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 for exciting picture compositions with Nathan Fowkes, concept artist for DreamWorks, Disney, Blue Sky Studios, and many others!
Nathan has created 21 compositional painting demonstrations (painted in photoshop) and provided all the relevant references so you can paint along with each workout every day for 21 days (or take it at your own pace, no worries!). Each demonstration is an hour or less and the series is carefully structured to train you in the process of:
- Turning basic design building blocks into sophisticated compositions.
- Bringing an intense sense of purpose to your designs.
- How to tackle a wide range of compositional subjects.
- Digital painting techniques for quick compositional rendering.
- Bringing believability and emotion to your compositions.
- How to turn an idea into a simple comp and through to a concept finish.
Additionally, this series will show you how to turn an idea into a black and white comp, transform it into a color comp, then bring it to a conceptual finish.
This workout is for artists of any kind!
- Adobe Photoshop
- Drawing Tablet
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
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!