Multiple Ways to Learn
Watch Video Lessons at Your Own Pace- Assignments Included
- Peer Feedback
- Switch Courses as Often as You Like
- Access to Schoolism Webinar Archives
- Watch Video Lessons at Your Own Pace
- Assignments Included
- One-Time Purchase
- Unlimited Course Access for Life
- Peer Feedback
- Access to Schoolism Webinar Archives
LIVE Classes
personalized instructor feedback
- Watch Video Lessons with a Planned Curriculum
- Scheduled Assignments with Deadlines
- Personalized Paint-Overs and Real-Time Feedback From The Instructors
- Watch Video Lessons and Peer Feedback as Often as You'd Like
- Ability to Contact Instructor with Questions
- Digital Certificate of Completion
- Weekly Class Meetings LIVE on Zoom
- Access to Schoolism Webinar Archives
Course Description
Strengthen your artistic muscles with Nathan Fowkes, concept artist and color stylist for DreamWorks, Disney, Blue Sky Studios, and many others!
Nathan has created 30 demonstrations lasting up to an hour each and provided all the relevant references so you can paint along with each workout every day for 30 days. The workout is carefully structured to take you through the process of:
- Understanding light and surface to give a compelling believability to your subjects.
- Creating meaningful color harmonies.
- Managing and organizing the complexities and difficulties of color.
- Creating color harmonies to convey powerful emotions.
- Tackling a single subject with many different color and lighting solutions to create a different emotion each time.
The workout will also guide you through the process of visual storytelling by quickly comping out your ideas tonally then bringing them into an emotional color design. Nathan will even show how to bring an idea to a loose but presentation finish in just one hour!
And you don't have to be an animation artist, this workout is for any and every artist who uses color and light!
- Adobe Photoshop
Lesson Plan
LESSON 1Day 1
LESSON 2Day 2
LESSON 3Day 3
LESSON 4Day 4
LESSON 5Day 5
LESSON 6Day 6
LESSON 7Day 7
LESSON 8Day 8
LESSON 9Day 9
LESSON 10Day 10
LESSON 11Day 11
LESSON 12Day 12
LESSON 13Day 13
LESSON 14Day 14
LESSON 15Day 15
LESSON 16Day 16
LESSON 17Day 17
LESSON 18Day 18
LESSON 19Day 19
LESSON 20Day 20
LESSON 21Day 21
LESSON 22Day 22
LESSON 23Day 23
LESSON 24Day 24
LESSON 25Day 25
LESSON 26Day 26
LESSON 27Day 27
LESSON 28Day 28
LESSON 29Day 29
LESSON 30Day 30
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Nathan Fowkes
Nathan Fowkes is a veteran entertainment industry artist with credits on 12 animated feature films including DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt, Spirit, several projects within the Shrek Universe, How to Train Your Dragon, Blue Sky’s Rio 2, Ferdinand and Wonder Park from Paramount Animation and development art for Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon.
Additionally, Nathan has been sought after as a consultant for game studios to enhance the quality of their theatrical presentation. He has worked with numerous clients including Riot Games, Ubisoft, Blizzard Entertainment, King, Disney Interactive, Rovio, Supercell and many others.
Nathan is also well known as a teacher of color, light, design and traditional drawing and painting. He is a regular guest lecturer at Art Center College of Design and has taught at The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art and the Laguna College of Art and Design. He's the author of the bestselling How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal and How to Paint Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache. His work can be seen at nathanfowkes.com
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“You have many classes, where do I begin?”
Every artist must be great at three things: color and light design, environment design, and picture making (pictorial composition), so these courses will be central to your education.
They each have follow up classes available to put the knowledge further into practice, we refer to these as “workouts” and we've set them up as an inexpensive way to continue your education.
From there my color scripting course and workout are a complete tutorial on visual storytelling for any story format including animation, games, graphic novels, children’s books, etc.
And if you need to brush up on your technical abilities, then you can begin with portrait drawing, landscape sketching and the digital landscape painting workout. Good luck!