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- Watch Video Lessons at Your Own Pace
- Assignments Included
- One-Time Purchase
- Unlimited Course Access for Life
- Peer Feedback
- Access to Schoolism Webinar Archives
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- Watch Video Lessons with a Planned Curriculum
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- Personalized Paint-Overs and Real-Time Feedback From The Instructors
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- Ability to Contact Instructor with Questions
- Digital Certificate of Completion
- Weekly Class Meetings LIVE on Zoom
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Course Description
Strengthen your artistic muscles with Nathan Fowkes, concept artist for DreamWorks, Disney, Paramount Animation, Blue Sky Studios, and many others!
The most immediate and critical skill a concept artist needs is taking a story and quickly roughing out emotional story beats. That's what this workout is all about, it directly follows up Nathan's Color Scripting course and allows you to thoroughly put into practice the visual storytelling principles taught in that class.
This workout gives you a full month of daily practice (or take it at your own pace) and you only need to dedicate about 30 minutes each day. Follow along with me as I demonstrate the visualization of an entire story through full color story panels. Together we'll practice how to:
● Depict any subject.
● Create any needed lighting scenario.
● Create any needed color palette.
● Create any needed environment.
● Create any needed story emotion.
● Create weather and atmosphere for emotional effect.
● Design perspective point of view.
● Create clear character moments with minimal rendering.
You'll emerge with an understanding of how to give life to any visual story that's handed to you by your clients, that means you have real value as an artist. Let's get together and do this!
This workout is ideal for any story-driven projects including animation, live-action, video games, children's books, graphic novels, etc. It’s recommended that you review the Color Scripting course before taking this workout. It’s easily available as an inexpensive self-study option.
- 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 (or composition), so any of these three are a great place to start.
They each have follow up classes available to put the knowledge further into practice, we refer to those as workouts and we've set them up as an inexpensive way to continue your education.
And if you're just looking to brush up on your digital technical abilities, then you could begin with the digital painting workout. Good luck!