Sijun Forums :: View topic - Quick Sketches--Nathaniel West Updated Dec. 16th

Nathaniel West · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 7:07 pm

Welcome to the beginning of my ongoing daily (hopefully!) sketch collection. Very Happy

Nerfherder · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 8:25 pm

Nice work Nathaniel,

I particularly like the second one. Always great to see your stuff.

fukifino · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2003 1:29 am

LOVE the backlighting on the first too. Great atmosphere. The third one seems like maybe a morning scene, but it's just missing something...like a few strong saturated highlights on the rims of the rocks. Fourth one's great too, but the figure looks like he just sorta jumped forward and stopped abruptly, like in those exaggerated comdey routines ... hard to describe but it looks like he's stopped all motion suddenly, but in an awkward way.

OK, enough of that, bring me more sketches, because these are still most definately bad ass! Very Happy

Nathaniel West · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:16 am

Here's another quick one. This one took about an hour and a half. Hope you enjoy it!

Zleeper · junior member Member # Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 10

I love the use of colors in your works... It helps to give the painting an ambient and expresses a lot in the painting... I like your work! Very Happy

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jlo · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:13 am

nate! looking good!

i like the boat one best. are these all personal or are any for work?

yo- grad show on thurs/fri... you better come. i promise there will be lots of beer!

Nathaniel West · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:57 am

Thanks for the nice comments! These were all done in Photoshop except for the one of the orange mountain, which is acrylic. Here's another hour.

Matthew · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:45 pm

Really nice sketches, I hope you will keep cranking these and update often. :)

keep it up
Matthew

fukifino · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:54 pm

Ooooh...love that ship at sea. Are those painterly like textures just done with an overlay afterwards or did you do something funky with the brushes?

I like the idea on that last one but the perspective on the vehicle is really goofy. Specifically that top, round sail/fin/halftube isn't matching up with the rest of it.

scumworks · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:42 pm

Very skillful. I REALLY like them.

Tomasis · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:59 pm

beautifuuuuul!! keep going post mooore sketches !!

helltaxi · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:46 pm

ive seen this alot and ive always wondered how its done. in, for example, the picture of the ship, there is a transparent texture throughout the painting that makes it look traditional. How was this achieved? is it some kind of custom setting? Those look amazing, thanks for your help.

Alucard · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:18 am

Somehow these images remind me of mr Mullins work

Mark Harris · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:59 pm

Beautiful stuff Nathaniel.
The forest one reminds me of Last of the Mohicans.