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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)

Feature Films
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 Tres 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 Toronto
Ubisoft Montreal
King Studio Stockholm
King Studio Barcelona
Rovio
Supercell
Volta
FunPlus Beijing
Happy Elements Beijing
Big Fish Games
Pop Cap
Fatshark Stockholm
Net Ent Stockholm

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


Teaching
2007-present: Guest lecturer: Art Center College of Design, Concept Design Academy, 3Kicks Studio 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.

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

Gallery Shows
Landscapes, solo exhibition at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2018.
Interlace, group show at Bynd Artisan, Singapore, 2017.
Painting The Town, group show at Gallery Nucleus, Los Angeles, 2016.
Painting The Town 2, Gallery Nucleus, 2017.
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.

Publications
How to Draw Portraits in Charcoal, published by Design Studio Press, 2017
Sketching Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache (forthcoming) Design Studio Press
Moonshine, DreamWorks Artists...After Dark, Design Studio Press, 2010
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.