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nicterhorst.com
nic.tattoos
@nicterhorst.com
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Tattooer, oc illustrator and former animator
Co-owner of So Far So Good Tattoo Shop
📍Toronto, ON, 🇨🇦 [Treaty 13]

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World's sloppiest video, but reminder to back up your procreate files ✨

I make my folders beforehand and move what I want into them, because moving stacks only works *sometimes* and often leaves you with missing or corrupted files.
January 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Yves shaved* to check for a scar and found one… on the wrong side 😌✨ #kttdnd #knockthreetimes

*Was shaved by an NPC trying to prove a point
A shirtless, tattooed tiefling (Yves) smiling. His facial hair is clean shaved on the sides and thick on the chin and moustache.
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Face card
Body card
🐀😈💫

Had to get my sluttiest character in on this trend asap
A colour illustration of a bruised and battered Yves (tattooed purple tiefling/demon with broken horns and tattoos), being held against a stone wall by a clawed blue hand coming from off screen. He appears to be talking. He's been stabbed in the shoulder, has a black eye, and his nose is bleeding, and appears to be bruised and broken. He looks worried and resigned, and as if he's trying to speak to whoever is off camera. A halftone illustration of Yves posing in a desert outfit. They're wearing a strappy triangle top and high waisted paints over their broad, tattooed form.
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The poop withholder
A photo of my black cat, Xena. She has some white markings on her stomach, and is lounging in a sunbeam
December 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Little WIP #hellions #hellionsofcarnocht #ocsky
A more refined version of the sketch in the previous post. Its a screenshot from procreate.
December 27, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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A little sketch of winter boys #hellions #hellionsofcarnocht
A sketch of Ba and Del (a younger Tink) bundled up for winter with hot chocolates. Del looks like he's cold, and grateful for the drink, and Ba is poking fun at him.
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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2025 Art Summary!

I always like looking at these. This year, I definitely drew more for work and less for myself. But I feel like I also got to experiment a lot as well! #artsummary
A compilation of my favourite pieces of art from the year. Text reads “2025 artwork summary”, and is laid out in archways, starting with the top left labelled Jan and the bottom right labelled Dec. the template was made by @ruuudy07 on X.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Trying something new (WIP) #hellions #hellionsofcarnocht
A sketch of Tink gripping Balial in a hug.
December 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Hello, I'm very proud of my cookie-making today.

Gingerbread, snickerdoodles, and almond meltaways!
A box of cookies that has a star on the top. There are three types of cookies in the box (listed in post)
December 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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My commissions are open! To get them out in time for the holidays, I'll probably be closing them at the end of next week!

I have slots for one large one, and five chest-up bust sketches! #commissions #commsopen #ocsky
A halftone illustration of Tink and Balial with a heart accented in red provided as a commission example A clean, greyscale portrait of a woman with relatively clean and toned linework, provided as a commission example A clean, greyscale portrait of a woman with relatively clean but loose linework, provided as a commission example, although this was done for a 'rougher' tier of work than the current commissions.
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Biblically accurate chest piece. My largest colour piece yet! #tattoo #tattoosky #tattooartist
A full colour tattoo of eyes on a chest, largely asymmetrical with symmetrical elements. The eyes are in full colour, starting with a single green eye in the center and working out in a gradient to red eyes on the outside. There is purple smoke in between the eyes. A different angle of the same tattoo A different angle of the same tattoo
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Celestial dragon ✨
A tattoo of a black dragon filled with stars on an inner thigh. It is flying in front of a sun.
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Just got a healed shot of this one!! Unedited, and at a different angle.

