Nick Sirotich

Here is an array of various posters I’ve designed for all types of clients from around 2017- present.

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Designing patterns is incredibly fun. Creating a repeating, seamless motif is a challenging task that requires a special type of thinking. For so long, the subject matter of these designs has largely been focused on more elegant, or delicate subjects on which to focus. I really enjoy putting more emphasis on cruder subject matter and character based narratives. Here are a few of my favorite pattern projects.

This was an exceptionally fun project I created with Crunchyroll and VRV. I was approached a few years back to create a huge array of characters, icons and, weird elements for VRV and Crunchyroll, several of which were animated. They let my mind soar as I compiled a collection of weird beasts that functioned on their own but fit together nicely into a single image. Hands down one of the most entertaining gigs I’ve had!

DSF (or Design San Francisco) has been one of my longest running and most exciting clients I’ve worked with in my career. For over eight years they and I have created some truly striking designs together and completed well over fifty individual projects together.

Working directly with owner Devon Chulick has been tremendously fulfilling and has opened my eyes to wider possibilities in the apparel design spectrum and artistic applications overall.

Here is a small collection of the many pieces I’ve created for DSF and I’m excited to continue the trend for as long as we can continue to come up with clever ideas and lovely designs.

Portrait illustrations are some of my favorite kinds of gigs. I love studying a persons features, understanding their gesture and capturing their true character. I do work for both commercial gigs which often request celebrity pieces and private commissions where I’m asked to create an image of themselves or their loved ones. Everybody enjoys a good portrait and I love doing them.

I had the great pleasure of designing a few beer tap labels in conjunction with Anchor Brewing, Madrone Art Bar and, Pops in San Francisco. These were used for a limited run of kegs for both bars but were exceedingly fun projects to work on and very tasty products to sample.

I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with Current Affairs Magazine since early on in their publication. Here is a small collection of some of my favorite pieces I’ve created for them. You can see more of their stellar collection of work and subscribe to their magazine here: Current Affairs.

When I get the chance to paint weird faces i take it. Here are a pair of cuties I painted a while back

I have been designing characters for as long as I can remember. I’m drawn to creating creatures, people, monsters and all other types of characters that live deep in my brain. I base these beings off of people I know, creatures I’d like to know and, all other walks of life that I think should be brought into existence. It is amongst my favorite aspect of creation.

This page represents a minuscule assortment of some of the characters I’ve drawn but probably encompasses about 1% of what I’ve come up with over the years. They’re not connected in any particular way other than being stand-alone characters in my collection. I hope you enjoy!

This idiot may be a tyrannical invalid but he’s easy to draw.

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From time to time I’m asked to do a comic piece. They’re challenging but fun to make. Here are a few comic pieces I’ve enjoyed creating.

Here’s a piece I did to pay tribute to the gang of Paddy’s Pub, otherwise known as the cast of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

I had the great pleasure of creating this very fun mural for Dutchie, a cannabis delivery company located in Bend, OR. Earlier this year I was flown out to create a very unique and personal piece of art for Dutchie that was jam-packed with references to their company, culture and history. I really enjoyed every bit of this project and I know the Dutchie team really enjoyed seeing it unveiled.

In 2015 I was commissioned to paint a very cool Pabst Blue Ribbon themed mural at Bar Toma in Chicago, IL. The project was part of a larger series of murals I painted at that location over three separate trips. The characters are all based on classic Chicago sports mascots and fit beautifully behind the bar, framed with arched hallways and soft lighting. This was definitely one of my favorite mural projects and I really enjoyed working with this team,

This was a fun little mural I painted on a small private music studio in Northern California back in 2017.

I’m not normally one for contests but I do love PBR. I came up with this design for the 2018 Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can design contest and while it didn’t win, I was happy with the result. I’d love to get a chance to sip out of one of these bad boys with my design on it one day.

I have had the good fortune to work on animation projects with Mashable several times now and I couldn’t have enjoyed it more! Here are a few of my favorites!

Here’s a very fun project I got to work on a few years back with the mobile game company KYN. I was asked to come up with over a dozen versions of established KYN characters, as well as a backdrop for promotional purposes in a more soft, gradient based style than I typically work in but, I think the final collection came out very cool.

This project was awesome! A few years back I got to create several moving background images for a Walking Dead video game commercial. Each of these pieces was composed of several separated illustrations which were then animated for the commercial. I love getting to see my work come alive so it was a real treat seeing these on TV.

BearSloth was one of my many little side projects that blossomed into a full on skate line with badass decks, cool apparel and various other products. I started BearSloth Skateboards back in 2015 after working for Lowcard Magazine for about a year and deciding I needed to bring back what I felt was so crucial to the skate world: The Art. It started off as an idea, then a series of designs then, a whole line of products that I soon sold out of. After about two years of running the company I decided to close up shop as running the company along with designing the products and keeping up with my many freelance projects became too much for me to keep going. We sold all the products with the exception of one of each original design which I kept but I may just relaunch a new line one of these days.

I love designing menus for restaurants, bars and more. Here are a few of may favorite recent menu projects along with a few signature drinks from Madrone in San Francisco.

Total Party Chill is theeee place for Dungeons and Dragons everything.

Here are a few very interesting animation projects I had the pleasure of illustrating for Mashable through their First Fails series. It was tremendously fun and always enjoyable when you get to work with celebs.