Fat Nat Sketches

APW Character Design Challenge Days 4-14

2011-11-07T13:20:00.007-05:00

So I was pretty busy with work last week but I was sketching for the challenge every couple of days and finally got some time to post these up.

APW Character Design Challenge day 3

2011-10-28T10:32:00.001-04:00

So here is the character for day 3. I am running a day behind but I'll catch up over the weekend.

APW Character Design Challenge

2011-10-26T03:33:00.003-04:00

The good folks over at the Animation Portfolio workshop are hosting a sweet character design challenge to design a character every day based on a simple shape provided. I did the first few and thought I would post them up as they are good sketches to clean up at a later date.

2011-07-05T22:20:00.001-04:00

Sweet Mercy! This blog is stagnant. Here's a sketch. I'll try to pump some life back into this poor old blog.

Sketch Attack!

2010-10-20T10:45:00.003-04:00

Hey People! I just wanted to slap some recent sketches onto my somewhat neglected blog.

Velvet Worm

2010-08-07T00:41:00.003-04:00

So I cleaned up one of the characters from the previous post as a villian for a project I'm starting. He is based on the Velvet Worm, a many legged creature that shoots glue from glands near it's head that incapacitates it's prey. I tried to make his outer hide look like a cloak and hood.

Sketch Time

2010-06-09T00:21:00.004-04:00

Hey all. Just posting a few Recent Sketches. Mostly characters that I'll be cleaning up when I get a chance.

Sketch-a-holics.

2010-06-03T08:09:00.004-04:00

So I've been trying to crank up the intensity lately and there is no better way than to sit in on the contests on www.sketchoholic.com.

I boned up the file size and couldn't enter this sketch in the contest but I like how it turned out. The contest topic was Granny with a Gun and as always we had an hour to produce something. I need to get better at sticking with one idea so the whole hour can be spent on one image but here is what I did.

2010-04-16T01:20:00.004-04:00

Hey peoples. So here is another character that will make his way into the graphic novel eventually. He is the Killer be and would be about knee-high to a person. Crits and comments appreciated.

Artisan's Apprentice: Hero Concepts

2010-04-04T23:13:00.004-04:00

Wow, have I ever been neglecting my poor ol' blog. Well the good news is I have been drawing a lot and have finally gotten around to do the planning for the first installment of a graphic novel.

These are some sketches of the main character who is an extremely experienced warrior and survivalist. The main thing I am still figuring out right now are his proportions. Any advice or critiques are welcome.

More Random Sketches

2009-12-12T01:25:00.002-05:00

A couple of sketches from this past week.

More sketches

2009-11-17T11:29:00.002-05:00

Hey all, here are some random sketches.

Random Sketches

2009-10-18T01:32:00.009-04:00

Hey there! It has been a while since I put anything on here straight from the sketch book so I'm posting some pages from my current sketchbook. There are two new characters for the dream game project mentioned in earlier posts, the next two pages are a little exploration for a character I am developing a storyline around. The rest are just sketches for fun. Enjoy.

Speed painting

2009-09-08T17:52:00.004-04:00

Hey there. So I am still not as comfortable with digital painting as I would like to be so I am going to try to do a few and get some feedback and directon.

Here is the first, which was done off of a sketch for a character in a graphic novel I am trying to plan out.

R.O.M. Visit.

2009-08-03T13:36:00.005-04:00

Hey peoples, Long time no update. I have been pretty busy but I am not at liberty to show most of the stuff I am working on right now. However I finally uploaded a bunch of sketches from last several months So I'll be posting those over the next while.

These next few are some of my favorite doodles of recent days...

These Sketches are from a recent trip to the R.O.M. It had been a long time since I had done observational studies but I had fun and plan to do it more often.

Doodles

2009-04-13T00:13:00.000-04:00

hey y'all. just some scrib-oodles.

2009-03-13T22:40:00.002-04:00

OGRE MODEL!!! I have been having fun working on this guy over the past week so I thought I would update the old blog with some screens of the final low poly and the zbrushed hi-poly. I intended this character to be used more for animation exercises so his Poly count is a little high. I plan on optimizing him yet. As always crits are welcome.

Dream Game: A.I. Alliance

2009-02-27T11:27:00.007-05:00

O.K. so I have been trying to find time to begin refining the large amount of rough work I have done for our game pitch. I have recruited a talented friend of mine who is a technical illustrator to tackle the weapon designs (which you can find here: http://uandidesign.wordpress.com/category/uandi-entertainment-design/).

