Leben zu leben, ist so einfach wie ...

2012-02-16T20:36:00.001-08:00

A logo design I did for a friend :)

2012-02-15T04:26:00.000-08:00

A couple things I did a looooooooooonng time ago for SCEA. Cheers! :)

2012-02-14T13:29:00.000-08:00

breakfast. mmm..

2012-02-14T04:37:00.001-08:00

For some reason I needed to get this out of me. Maybe take it to finish someday. And yes, my Thor is bald. :)

2012-02-13T02:25:00.001-08:00

A poster I did for one of my friend's projects. Check it out!

2012-02-09T03:30:00.001-08:00

knight with spear, I really had to restrain myself from giving him wings... soo hard.

2012-02-02T02:17:00.000-08:00

quick form study before bed...zzzz

2012-01-25T17:10:00.001-08:00

why? cause it's good for me... I think...or hope. heh. An exercise to think about how to render things realistically in a timely manner. About 20 minutes. p.s. thank you warp tool. :)

2012-01-04T17:53:00.001-08:00

wanted to do a ship. also, it was a great painting exercise for form and texture. :)

*edit- I also put in some steps

2011-12-27T02:27:00.000-08:00

BRRR!! I was imagining inside there was a lot of gambling going on...and hot future cocoa...lol.

2011-12-17T05:17:00.000-08:00

Black Swan portrait study... with some liberties... :)

2011-12-16T17:38:00.000-08:00

2011-12-13T06:04:00.001-08:00

the town I live in...

2011-12-11T16:43:00.001-08:00

2011-12-09T03:26:00.000-08:00

here's a droid I put together, also included the sketch :)

2011-11-23T22:55:00.000-08:00

The art process is always different, and sometimes I feel it's good to "reinvent the wheel" or atleast just explore new avenues. For this one it's pretty straight forward, but here's the lighting inspiration for a painting that I've done in the past.

2011-08-15T20:06:00.001-07:00

storyboards!!!! :)

2011-08-10T02:50:00.001-07:00

form invention is hard... wow...my brain hurtzzz... :)

2011-08-04T07:49:00.000-07:00

for those of you who are like me, I created this as a reminder

2011-08-01T17:02:00.001-07:00

2011-08-01T16:52:00.000-07:00

urgent! :)

2011-07-11T22:56:00.001-07:00

baaAAAARRFFF!!!! gone fishin'!

2011-06-10T21:45:00.001-07:00

2011-06-07T01:31:00.000-07:00

floating...

2011-05-12T03:27:00.000-07:00

today's sketch

2011-05-10T14:49:00.001-07:00

today's sci-fi warm up (mielgo inspired)

edit* now that I look back at this exercise, it looks like she's on her way to the loo XO

also some other random $H1t!

2011-05-04T23:11:00.001-07:00

here's my contribution to society *click to see

2011-05-03T02:35:00.000-07:00

something I'm workin on in my free time. pretty fun little project :)

2011-05-02T23:26:00.000-07:00

This was a birthday card for one of our friends. It's also where we all live. So pretty here in the Point. :)

2011-04-28T18:56:00.000-07:00

2011-04-28T18:38:00.001-07:00

2011-04-23T02:55:00.000-07:00

tonight's doodle

2011-04-19T00:19:00.001-07:00

mechs and droid doodles, btw, I just ate some noooodles lol

2011-04-19T00:18:00.001-07:00

doodle.

2011-04-18T02:08:00.000-07:00

2011-04-18T02:00:00.000-07:00

2011-04-14T03:50:00.001-07:00

neeeed sleepp, but blog needs to be FED!!!

2011-03-10T19:35:00.001-08:00

check up

2011-03-03T00:53:00.001-08:00

...

2011-03-02T23:59:00.000-08:00

a side thing I'm workin' on...

2011-03-02T02:19:00.000-08:00

2011-02-28T19:27:00.000-08:00

meanie...

2011-02-22T21:02:00.001-08:00

Over the weekend I made an Akira bike and Kaneda out of cigarette lighters. A friend asked me to do something for charity so I did this. Sort of random, but I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. Very interesting shapes when you're working with something that you can't entirely change...

this is where I started if you want to make your own.

LET'S GO!

Anywho, here's my version, modified to look like the Akira bike, also made a display case out of a used pepper jar, and mint containers.

hope you like it!

2011-02-08T00:25:00.000-08:00

and.... GO!

also, a couple more boards for my story

2011-02-01T02:38:00.000-08:00

my weekly addition... DAVE!!!!

2011-01-25T16:57:00.000-08:00

SPACE!!!

2011-01-25T16:44:00.001-08:00

speeeeeeed

2010-11-30T17:13:00.000-08:00

I know it's been a while... I have no excuse. I have been busy studying but nothing I think that's worth showing.

Anywho, here's a watercolor I did over the weekend

cheers!! :)

2010-07-15T18:04:00.000-07:00

rocks... thoughts on rocks...hmmm...

2010-05-28T11:55:00.001-07:00

just a quick update, some thumbnails. I'm still deciding...

2010-05-11T01:16:00.001-07:00

elf

2010-05-03T01:31:00.001-07:00

study from the blog, The Sartorialist

I was trying to think of some things that me and friend have been discussing.

