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Hello! Thanks for stopping by!

This is a personal site to host my portfolio and to share as much art I've made as possible in one place, as well as functioning as a hub with links to the various sites I'm on. For more about me, check out the About tab.

If you'd like to support me in any way, check out the Commissions tab and/or head over to my Ko-fi page! If you'd like to contact me about an opportunity, feel free to send an email to [email protected] or fill out the contact form under the Contact tab.

This site is under continual construction so you'll likely come across unfinished sections. You can check out a semi-maintained to-do list here.

Previous Commerical Clients

Socials and Sites

Bluesky

My most active platform, and thus also my messiest/most casual. Fairly decent replacement for Twitter since I bailed on that hellsite a few years ago.

Tumblr

Similar story as Bluesky for me, but I tend to post less.

Ko-fi

My platform of choice for casual commissions, merch, and tips! Check it out if you're interested in what's currently available and/or if you're looking to support me!

Inprnt

Where I sell prints of original works! Note: I don't offer fanart prints there due to most companies having fanmerch policies that prohibit automation. Hoping to sell personally shipped fanart prints on my Ko-fi sooner than later!

Newgrounds

It's a cool place! For cool people! Still very new there.

Twitch

I stream! Sometimes! I started in October 2025 to join Warframe's Quest to Conquer Cancer campaign and have worked on it in bits and pieces since. It's infrequent but I tend to stream either art or Warframe. I might try streaming more often over time.

Instagram

Largely kept for IRL connections and events and such. I don't spend much time there.

ArtStation

Where I've hosted my art portfolio since 2025. It's fine. But hopefully with enough time I can rely on this site instead!

LinkedIn

Job connection stuff. You know what LinkedIn is. I've made some really interesting conversations and connections over there and it's worth it for potential career visibility, but it's otherwise a hellsite I try to keep from looking at often.

[🚧 WEBSITE TO-DO'S 🚧]

(in no particular order)

  • Finish filling Portfolio, Art Archive, Hollowframe, and About sections with assets and text

  • Add alt text to more images, alongside more supplemental information (both in alt and caption text)

  • Third item

  • Expand on more pieces in the Portfolio section with wips, timelapses, and text blurbs

  • Create a proper art commission sheet for the Commissions tab, rather than handling in Ko-fi

  • Add more personal interest tabs like Photos and/or Playlists

  • Further customize text and other stylings (most stuff is just default)

  • Finish writing to-do list

Ko-fi commissions are: [CLOSED]

https://ko-fi.com/upsidedownsmore/commissions

For any general or commercial inquiries,
contact me at [email protected]
or on Discord: upsidedownsmore

Depending on the request, I may be available for work
even if Ko-fi commissions are closed!

For examples of prior commission work,
check out the Portfolio tab as well as the Ko-fi link above.

[In progress!]
[Check out my ARTSTATION for more complete wips and captions/writeups in the meantime.]

DIRECTORY

Commercial commissions:

The rest:

Warframe Community Atragraphs - Garuda and Ash Augments, May 2026

I've had the immense pleasure to have made four official illustrations of two protoframe characters in Warframe, Vena (proto-Garuda) and Ryoku (proto-Ash), to be used for four Atragraph augment mod customizations: Dread Ward, Blood Forge, Seeking Shuriken, and Smoke Shadow.

These Atragraphs launched in Warframe alongside the rest of Jade Shadows: Constellations on June 17th, 2026.

Ash (Ryoku) - Seeking Shuriken

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Timelapse - Seeking Shuriken

Garuda (Vena) - Dread Ward

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Timelapse - Dread Ward

Ash (Ryoku) - Smoke Shadow

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Timelapse - Smoke Shadow

Garuda (Vena) - Blood Forge

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Timelapse - Blood Forge

It has truly been an honor to be considered for this first instance of community-made Atragraphs, exploring a new format alongside brand new in-progress characters! This project has been a treat as someone with a huge interest in whatever small peeks into game development I can get.

This commission came at a very interesting time, starting in March within a few days of beginning a new day job that unfortunately took much more of my time and energy than I expected or wanted. This led to quite a crunch to finish this commission and plenty of elements I wish I had had more time and resources to devote to. But I learned a lot while drawing these characters and juggling multiple large responsibilities (both within the project and out), and I'm very happy with the extremely lovely feedback I've gotten throughout and after the process!

Thank you to Charly, Digital Extremes and the Warframe community for the incredible support, as always. <3

Gears for Breakfast Holiday Gift Box Commission, September 2025

After a chance meeting at TennoCon 2025, I was contracted to illustrate the art for custom boxes of holiday chocolates that would be shipped to the wonderful people at Gears for Breakfast (makers of A Hat in Time)!

This project mainly involved a large box illustration, as well as eleven custom vector icons to mold the chocolates into (alongside some pre-made holiday greetings) and a holiday card.

This was a remarkably different project than I had ever worked on before, with character designs, subject material, scenery, and context I was entirely new to. It was a struggle, but I learned an incredible amount through the process!

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I had the pleasure of meeting Sara Holmes, the producer at Gears for Breakfast, at TennoCon 2025 dinner and at events since. I had known about A Hat in Time since my friends were obsessed with it in high school, so meeting someone behind it and subsequenting getting to make something for the studio, especially through a primarily Warframe and Soulframe event, was and still is absolutely crazy to me.

To prepare for the project, I played through A Hat in Time (and loooooooooooved it). Predictably, my favorite character ended up being The Snatcher, so much of our ideation included him in some way. The goal of the piece was to depict a cozy holiday environment with food, and I eventually landed on the idea of Snatcher working a kitchen alongside Hat Kid and Bow Kid, having been inspired by his iconic "KILL the chef" apron (which I first spotted in the summer 2023 event promo art). I also referenced the Gears for Breakfast logo for the gear-shaped egg, pancake, and pineapple slice flipping in the frying pan.

For the vector chocolate icons, I chose to use Inkscape. This was my first time using Inkscape, after having a bit of experience using Adobe Illustrator in school (and no longer holding a license lol), and it was definitely a different art process than what I'm used to. But I'm happy with the results!

Huge thank you to Sara Holmes for extending this opportunity to me and for being a great and gracious client! And thanks to Gears for Breakfast for making such a fun game, I'm glad you enjoyed your chocolates :)

Movember 2025 Glyph Commission, September 2025

Each November, Digital Extremes hosts a Movember event in Warframe in support of men's health in conjunction with the Movember Foundation. A main feature of this event is the option for players to wear a wide selection of mustaches on their warframes for the entire month.

Alongside this, Digital Extremes also commissions an artist to make a glyph (player profile picture) to be made available for free via temporary redeemable code (expiring the following December). I was lucky enough to be chosen to provide this 2025 Baruuk glyph, as well as a black and white version!

I wonder if there was any particular personal influencing factor that could have led to this.....

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Timelapse - Smoke Shadow

Warframe's captura mode was used extensively to get plenty of reference material, and I pushed myself to render and detail this portrait to the best of my abilities. While I wish I had put more work into concepting and workshopping the background earlier in the process, I'm still quite happy with how it's turned out! Thanks again to the wonderful folks at Digital Extremes!

Community Kullervo Glyph Commission, January 2024

December 2023, very soon after I was accepted into the Warframe Creator Program, Digital Extremes contacted me to draw a community Kullervo glyph for Warframe.

This made for quite a crazy winter for me; having just squeezed through a rough fall semester, having just been accepted into a creator program I had looked up to for years, and right as I was about to go on vacation with family to Mexico (where I did the majority of this illustration).

Years later I'm still very proud of this piece, and it's always interesting to look back on as my styles and processes change. As the first commercial commission I've had the pleasure of working on, this illustration holds a special place in my heart.

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Timelapse - Smoke Shadow

I was advised to use my experience with my Hollowframe project and to draw inspiration from the Radiance from Hollow Knight for the visuals of this piece, which led to a warm color palette and intense visuals. I also drew from many visual references from Warframe as guides.

It was released alongside four other amazing glyphs made by Ritens, CalamityDeath, Kirdy, and Studio Cyen in the Community Art Pack I on March 27th, 2024, purchasable with Warframe's premium currency Platinum. You can find an article written about each glyph -> here! <-

COMMISSIONS, GIFTS, COLLABS

(non-commercial)

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FANART

(mostly Warframe)

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(a fanart fusion project between Hollow Knight and Warframe)

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Starting mid-2021, Hollowframe has since expanded from a personal grid compendium into detailed scene illustrations, an evolving poster, and a even full card deck.

It has been a defining project in my growth as an artist, maybe even the defining project, and as such I believe deserves its own section to cover it from start to most recent.

Beginning:   2021 - 2022

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Additions and Illustrations:   2022 - 2024

Spectrum Syndicate Discord stickers commission - October 2022

Krita adoption, further additions

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Zine, Posters, and Cards:   2024 - 2025

The Zine - 2D Design class project

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and then

The Devshort

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TennoCon 2024

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Latest Additions

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Cards and TennoCon 2025

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QTCC 2025

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Original Works

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TENNOTOBER

(a Warframe Inktober-styled annual event)

2026

In-progress!

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2025

Freshly out of college, I had hoped to hit every day like I had in 2023 and 2021.
However, I had just come off the back of two large commercial commissions in September,
and struggled to keep from burning out. This in combination with a trip to see family and
efforts to livestream for the first time in order to participate in QTCC meant I had to cut myself short.
But I'm still happy with the results!

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2024

I aimed to do the same as the previous year and draw every day.
But I had to tap out halfway as I got busier with college art assignments,
and as I got more ambitious compared to 2023. Ah well, at least there's timelapses now!

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2023

Despite a busy fall semester, I committed to drawing every day.
I did not sleep much, but I learned a lot.

2022

Some of the last drawings I did in Photoshop before switching to Krita that December.
Scaled down to just four drawings due to school and still getting used to digital art.

2021

My first Tennotober, unlike every year since, was entirely traditional ink pens in my sketchbook.
It was also during the return to in-person classes after the Covid-19 lockdown, and also
during my increasing struggle with a fatigue I wouldn't recover from until August 2022.
While I struggled to get out of my room to class (resulting in needing to take a medical leave
until Fall 2022) I preoccupied myself with making a drawing for (nearly) every day.
I've come far and changed quite a lot since these ink drawings.

Looking for more art that didn't make the portfolio cut? Head over to the Art Archive!

THE ARCHIVE

Aka the art dump. This page includes the vast majority of my works, sketches,doodles, and other projects
in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent and ending with my very beginnings as an artist. Enjoy!

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2026

November

October

September

August

July

June

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January

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2025

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

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February

January

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2024

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

April

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February

January

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2023

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

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January

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2022

December

November

October

September

August

July

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January

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2021

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

May

January

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2020

December

October

September

August

July

May

April

March

February

January

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2019

November

October

July

March

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January

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2018

July

May

Contact

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About

Nicholas Lobaugh (under the online alias UpsideDownSmore) is an illustrator living in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.

He attended Macalester College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in May of 2025 with a major in studio art and a minor in computer science. He was also a violinist and manager in the Macalester Symphony Orchestra, as well as a contributor to the student art and literature publication, Chanter.

In December of 2023 he was invited into the Warframe Creator Program, following the posting of Hollowframe in 2022 and subsequent Warframe fanart projects. He has since worked on multiple freelance projects for Warframe as well as other clients while continuing to post artwork online.

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