On my end I have a lot of characters roughed out, now I just have to find time to get them critiqued and cleaned up. Here are a few pages of characters from the A.I. Alliance. I feel like some of them have a good amount of character but I know I can push their forms further so please let me know what you think.

Ogre part 1

2009-02-25T22:39:00.004-05:00

So seeing as I havn't posted in a while I decided to put up the model I am working on in various stages. This first post will be the rough images which sparked the idea for this character. I Was thinking a lot of Jim Henson's Muppet "Sweetums" when designing the face.

The Dream Game: Post #1

2009-01-16T18:24:00.002-05:00

Howdy Ya'll!! Been awhile but believe me I've been super busy learning some 3d software. Soon I will have some models done and ready for some critiques. For now I am going to be posting some designs for a wicked project for our Production class. We have been tasked with producing a pitch for our "DreamGame".
I won't go into great detail about the game now, I'll just say it is a futuristic Combat racer/Shooter. I have recruited a great technical Illustrator and friend to help with the weapons and vehicles while I plug away at the characters. I have a lot of the characters rough'd out and I'll be posting them as the become closer to a cleaned up version. The first Character is a Security Trooper and I would greatly apreciate some critiques on the colours especially. Hope you enjoy.

Sketch update!!!

2008-11-19T21:22:00.000-05:00

Just a sketch update. These are more recent sketches done for fun. The top few are concepts for a Monster assignment in our modeling class and the rest are just doodles. I may try modeling one of the more simple cartoon/muppety creatures when I get time.

Been a While...

2008-11-03T20:03:00.000-05:00

Man, I really boned up the whole posting more often thing. The video game design course at Seneca has been great but man do they pile on the work. I thought I would post a few sketches of the first character I am modeling. I'll post some progress shots soon. I am also throwing in another doodle just for kicks. Hope you enjoy.

Mr Frumpet

2008-08-24T22:09:00.000-04:00

Wow...it has been ages since I have posted. Well that lazy rut is done with!!! This is my last week at March Entertainment doing character designs on "Dex Hamilton: Alien Entimologist".

Next week I will be beginning a year of video game design at Seneca college and I intend to focus on nothing but improving my understanding of design and the skill sets to go with it.

Anyways, this dude is just a furry, somewhat muppetish character that I worked on just to get back into the habit of producing my own characters again. I think he is a hippy.

March Ent. Design Challenge

2008-04-30T21:26:00.000-04:00

This was a character design done for a workshop at March Entertainment. I described some exercises in a presentation during one of our lunch hour info sharing sessions at March Entertainment. I gave this description as an assignment to try out the exercises I had talked about. You can find a very breif rundown of the exercises here:

http://marchentertainmentsketchblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/character-design-challenge.html

Two of my best buds...

2008-03-22T01:35:00.000-04:00

So this was a birthday present for my Dad last year. I just realized I hadn't posted it and I am currently working on a few paintings both Digital and Traditional. I thought some crits on my technique and colour choices would help. Plus I like the painting.

Insect Ninja

2008-03-02T23:05:00.000-05:00

I was thinking of an opponent for the character from my previous post and a friend suggested the Insect Ninja. I am mostly happy with her design although I am not too fond of any of my attempts to come up with a colour scheme.

Crystal Warrior

2008-02-26T23:15:00.001-05:00

So recently I had a burst of inspiration when I was exploring the wilderness of blogs and somehow found my way to Cheeks (Sean Galloway's) blog as well as a few other fantastic links which I added to my sidebar. I really dig Cheeks simplified and stylish way of breaking down anatomy. I left the computer and foraged through my collection of sketch books and found an old character to clean up and make anew.

Obviously I have a long way to go but I am pretty pleased with the way this guy has turned out. All crits (especially on colour)are welcome.

Space Janitor Otis

2008-02-21T15:32:00.000-05:00

It's been longer than I would have liked since my last post but I am drawing a lot so look for more to be posted soon. I am enjoying drawing in flash more since switching over to the design department.

A work in progress

2008-01-16T21:08:00.000-05:00

So I have decided to post this layout that I have been colouring. I am looking for some critiques on my approach to the colours so far. There is still a long ways to go on this peice but heres hoping I'll get some good advice.

Dino Shaman

2008-01-16T20:35:00.000-05:00

axe Long while since I updated. I am going to attempt to update with a new character every week.

