Blog and gallery of Nathan Herman
I’m (kind of) featured on Deviantart for my fanart of Krevlornswath from Angel, played by recently deceased actor Andy Hallet. Anyway, Deviantart put up a tribute page, and my Lorn portrait can be found on the bottom row. Hint: it’s the one below.
R.I.P. Lorn/Andy
So I recently discovered a badass artist named Pat David, and I’ve been coloring an (unfinished?) piece he did. I realized I haven’t posted anything I’ve colored with really good (as in not my own) lineart. So Mr. David was awesome enough to let me post my full color version of…
Wolverine!
If I actually post more stuff I’ve done for/with/to other folks art, I’ll probably make a new section in the gallery so people don’t think I’m trying to claim (better) stuff as ALL my own.
Yeah, I know. Thrilling site management. I’ll STFU now.
…A pressure sensitive touchpad. Pressure sensitive in the way that I could use it in Photoshop instead of a WACOM tablet. I know I’m probably one of the only ones that wishes for such a thing, but it doesn’t seem like that difficult of a concept… most have a setting to adjust how much pressure needs to be applied to actually move the cursor… so it can’t be that hard, right?
My wife said that my last blog was boring, so here’s a random image of a touchpad
The average artist probably shudders at the thought of doing anything in Photoshop with just the touchpad, but I’m sure it could have other practical uses… or maybe the average artist wouldn’t shudder quite as violently with such a device. Oh, to be able to change my brush size/opacity just by applying more or less pressure! This is the stuff of dreams!
If there’s any sort of inventors out there, go patent this immediately. I’m sure that I, and every other weirdo out there that uses the touchpad to create digital art will buy one… why, you could make maybe $50 or more!
I absolutely love coloring other artist’s lineart. I would totally do it for a living if I could. Usually when I tell people that, they mostly just kinda furrow their brow, or smile politely; probably thinking “Well, anyone over 3 can color”.
I heartily disagree, though explaining why can be difficult. I guess it all comes down to interpreting the lines. When coloring your own work, you know what colors go where, how shadows fall, and where your light source is located. When working on someone else’s stuff, these things usually need to be decided via line width, light/dark balance of the inks, or if the lineart is less detailed, much will need to be improvised.
There’s also the matter of flaws and mistakes in the lines. Is what you’re looking at even a mistake, or are you just misreading it? How far do you go to cover the weirdness, if at all? Afterall, editing the original art seems just a weeee bit shady.
Of course, much of the above can be avoided with some basic communication with your line artist.
Anyway, I actually have no idea what I’m talking about otherwise I would have a job as a colorist.
I would color inside the lines and everything.
So today’s my birthday, and while deciding to add a Twitter Widget, I realized it’s nearly been a year since I updated. A year. That’s not acceptable.
To combat this severe writing lethargy and monumental lack of productivity, I’ve decided to *gasp* actually start blogging. I figure maybe if I start talking about art related things, I’ll actually be able to, y’know… create some.
Oh, and I added the little Twitter thing over there. I’m so Web 2.0, my head asplode.
Gearing up for this years VSA Arts contest, which means I need to produce at least 3 new pieces by July 11th. Yech… lots of work, but the chance at $25,000 is kinda worth it.
Before I can really do that, I need to do another tattoo design, this time for a Warcraft guildie. It’s a back piece adapted from a Nightwish album cover, so should turn out nice and detailed.
Oh, and if anyone has Twitter, follow me and be astonished by my incredible lack of exciting and profound updates.
Follow. Be amazed. Etcetera.
Been working on this for almost forever (but not quite). I actually tried to do something that is somewhat… artsy. It’s something I saw in my minds eye clear as day after wrestling with ideas for my next project. Why not do something that actually has meaning to me?
Everyone has Inner Demons, and this is kind of a literal depiction of that. Things have been less than ideal (as things tend to be), and painting this has been therapeutic, to a degree. It’s slightly creepy, and far from perfect… but dammit if there isn’t a bit o’ me in there.
Painted in Photoshop, as always. The fullsize image was rather large, so here is a peek at the face detail too. Lemme know what you think.
No, I haven’t forgotten I have a website, I just haven’t had alot (anything) to update with. Actually, I still don’t… but I shall soon! Working on my largest, most “true” digital painting thus far. I’m probably not even 40% done and the learning experience has been absolutely priceless.
Here’s to hoping I can actually finish!
After a long, painful absence, I finally have produced something worth posting (by my standards, at least). Immediately after watching the movie Across the Universe, I doodled out a sketch in about 15 minutes, that much later became this:
Eddie Izzard as the fabulous Mr. Kite! Not only do I have a very heterosexual man crush on Eddie Izzard, but that part of the movie was so trippy and inspiring, that I couldn’t help but to try and paint it. As always, done entirely in Photoshop… no real fancy tricks on this one, just another stab at digital painting.
Let me know what you think, folks!
In planning ahead for the future (you know, the one where I have millions of adoring fans), I added a PayPal donation button to the side, so said fans can… donate… money. The whole Google Adsense thing just doesn’t look like it’s going to bring home the soy bacon. So, rather than adding giant, annoying, seizure inducing “punch the monkey/Paris Hilton/George Bush/yo momma” banner ads, I just implemented that tiny yellow button.
Feel free to click it whenever.
Even better yet, feel free to commission me. Work good! Fire bad!
