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About Nathan Fowkes

Nathan Fowkes is a working animation artist with screen credit on 12 feature films as well as a teacher of drawing, painting, color and design. His notable clients include DreamWorks, Disney, Blue Sky Studios, Paramount Animation and many others. (see below)
Nathan is also author of the bestselling How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal and How to Paint Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache.

Business inquiries at nfowkes.art@gmail.com

Feature Films
Raya and the Last Dragon (Disney 2021, early development only)
Wonder Park (Paramount Animation 2019)
Ferdinand
(Blue Sky Studios 2017)
Legend of Tembo (Unreleased Feature, Digital Domain 2015)
Rio 2 (Blue Sky Studios 2014)
Disney's The Pirate Fairy (DisneyToon Studio 2014)
The Legend of Puss in Boots (DreamWorks Animation 2011)
Shrek Forever After (DreamWorks Animation 2010)
How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation 2010)
Flushed Away (DreamWorks Animation 2006)
Shark Tale (DreamWorks Animation 2004)
Sinbad, Legend of the Seven Seas (DreamWorks Animation 2003)
Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron (DreamWorks Animation 2002)
The Road to El Dorado (DreamWorks Animation 2000)
The Prince of Egypt (DreamWorks Animation 1998)

Shorts and Home Video
Puss in Boots and the Three Diablos
The Pig who cried Wolf
Shrek's Spooky Stories
Madly Madagascar
Shrek the Halls
Joseph King of Dreams (Home video feature)

Video Games Consulting and workshops
Blizzard Entertainment
Infinity Ward
Riot Games
Ubisoft
King Studio Stockholm
King Studio Barcelona
Rovio
Supercell
Volta
CD Projekt Red
FunPlus Beijing
Happy Elements Beijing
Big Fish Games
Bonfire Studios
Pop Cap
Fatshark Stockholm
Net Ent Stockholm
Plarium, Ukraine
Topjoy, Beijing

Disney Imagineering (theme park design)
ThinkWell (theme park design)


Teaching
2007-present: Guest lecturer: Art Center College of Design and Laguna College of Art and Design.
2004-2012: Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art; Portrait Drawing, Portrait Painting, Advanced Portrait Painting, Sketching from Life, Color Theory and Fundamentals of Composition.
2022-USC School of Cinematic Arts: guest Lecturer.

Online Teaching
Schoolism.com: Designing with Color and Light, Environment Design, Pictorial Composition, Drawing Portraits in Charcoal and Sketching in Watercolor and Gouache.

Gallery Shows
Landscapes: Color and Light, solo exhibition at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2021.
Landscapes II, solo exhibition at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2019.
Landscapes, solo exhibition at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2018.
Interlace, group show at Bynd Artisan, Singapore, 2017.
Painting The Town 2, group show at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2017.
Painting The Town, group show at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2016.
Portrait Drawing in Charcoal, Solo Exhibition at Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, 2010.
Moonshine, DreamWorks Artists...After Dark, group exhibition at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2010.

Books
How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal, published by Design Studio Press, 2017
How to Paint Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache, Design Studio Press 2019
Color and Light; Artists Master Series. Contributor. 3DTotal Publishing, 2021
Moonshine, DreamWorks Artists...After Dark, Design Studio Press, 2010

Publications
ImagineFX Magazine issue 165, 2018, "Artist in Residence"
International Artist Magazine, June/July 2017 "Drawing Portraits in Charcoal"

ImagineFX Magazine issue 158, 2017, "The Values of Light and Shadow"
Art of Watercolour Magazine, March/May 2017, "When Imagination Serves Reality"
Pratique des Arts, October/November 2012, "Portfolio International"
American Artist Watercolor Magazine, Spring 2010. "Make Thoughtful Color Choices"

Education
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Ca. Merit Scholarship awarded.
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Entertainment Design with Honors.