For anyone wondering how the red stuff would settle 😂
The same tattoo featured in the post above, but healed. It looks very similar, but there is no redness, and the gray wash has healed nice and light in the previously red areas.
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I'm just realizing I never posted a final piece here for the Big Gay Back Piece. So: here it is, in all of its glory! 100% healed (the newest pieces around 4-5 months in our touch up session). Probably around 25-30 hrs under the needle, many more drawing and iterating and placing stencils
A healed black and grey tattoo with red accents that features three panels in the form of a corset around the client's back and ribs. It features Medusa and Athena in the center panel. They are looking at each other adoringly, and caressing the weapons that have been stabbed into the other's back (weapons in red). The weapons are featured in the side panels (next two images). The right side panel of the tattoo, featuring Athena's owl in black and grey. It carries an arrow (red) and is flying against a background of olive blossoms and leaves (red). The left panel of the same tattoo. This panel features a snake in black and grey with markings that match the snakes on Medusa's head. It is wrapped around Perseus's blade (red) and featured on a background of rock roses (red).
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Ahh congrats on 14k Myr!!

Hello!! I'm Nic and I'm a queer tattoo artist and illustrator who specializes in character work, TTRPG/Fantasy and bringing OCs and PCs to life 🥹💖
A tattoo design of a femme drow elf with a spider with a red star creating a crown around their face. Two elf characters (Tink and Balial) doing the "booktok pose". Tink is embarrassed and laughing and pushing Ba away. A healed photo of a back piece tattoo, featuring Medusa and Athena in an embrace, with their weapons stabbed into each other's backs.
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I based this tattoo design off of ref from this set!! #tattoo #tattoosky

References are cool!!
A (very irritated) black and grey tattoo of a celestial femme knight, holding a sword. Their hair is made of a starry night sky, and the armour has stars and moons worked into it. She looks serene.
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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HM -- got a new sketch done, like the faces, but it got still. I will probably redo everything about it.

If you ever wonder why I post so rarely nowadays it's because I'm just doodling idly for the crew/my DM or tattooing at this point.
A tied down sketch of the previous image. Balial is looking worriedly at Tink, and trying to hold him up. Tink is looking at someone off camera, and holding his arm, which is bleeding.
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I’m working on this sketch more, but I’m cropping out the bottom and I like tink’s boots a lot. #hellions #hellionsofcarnocht
A loose sketch of a beat up looking Tink, and a worried, hovering Balial.
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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The art // the artist's hand
A tattoo of Zyra, from League of Legends. She's looking sexy, and has red hair and flowers on her body. A photo of my hand, freshly manicured.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Time to post this WIP/pic of... the Other Tink #hellions #hellionsofcarnocht

iykyk
A greyscale illustration of a smug-looking Tink, who is just a little off. He looks too tired, too thin, and his hair is far too long, and draping over his shoulders and the chair he's sitting on. He is smugly smiling, making eye contact with the viewer, and holding four crystal orbs in one hand, in a pose that's reminiscent of the Goblin King from Labyrinth.
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Someone should really teach him how to shut his mouth. #kttdnd
A colour illustration of a bruised and battered Yves (tattooed purple tiefling/demon with broken horns and tattoos), being held against a stone wall by a clawed blue hand coming from off screen. He appears to be talking. He's been stabbed in the shoulder, has a black eye, and his nose is bleeding, and appears to be bruised and broken. He looks worried and resigned, and as if he's trying to speak to whoever is off camera.
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Just gonna use this thread to gradually beat the shit out of this guy.
A more finished sketch of the previous image. (See first image for descriptive alt text)
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Not much to show for personal art right now, it's all a bunch of WIPs that might never get finished #kttdnd
A work in progress of Yves' face being held (derogatory) after he's gotten the shit kicked out of him
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Last week or so in tattoos!
A black and grey tattoo of fairy wings with moon phases and a star in the center A colour tattoo of moffmin, my miniature mothman, holding a light bulb A black and grey tattoo of a cat with floating demon wings, jumping at a fish cat toy A black and grey tattoo of a starry black cat with demon wings
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Tfw your doppleganger puts you in a prison, but one of your guards appears to be a well meaning child. #kttdnd
A sketch of a nervous, young tiefling, walking towards a tall, broad, older tiefling with a beard. The older tiefling (yves) is smiling gently.
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM