tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24158765358873134132023-11-16T11:40:04.142+01:00Art by NathNathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-10622707796914529152017-12-29T09:43:00.001+01:002017-12-29T10:04:51.546+01:00Update on 2017This year I focused mostly on social media when posting online, particularly Instagram as it's less of a hassle to post there.<br />
But I don't want to neglect this blog entirely either, so here's an update on some of the art I put out throughout this year.<br />
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I wish everyone a fantastic New Year!<br />
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<i>A springtime mockup</i></div>
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<i>A bubbletea sketch</i></div>
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<i>Inktober 2017 sketches</i></div>
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<br />Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-18484627165290561982016-12-15T15:17:00.002+01:002016-12-15T15:20:14.937+01:00Winter landscape study<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today I treated myself to Kyle T Webster’s new concept brush set and used it to make this quick, messy winter landscape study. It’s an amazing set (as are all his brush sets)! You can find it here: <a href="https://gumroad.com/kyletwebster">https://gumroad.com/kyletwebster</a>Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-2387381377256633192016-12-15T15:15:00.004+01:002016-12-15T15:16:08.367+01:00Goddess of Death<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Also in October, I finished this illustration.</div>
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Also in October, 'Skygger i mørket' ('Shadows in the dark') was released. It's a thrilling horror book for young adults written by Christian Engkilde (book cover illustrated by yours truly). It's the first book in a trilogy and it's available in Danish book stores or through Silhuet's webshop here: http://www.forlagetsilhuet.dk/udgivelser.<br />
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I haven't had time to update the blog in a long while now, but here's a bit of catching up. This year was the first time I participated in the Inktober challenge in October. Was super fun and by the end of the month I had discovered a new combo of tools I really enjoyed working with; tracing paper and markers.Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-36827144987924387592016-06-29T09:43:00.001+02:002016-08-10T15:32:50.555+02:00New Illustrated Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last Friday, 'Jeg er Frankenstein' ('I am Frankenstein'), a brand new illustrated thriller book for tweens and teens, was published in the olde kingdom of Denmark. It's written by Bjarke Schjødt Larsen and illustrated by yours truly. It's a great read and it was super fun to work on too.<br />
Below are a selection of some of the interior illustrations and vignettes I made along with the book cover without the text.<br />
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I made this head study last week in Procreate with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. As always, super enjoyable tools to work with!<br />
I also posted a video of my process on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artbynath/">artbynath</a><br />
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Every year I make a new online avatar for myself. It's a nice tradition as it gives me a short break from big and ambitious projects. This year I used Procreate for most of it (I used Pixelmator for the circle and Photoshop for a bit of last-minute tweaking).<br />
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I started out with the more complex sketch below, but in the end I came to my senses and kept it simple and readable for small sizes. :)<br />
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<br />Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-38426966365400960322016-01-04T12:38:00.001+01:002016-03-16T09:54:13.605+01:00Anyone Can Improve at Drawing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I threw together this Before and After picture for this site: <a href="http://anyonecanimproveatdrawing.tumblr.com/">http://anyonecanimproveatdrawing.tumblr.com/</a><br />
“We all start somewhere. This is a blog where artists share how their artwork has improved after years of practice. This blog is here to inspire and encourage you to keep drawing every day!”Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-71565518549823467392015-11-19T08:24:00.001+01:002015-11-19T08:25:05.670+01:00New Illustrated Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My editor from Silhuet came by the other day with a lovely surprise; "Eliksiren" ("The Elixir") by author Kristoffer Jacob Andersen, a juicy horror youth book I recently finished illustrating. It’s turned out amazing! I'll post a link once it hits the Danish stores sometime next week.Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-22890811932961814872015-07-28T14:17:00.000+02:002016-08-10T15:36:24.476+02:00Conspirator<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After way too much silence from my tiny corner of the Internet, I can finally show a bit of what I’ve been working on in my own time. Here’s a new character for my portfolio.<br />
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<i>Figrah the Conspirator is officially the King’s Advisor, but his actual power stretches far beyond that position. With his dangerously high amount of people skills and cunning no one can help but to love and admire him. He’s a classic two-headed snake who likes to puppeteer the court and the King from the shadows where he can whisper sweet promises, spread poisonous slanter and play everyone like pieces on a chess board.</i><br />
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Here’s a GIF showing my process going from crude initial sketch to finished illustration:<br />
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Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-59961627604382182642015-03-03T13:38:00.002+01:002016-08-10T15:38:09.488+02:00Cursed Ice Cream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Based on Dave Rapoza’s first <a href="https://gumroad.com/daverapoza">gumroad video</a>, I had fun with yet another style and approach. It was a nice change to work out all the problems in the beginning with line sketches and then meditatively paint in the colour afterwards.<br />
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Here’s a little background story to go with the illustration:<br />
<i>Oleg was a great hunter. The very best in the tribe. But right now he was far away from his family to track down the Cursed Ice Cream in the hope that he could break the spell; the biggest thorn in the Poknaq tribe's eye for as long as they could remember. The winters had gotten worse for each year and the tribe was starting to run out of food. Everybody knew the reason for this. It was the Cursed Ice Cream. The Cursed Ice Cream was an old legend, and it was a shot in the dark to try and find it, but the Bubilaq tribe had no other option left. They were desperate. Legend had it that centuries ago the lands were lush and green and full of life, but then a mermaid witch planted the ice cream somewhere high above the water as a bittersweet revenge for the ice cold betrayal of her lover when he took another wife. To break the curse, a brave young man would have to willingly place his heart instead of the ice cream and hope that the witch's restless soul would accept his offer and finally go to rest. Oleg was soon going to find out whether he made the cut or not.</i><br />
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Below are some WIPs.<br />
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<br />Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-2133695233303165702015-02-03T19:01:00.002+01:002016-08-10T15:39:42.054+02:00Children's Book Illustration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here’s a children’s book illustration I finished recently in a new experimental style.<br />
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<i>The sibling couple often come to visit this strange world at night in their dreams. At first they were frightened by the big hovering fish, but they’ve come to realise that they’re quite harmless. Sometimes the fish even let them ride on their backs through the most wonderful scenarios. And when they wake up in the morning, the children spend all day imagining the new peculiar places they’re going to explore with their newfound floating friends the coming night.</i><br />
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Below you can see a few early colour comps that helped me decide what best suited the atmosphere I wanted to convey.<br />
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<br />Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-35586193862698257002015-01-13T10:28:00.004+01:002015-02-03T18:58:24.659+01:00New Avatar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A new avatar for a new year. Wish you all an outstanding 2015!Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-4101511253657887792014-11-26T11:02:00.000+01:002014-11-26T11:06:40.448+01:00Forest Demon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>UPDATE: Seems Blogger has messed up my image again during upload, but the GIF below seems intact.</b><br />
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Here's my latest character portrait. Actually it started out as a self-portrait, but it was more fun to splash on a fictional story and make it something else entirely.<br />
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Here's the step-by-step:<br />
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<br />Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-20066777049806327332014-10-13T09:20:00.000+02:002016-08-10T15:41:21.246+02:00Book Cover Illustration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently did this cover illustration for TURBINE for a horror novel called “Den Druknede” (meaning “The Drowned”) by Danish author Kristoffer Jacob Andersen. Can’t wait to receive the book!<br />
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Just received my copies of the book today in time for halloween! (Sorry for the rather poor photo quality.)<br />
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'Nother screen cap study. This time from the movie Red Cliff.Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-23334530811428333052014-07-01T11:26:00.001+02:002014-07-01T11:26:17.856+02:00Study<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did another screen cap study a little while back. This one's from Kung Fu Hustle!Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-87743652395801133702014-06-10T10:17:00.001+02:002016-08-10T15:42:10.725+02:00Pirate Portrait: Samurai Lord<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So here's the second portrait in my pirate series.<br />
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His background story goes like this:<br />
<i>After dedicating most of his life serving as an honoruable Samurai, he was forced to take a stance against the Emperor’s obscene wish and thus was thrown into the life of an outcast. As a last resort he set to the Seas, using his last hidden reserves to hire a ship and a crew, fixated on playing a memorable trick on his fellow Samurai, the Lords and the Emperor as payment for their injustice and greed.</i><br />
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And here's the initial head study I based it on:<br />
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Here's a study I did of a scene from The Green Mile. Spent approx. 6 hours on it using a small array of custom brushes.Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-41537224517387111782014-05-31T10:41:00.001+02:002016-08-10T15:43:28.563+02:00Ananse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a bit of creature design within the mythical theme.<br />
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"<i>Ananse the trickster is a West African god, He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the god of all knowledge and stories. He is a spider, but often acts and appears as a man.</i>"<br />
Read more about Ananse here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anansi">Click</a><br />
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Ananse seems to be pictured mostly as a spider with a human head so I thought it might be interesting to reverse that and put him together kind of like an Egyptian god.Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-62471829298851551872014-04-14T10:50:00.003+02:002016-08-10T15:44:16.496+02:00Pirate Portrait: Maori Princess<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Her background story:</div>
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<i>Abducted from her family and tribe at a very young age and forced to slavery by the corporate West, the young Maori girl soon fled, and was picked up by a group of pirates in search of a new youngster to boss around the ship.</i><br />
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Friend and mentor, <a href="http://jimsdrawinghub.blogspot.dk/">Jim Moore</a>, suggested that I took some of my recent head studies and worked them into a finished character portrait so that I could use it as a portfolio piece. So that's just what I did. This is the first one and there are several more on their way.</div>
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Here’s the initial head study this portrait was based on:</div>
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This is a spare time wip/sketch made a while back initially with traditional pencils, then enhanced with a bunch of magical Procreate strokes on an iPad glass surface.Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-27965632343135842152014-03-10T11:21:00.000+01:002014-03-14T11:31:05.027+01:00Studies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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More head study workouts.<br />
Feels good to kick momentary laziness in the butt and build a stronger toolkit for better and bigger rewards.Nathascha Friishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10352632452331489403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2415876535887313413.post-30883417649947036782014-02-13T14:46:00.002+01:002015-04-16T17:13:53.215+02:00I Am Transformation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I apologize for the silence these past two months. I spent my free time finishing up all sorts of unfinished projects, but now I’m back and intend to update my blog more regularly again.</div>
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This is a personal piece that suddenly popped into my mind as I was riding my bicycle towards the sunset last autumn. It’s inspired by a series of losses in and around my family over the past few years.</div>
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With this piece my aim was to illustrate how the death of something releases something stronger and more beautiful. This isn’t just about life as we know it coming to an end. We face this principle every day to some small degree. To change or get to the next level, we’ll have to leave our old version behind. This is transformation.</div>
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