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[Exquisite Beast]

Hi Mr. Apathy
I've just spent some time working through your earlier posts as I do many artists here to see their humble beginnings... I was just wondering who you studied regarding anatomy. I mean your environments are breathtakingly captivating and what's more, simple (so many giant cluttered cityscapes on CA.org - which is nice but I like the calm of your work) but I'm fascinated as to how you balanced learning both figures and landscape.
Cheers

[nonie]

awesome work love the little thumbs and the cave pic

Cool stuff Tom. You've become insanely good since I've been away. Playing the last demo over and over for background music. Could you tell me who the DJ's are?

[Mitchell]

damn tom, that is one hell of an update. Always love your vids, and i love that fact that the mountain in this pic (http://www.gorillaartfare.com/IA/mountainscape.jpg) looks like a frosted cinnamon roll. Most delicious looking mountain ever.

[BohemianChaos]

these are awesome!

[tokidokizenzen]

Thanks for the vid Really enjoying the colors in this last batch. Fantastic study, I need to do some of those (a lot of those) Keep on rockn the boat!

[rupeshtalaskar]

wow, Awesome stuff!

[DreadRok]

uh........... i think i love you !
moving to fast?

n e ways, your one of the effin reasons i check the sketchbook so frequently. keep it up cuz your a great artist, source of inspiration and an invaluable well of info.

take it ez

[Ryan DeMita]

duuuude, congrats in LMS. loved your piece a lot. saved it in my inspirational folder. pretty soon man im gonna have to make a folder just for your work.

i like this new stuff a lot, more of the "disney-esque" stuff i suppose. lots of great things going on with color, form, ect. the re-post above is gorgeous dude.
mad respect, keep it up man.

take care
-ryan

[Miles_]

Brilliant stuff man, that figure study has such a great atmousphere I felt like I was there.

[HANs]

Wow. Can't think of much else to say. Incredible stuff
I need to find the time to look through all of your stuff. Keep it up

Cheers

[Coinpurse]

awesome update!
Looking really great,
enjoying your style
4 lines of words...

[MarkBehm]

Great figure study dood. Captured a nice, elusive quality of light goin' on!

[Phuzion]

Damn. Somehow I don't think I've been through your pages of adventure yet. Your paintings have come a long way in the last year, looking back at your previous pages, and your landscapes are stellar! Beautiful moods, and great sense of wonder and narrative without putting characters in them. Fantastic stuff man, I'll definitely come back for more. I don't really have any crits, at least nothing I need to mention that you don't already know. Keep kickin' ass!

Cheers,
~d

[nonie]

[Liam Harvey]

*head explodes from the art* cool!

[eskanto]

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.......sorry, had to wipe the drool from my mouth. your landscapes are very inspiring. i peaked in after having trouble with my own work.

[pennington]

howdy man, it's been too long. what's shakin

every time I see your stuff it makes me want to try painting a landscape. but mine never turn out. you make it look so easy. really awesome designs and it's so awesome that you always make videos.

however it would be great to see you get out of the landscape scene and start doing some mechanical architectural stuff again. polish up some of those skills.

haven't seen you online for a while, you really busy? saw the vid of you guys in Seattle great fun, maybe i'll get to one of these someday. keep inspiring, cheers

[enthombed]

wowo nice updates since my last visit here Tom, great as allways, keep killing man.

Cheers

[0kelvin]

I haven't posted in your sketchbook yet? Man, I'm a terrible sort of person.

You make real purty pitchers, dewd.

Also, I somehow totally didn't hear about Gorilla Artfare until today and that place is blowing my mind. How could something that awesome exist I not know about it? I have to pay more attention around here.



Eric

[Quinn Simoes]

nice work, your photostudy process was insightful, its always nice to see how other artist's approach a painting, you always learn something new.

