James Thomas' Weekly Sketchbook :D

[Shahan]

sweet imagination and concepts! overall this SB is diverse and beautiful.

When you finish a piece balance out the soft brush strokes with hard brush strokes. just balance it. Soft brushes may be your style but i think adding hard edges and refining your edges would make your work more depthy and nice.
Google some new brush sets
This guy's brush set is amazing.
Also try Daarken's he has more numerous brushes.

Would love to see more. Keep at it!

[Chris Sanders]

Hey man thanks for checkn out my sb. Nice workload and imagination. For the Studies, make sure you get the core gesture before hitting the contour, it would give you a better starting point and improve the structure. Also try and find a copy of the imaginefx anatomy edition, it's really useful. Keep rocking pal!

[James Thomas]

Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated! will check out those brushes day after 2morro. Thanks alot

Ok well my new regime is in effect, hopefully some new and interesting pieces come out of this
Something to start off on a bang, i kinda enjoyed working on this piece, its quite refined compared to most of my pieces.
Tomorrow will be all about character design shall be interesting!
Heres to working hard toward our dreams!

[James Thomas]

Yay did some work today Not s much quantity as i wanted, but the quality isn't terrible for me, they took longer than i had anticipated, more to come tomorrow though, as this is for an assignment will get into some Armour and accessories and stuff too

Oh and i have a Deviant now, if anyone wants to check it out it wud be appreciated
http://jamesthomasart.deviantart.com/
Thanks

[James Thomas]

Just a quick post. not much today due to busy. Next step is choosing 1 character and refining/transforming into a large collaboration of different designs based around that character. including weapon sheets/armour, potential pets etc.
A final design to model, and later to animate in a few months, but for now, designing time!

Would like to thank all those who have checked out my sketchbook and given me useful feedback
Drop by my deviant too if you'd like to add me or watever, its a new account
http://jamesthomasart.deviantart.com/

Enjoy

[GoblinEgg]

studying is the way to go. like the last update you can rly have your way with those shapes

[James Thomas]

Deleted old message - Thanks for the feedback dude

Ok guys from now on its 110% gun-ho all the way, sick of being a procrastinator-excuse making machine.
Sure i still do some art, but i aint feeling the grind!!

I'm dedicated, motivated, slightly educated but i am READY to tackle this thing head on! no more cheap words, im full of them, time for action 2morrow-
for now, here is some random colour swatches we did in class and a model i am working on

[James Thomas]

Quick sketch, low quality for some weird reason, but its a start, did alot of homework today, but glad i stuck to my word and got some work out!
Goodnight all Enjoi.

[James Thomas]

Day 1/30 (goal)

[James Thomas]

Day 2/30 (goal)

[James Thomas]

Day 3/30 [Goal]

Yawn. Feels like im going in circles yo alredi!!

[James Thomas]

Day 4/30 (Goal)

[Somelar]

@#277
sorry, bro.. but this one don't make any sense...

but i love this snowman silhouette @#275

[James Thomas]

5/30

Haha oh, i guess so, was kinda experiments and stuff, unless u r reffering to my comments haha,
Either way, Thanks for the feedback

[James Thomas]

6/30 (Goal)

Not my best works during these "Daily sketches" But when i get more time, i will do better ones accordingly, this is mainly if not purely to teach me to commit.
and i think commitment is very neccesary to keep on your toes.
Of course, when i do have the actual spare tme, i will do better stuff haha!

Feedback and loving comments welcome

[Aaron_]

Hey yo, the experiments are very interesting, especially the enviros. Push on!

[James Thomas]

Skipped 2 days due to solid work load:
The quest continues. Made up for it hours wise on this piece though, quite proud of it. i hope you agree and give positive feedback thanks

I guess this is Day 9!

[sleepingrabbit]

cool stuff - great use of values! keep working hard!!

[James Thomas]

Back my friends! Ugh, ruined my streak with renovating, this time haha!
(im crazy i know)
Just a quick fun piece trying different brushes and methods, enjoy
Painted in color.

