With a diploma in 2D Commercial Animation and training in the Fine Arts, Nicole "Nik" Martel is a versatile artist. Her areas of specialisation include character design, digital painting, layout, character posing, and line quality. Although she likes to explore different techniques her favourite traditional mediums are ink, copic markers, and coloured pencil. Her life long passion for animals is reflected in her art and they inspire much of her work. She has been a freelance artist for most of her career doing pet caricatures, convention character badges and general character art. She has worked on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, My Little Pony: The Movie, Barbie, Apple & Onion, The Tom and Jerry Series, Transformers: Rescue Bots, and several other projects.