More Space Dudes...

2007-12-13T13:54:00.000-05:00

As the title suggests...more space dudes.

An early Xmas card.

2007-11-27T15:13:00.000-05:00

I was asked to design up an xmas card here at March Entertainment so I used Sudbury for some inspiration and made a Beardo Lineup. I think it needs a little something directly above Santa to break up that white space but overall i am happy with it.

I believe the caption will read something like: "Thats him officer. Thats's the man who stole my Milk and cookies."

Studying with Silver

2007-10-05T11:16:00.000-04:00

Howdy! I am absolutely pumped after the first online lesson from Stephen Silver. He broke down some great peices done by his many influences (Most of whom I hadn't seen before) and gave a great first lesson.

So, below I have posted some of the rough work as well as a quick coloured page of my favorite versions of "Fat Joe" I Loved working on this and can't wait for the next lesson and the feedback on these guys.

Update....finally.

2007-09-17T14:20:00.000-04:00

Finally a new posting...sorry for the long dry spell but my computer has finally bit the dust. I am scrambling to get all my important files off of it at the moment while I wait for the new Mac OS to come out so I can get an iMAC.

Ok so here are a few characters I have been working on. They are just random doodles I liked so I worked on them a bit. Hope you all enjoy them.

Check out my photography!!!

2007-07-02T17:59:00.000-04:00

I just thought I'd mention that I have added a link to my photography blog. Please take a look and enjoy.

CC Topic # 4: Heroic Cyclops

2007-07-02T17:44:00.000-04:00

O.k. folks here is my what I produced for the heroic Cyclops. I went for a near future commando hero as I figured most people would go with more of a barbarian approach.

Anyways I am pretty fond of this guy although I would really like to work on the gun more and also show more of his left hand. I think I'll try doing the next topic entirely in photoshop as I need some digital painting practice.

This is our hero...

2007-06-12T14:29:00.000-04:00

So as I was on the eleven hour journey home to Stratford from Sudbury I was doodling and decided to do a sketch of the protagonist in a story I have been writing.

This character is basically a very experienced warrior. He needs to be a bit more grizzled with some scars as he is supposed to have lived several hundred years, most of which were filled with combat. He is pretty short by our standards (around 5' 6") and is the protagonist in a story I intend to make into a graphic novel.

Any suggestions for character traits would be welcome. I have a lot more backstory for him but for now I'll leave it at that.

Peace.

CC Topic # 3 (part1 of 2) : Radioactive Airship Pilot

2007-06-12T14:18:00.000-04:00

I am really enjoying this topic but a hectic weekend prevented my cleaning any of these up very much. Most people I talked to weren't very far along in their designs so we extended it another week. As a result I will be posting a few character designs, some ship design rough work and hopefully a final illustration next Monday.

Here's what I have so far: I like the cartoonish aspects of some of these and I really like the robot in red at the bottom of this post. I think this week I will go more towards a pilot look. Anyways I welcome any critiques that you all may have.

C.C. Topic #2 Ancient Treant

2007-05-28T09:07:00.000-04:00

O.k. here are my treants. This first guy is the one I spent more time on and will be posting the most rough work of. I picture this guy as a character one would run into in an adventure game. He is meant to be about 2.5 feet tall.

And this big guy is more of a boss creature treant. I didn't do much rough work on this guy, just did this in photoshop in a few hours. I am going to enter it at Big Huge Games art contest.

CC Topic #1: Obedient T-REX

2007-05-15T16:03:00.000-04:00

Okay so here is the first Topic from the www.characterclash.blogspot.com .

For the Obedient T-Rex topic I decided to have a Vulture like rider who controls it. I see the rider as the leader of a "flock" of carrion eating birdmen who scout out large prey or groups of travellers for the T-Rex, SCOURGE, and summon him with a horn. The birdmen would slow down the target until Scourge and his rider SCYTHE would arrive to make the kill. Scourge would leave enough leftovers to sustain the Birdmen.

As for the artwork, I am pretty happy with this start and may develope this guy further. In the drawing here I want to fix Scourges screwy right leg, as well as add some length and girth to his tail. The Rider and saddle also need work and if I continue with this guy I will design up some armour which is peiced together out of the Sheilds and breastplates/cuirasses of Scourges victims.

Birthday dragon!!!