[James Thomas]

Aye, a Landscape experimental piece
And a w.i.p of another piece, called "The Greedy Smithee"
hopefully work that piece up nice for ya's 2morro! Peace

[James Thomas]

Fell behind a bit, but it was due to personal issues, wont go into it.
but hope u understand i had to take 2 days off from drawing haha..
i dont really care cus i know ill stick to it. and im sure u will see an improvement over time. Thanks guys

[James Thomas]

=] crits welcome

[James Thomas]

Something fun =]

[James Thomas]

Welcome back all my fellow ConceptArt friends! Hopefully the upgrade makes it more efficient to upload stuff, but for now it seems its just as annoying!

THOUGH its good to be back been working hard on a project of mine, i am making an illustrated book, so far only a small % through the project- but i am glad to share it to get feedback.
these are "rough" thumbnails just showing what type of scene im looking for etc, some more detailed than others, but its good practice for me.

Hopefully b able to still put studies and other fun pieces here on conceptart.org too, in due time

Feedback more than welcome on my illustrations, please be constructive but dont hammer me into the ground haha!

[James Thomas]

Recent pieces i am putting in my first group exhibition - my first exhibition also!
am throwing in 6 other older pieces of mine too, mainly b+w images stuck onto 12x12cm cards places on the walls. a total of 12 small peices
Holidays coming up soon, so i am excited i will b able to post often, and really get my arts skills.
My goal for the holidays is to step it up, get some solid foundations in- i have 4.5 months holidays and i hope i can draw everyday of that, the goal is approx 2 hours at least. anything more will b absolutely fantastic.
i might gradually raise the stakes as i go. I just need some solid skills if im ever going to have a chance of making it in the Games/Art industry and i think i can do it, if i try and stay focused.
So hopefully in a week i will b posting here more than ever, getting some great feedback- and giving some great feedback in return too !

Peace all.

Also i have a GAME concept
i have worked on in the last few months, i am making a sequel to it now also
Its a safe site, on the rmit university servers, so its all cool to play

http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3329789/
link ^^^

Thankyou!

[Nianto]

wow. those siluettes from your last post are neat. you just neeed those b/w stuff, and imagination is doing the rest ^.^
looking forward to your holiday's posts!

[James Thomas]

Nianto -> Thanks, they where suprisingly quick and i did enjoy them thanks i hope holidays go well too! want to at least double my skills!

A Random piece for an assignment, not very fun- the concept here is a statue coming to life, it's supposed to have "movement" to it. so, hopefully it has a bit.
Not my finest work, but some aspects i enjoy of it.

[James Thomas]

finally on holidays wanted to show u my university work but i will do that 2morro, my P
Photoshop decided to die, so i'm making this on painter for my girlfriend, its rough atm but its digital oils.
Enjoy =]

[James Thomas]

Ok well this isnt my art post for the day, but being on holidays i have plenty of spare time.
So i would like to show you my low poly model (approx 3k tris)? which is just basic bump mapped, has an ambient map on the claws, and yeah.
pretty new to modelling, this was a long project, but i think i could replicate and do better work in under a few days for sure. and i will give that a try, as its something i need to get good at!

and underneath is just the basic layout of a game i made, its pretty simple- but again a learning curve. The snapshots are done in Unity ( a game engine) i also want to make better graphics in that, but i dont find it as important as 3d modelling itself because well, unity isnt as fun . but it sure makes games!.
I shall be posting some art up later,

And u can try out the game here too, its a safe site on our university server so give it a try!
http://raws.adc.rmit.edu.au/~s3329789/
Its not particularly fun, its just a different type of game experience

[James Thomas]

Finished this one, was with Corel painter 12, using the digital 'oils' was actually stupidly hard to use effectively, so im quite relieved with the outcome, i wouldnt say proud though haha.
Sadly the stress has got to me and i am sick once again, i am hoping this passes without any grave consequence to it. but i will try to do as much art as possible Enjoy!