Tom3D's Sketchbook

[Tom3D]

About time I updated this.
I'm a student with a keen interest in improving my art though i find my work on the course tends to get in the way. I complain allot as well as self loathe in this thread with little description
of what I have drawn. So come along and hopefully see some improvements!

Thanks, Tom

[Tom3D]

First Piece














Here's a paint I worked on today, decided to spend a bit longer this time round though got a bit lost in proportions and such later on in the paint.

This is a quick skull i began sculpting today in sculptris, plan to continue it tomorrow.

[Tom3D]

Well its been a while, had a week life drawing course and I fell behind in everything else a bit. Anyway here are 2 new images to hopefully satisfy your appetite.

Heres a pencat.

And heres a fine gentleman

[Concep Tart]

Your last painting is lovely! A fine gentleman indeed

Hope to see more work soon

[Tom3D]

its been a while, heres a sketch of Kim Jong Il

[Tom3D]

Its probably not worth saying "hey im back again" as i will probably end up not posting again. I feel like im making a bit more progress then last time, but the past few days have felt a bit more frustrating with my artwork.

The way i tend to enjoy painting is to draw out a silhouette and slowly bring out the figure from that, but i increasingly feel the need to begin my sketches linework, which at the moment is a bit sloppy.

Anyway here's a update in a sort of chronological order


I started this one out in all solid colors and then rendered using a soft brush.

I believe this was a painting by Picasso's mentor?,i tried to match the stroke style a bit.

This was just a quick sketch messing about with textures, i really want to aim towards a more stylized end game but at the moment i think i would benefit more from doing studies

This was a painting of a gymnast i really wasn't happy with the dodgy face

Mainly working with color in this piece and thinking about saturation a bit, yet again not to happy with the face

quick sketch, lots of problems

This was planned to be a quick monochrome sketch, but i took the head a bit further


Studygroup sketch focusing on colour

Tried to put a bit of extra effort into this one, could still use a bit more work

Thanks for looking, i hope im moving in the right direction.

[Tom3D]

Really unhappy with this one i didn't match the color values if the original figure well at all. I planed to continue it after a nights sleep but i didn't feel motivated after seeing how far off i was.

[Tom3D]

bedtime speed paint

[Tom3D]

Watched a few of the ctrl paint vids and experimented a bit

[Tom3D]

Must of not posted this, was from a little bit back. Messing around with charcoal brushes

[Tom3D]

Procastronating horribly, i do struggle. Been going to life drawing once a week and trying to do at least 3 hours drawing a day

[Tom3D]

I fucked up and stopped drawing again.


This is the last piece i did before i stopped, i didn't even finish :c

Randomly about half way through my hiatus i drew half of this

And now back in the game i did these, I'm really worried about fucking up again especially after i start work

[Tom3D]

Here's some church concepts i have been working on, I have never really touched perspective before let alone environments. They were all done in 3 point.

[Tom3D]

Newest piece, been doing allot of traditional sketches, mainly on the train

[Tom3D]

Quick sketch before bed

[Tom3D]

Pretty unhappy with this one, i don't usually do full poses especially that with allot of cloth, the brush strokes feel messy and rushed.
Could of refined it further.

[Tom3D]

Another one im pretty unhappy with, feel like my traditional works improving but digital is getting a bit less love

[Tom3D]

Been practising heads today, who knows might post some traditional sometime. Anyway here's a weird sketch where I messed around with colours

[Tom3D]

Feels like im getting worse, guess i better draw more

[Tom3D]

Much happier with today's picture. Took extra time getting my guides right. Still not close to ref though sadly.

[Tom3D]

trying a few new things with this one, im really not liking how chalky its looking. I'l keep trying

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[Tom3D]

I have no idea how to do good hair.

[Tom3D]

Bit of a shorter sketch today, been a bit tired after moving some stuff to another house. Transferred back to my intuos 3 from my bamboo. Much happier

[Tom3D]

Been pretty stressed outside of art recently, I have still been working daily but i haven't been happy with much of my work. Anyway heres today's piece. I messed up the perspective on the head there's far too much showing on the left. Sure there's plenty of other problems too

[lionheartGFX]

wow great improvement with your portraits man, and that parrot color study was just awesome definetely my fav of that bunch, also your values have improved too do more figure studies and focus more on construction that color that could correct alot of your problems good stuff in here keep it up and draw daily!

[Tom3D]

wow great improvement with your portraits man, and that parrot color study was just awesome definetely my fav of that bunch, also your values have improved too do more figure studies and focus more on construction that color that could correct alot of your problems good stuff in here keep it up and draw daily!

Thanks man, it was getting lonely around here . Here's today's sketch