A collection of 1/1 hand drawn generative dinos by 8 year old Niko! Niko is so excited to be able to share his art to the world! He started drawing from a young age (4 or 5), he would search “cute things to draw” on youtube and spend hours upon hours drawing and learning. He started drawing his signature Dino and would basically do “generative art” before he knew what NFT’s were. He would draw his dino over and over, and then add traits and different styles to each of the dinos. He would also go out with his dad (who is a graffiti artist) and paint his dinos. During covid lockdown he wanted to raise money so he asked his dad if he could go door to door and sell his drawings. Unfortunately, because of covid lockdown he couldn’t do that, so his dad posted his drawings on his social media. Needless to say, people loved his drawings and he sold out in hours! Because of that Niko realized that there was a demand for his dinos so he went on to make another series that sold out again. Collectors were from all over the globe!
These sales of Nikos dinos created buzz in the community, so much so that he was then selected to do several interviews for the local news stations, as well as national news. Niko ventured on to teach classes via the Esplanade (Art Gallery in Medicine Hat, AB). This class was taught online to all the local schools. He also had his very first commissioned job for a local cycle shop and spray painted his dino on the store walls. He made $15 and bought the biggest slushie he could find! Niko was introduced to NFTs by his mom (@cherryd_1) and when he saw the cute NFT generative projects, he was inspired to venture into his own NFT dino collectable series! Since then Niko has minted 20 dino’s all of which sold out!!!!! His dinos can be found in galleries such as the FlowerGirl NFT Children’s Art fund, the “Children for Charity for St. Jude Research”, and Nyla Hayes (Long Neckie Lady artist) Kids on the Blockchain collection. Niko in collaboration with his brother Nyxon have made custom derivatives also that were purchased. They have done a MAYC, a Flower Girl NFT (was collected by the artist Varvara Alay), 3 Mad Rabbit Riot Club (one of which was collected by one of the main artists Mister G), as well as other custom made derivatives. Niko is also proud to be a part of a few NFT kids groups such as ‘Kids on the Blockchain” and “NFT kids magazine”. He is featured on the very 1st NFT kids calendar!!!
The current 100 drop of dinos will all be 1/1’s. The template of the dino was made in an attempt to do a computer generated dino collection. But, because the artists are 8 and 11 they didn’t know how to do it, so they just decided to hand draw each one!
The current 100 drop of dinos will all be 1/1’s. The template of the dino was made in an attempt to do a computer generated dino collection. But, because the artists are 8 and 11 they didn’t know how to do it, so they just decided to hand draw each one!
