Nate Bear Art

Illustration Friday – “Atmosphere”

Nate Bear — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:36:46 +0000

But It makes the sunsets so pretty.

Illustration Friday – “Star Gazing”

Nate Bear — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:52:55 +0000

Here’s my slightly late entry to last week’s Illustration Friday topic. I liked the sketch I did for it, so I decided to finish it anyway.

Mt. Top Removal Sucks Balls Tee Shirt

Nate Bear — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:09:00 +0000

So I started a store on Zazzle’s artist-driven sub-site Arts Projekt a few weeks ago. Since then I’ve slowly been populating the products section with new designs that I don’t I’ve shared much at all until now. I just posted what might be my favorite design so far. It’s a little ditty about how I strongly disapprove of decapitating mountains and making a big smelly mess.

“Mt. Top Removal Sucks” Tee Shirt

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Buttload of Petroleum

Nate Bear — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:18:00 +0000

As most people these days I woke up pretty pissed at the wrongdoings done in the name of unfettered capitalism by corporate psychopaths. As usual my rage has been directed into the form of graphic design (aka effing around with Adobe apps). So this image was the result of my endeavors. I have no concerted campaign behind it. I just thought the BP logo should more accurately reflect the company’s actual focus for the past 10 years, rather than the happy, shiny greentastic image their rebranding would have us believe. So I’m just putting it out there. Feel free to use the re-revamped logo as you please.

On a related note i was urged to make one of those Google search stories yesterday. Couldn’t quite come up with anything romantic, or cute but…

Illustration Friday – "Trail"

Nate Bear — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:01:00 +0000

I was so busy this week, but I managed to squeeze in this drawing for IF.

New Hadron Colliderscope Comic:

Nate Bear — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:49:00 +0000

I recently illustrated a comic written by my friend, Michael Bramley, for his sci-fi web comic series, Hadron Colliderscope. It’s the innocent tale of a gentle insect-eating race, the Gum Rums.

If you all are interested, I’m thinking about posting some sketches and writing about the process of drawing the comic. Maybe a little later in the week.

I’m in an NPR promo video!

Nate Bear — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:19:00 +0000

I’m the guy hand that comes from the right and draws the app menu, and later changes the thought bubble into a word bubble, and later writes the @NPRandroid at the end.

You can read about the making of the video on the blog director John Pavlus of Small Mammal. There you can also see a photo of our in-between-takes whiteboard doodles, including my scribble likeness of John himself. I’m not even sure he knows it’s supposed to be him.

It was load of fun to be a part of the shoot along with Heather Willems of Image Think, who has plenty more whiteboard experience than I. I also met several other awesome artist type peoples who “build” the polished app in the vid, all of whom are listed in the NPR blog.

Illustration Friday "Slither"

Nate Bear — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:24:00 +0000

Getting wild with the gradient mesh today…

Art Show + Shirts for Sale

Nate Bear — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:29:00 +0000

Flyer by Me and Laura G

I’m pleased to announce that on June 4th in Greenpoint The Blood Dumpster is having another art show and party event, Pyrophilia. I’ll have a brand new piece in the show AND we will be debuting the new Blood Dumpster T-Shirt I designed. Fret not if you can’t make it to the show, the shirts are available for pre-order at the BD website.

Hope to see you all there. Please RSVP on the Facebook event page if you can.

Process for Blood Dumpster Tee

Nate Bear — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:23:00 +0000

Today I was working on the first T-shirt for my artist collective, The Blood Dumpster. I took a bunch of screenshots during the process so I thought I’d share.

Here’s the first sketch. I tend to go pretty literal with things, so i drew bloody things coming out of a dumpster. (I assure you the collective isn’t all about drawing dumpsters and blood. Mostly. )

Pretty fun, but I wanted to push it farther and add some detail. After some feedback from the group and several attempts at refining the sketch I came up with this draft.

I scanned it and opened the file in illustrator. I rotated it a little because I sorta drew it on a slant and i wanted teh dumpster to be more upright. Here as some of my initial “inking” lines.

I’m generally using a single custom brush with he Brush tool. You can see I’m ready planning out some of the colors.

We’re planning on doing it on a black or red shirt, most likely. Therefore, I wanted to create a white backing/border so all the black lines would still read on a black background.

Here I started doing some fills with a halftone pattern to get some depth out of the limited palette.

Cleaned up the shading shapes. Looks pretty awesome on white background, but we want to print on a black shirt…

…and that border looks a lot sloppier in high-contrast.

So i went in a made it a lot tighter, and dropped it from the blood splashes and smaller parts that didn’t quite need the outline. Last, I added The Blood Dumpster logo and my ol’ siggy on a skull. Also the nipple is squirting. That way, you know, it looks more nippley.