Concept art

New concept art of a ship battle:

Postcard Application Illustration

Here's an art deco style illustration that I made for my good good friend Prashant for his new iPhone app. I can't WAIT to use it!

New Shade Pages

Okay, some new pages are up, full of action. Sorry to leave things at a cliffhanger, but that's what the speed of things is. These can all be seen at my website.

New Shade Pages

These five pages were just added to my website at www.nathanheigert.com. 20 pages in Part Two are now available to read, which makes it approximately one quarter of the way finished. Yay progress!

New Shade Pages

I've added a couple new pages to the website that wrap up the latest sequence.

Cimabue and Giotto

I was playing with style here by laying down the paper with a layer of graphite dust and bringing out highlights from that before scanning to photoshop. I was trying to James Jean but it turned into more of a Mannerist/Arthur Rackham. Interesting, though.

Sketch Crawl San Francisco

Thanks to JGR for joining me for Sketch Crawl. It was fun to rub shoulders with some of the greats from Dreamworks and Pixar. From the sketches below, it will be evident what a beautiful day Saturday was for laying about in Washington Square drinking beers and sketching Bags players.





Also some additional concept art:

New Concept Art

I was fortunate enough to be able to go to the San Francisco Game Developer's Conference earlier this week for free – my bud Chris lent me his pass. I was able to show my concept art portfolio to a lot of recruiters from a lot of companies and some were more humbling than others. Some gave me contradictory opinions; the woman from Lucasarts wanted to see more vibrant colors, while another studio commented favorably towards my tendency to use earth tones. Nonetheless I came away with two important tips. One: show your work. This has been told to me before, but I still need a kick in the head sometimes. Include sketches that show how you arrived at your final piece. Some places want to see full front/back/profiles of characters too. Second: the key word is concept, not illustration. The Lucasarts lady liked to see work that was loose and fast but expressed a clear and striking concept. The work of Erik Tiemens and Ryan Church is a case in point; the way they can paint a stunning picture and yet never stray too far into details is incredible and really helps the composition. To this end I'm trying to beef up my portfolio again before more submissions.

These can be seen better at my website www.nathanheigert.com in the concept art section.

Shade Part Two: Now Things Get Interesting...

Here's the latest page from my graphic novel. Finally it feels like I'm getting past the exposition necessary in Part One and into the real meat of the story.

New Shade Pages

A couple of the latest pages from Shade: Part Two. I have a third page ready to color, and when it's done I'll upload these to the website so they can actually be read.

Film Festival Posters

Two posters for a new film festival coming up in San Francisco. The underlying theme of the first poster is community and working together as if within a giant machine. Maybe a bit too "Metropolis" but I like it anyway, and entered it into the Communication Arts and SI contests. The second is meant to appeal to students to make films themselves, and I had to compromise a bit on it. You gotta do what you gotta do, though. Below was my original.