Nate's Archive

Inspired by the viral “Chicken Banana” TikTok sound and brought to life from one of Nate’s daughter’s ideas, this piece blends chaotic humor, cartoon energy, and exaggerated expression into a playful blackwork-inspired illustration.

Built around oversized eyes, dramatic posing, and ridiculous personality, the design was created to feel loud, goofy, and intentionally over-the-top — capturing the kind of random humor that somehow becomes unforgettable.

A fun departure from Imperium’s darker themes, the piece embraces absurdity, internet culture, and the creative chaos that comes from turning a simple joke into handcrafted artwork.

The response and personality behind the piece eventually led to the creation of the Oogly Eyed Squad Collection.

Inspired by Thunder by Boys Like Girls, this flash-inspired piece blends music, emotion, and energy into a bold high-contrast composition.

Built around the connection between sound and feeling, the design combines oversized headphones, electric blue lightning, and a fractured heart to represent the way music can hit like a storm, loud, emotional, nostalgic, and impossible to ignore.

Created with a mix of blackwork-inspired linework, bold neo-traditional color influence, and graphic illustrative design, the piece pulls from alternative music culture, tattoo aesthetics, and emotion-driven artwork to capture the feeling of getting lost inside a song that still hits years later.

A dark flash-inspired blackwork design combining ornate steel, blooming roses, and aggressive engraved textures into a bold high-contrast composition.

Built around themes of beauty, pain, loyalty, and sacrifice, the piece blends tattoo-inspired linework with dark fantasy aesthetics to create a design that feels both elegant and dangerous.

Created with strong silhouette readability, layered detail, and handcrafted texture, the piece pulls influence from traditional blackwork, gothic imagery, and classic tattoo symbolism.

A dark flash-inspired blackwork piece blending demonic imagery, sharp contrast, and engraved woodcut influence into a bold high-impact design.

Built around aggressive silhouette work, dripping ink textures, and oni-inspired features, the piece was created to feel raw, intimidating, and instantly readable — pulling influence from tattoo culture, horror aesthetics, and dark fantasy illustration.

One of my first digital creations, this is a brutal blackwork interpretation of an ancient Spartan warrior forged through engraved woodcut influence, aggressive contrast, and raw hand-crafted texture.

Built around themes of discipline, sacrifice, resilience, and unwavering resolve, the piece captures the feeling of a lone warrior standing against chaos as the world collapses around him.

Heavy shadows, fractured linework, and violent directional hatching were used to create a sense of movement, tension, and battlefield atmosphere, blending classical warrior imagery with darker underground illustration aesthetics.

Created as a tribute to strength through struggle and the mentality of pushing forward regardless of the weight carried behind the shield.

A blackwork-inspired illustration blending music, emotion, and decay into a single distorted form.

Merging the silhouette of an electric guitar with a vintage microphone, the piece explores the raw energy of live music, creative burnout, obsession, and emotional release through dripping ink, aggressive contrast, and handcrafted linework.

Influenced by underground music culture, tattoo aesthetics, and engraved blackwork illustration, the design was created to feel loud, imperfect, and emotionally charged, like sound bleeding into physical form.

Created as a deeply personal one-of-one piece for a close friend, this illustration was inspired by the emotional atmosphere and introspective themes of Hideaway by INZO.

The piece explores the balance between chaos and peace, pain and healing — combining brutal blackwork aesthetics, engraved woodcut influence, and symbolic imagery to represent emotional weight, self-reflection, growth, and human connection.

The skeletal figure sits in meditation surrounded by life, decay, music, and rebirth, holding together a fractured heart while rooted beneath a blooming lotus. Every element was designed intentionally to reflect struggle, healing, identity, and the invisible battles people carry within themselves.

A one-of-one handcrafted illustration created through collaboration, trust, and personal meaning.