Thomas M. Sketchbook - Alla Primal

[Artezianin]

Wowow last drawing seems cool) Your tones are great man)

[Alla Primal]

@artezianin Thanks for the support


So this is probably my first illustration, still a work in progress, obviously.


a quick study of a tree, for the piece above.

[rinnikirun]

Nice work Thomas, that screen cap is coming out nicely! Careful about the footing on some of your characters , mainly #140, he doesn't look grounded.

Have a nice one

[Alla Primal]

Thanks for the tip Rinnikirun need to work more on perspective

Heres an update on the piece. Dan Warren gave me a paint over and changed a lot of things, and even though I feel like I can take less credit for this, It's a part of the learning experience and the critiques I get teach me loads.

some poses from loomis and imagination. bad

[Alla Primal]

doing a 500 face challenge with PkMike.

[Pkmike]

YEEEAH! keep them coming! oohyeaa

[Alla Primal]

so many strokes

[LastGen]

I've been lurking in here for quite a while, a shame I didn't comment on your work yet.
Definitely like what I see here. There are some great gaps in between your work, but what you recently did looks promising.

I dig the idea of the faces, might give it a try as well.

[Ty Dawg]

Thanks so much guys for the confidence boost, and Mike, I'll do some of that now


some colour studies, want to make this a daily thing

Diggin the color studies, how long did they take you?

[Alla Primal]

@LastGen Thanks, I appreciate it. You should try it

@Ty Dawg around 30 minutes give or take, not sure


Really not feeling great about this, pretty terrible. Just shows what I need to work on most, aka the human form.

[poetry man]

HEy Thomas, nice storytelling quality in your painted figures. I need to get some storytelling in my figures! Cool brush stroke technique: shows movement and it's lively.

[Alla Primal]

@poetry man - thanks! i disagree quite a bit but thanks for the compliment haha

some character sketches I might finish



quick study, playing with the smudge tool after watching brad rigneys demo. not sure I like it but it's nice to experiment

[Alla Primal]

[Alla Primal]

trying more illustration stuff, its kind of frustrating but im having fun. i like how this turned out, much better than my last attempt i think. he was originally dopey, and then I changed him to mega sinister, both didn't really work so i went for a middle

[will123will]

Wow, that last illustration is really good man

[Egbu]

Working hard as usual Thomas keep at it, loving the 500 faces, and the most recent illustration.

[Jonesoda]

Damn Man, that crocodile dude illustration is pretty badass. It's cool to see the process of it to.

[Bakker]

Great work in here. You have a great sense of story telling. (love the out of focus sign at crocman)
Tip: Try no to blur all color plains together. Put some hard edges in the right spots.
Love your greyscale character sketches they have a lively feel to them.
Thanks for putting them up.

[Alla Primal]

Wow thanks everyone for the kind words!

I'm planning on going back and doing the bloodsports, here are some sketches for the sci-fi hunter challenge.

[Mr.Pryminista]

Great work in here!

[Alla Primal]

couple of studies. been trying to understand perspective more, reading about it. done so many comps for the bloodsports, hated them all haha

[Pedro Ferreira]

you are really pushing yourself illustration wise(I want to do it too ) very nice stuff on here.

[Alla Primal]

a couple of things i started and don't really intend on finishing. i think i need to look at composition more and other artists, these seem really boring and flat to me

[p sage]

You had me confused for a bit.... cause there's you (Thomas M.), a Brit, and also a ThomasM (a Brit)... the one of "Insatiable Curiosity" on this site.

Anywho... when thinking about the composition... also think about the shapes. Consider that all large shapes are made up of smaller shapes... and a very limited number of them (cone, sphere, pyramid, box, cylinder).... all other shapes can be built of these.

You'll notice that these simple shapes all have symmetry.

So right away something you can do to both improve your compositions and the way your big shapes look is to make dead sure that all of the simple shapes in your drawing are symmetrical.

All the spheres, cones, boxes, etc... and, if you're using perspective... that they have the correct perspective.

Use those small shapes to find the planes.

This is how to build images that have volume and depth, and that also read well.

Good luck man!

[Alla Primal]

@p sage

Thanks for the feedback! and sorry about the name thing, I'm trying to get mine changed again. I didn't know ThomasM was still active when I changed my name

[Alla Primal]

spme things from today so far

Bouguereau study. work in progress.

looomis

[Alla Primal]

not pleased with how this turned out, just ended up running out of steam i guess!

wayy too derivative of dave, pretty shamefully so. i think i should start looking for more influences

[Alla Primal]

[Ambiguity]

Whatever you're doing keep it up because you're improving a lot.

[Alla Primal]

Thanks Ambiguity!


unfinished Bouguereau study. probably done with this. got alot of the proportion wrong