Nate Dray - 内特是来自俄亥俄州的杰出美国艺术家。

 内特是具有影响力的美国艺术家和桌游设计师，同时也是众多书籍的作者与出版人。他因对动物怀有极大的仁慈之心和深切的同情心而深受爱戴。

内特以水彩画和漫画艺术闻名，同时也是一位音乐家和前微生物学研究员。

Repost from 2021: Wars of Beleriand Unpublished Wargame designed by Nate Dray.

 Edit 2/6/26 - Reposting this because I want to. I worked on this for like 20 years and it actually works pretty well. It's a shame I can't really share it with people because I can't quite bring myself to make it free because it was a ton - and I mean a ton - of work. :)

I should, though. Part of me would really like to...

 

Wars of Beleriand Update.

Still on it or back on it, really. 

Typing up the rulebook. Tweaking some graphics. But that about wraps it. There were some things - still are -- in the endgame latter stages of play, situations that only arise during the endgame part of the game, that weren't thoroughly played through before. Unique situations and things. The last few Turns are the most mechanically complex parts of the game. I'm sure there are things I missed, but...it should work and we'll correct as we go from here on.

Probably just release the rules online, post a link somewhere, something. 

 Wars of Beleriand rulebooks. Only two exist. They are different from each other and unique. 

 

 

Wars of Beleriand game Control Display. Players keep track of different Force types they control on this chart.

Players can have Complete or Incomplete Control of different Force types, or some Forces may be Controlled by a rudimentary AI algorithm unique to each class of Force.

 

 

 Wars of Beleriand game Dragon Maturation Track. The Morgoth player tracks the development of Dragon units Inside Angband with this. Dragons must be mature before they can be deployed and used against the Noldor Player.

 

 

 Sample Game of Wars of Beleriand in progress.

Note the Eagles counter, City Markers, and Ents and Green Elves in Taur-Im-Duinath. 

 

Artist Nate Dray presents: "Study of Mary Blair concept art for 'Two Silhouettes' from Disney's 'Make Mine Music'"

 "Study of Mary Blair concept art for 'Two Silhouettes' from Disney's 'Make Mine Music'" 

 

Mary Blair was a brilliant designer and colorist. She was a member of the California Watercolor School and had a huge influence on the look, feel and palette of peak Disney studio output.

In this little study I did I missed some of the subtleties of her colors and her loose designs, but she did these color roughs at breakneck speed while employed at Disney, sometimes cranking out dozens a day. This one looks to me to be primarily a pastel piece with maybe some gouache and that's what I used in my attempt at a sort of homage or reproduction.

Copying is one of the best ways an artist can sort of imbibe or enter into another artist's mindset and approach. It is an old and tested technique and one which I employ frequently, sometimes with less than satisfactory results, but it's never wasted effort, in my opinion.

 

Nate Dray, the Best Artist from Ohio :)

 

Hello! And welcome! Allow me to tell you a little about myself in this unsettling self-aggrandizing illeist fashion. Thanks!

"Nate Dray is an artist from Ohio and founder of the publishing house Diluvian Enterprises.

 

Known primarily for his watercolors and comics, Nate's paintings hang in museums, galleries, and private collections across Northeast Ohio. 

 

With a background in Biology and Chemistry, Nate's diverse credits include author, game designer, translator and musician. When he's not at work in the studio, Nate is an avid outdoorsman and gardener."

 

 Oder...

 

"Nate Dray ist ein Künstler aus Ohio und Gründer des Verlags Diluvian Enterprises. 

 

Bekannt vor allem für seine Aquarelle und Comics, hängen Nates Werke in Museen, Galerien und Privatsammlungen im Nordosten Ohios. 

 

Mit einem Hintergrund in Biologie und Chemie ist Nate auch als Autor, Spieledesigner, Übersetzer und Musiker tätig. Wenn er nicht gerade in seinem Atelier arbeitet, ist er ein begeisterter Naturliebhaber und Gärtner."

 

 Danke schön!

 

"See Sec. 7.1a" - an abstract watercolor design by Nate Dray

 

Nate Dray Paints, Illustration and description of an Ohio canal pond, "An Old Frozen Level"

"An Old Frozen Level"

Colored drawing on paper on cardboard.

Also called a canal pond or in Great Britain, a reach.

 

"Old School Supply Chord" - an abstract watercolor painting by Nate Dray

 

Nate Dray, Artist

 

Diluvan Enterprises & Diluvian Games trademarks old and new, in use 2026, Public Notification

 OK, I have to do a sort of logo dump here for reasons. 

