Niko Bellic Fan Artwork

Very gripping fan artwork of Niko Bellic on the run by mixmasterangel. The artist used very different style and simple, dark colour scheme. It was a quick job after been inspired by the covers of 100 Bullets comics. An excellent illustration of movement in 2d environment.

Source: mixmasterangel.deviantart.com/

Patrick Brown at it again!

Just some recent, if a couple of years can be considered recent, GTA artworks from famous Patrick Brown. The first two are actually ID pictures Patrick used at his deviantArt profile. As you can see he went with GTA IV's Weazel News theme for both of them. Very original if you ask me.

An interesting fact is that backgrounds for both IDs are actually screenshots from the game (GTA IV and Ballad of Gay Tony), but with some Photoshop magic added to them.



Next on our list is a scene from GTA IV: Ballad of Gay Tony. It took Patrick around 20 hours to finish it and while doing it he learned few new tricks.

Meet Luis 'Fernando' Lopez the bodyguard to the nightclub manager Tony "Gay Tony" Prince who is shitting him self in the passenger seat... This scene is actually exactly the same as in Liberty City, it's just up the road from the "Comedy Club".

The last piece is a tribute to GTA IV. Mr P. admitted that it took a lot of work and time to draw and colour almost 30 characters, but it looks like all that hard work paid off.

After playing through GTA IV again I really just felt like doing something HUGE on it. So I decided to make this "tribute" to the game, something that showed almost all the characters of GTA IV and some of the highlights of missions.

Source: patrickbrown.deviantart.com

Niko Bellic In iPod Touch

One bright young illustrator from Germany decided to use his beloved iPod Touch for something creative. After combining his artistic personality with his love of GTA IV, he came up with an incredible portrait of gagster from Serbia, Niko Bellic.


David Müller was using his iPod Touch to make art for some time now, and it’s unbelievable what can be done on a new generation mobile phones these days. I personally never thought that multimedia device could be used to make such magnificent art. I would advice everyone to check David Müller’s gallery blog to see more of his latest creations. Here are some comments from the artist himself:

A little fanart I did today, again on my iPod Touch using "brushes" and my left forefinger tip. Allow me to introduce ... Niko Bellic, an illegal immigrant and veteran. Put simply, GTA IV is still stunning! Hope you like my version of that caustic Serb - a sketch has long been overdue.

Just to complete it, here's a little description for you: I tried to capture a mood that fits to him - there's a reason for B/W (morally he's already dead - war and the mob-life ruined his humanly), his look (he's forearmed and got a freezing ice-cold intend), and for the threatening clouds and red/purple skyline (not only the sun is going down, the big city also dies with him "onboard"!).

Source: kopfstoff.blogspot.com

Niko Bellic Statue

An 8" sculpture of Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV by Jaime Margary.

My sculpture of Niko Bellic, measuring at about 8", is finally done. Basing it off the familiar promo shot, I used Sculpey clay, a metal skeleton made of screws (needles for finger bones) and acrylic paint.

Multiple shades of each color were used to prevent it from having a toyish look. I based the pose on the promo shot but the details on the in-game model.

Source: kalapusa.deviantart.com

Real Niko Bellic Art

There’s a comparably new artistic style of image manipulation that’s called untooning. In essence untooning is when an artist uses one or several photographs of real people (mostly faces) and manipulates them in a way to give the effect of realism to a cartoonish character.

The most well known artist for such photo manipulations is an artist called pixeloo (Jax Pixeloo). He started to attract more attention after untooning GTA IV’s main character Niko Bellic for the Official Playstation Magazine. The artistic piece received great feedback and a lot of recognition.

Not everyone was amazed by pixeloo’s creation and one Brazilian artist, who also did similar pieces in the past, decided to make even more realistic portrait of an Eastern European war veteran. mataleoneRJ used eight photographs of different people to get the best possible result. The artist added wrinkles, extra details around the eyes and one or two scars to get the true gangster look.

Both artists achieved incredible results, and both pieces look superb.

Source: pixeloo.deviantart.com, mataleonerj.deviantart.com

Niko Bellic By P-Meistar

Another superb Grand Theft Auto IV inspired masterpieces by Patrick Brown. The first artwork is a bit old, but the second one is fresh from the artist. In case you didn’t know, the charismatic guy who’s giving such a generous hug to Niko is P-Maister himself. Looks like he really enjoys the crisp, salty taste of ice-cold Pißwasser.


Source: patrickbrown.deviantart.com

Niko Bellic In The Times

Looks like English newspaper The Times , decided to use Niko Bellic in their new advertisement campaign to boost sales and relate to the younger readers. To attract the most attention, adverts could be seen all over the public transport including the very newspaper.

East European protagonist of GTA IV was only one of the many people who were featured in the advertisement campaign, but he was used by far the most. The advertisement was very simple and straight to the point. Perhaps The Times wanted to appear as everyone’s newspaper. No matter how old you are or what you are interested in, everyone can find something to their liking in one newspaper.

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International.

New Niko Bellic Artwork

Another great GTA IV fan artwork was released recently. This time it’s from a friend of Patrick Brown, whose amazing art creations we all admire so much, Bob Baxter. I’d say Bob did a very good job on his representation of Niko. The colors and shadows complement each other in every way, and a hint of humor completes this artwork perfectly. Those creative Australians just keep giving and giving. No doubt we’ll see more GTA artwork from Bob Baxter in future. Well done and hopefully we’ll see other main characters from GTA too!
Source: 66crows.deviantart.com