Welcome for another artist and this is a family business these are two brothers who create great motor cross pixel art . I got the chance to chat to one of the brothers today to find out more about there projects
How you today ?
Good
So what your name ?
Damon Warlick
Where you based by the way ?
I'm in Tennessee, USA right now, been here for about 10 years.
Oh southern comfort state
Yes sir lol. Born and raised in North Carolina couple hours from the beach, so I have had both experiences. Call both places home.
Nice which do you prefer ?
Well I live on a nice spot out in the country surrounded by trees and Nashville has become a booming place less than an hour out. But I do miss being able to run to the beach just on a whim. Family in both states so its gonna tie.
So going to guess you like motocross ?
Well my Dad is the biggest fan probably ever. We grew up watching many of the races. He has seen them all. Me and my brother have been to a few. It's a super cool sport for sure. We could not afford bikes as young kids but I've got two in the barn now.
Nice so is that were your NFT designs come from ?
Yeah, when I found out about NFTs I was first excited about the idea of investing in them. Soon after I started buying things, I started thinking that there was most likely very little to do with the sport of motocross/supercross out there, as a lot of what I was seeing was mostly either Elon Musk or dog from Dogecoin lol.
And often both.
When I found out about the crypto punks It came to me that you could come up with almost infinite combinations of styles if you went with dirt bike racing.
So it became a fun way that me and my brother could put something out that we thought was very cool, and kind of honor our Dad at the same time. So it does have a personal side to it.
So is it just you working on your NFT's ?
The bit bikes are me and my brother Travis Warlick. He is a really great artist. He put a few things out on opensea and other places early on. We realized you kind of had to have a following for anyone to notice or care, so I brought this idea to him. We were both shocked when people started picking up our bit bikes right away. We are very thankful that people like them. We figured maybe a few years down the line someone would find them and maybe buy a few.
Once the crypto cross thing kind of got going, he decided that WAX was a great place to begin developing his comic book and I kept on having visions of these little rock and roll guys. So eventually that became the Block Stars. My other little brother makes music so he sends me MP3s for the "albums" lol it's been a blast man.
I make the Block Star guys myself and me and Travis create the bit bikes together. His comic is going to be called the Mad Professor under the project name atomiccomics
So are you fans of the 8 bit genre ?
Yes, growing up in the early 90s with Nintendo and then Sega. Sega was 16 bit but still. I also like the challenge of trying to get an idea off in very limited pixels. It's fun. We can both draw really well, but he can paint and pen and spray and everything so his comics will be on another level from bit bikes skill wise. To me crypto cross wasn't about the skill of the art, more so a cool little mini universe to enjoy and collect. With our own style. We have magazines, tracks, trophies, rock stars and of course the babes. We continue to incorporate a little crossover in all 3 projects.
I had the 8bit but I have noticed a lot of younger people getting into 8 bit genre I love it myself like I grew up with it
Love the website I have to say your NFT's remind me of road rash !!!! Check it out for yourself here https://www.supercryptocross.com/
Loved that game. One of the best ever the first two especially for me. And then maybe it was 3rd one had the punk aspect with Soundgarden and others in the soundtrack.
Awh Soundgarden wow i just have blackhole sun in my head now lol so you said you where on Opensea first how long did you try that for ?
Just a few weeks, originally bit bikes were going to minted on there. When I went to create the project it wanted us to pay a fortune in gas for initial collection creation. So I started searching YouTube and found out about Wax. I'm so glad I did. I love it. I mean I had heard about it, but did not realize how perfect for NFTs. It's been great. Really cool people in the community as well.
Yea the community is great on WAX
I agree, I've been blown away by it and find myself promoting other artist more than myself usually.. Mainly because everyone has just been so cool to me, and there is plenty of great stuff on there.
Yea I like to promote most artist and of I come across new artist love to hit them up to see if they would like a chat about there project
It's a great idea. I read through a couple of your interviews and I will be sure to scan through that when I'm looking for something new to buy.
So how many sets collections have you dropped so far on WAX?
I've dropped crypto cross and block stars. I have another great idea that's nagging me but I'm not gonna do it. I have plenty to work on with what I've got now. Ideas are coming faster than I have time to create them.
