Color and Light Workout

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INSTRUCTOR
Nathan Fowkes
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EXPERTISE LEVEL
Intermediate
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LESSONS
30 Lessons (23h 30m)
COURSE LENGTH
30 Day(s)
SUBTITLES
English
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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!

MATERIALS LIST
  • Adobe Photoshop

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Nathan Fowkes

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