It's a big bam boom! It's a colossal load of nonsense. It's a guy with a broken cranium trying to commune with imaginary dimensions! (The best kind of dimensions, by the way!) And the product is a bunch of NFTs that catalog the strange thoughts and weird hand movements that gave birth to the NIGHTMARES and silly jokes below!
One new development, Rarible has now implemented "lazy minting" and that means creative types can now upload artwork for prospective collectors without having to pay the (ridiculously high) Ethereum gas fees! (These are now covered by the purchaser...) I have a few unsold pieces there still from when the world was sane, and minting cost maybe six or seven bucks instead of two hundred, but now that tokenizing don't cost, I'm cool with it again!
Here are my most recent pieces...
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"Nervous Skull"
[Digital drawing animated with a magical MOSHing!] This is Yellow Skull's cousin, Conrad. He's suffering from severe anxiety (and it's definitely been exasperated by the current pandemic---and the anger that's saturated the entire world at this time.) Be kind to monsters. They're having a tough time, too...
Tags: art, digitalart, digitaldrawings, skulls, humor, cartoons, mosh, gifs, animatedgifs, animation, nfts, cryptoart
https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/456748
Sold!
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"My Seen Experience Variables"
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] This is a coyote from a different dimension, but its "spirit energy" is nearly in sync with an earthly coyote. We don't know if he is a trickster, though, of just flat-out evil. Either way (as always) BEWARE!!!
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"Mystic Bunnyman"
[Paint pen, liner pen, brush pen, and colored pencil on reclaimed cardboard with some digital embellishment.]
The bunnyman works some powerful magick. Don't screw with him! (He's not of this world!)
Sold!
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"Yellow Skull"
[Digital drawing made with a no-longer supported free app on my phone. Transparent png file!]
More stable than his cousin, Conrad, Yellow Skull is a much more confident monster. His gaze stares directly into the void, but instead of being afraid, he snickers (just a bit) under his breath... Or what would have been his breath, if he'd had lungs...
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"Robo-Panic"
[Paint pen, brush pen, liner pen, and Sharpie on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments.] The screech of tires and a shrill electronic scream shatter the calm of the night as Buzby wheels past us in a stone-cold, robo-panic... We don't see what he's escaping from until it's too late...
Tags: art, drawings, inkoncardboard, robots, weird, primitivism, cartoons, expressionism, artbrut, humor, cryptoart, nfts
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/462590
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"Licked and Sticked"
[Various pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.]
I'm not exactly certain what's happened here, but I get the feeling it was a séance that went horribly, horribly wrong!
https://nftshowroom.com/richardfyates/gallery/richardfyates_new-genesis_licked-and-sticked-by-rfy-hf
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"Overdrive"
[Digital drawing created with a free app on my phone.] Monster from an alternate realm that came to me thru RADIO WAVES! Creeeeeepy shit, man...
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"Rambunctious"
[Felt pen on paper with digital embellishments and color.]
Tony was a doll---a paper doll, to be precise. One day, a young girl spilled a cup of grape juice on Tony and he melted. The end!
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"Flying Fish"
[Colored pencil, brush pen, liner pen, and felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with some digital color embellishment.] I floated on the magical boat thru the dangerous rocks and tides, and the sky melted into millions of colors. Lights blinding and absurd flashed through the misty air, and flying fish (perhaps disembodied, perhaps not) arched through the ether spreading fear and happiness... What a nice way to spend an eternity...
Tags: art, handdrawn, foundmaterials, penciloncardboard, inkoncardboard, weird, trippy, psychedelic, cryptoart, nfts
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/463973
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"Keen"
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.]
It crawled out of the tunnel, groaning and growling, and hungry. It was unseen---and would remain that way, even through the first four victims. The fifth managed a glimpse, but didn't survive long enough to share what he'd seen. It's hunger continues to grow, and now it's reached the edge of the city...
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"Directions on Back"
[Liner pen on cardboard with paper collage, digital embellishments, and digital color.] That guy was a real STRAIGHT SHOOTER! (For a monsters...)
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"Neon Warrior (From the Future)"
[Metallic marker and paint pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] He's come from the future to protect us from a terrible threat! A threat beyond our imaginations!
Tags: art, drawings, handdrawn, semiabstract, weird, inkoncardboard, digitalcolor, nfts, cryptoart
https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/464147
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"Yumpin' Yimminy"
[Ink on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.]
Okay, here's the deal. Sometimes I just draw weird things, and I look at them and go: "What the xxxx did I just create?" I don't know. I really don't know. Some monsters were never meant to be! (But that FORBIDDEN element makes this "so-bad-it's-good" monster that much more entertaining! Doesn't it!? Ha!)
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---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)