice, racism, aniseed, MMORPGs, trying to be japanese when I'm not! Bad me!
Brush with Fame: I served Lawrence Fishburne at Burger King Paraparaumu,
and I went to all 3 Lord of the Rings premieres

FAVOURITES

Football Team: Nottingham Forest, Liverpool
Actress: Milla Jovovich
Game: Suikodens, Valkyrie Profiles, Fifa, Sims 2, NWN, Oblivion
Anime: Ranma 1/2, Full Metal Alchemist, GITS: Stand Alone Complex
Manga: Devil & Devil, I's, Rurouni Kenshin
Movie: Lord of the Rings Trilogy