Nicolas taught himself to draw by tracing movie monsters from his TV screen. One of the most influential shows was KTVU's Creature Features with Bob Wilkins. His love of monsters and pop imagery carried over to his teen years where he would often be reprimanded for sculpting autopsy cadavers in ceramics and  when they were to paint a life drawing of a chicken in art - Nicolas' would be 10 feet tall, rabid, and chasing unwitting farmers.

Always a pack rat, Nicolas made gargoyles out of broken pieces of masks, electrical fence wire, dentures, scrap metal, broken umbrellas, just about anything he would find on his walks. The gargoyles grew into life-size creatures that made their debut on the stages of San Jose's Cactus Club accenting the performers. His creations then began to stand alone dominating San Francisco's goth/industrial/fringe scene, getting the reputation as 'An industrial traveling wax museum'.

In 2006 Nicolas tried his hand at painting again, mostly out of spacial limitations and showed his work at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco. Since then he's found wild success, as in his friend's words "It's easier for someone to hang a painting in their studio apartment than it is to make room for a knife-fingered roommate". With paint - nothing is safe whether it be gourds, scrap wood, packing material, wood and vinyl toys, etc.

Nicolas Caesar lives in the Bay Area with his wife photographer Sarah Karas and their two hermit crabs Grumpus and Pee Wee.