About sparKmatiK

sparKmatiK is an independent artist and designer out of Buffalo, New York — home of snow, wings, and apparently a guy who draws monsters every single day.

Before the paint pens there was music: years spent rapping, writing, and performing. The hip-hop never left — it just moved into the linework. Same energy, different instrument. Most drawing videos still get cut to a beat.

The work: quirky cartoon characters, alien and human skulls, goblins, fuzzy freaks, and strange creatures — built with vibrant acrylic paint pens, fine brush-pen ink, and spray-painted galaxy splatter. Plus hand-painted Magic: The Gathering card alters for people who want their deck to have a one-of-one in it.

And the big one: the 365 project — one original drawing posted every day for a year. No skips, no cheat days. Every page is a one-of-one original, and a lot of them end up right here in the shop.

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A few from the pile

The wall

Hand-cut wood skull painted hot orange with gold teeth and a teal outline, held up against a blue Buffalo sky.

Huge green monster head with purple eyes and yellow bananas for ears, painted in acrylic marker on a large sheet of found cardboard.

Magic the Gathering card fully painted over with a gray ghoul face, yellow eyes, blue mohawk and pink tongue sticking out, on a red background.

Nine fuzzy blue creatures painted on a crimson panel speckled with galaxy splatter, bordered with blue painter's tape.

Twenty small orange cartoon faces — skulls, goblins, a bird, a lizard — painted in rows on white paper, signed sparKmatiK.

Grid of fuzzy blue monster faces with pink eyes — including a skull and a bird — painted on a bright orange-red panel taped to the table.

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