You're listening to the Savi Painter Podcast, episode number 38.

Welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the savvy painter

podcast. My guest today is Nathan Phelps. Nathan is a conceptual artist for the entertainment industry.

He teaches life drawing classes, portrait painting, and entertainment design both online at schoolism.com and in person at Laffa

which is the Los Angeles Academy of Figuative Art. Nathan has a huge list of movie credits to his name including the Road to

Eldorado the Prince of Egypt how to train your dragon the legend of

Puss and Boots and of course Shrek. And Nathan and I actually went to school together at

Art Center, although I'm embarrassed to say I cannot remember which class we had together. I'm guessing it was Dwight Harmon's but with

a lack of sleep, paint fumes, and a couple years passing through. I'm really not sure and

all those details are a blur.

So Nathan, thank you so much for taking time out of your day to talk to me.

Well, Antries Art School is absolutely a blur for me too, this isn't so thank you so much yeah and hello to

everybody out there so give us I know a lot of people will be interested in

this because I have an audience of people who are both at the beginning stages and still in school I know from people that I have written me.

Could you give a brief rundown of what you did after graduating and how you sort of broke into the entertainment world?

Yeah, so in one way I was very lucky because during art school and I think you'll be able to back me up on

this it was it was an interesting time in art school because what was being pushed

at least on the illustration side which was my major at the Arts Center College of

Design it was it was an emphasis on print illustration which was rapidly

dying I mean it was dying so fast that within a couple of years of

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