[Idiot Apathy]

DanielC: I suck at figures Thanks buddy. I think we've had this conversation - it's relatively simple to copy what you see regardless of what it is, especially compared to creating it from the mind - and you don't want to see my figures from the mind.
paperX: Thanks very much
Moai: Thanks! I feel I've really been learning a lot lately, glad it shows! Cheers!
Brendan N: Sup foo! Round 2 of the LMS should be fun huh?! TO THE DEATH! Thanks for the kind words, peace buddy!
kinnas: Thanks, glad it was helpful
cakeypigdog: Thanks dood! Hehehe, I dunno - you really think people would buy this junk? What exhibition are you talking about by the way? Art hero? Hehehe, I wish. Cheers!
HunterKiller_: Thanks dood!
Metal-Mike: Thank ya kindly! Glad you liked the vid.
jMarkus: Thank ya!
Form: lawlsssss, thanks buddy. Haven't talked in a bit, how's life?
Puck: My pleasure mistah puck, really glad people are enjoying them.
nobody_knows: Hey dude! Love what you have been up to lately as well, also very inspiring. Going to watch your vid soon!
Spookybabydoll: Thanks dood!
Brun: Thanks dood! Glad you enjoyed the video, haha sorry about the zooming. Cheers!
DANKA: Thanks!
Stark: Crayons are delicious. Plasticwank! I got that one from Min. What up with those "assignments"? you ever do them?
liam.c: Thanks buddy! What you been up to? You got a badass job yet or what?!
m@: Thanks Dude! Can't wait to see some blizzard stuff from ya!
panda: Thanks dude! Was a good study, went a lot smoother than usual. Yeah, I've kind of changed my mind about super sharp edges lately ... dunno.
'rawr: My pleasure and thanks!
Cup of Joe: Yeah crazy excited about how well GorillaArtfare is doing Will let you know about the mentoring thing.
Carnifex: Yeah dude, sorry we didn't talk more. Cheers!
Chris Noeth: Yer muM! Cheers dood!
GusTheRobot: Thanks dude, will definitely try some wierder stuff. No sound in the full res videos - didn't really feel like putting together an hour or two of audio. BYOST, bring your own soundtrack .
TimGillette: Thanks dood! Glad to hear it.
alice_: How've ya been? Glad you enjoyed the process party video, hope you didn't pass out from it
SprayNation: Hahaha, shit - did I ever get back to you? I'll send ya a PM now.
krossj: Thanks dood Glad you liked the video~!
Exquisite Beast: I wish I had any skill with figures, I'm only starting out. Perhaps you have confused some of the collaborations with other artist such as bumskee and evildisco as my own? Let me know dood, and thanks!
nonie: Thanks nonie!
nonie again:
britt: Sup dood! Thanks for the overly kind words Been trying to learn my ass off lately. The music for the last video is by Vitalic I believe.
Skeiff: Thanks dood! Hahah it totally looks like a cinnamon roll, I must have been hungry. Cheers!
BohemianChaos: No you are awesome Thanks.
tokidokizenzen: Sup dood! Glad you liked the video, will try and do some more. Do some studies dude! Let me know when you post em too!
rupeshtalaskar: thanks! How's mumbai this time of year?
DreadRok: @_@ Dinner would be a good start at least! cheers dood!
Ryan DeMita: Thanks buddy! Means a lot to me. Hehe, I've been playing with some more stylized "disney-esque" stuff I think for sure - helps me with work after all. Hope you are well and kicking ass as per usual
Miles_: Thanks dude
HANs: Thank ya kindly! Where are you in Utah?
Coinpurse: Was that a haiku?! Thanks
abo: Thanks very much! Call me the painter of light, no wait shit that's kinkade! OHNOES!
Phuzion: Thanks very much, means a lot coming from you dude! Cheers!
Gerbil Fetus: NOOOOOO! What have a I done?! I've killed a man with my art, I may never paint again.
eskanto: Hehehe, thanks! You doing landscapes then?
pennington: Hey buddy, been too long indeed. You should try more landscapes dude! They are fun. Yeah, definitely going to get more into architectural stuff. Got to polish up my skills and all. I've been trying not to be online so much yeah, also just busy as well. You should really make it to one of the Workshops, they are unreal. Cheers dood!
enthombed: Thanks dooder!
0Kelvin: Hehe, you are no sort of terrible my friend. We were all super ninja about Gorilla Artfare, hush hush and such.
Quinn Simoes: Thanks dude, glad you enjoyed the process Learning is fun! yay!
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Some Links for Yer Enjoyment:
Zhaoming Wu
http://www.zhaomingwu.com/
This guys been making my head spin for the last few days.

