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NateShaw
February 22nd, 2009, 08:22 PM
Thanks for stopping by. I am totally brand new to digital media. Well kind of. I have worked with Painter a little but this past month has been the first time I've actually spent some time with the computer + art. Anywho, my first attempt at a full photoshop image with its accompanying thumbnail. I painted this skull from life. Initially I had a warm direct light on it with a little bit of cool ambient light all around. As the day wore on and the sun went down the cool light disappeared so a lot of the blues I was seeing (and liking) went away leaving only the warm light. This made the shadows deeper and blacker looking. I was trying not to use black at all but it happened.
JailHouseRock2
February 22nd, 2009, 09:20 PM
Cool, much better than my frist digi, nice textures!

Good start with the digital stuff mate,

keep posting and I'll keep checking back.
matt
NateShaw
February 25th, 2009, 05:19 AM
Thanks for the comment, Matt! I will tryto get some more up here.
Mr. Smile
February 25th, 2009, 06:22 AM
Thatīs pretty good! You have obvious knack for digital! Try a still life with more complex colours now. How long were you working with traditional? Iīve never seen someone with THIS smooth transition to digital!
Good luck in the future works!
Janos
February 25th, 2009, 08:08 AM
The texture you achieved is really nice but its a shame you didn't light the background as you did the skull. Would be cool if it wasn't only blue you know?

Cheers mate, show us some traditional stuff!
NateShaw
March 2nd, 2009, 09:36 PM
Mr.Smile Thanks! I'll do that. I got a BA in Studio art at a school that only did traditional mediums so I have worked a lot in oil painting, pastels, water based ink, etching and litho. I worked this one just like I would have done a pastel piece. I have used Painter for doing cartoons and have experimented a little there. I did like photoshop a lot though.

Janos You are totally right, I was scared to do the bg. It was sitting on a black table against a white wall. More is on the way!
NateShaw
March 4th, 2009, 08:43 AM
A pastel I did a while ago, I only show it to compare to the digital piece above. Currently working on this weeks CHOW... I'll post that when I am finished.
NateShaw
March 9th, 2009, 03:13 PM
Digital painting of a "Flython." I imagine some guy stapling some wings to his pet python. Its not quite finished so any crits would really be appreciated!
NateShaw
March 16th, 2009, 06:47 AM
Some sketches
pandahund
March 16th, 2009, 06:51 AM
Those sketches are fantastic. I especially like the looser ones. Even the sketch for your digiskull up there.
NateShaw
March 17th, 2009, 03:33 PM
Thanks, Pandahund! Gesture drawing is pretty much one of my favorite things to do. ever.

This is my puss in boots for this week's CHOW. It was rough going once I got it into photoshop. I wrangled with the colors the whole time. Eh, whatever, I need to work on my finishing skills (and drawing skills, and painting skills, and color theory skills, and design skills, and bow hunting skills.)
NateShaw
March 17th, 2009, 03:37 PM
also, "digiskull" sounds like a question. Like "digiskull last night?" heh
NateShaw
March 20th, 2009, 03:03 PM
The process of a recent drawing of the Pygmalion and Galataea story and my CHOW for this week.
NateShaw
March 24th, 2009, 07:44 PM
A hand study, skull drawing from "Artistic Anatomy," and a self portrait.
NateShaw
March 30th, 2009, 05:10 PM
Some figure studies from "The Human Figure" by David K Rubins
NateShaw
March 31st, 2009, 07:42 AM
a couple of character studies
NateShaw
March 31st, 2009, 09:27 PM
I really want to get some atmosphere and mood into my work. Also I can't paint my way out of a landscape to save my life. Attacking both of those with a copy of a Jean-Baptiste Camile Corot etching (man I wish I had such a sweet name). Next is a beach I camped on a couple of months ago, a landscape after a Rembrandt drawing (done first in alchemy now reworking in phtoshop, still a wip), and a sketch for the EOW (also in alchemy).
NateShaw
April 10th, 2009, 03:52 PM
Some sketches from my sketchbook. The first four from life and the second two from my head.
NateShaw
April 13th, 2009, 07:08 PM
My Dr. Who Chow entry for last week and a bunch of oil paintings I did over the last couple of weeks.
NateShaw
April 15th, 2009, 04:11 PM
wips and the final. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18.
MJ_Alcazar
April 19th, 2009, 10:07 AM
Nice works in here!

I wanted to say thanks for the help you've been giving me in my SB.

Keep up the good work here!
tusaisix
June 19th, 2009, 04:11 AM
Good work. I love your colors. My favorite is the beach.
NateShaw
September 29th, 2009, 06:43 AM
Its months since I've been able to hang out here on CA. That is changing though! Here are some sketches I've done lately and my CHOW for this week.
Lyndsay Harper
September 29th, 2009, 08:14 AM
You're pencil sketches are very static and staccato.

You could try various drawing exercises to help improve this.
I would like to give you a link to a thread but i cant find it sorry >:/
NateShaw
September 29th, 2009, 06:26 PM
Some sketches from life drawing sessions. The color is funny because I'm taking the pictures from a digital camera with warmly lit room.
NateShaw
October 7th, 2009, 08:49 PM
a sketch for this week's chow (that I have been too busy to work on in two weeks!) and som other randoms.
NateShaw
October 12th, 2009, 03:32 PM
My CHOWs for this week, based on Yulunga by Dead can Dance and Marco Polo by Loreen Mckenna (or something like that)
NateShaw
October 16th, 2009, 08:17 PM
a couple of oil sketches I did to get back in the groove and a few sketchbook drawings
Alisa
November 22nd, 2009, 09:19 PM
Man I really like the flow of the reclining figure in post #25. Just the gesture of it is really nice. And those oil portraits really are es oh dope! Thanks for sharing!
NateShaw
November 22nd, 2009, 09:24 PM
Thanks for stopping by Alisa

A wip for "music", a stag playing the viola da gamba, and a self portrait in oils.
NateShaw
December 13th, 2009, 09:14 PM
An oil self portrait, a dragon playing the viola da gamba, and my 3d modeling final project. Modeled in Maya and textures created in Photoshop and Illustrator. I know its a little out of place on this forum but whatever.
NateShaw
January 8th, 2011, 05:30 PM
Whoa! I haven't been here foreverzz. Not that I haven't been drawing but... oh well. Here are some figure drawing pics!
Pixelwalker
January 8th, 2011, 05:37 PM
Yeah!
Oil color is great!
Cant wait to see more of it.
I actually started too with oils and i totally love them.

For your figures i would suggest to block in a few basic shapes like blocks, cylinders etc.
Your weakest point seems to get them 3 dimensional looking.

Just keep it up!
NateShaw
January 11th, 2011, 05:04 PM
Thanks for the comments Silwynar, I agree, I have trouble fitting figures into space, especially when its from my imagination.

Some character sketches!
NateShaw
January 24th, 2011, 11:04 PM
Did some figure drawing at the Philadelphia Sketch Club the other day. Nice to have the time for this kind of thing again.
NateShaw
March 5th, 2011, 10:14 AM
I've been updating my website lately with some work I've done this year. So I thought I'd drop by here as well.

The first is concept art from an animation I did over the summer as well as a matte painting from that same production.

The rest is just fan art for the Decemberists album, The Hazards of Love