2007-05-09T18:46:00.000-04:00

This Post is a birthday card that I made up for Shane. He is a soon to be 8 year old boy battling cancer whose wish is to set a world record for the most birthday cards ever recieved. I hope Shane likes my card and I really hope he sets the record.

Rock of Ages

2007-04-30T14:31:00.000-04:00

O.K. here is my first post in a long while. It is my 2nd year final animation titled "The Rock of Ages".

It is a 20 second animation. I am not happy with one major jump cut in it as there is supposed to be a shorter shot to bridge the gap. Unfortunately I ran out of time before it was time to start my new job at March Entertainment in Sudbury so the human character is not animated and that horrid jump cut remains. I will do my best to make the fixes at some point in the future.

Anyhow here is the Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjka6re6FzI

Bandito Lizards

2006-08-04T22:36:00.000-04:00

Update time!!

2006-07-28T22:35:00.000-04:00

Rough Stuff: Croc revision.1

2006-06-10T01:56:00.000-04:00

Crocodilly willy

2006-06-06T16:06:00.000-04:00

Old dudes

2006-05-16T12:31:00.000-04:00

Here are a couple of characters I doodled the other day.

Dragons, elves, candy and snow.

2006-04-13T12:44:00.000-04:00

Coloured Sketches

2006-04-13T10:17:00.000-04:00

Here are some coloured sketches of various characters.
The first peice was done while experimanting with brown paper.

Next is some Warcraft fan art of a troll.

This third one is just a crazy monster character.

I drew this next one with the concept of a plant guardianin mind

And this last one was an attempt at sneaking my name into a character.

Inked sketches

2006-04-13T09:57:00.000-04:00

These sketches are mostly concepts for a videogame idea that I had.

This first one is a design for a boss.

The next two are designs for machines in a factory where the game begins.

This is a machine that the player would enter to save or upgrade.

And this one is just a drawing of my character and a friends from city of heros.

Fantasy Characters

2006-04-13T09:27:00.000-04:00

All of these sketches were concepts for a comic I had in mind. Although it never developed, I really like these characters and intend to revamp them.

The first character is called "Gallow" and his concept was that he could control rope with his mind. He would use it to hang people.

This guy was a druid type character.

Obviously this is a minotaur-esque creature.

This concept was for a wizard who uses books to attack as well as cast spells.

And finally this is a sketch of a mutant shaman. Her perportions are differant from humans and I wanyted it to look grotesque.

Random Sketches

2006-04-13T08:55:00.000-04:00

2006-04-10T20:21:00.000-04:00

O.K. folks! Here is what I love to do the most: Character Design. I'm posting two of my more recent characters "Arse" the loyal donkey and "Wheeze" his cranky prospector pal. Hope you enjoy them.

Layouts Galore!!!

2006-03-24T12:33:00.000-05:00

Alrighty folks. I've decided to post most of myfirst semester layouts. They were all scanned in and peiced together in photoshop so hopefully the reconstruction isn't to obvious.
Above is the first assignment which was to draw a cabin interior. I chose a low angle because I had no experience drawing off of a low horizon line. I think it turned out pretty nice but I will do a final cleanup on it eventually.

The above layout was done for the beach assignment. I wanted to have more detail so I made it looking out of a cave instead of placing the scene outside where the peice would have been more of a landscape.

The last two are from the final semester one assignment. We had to draw a saloon from the old west and include one 8 fld layout and one 12 fld. They were required to be from two differant angles and tell a story. The 8 fld drawing behind the bar shows an escape hatch and the 12fld shows that the bar was recently the stage for a shootout.

2006-02-27T10:21:00.000-05:00

I thought I would start drawing up some funny little pictures like this one.

2006-02-19T19:52:00.000-05:00

2006-02-19T19:37:00.000-05:00

I enjoy drawing for many reasons. It's realxing. It's challenging. But what I find most important is that its fun. I know I like a drawing when it makes me laugh.

Take this monkey for example. I was looking at the cover of a national geographic book and thought the chimp on it looked funny. So I drew a cartoony version of him and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It's not hilarious but It was super fun to draw.

My first Blog!!!

2006-02-19T19:21:00.000-05:00

Greetings all! My name Nate. I'm blogging to show my doodles. Hopefully I will leave you with the impression that I prefer to design characters and weird creatures but am capable of much more.

I must say that I'm fairly busy with animation classes at the moment but I will attempt to post as much stuff as possible as quick as possible.

Anyhow welcome to my Blog. Hope you enjoy it.