Author Archive: Nathan Seabolt
Illustrator/Designer, American expatriate living in Sydney AU, about yea tall and I like most cheeses.
You can find my daily sketchblog at: http://www.nathandrawsdaily.tumblr.com
2013 Challenge: Day 30:- FIREPLUG
The Tiny Titan of Terror helps me round up my third year of the challenge! Â Thanks to everybody who participated, you guys inspire me, and I’m going to spend the time between now and next year poring over your stuff! Special thanks to #TylerJames for getting the ball rolling, and keeping it rolling.
2013 Challenge: Day 27:- The Wood Tinsman
The finest in tinsmithing, despite those tendril-y digits.
2013 Challenge: Day 24:- Straygun
An alien gunslinger with a funny name, par for the course with me.
2013 Challenge: Day 23:- Greyjaw
Greyjaw is your typical spawn of the Pit, and a great salesman to boot! Small home appliances, mostly.
2013 Challenge: Day 22:- El Peleardor Verde
El Peleardor Verde (or the Green Grappler, from my woefully inadequate Spanish), is a gentle giant in the All-Class Wrestling division. His record is 19-0, all but one by submission. In that match, his opponent forfeited before he could make it to the ring.
2013 Challenge: Day 18:- Heat Death
When Eddie Simms skipped his high school class to smoke behind the gym, he had no way of knowing that he was in the worst possible place at the worst possible time. High above him, a battle raged on an alien scout ship which had been monitoring the area-a mutiny driving the crew to a bloody clash which left only a few critically injured members alive. At least until the ship plummeted to Earth, destroying the gym and the surrounding area.
Miraculously, Eddie had survived the impact, although not in any physically recognizable way. His shattered skeleton, glowing with strange alien radiation, recombined and rose to its feet. Flames burst along every surface of the bones as the air reacted with the power glowing from them. Eddie regained consciousness inside his reanimated skeleton and marveled at his new appearance.
Then, being a teenage comic book fan (and vaguely remembering something from Astronomy about suns exploding), he grabbed a piece of the alien wreckage that roughly resembled a scythe and decided he would become a superhero.
Heat Death has been fighting evil and inadvertently terrifying the innocent ever since.
2013 Challenge: Day 17:- AtomiBaby
I’m not so sure nap time will go smoothly today.
You can watch a video of me coloring this little radiant bundle of joy here!
2013 Challenge: Day 15:- Max Olotol
Despite living almost entirely underwater in a small stream, Max longs to be a lumberjack.
2013 Challenge: Day 13- :BRIK
BRIK is sort of an urban Golem, formed from the decaying tenements of the inner city. An embodiment of the hopes, dreams and fears of those who lived there.
2013 Challenge: Day 12- :Degenerat
Another monster character, which should come as a surprise to no one who knows me even a little. 🙂
2013 Challenge: Day 11- :DeathBat
Passing the Day 10 on the challenge, and things are getting a little spooky…
In case you’re interested, there’s also a process video coming soon for this one on my channel.
2013 Challenge: Day 10- :The MinoBoar
Half man, half boar…and all furious!
You can watch a timelapse video of me inking and coloring this one here, too.
2013 Challenge: Day 9:- Big Bad Baby
Well, “Bad” and “Baby”, at least. Two out of three ain’t bad!
(Just don’t tell him I said that, okay?)
2013 Challenge: Day 6- Chuck
In all the oceans, no one is as manly as Chuck.
You can watch him take form from nothing to inks right here, too! :
2013 Challenge: Day 5- Algernon Pickwiggins
Algernon is a consummate gentleman’s gentleman. Not even his on demise in 1948 has kept him from his duties. Stiff upper lip..and everything else too.
2013 Challenge: Day 4- Morty, The Glib Reaper
“You came from nothing, you’re going to nothing…whad’ya lose? Â Nothing!”
Morty is an oddly comforting final guide beyond the veil.
2013 Challenge: Day 3- Sir Roderick The Overwhelmed
Sir Roderick, reacting to the news that the banquet requires climbing stairs to attend.
2013 Challenge: Day 2- GRAHR
Spoken of in whispered voices as “the Underdweller”, “Scaled Death” and “The Ravager”…but his tax return is under “GRAHR”.
2013 Challenger: Nathan Seabolt
Hi everybody! I’m back to participate in 30 Characters this year for the third time! I hope I can finish this year like the previous two and earn the trifecta. (which is a honor I just made up for myself) Â This year I plan on focusing my creations into cohesive units more than my usual shotgun approach. Maybe there’ll be teams? We’ll have to see.
I love seeing the participation in the challenge in the community, and the imagination that this site generates is staggering. I have a feeling this year will be the best yet, and I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
My site: http://www.seaboltillustration.com
My daily sketchblog: Â http://www.nathandrawsdaily.tumblr.com
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