Ben Mauro
http://benmauro.blogspot.com/
You probably know this guy yes? He's a rockstar badass and one of my competitors for LMS round 2 - also he's a really cool dude that I had the pleasure of meeting in Seattle.
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Some Arrrrt.

Here is my Last Man Standing entry for round one. Don't ask me how I won @_@ I love/hate this painting.













Characters/Creatures: (WTF?! Characters?)



Mutant Zombies Yay!

Studies from Reference:

Lost motivation on this one, but still learned a great deal.
Altered the lighting from reference a bit too, fun!


Working on drawing moar. Learned some goodies but goofed on the arms.


Faces are so hard! This looks nothing like the reference. But I'm working on it


Lots of things clicked on this one. Though it's not the best likeness I found sketching more and measuring less produced a more enjoyable result and perhaps better.

A few of us at work have started doing 1 hour long studies at lunch of either paintings or photographs, been so valuable to me in a few ways. Using other paintings has been great to learn others methods and process etc and limiting the time to 1 hour has really helped me get quicker and "confident".

Anyways, here are the studies. Most are no where near as finished as I would like - missing eyes, wonky faces etc - but they have seriously been great

Reference: Zhaoming Wu

Reference: Alex Kanevsky

Reference: Alex Kanevsky

Reference: No Idea

Reference: Photo (Sorry, don't know who)
Didn't get to the other side of the face in the hour provided

Reference: Craig Mullins
Faces HARD!

[William b. Hand]

Good grief!

Welp, you continue to amaze.

This is all just marvelous, you jerk. Great updates.

[Lukias]

Yeah man I love this. All of this. Having been attempting digi lately looking at work such as yours proves to me some of the ludicrous variation that can be achieved.. and how limited my knowledge/skill is.
Mad respect my home slice.

[Mark Bot]

really excellent stuff as usual.
digging on your 1h studies. that's a pretty rad way to spend your lunch breaks i'd say.
keep it up man.

[Stark]

You push my shit in so far man. Fuckin love your work man! Those assignments are on the way, as soon as I see you in IRC plasticwank! Seriously, I've had great stuff coming out but I've been in a funk for 3 weeks. Trying to get out of it drawing silly stuff. I'll have something to so soon enough.

[Extollere]

Hey buddy, really sweet stuff here. You did real nice on some of these studies and I particularly like the Kanevski piece, he's one of my favs. You're better at faces than you probably think you are. Whip out the old pencil and paper and try your hand getting the proportions, values, and rendering right without erasing or lasso trapping. Think more before you make your strokes, put down less. Coming along nicely though! keep an eye out for me, I'll be starting a solo sketchbook soon.

[paperX]

great stuff man, i love the idea of the time-restricted studies...might have to try that myself

PS: i was wondering, how do you get that soft blended look? im assuming thats photoshop right? i mean i can see how its possible with painter but i don't suppose its smudge tool?

[seth1]

Awesome man! I like where your arts going. I know your last man standing piece is all ready done but. I think her pose is a little stiff, drooping her elbow into her side with the sword hand, I think it would give it even more grace. With the hand picking her dress up, the hand looks placed there not clenched onto the dress. If you where to holding on to it, it would be more of a fist and thumb hidden instead of the flat hand. I think you can still make this look graceful with those crits. Maybe I am just full of it.. I did a quick OP show my thoughts a little more. Keep it up. http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8782/dsdsaxe3.jpg

[monsi]

http://www.gorillaartfare.com/IA/kanveskystudy.jpg

you use photoshop yeah? how do you get these awesome looking strokes i love it! i want that brush!