NateShawArt: the sketchbook

**NateShaw** · February 22nd, 2009, 09:22 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, 10:20 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, 06:19 AM

Thanks for the comment, Matt! I will tryto get some more up here.

**Mr. Smile** · February 25th, 2009, 07:22 AM

That´s pretty good! You have obvious knack for digital! Try a still life with more complex colours now. How long were you working with traditional? I´ve never seen someone with THIS smooth transition to digital!
Good luck in the future works!

**Janos** · February 25th, 2009, 09:08 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, 10:36 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, 09:43 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, 04:13 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, 07:47 AM

Some sketches

**pandahund** · March 16th, 2009, 07:51 AM

Those sketches are fantastic. I especially like the looser ones. Even the sketch for your digiskull up there.

**NateShaw** · March 17th, 2009, 04:33 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, 04:37 PM

also, "digiskull" sounds like a question. Like "digiskull last night?" heh

**NateShaw** · March 20th, 2009, 04:03 PM

The process of a recent drawing of the Pygmalion and Galataea story and my CHOW for this week.

**NateShaw** · March 24th, 2009, 08:44 PM

A hand study, skull drawing from "Artistic Anatomy," and a self portrait.

**NateShaw** · March 30th, 2009, 06:10 PM

Some figure studies from "The Human Figure" by David K Rubins

**NateShaw** · March 31st, 2009, 08:42 AM

a couple of character studies

**NateShaw** · March 31st, 2009, 10:27 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, 04:52 PM

Some sketches from my sketchbook. The first four from life and the second two from my head.

**NateShaw** · April 13th, 2009, 08:08 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, 05:11 PM

wips and the final. Oil on canvas, 24 x 18.

**MJ_Alcazar** · April 19th, 2009, 11:07 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, 05:11 AM

Good work. I love your colors. My favorite is the beach.

**NateShaw** · September 29th, 2009, 07:43 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, 09:14 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, 07:26 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, 09:49 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, 04:32 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, 09:17 PM

a couple of oil sketches I did to get back in the groove and a few sketchbook drawings

**Alisa** · November 22nd, 2009, 10:19 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, 10:24 PM

Thanks for stopping by Alisa

A wip for "music", a stag playing the viola da gamba, and a self portrait in oils.

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