So what's the other idea ?
Well I keep imagining these little caged fighters or martial arts dudes. You could call it the The National Fighting Tournament.. you know, The NFT. Lol. I don't know something like that, could have belts and arenas and card girls even animated knockouts. There's an idea for somebody.
That's sounds like a great little project to do
Yeah it does, but still got much left with the others. We have decided to cut off bit bikes at #447 (that was Dads bike number) but still have more tracks magazines and gear to make. So that project will have a "completion" but we have considered doing some animated bit bikes and I am dabbling in coding for some type of game. I'd love to do that if I can. So far I have figured out how to make the guy drive around in all directions, but that's like light years from a completed game.
So is this the full time job now ?
No, I have a resell business, so I'm home a lot but also have two little kids.
Try to work on NFTs daily. Sometimes its all hours of the night, other days just little here and there.
So how often do you drop new content for your collection ?
It's pretty random, usually an idea pops into my head and then I cant stop until its minted. Now that I have plenty of assets, that's how I've been doing it. At the very beginning I was dropping daily just to keep something available on the market. Now it's like when I cant help it, I just have to finish an idea, that's when I make it.
Daily how many hours you putting into your NFT's ?
Average probably 2 hours a day, but some days its 7-8 hours working on my stuff and others it's just me spending 30 minutes surfing wax seeing what's selling and changing hands and looking for things Id like to buy from others. So it's not a set schedule by any means.
Crypto in general in anyway, that's at least 4 hours per day, either making NFTs buying them, looking at the markets or watching YouTube videos about it. It's most of my free time.
So you are invest in crypto as well as NFT's ?
Yes since 2017. I wish I had known of NFTs back then. I had heard of Crypto Kitties referred to as a D'app or something. I did not look into it at the time. I bought crypto during the time it was getting closer to peaking. Watched my entire "portfolio" I guess you could call it, collapse, bought all the way through that to the bottom and have been amazed at this rise. It was a tough two years though. When I found out about NFTs around January I thought I was early. A month later the whole world knew about them.
I did well with BNB
Nice dip the past few days though. It doesn't feel like the bull run is over, but I'm not enjoying this dip lol.
Yea missed out on BNB
So who is your favorite artist ?
Artist in general would be Todd McFarlane. I loved his take on Spiderman and of course his creation Spawn. As a kid I only knew of Picasso, Stan Lee and Todd McFarlane lol.
My Grandmother ran an art studio in Raleigh NC, so I knew her too lol.
I've got a few McFarlane comics on my walls and as well as some action figures by him.
Is there an artist in the NFT world ?
Be hard to say favorite, in the wax world I like 
I dnt know fewocious but I have interviewed both byron and cyberporn to great artists
Most of her stuff is on the Ethereum blockchain, maybe she will put something on wax one day. Pretty big name in the NFT world.
Oh really lol Will defiantly look them
I never really look at the Ethereum market way out of my league
So are you open to Collab's ?
Yes I am. I dont have any concrete ideas as to who or how I'd do it. But I'm open to it for sure. If something good hits me I will reach out for sure. We could do a zombie helmet using Byron's stuff pretty easily.
The next track I make I am going to promote some other artists/projects on some track banners no doubt. I don't think anyone would mind.
Of course not its great to give out free promotion so I am putting it out there your open for Collab's as well
Awesome, well I just had a great idea and I'll make sure Meet the artist is included.
Oh love that idea 馃槏馃槏馃槏
So what programs you using for designing your NFT's ?
Right now I'm just using paint.net, an online gif creator called ezgif, and kapwing video cropper and my brother uses procreate for helmet designs and his comics. My stuff usually doesn't require anything too complicated. I am using unity while learning the game creation process. Fruity loops for the music on the albums.
And how long these it take from thought to finished NFT ?
Depends on what it is. These animated ones take me several hours. I probably am doing it very primitive way but I have to set up each frame moving things around in separate layers. Saving and combining the layers and then backing out moving them around again.. But am learning new skills all the time. All the rockers will eventually have animated versions with music playing. I got a lot planned. A bit bike only takes about 30 to 45 minutes but it's getting harder to make sure that there are no copies and each is completely individual 1 of 1s.
