James McDermott

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

RICK AND MORTY - Season 8 Skateboard Art

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At last the season 8 crew skateboard deck! It's based on a fun sequence from Ricker Than Fiction that I art directed. I pitched multiple...
Monday, June 16, 2025

RICK AND MORTY - The Rick, The Mort and The Ugly

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  Holy smokes! I couldn't wait for this beast of an episode to air, beautifully directed by Brian Kaufman. I never had the chance to wor...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

RICK AND MORTY - Fear No Mort

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RaM finale was this seasons horror episode, one of my favorites. Felt like a modern twilight zone episode. This is a rough I did of the skin...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

RICK AND MORTY - Season 7 Skateboard Art

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Ho ho ho, tis' the season 7 skateboard deck made exclusively for the RaM crew thanks to Welcome skateboards. It's a proud day when y...
Friday, December 8, 2023

RICK AND MORTY - Rise of the Numericons: The Movie

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  Decimal Crumb concept I did, Lord Dread Nought's sidekick seen in the epic follow up episode to the 'Get Shwifty' tag from sea...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

OPINION SOUP

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 'Opinion Soup' - First time painting with acrylic markers and laying epoxy resin over it. Painted on wood panel with acrylic paint,...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

RICK AND MORTY - Unmorticken

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Rick finally exacts revenge on his nemesis and somehow walks away unfulfilled and lost to what life means moving forward. Whats in store for...
Monday, November 6, 2023

RICK AND MORTY - Air Force Wong

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Mr Stabby just came into this world this way, don't blame him. Following that is Onyx, a couple characters I did some concepts for that ...
Monday, October 30, 2023

RICK AND MORTY - The Jerrick Trap

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These are a couple alien mobster concepts from a vast vault of scrapped unused concepts from season 4 that didn't make the cut for the a...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

KISS GREMLIN

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Cool parenting moment unlocked! My boys came up with a funny character before bed, the Kiss Gremlin, he who steals kisses and is as tall as ...
Friday, January 6, 2023

ADIDAS WORLD CUP SPOT - Rick and Morty

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Rick and Morty find a new opponent on the field kicking the new Adidas Al Hilm ball like rockets at their heads. We wanted to create a dark ...
Thursday, January 5, 2023

HIGH ON LIFE - Squanchgames

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  The last concepts I did for Squanchgames newest release 'High On Life', before returning to Art director on Rick and Morty season ...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

RICK AND MORTY - A King in King Mortur's Mort

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Special Agent Mongo Bongo tracks down a thugs hideout to free the hotdog babies that have been illegally trafficked and sold to the public f...

RICK AND MORTY - Season 6 Skateboard art

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It's that time of year again! The new season 6 Rick and Morty crew skateboards are here and were handed out to the crew at our holiday p...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

RICK AND MORTY - Final DeSmithation

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One too many unresolved cookie fortunes for this business leader. Jenneth's Final Boss Mutation meets her end fighting off a Locker-ean ...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

EVERYTHING IN IT'S RIGHT PLACE

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 A new painting I just finished of my boys and our dog Comet in a cubist take. Acrylic on canvas 4' x 3'.

THE GANGRENE FOOT SPIDER KING

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A 'Foot Spider' sketch prompt turned more in the way of 'The Gangrene Foot Spider King'.
Thursday, September 29, 2022

RICK AND MORTY - Bethic Twinstinct

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Rick slices up a Bio-Mechanical Space Whale that telepathically talks to you in dreams. Rick wants to make a controller out of its wiring fo...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

RICK AND MORTY - Solaricks

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  "Mmmm I'm Mr. Frundles!' Here are more concept roughs from the season 6 premiere I did. Mr Frundles, the terrifyingly cute bo...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

RICK AND MORTY - Solaricks

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Season 6 is here woohoo! The premiere digs back into Ricks backstory and leaves the question of whether portal travel can be restored for th...
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James McDermott
Los Angeles., California, United States
James is currently Art Director on Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty" season 7. James most recently worked as a Sr. Concept Artist at a VR company called Squanchtendo. He previously Art Directed "Future Worm" for Disney XD, and most notably season 1 and 2 of "Rick and Morty" by creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland for Adult Swim.
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