2010-04-26T01:56:00.000-07:00

yeppers, I really have to update more often...

2010-02-13T04:11:00.000-08:00

oh yeah, also I'm doing these looooong studies in charcoal. Actually, as painful the process seems from afar, is really quite freeing. So, this is step 1 and 2 (of 1000) lol

2010-02-13T04:06:00.001-08:00

really really really quicky before bed, *snooorrr...

2009-12-31T17:43:00.000-08:00

this is for the new year :)

2009-11-04T02:08:00.001-08:00

tonight's quick study

2009-10-23T00:46:00.001-07:00

it's been a while since I've done any character stuff. started as a ref, turned into this

hope you like :)

2009-10-21T00:28:00.000-07:00

quick sketch using the RGB sliders. wow, I'm impressed with those things, I can really understand why the color picker is so retarded. anywho, if your curious, press hotkey f6, and start messing!

2009-09-28T22:47:00.000-07:00

just gotta push through to the other side, "HERE i COME!!"... (castle quickie)

2009-09-14T23:44:00.000-07:00

just trying still to figure things out, I know the strokes are garish but bear with me, when I figure this out, I can then focus later on my brush work...lol. if anyone's wondering, this was halfway referenced speedpaint (1hour) digital

enjoy!

2009-09-07T19:43:00.000-07:00

bug! watercolor and gouche

2009-08-31T01:09:00.001-07:00

zbrush sketch

2009-08-28T00:55:00.001-07:00

ze planes!!

2009-08-27T00:14:00.001-07:00

ssshhhh!!!

2009-08-16T04:32:00.000-07:00

saw this guy "linran" and really made me rethink rendering. Still got lots go :) (self portrait when I had short hair fyi)

2009-08-13T01:03:00.000-07:00

quicky, had to figure some things out...

2009-07-29T01:48:00.001-07:00

start of a personal project. Hopefully, with this project I can really start to tackle those hard things I've been hesitating over...

2009-06-25T00:22:00.001-07:00

A study from Sargent's portrait of Carolus Duran

2009-06-22T21:58:00.001-07:00

home sweet home

2009-05-20T01:01:00.000-07:00

studying architecture-digital

2009-05-17T02:00:00.000-07:00

rider storm color comps

2009-04-07T21:55:00.000-07:00

digital study... kinda

2009-03-23T03:42:00.000-07:00

Hi I'm Nate Dollarhite! and welcome to my Blog site. This is where I post my latest works, studies and tests. Please scroll down and look over my digital paintings. I also have a link to my other blog where it's only watercolor landscape studies.

Enjoy! :)

2009-03-12T22:31:00.001-07:00

dirt study wip

2009-03-10T00:44:00.001-07:00

dooder on horse

2009-03-03T00:38:00.000-08:00

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guard

2009-02-18T16:34:00.000-08:00

digital study of sargent

2009-02-18T15:25:00.001-08:00

messenger

2009-02-03T22:28:00.001-08:00

jungle feeeeva

2009-01-27T22:26:00.001-08:00

mountainy forest

2009-01-19T23:10:00.001-08:00

vroom

2008-12-13T21:53:00.000-08:00

yet another brush test

2008-12-11T00:19:00.001-08:00

a life study, still trying to understand brushes and digital all together

2008-12-10T01:11:00.001-08:00

Happy Holidays!

2008-11-25T01:52:00.000-08:00

tried to apply what I learned...

2008-11-21T01:41:00.001-08:00

Sargent study-digital

2008-11-20T01:38:00.000-08:00

a study from the prestige

2008-11-05T01:00:00.000-08:00

just some bugs

2008-10-28T23:34:00.000-07:00

D&D

2008-10-28T23:33:00.001-07:00

more landscapes

2008-10-28T23:29:00.001-07:00

landscapes

2008-10-28T23:27:00.001-07:00

some more characters

2008-10-28T23:26:00.001-07:00

robin hood

2008-06-13T12:54:00.000-07:00

So here are just some random things that I've been doing in my free time. There's more but they're currently under NDA. Oh well.

2008-02-12T14:35:00.001-08:00

rta...

2008-01-28T18:26:00.001-08:00

Heeyyyoooo!!! Poo is a funny subject!

2008-01-23T10:26:00.001-08:00

one big dump!

2007-04-17T01:46:00.000-07:00

just somethings...

hmmm.

2007-02-06T16:27:00.000-08:00

so today was great, but it seems that I keep getting more and more confused about what to do and how to do it. I know that I "can" draw when I see it in my head or something. Even still, I'm lacking all that knowledge of what goes where and how come that shadow does this and almost everything dealing with color. Evertime I think I'm making any headway I manage to open a whole nother door to even more questions and the complexity of the new questions leaves me buying books, starring at people and getting very, very frustrated.

I know I have to keep going, simply because this is who I am. I draw and paint and everything that comes with it. I can't live without it. The only thing that still completely confuses me is whether or not it will drive me mad and I won't make it. Everytime I think that I try to put it out of my mind and keep going. I can only handle so many "what if" and "why" thoughts in one day.

so that's enough of that, I just needed to think, thank you blog.