Hey guys! ^^


It is with great honour to announce that today is February 1st which means it's the day I first made my popular loveable bat character Nyx! Yep, today is his birthday and it's now 8 years, wow time does fly! :D


Back in 2015 where here on DA I was under my old username dracozek, my drawing skills started to evolve and I had gotten more good outside of dragons and other reptiles, I had a soft spot for bats of any kind as I learned they are important for the eco system and the bats we have here are native, these species are protected at all costs and so very many of them fly across the guy anywhere at night, they're good for the environment.


Upon me loving bats in general and because I saw an adoring bat art from one of my watchers I thought I could practice drawing them and could give bats my own personal rendition like I did with dragons in the first place, and so because of the inspiration I had I thought of my first bat character Fangs later renamed to Flick!

https://sta.sh/01123ooia15r

I really loved how he turned out so I decided to keep on working more on drawing bats, after a few later during the year it then got to 2016 where I experimented on more possible designs then on Feb 1st which is today, I came up with an experimental design of a black personal rendition bat with shoes like Yoshi's but despite him being an experimental character design I decided to give him a quick bat name and then I thought of the name on my own that is.... Nyx! :D

https://sta.sh/02bt6gg5amd7

At first he was only gonna appear one time but to my surprise while I was chatting with one of my top followers through notes (who is unfortunately not around here anymore), he said he really loved how he came out and asked me if I can draw him again then I thought.... yeah sure why not? ^^


Then I came with this image with the inspiration of duck river half an hour close to my area with tribute to the smoke stacks from the old oil refinery that got demolished later that year! (It was an icon to the area)

https://sta.sh/023odf5d9uav

If you want to watch the video of the demolition here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNxeHvS6XY


As I drew him more which was requested, more people started to really like him and as I personally really like how he looked too, that's the point where I started to make him my main personal character due to his popularity with other people, Nyx being a loveable character was unexpected but I'm really happy that I really decided to experiment and came up with this character design which his personality was having really friendly traits who loves life and is social to others, since then I thought experimenting something new is one of the best things I can do and can even sometimes pull off an impossible that no-one else can think of, something is really unique with the way I design characters but at this time I wish to improve more on current designs to make them look more unique and not looking the same.


The more over the years I drew Nyx the bat he started to evolve more and more making him standing out really well among others, while people would think that Nyx is cool but to many others he really is a gentle cutie with putting great charms on others to make someone's day more bright! :3

I very much really happy that you all really enjoy seeing this fella who really now has a special place in my heart, 8 years really is a long time and he'll be sure to continue to make main appearances for many more years to come! :D


What are your special Nyx moments you remember? Let me know in the comments below! :3


Happy Birthday Nyx! ^^