Nate Dray Paints a science fiction illustration - "Crashlanded"

 "Crashlanded"

watercolor on paper by Nate Dray

 

The concept was simple; a space explorer has some fusion drive trouble and has to make an abrupt and unexpected landing on a strange, fizzy, toxic, alien, world. Outside his vessel in the bizarre atmosphere to make repairs, he encounters a shadowy enigmatic humanoid...Is this creature friend or foe? 

 

Hellwig's Conquest: A Tactical Game based on Chess Rulebook now Available.

 

This book now available on Etsy. Or direct from me.

Letter-sized, perfect bound, w/ color plates, 144 pages, $25 + shipping.

ISBN: 978-0-9822892-5-9

Hellwig's Conquest rulebook on Etsy

Originally released in Germany in 1780 under the title Versuch eines aufs Schachspiel gebaueten taktischen Spiels von zwei und mehrern Personen zu spielen, this is probaby the oldest published set of modern wargame rules.

This book is a new English language translation of this classic set of groundbreaking game rules.

 

Nate Dray at North Water Street Gallery update

 North Water Street Gallery Nate Dray solo exhibit extended to 

Sept. 9, 2023.

My paintings will hang at North Water Street Gallery a little longer now. Cool.

https://www.standingrock.net

 Nate Dray at North Water Street Gallery

 

So here's a thing. Grateful to Jeff Ingram of the North Water Street Gallery in Kent, Oh. for setting this up. Jeff was actually the first person to show one of my pictures in a gallery outside of a school event way back in 1999...or was it 1997? Either way, great guy who runs an excellent community arts organization called Standing Rock Cultural Arts. 

Check them out online at: https://www.standingrock.net/

Nate Dray paints: "The American Schematic" an abstract design by artist Nate Dray

 "The American Schematic"

watercolor, ink & gouache on paper, 15 x 20 inches

Appalachian Woods & Trails, small ink and watercolor illustrations by artist Nate Dray

 Some playing card size ink & watercolor drawings of nearby woods and trails. 

Nate Dray watercolor painting "North Fork by Pancake"

 

North Fork by Pancake

by Nate Dray

watercolor on paper, 17 x 22 inches

A view of the North Fork of the Little Beaver Creek below the crossroads at Pancake.  

Wars of Beleriand, Game Artist Nate Dray's wargame design based on Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" Update

Wars of Beleriand Update.

Still on it or back on it, really. 

Typing up the rulebook. Tweaking some graphics. But that about wraps it. There were some things - still are -- in the endgame latter stages of play, situations that only arise during the endgame part of the game, that weren't thoroughly played through before. Unique situations and things. The last few Turns are the most mechanically complex parts of the game. I'm sure there are things I missed, but...it should work and we'll correct as we go from here on.

Probably just release the rules online, post a link somewhere, something. 

 

Wars of Beleriand rulebooks. Only two exist. They are different from each other and unique. 

 

 

Wars of Beleriand game Control Display. Players keep track of different Force types they control on this chart.

Players can have Complete or Incomplete Control of different Force types, or some Forces may be Controlled by a rudimentary AI algorithm unique to each class of Force.

 

 

 Wars of Beleriand game Dragon Maturation Track. The Morgoth player tracks the development of Dragon units Inside Angband with this. Dragons must be mature before they can be deployed and used against the Noldor Player.

 

 

 Sample Game of Wars of Beleriand in progress.

Note the Eagles counter, City Markers, and Ents and Green Elves in Taur-Im-Duinath. 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wars of Beleriand The Silmarillion Wargame by Nate Dray

Wars of Beleriand 

The Silmarillion Wargame. 

Or is it the Silmarillion board game?

Anyway, tweaking and testing continues, but it's done in all its essentials and then some. Been trying out some different chrome-ish bits lately to spice up combat, but it's really just cosmetics and theme at this point and could be wholly abandoned without any significant effects on the whole.

The pic above here...One planned map edit is to take that Northward kink out of the Narog near Nan-Tathren. Should dip South. There WAS a reason earlier for it to kink North that way, but I can't remember what it was...something in the text, I think.

And here below:
This is a HIGHLY unusual and rare occurrence: a Silmaril laying unclaimed out in the open just outside Eithel Sirion.
Many heroes and villains died terrible deaths to make this possible...

"From Star Trek's 'Mirror Mirror'" - Star Trek the Original Series illustrations by Nate Dray

"From Star Trek's 'Mirror Mirror'"

--Sort of revisiting the theme from "The Enemy Within." 

"Just Outside Town"