Thomas M. Sketchbook - Alla Primal

[Veneq]

Hey Thomas, I've seen you around the Crimson Daggers quite a bit but never really saw any of your work. Your progress is impressive! And holy crap that royal orc night is looking awesome! Nice work!

[Ludic]

Very cool stuff as always bro!

[Aaron_]

Holy shit that's a fucking badass chariot!

And damn you, you're 18!? Fucking hell, now you're making me feeling old. Maybe I should just give up >______________________>


And here's just a bit of nitpicking. The very hot highlight on the metal feels a bit out of place with the moderately low light on the body. The rendering on the metal is of course just fantastic, but it's so well rendered that it almostly makes the shoulder pad into the focal point of the picture. ;D

[Alla Primal]

Thanks all for your feedback and kind words! - Fetsch, I agree and I completely just missed that, I'll go back and try to fix it, thanks! and Aaron_, thanks for your encouragement, and I agree about the highlight being too hot, I just feel like leaving that piece behind though, didn't like it really

Okay so I changed my name to Alla Primal to avoid confusion between me and the other ThomasM, I didn't know he was active when I started using that name. And Alla Primal is a badass pun.

here are a couple of characters im working on for the project. these are meant to be just basic enemies really. the big guy is meant to be like a suicide bomber type enemy, where he lights his gunpowder barrels on fire, the other is a 'count', a mage type. because the enemies in this 'level' will be modelled mostly after European nobility. im not completely happy with these at the moment so they might change quite abit until finish



and heres the dog thing im working on at the moment, im finding it difficult to understand cool vs warm and stuff to do with colours. at the moment it looks like something out of Batman and Robin (1997)

[Alla Primal]

some of the orc characters im working on for my hypothetical game project


couple of sketches


im going on holiday soon, pretty excited, going to have my sketchbook so ill work more traditionally

[Pkmike]

sweet! D

[Alla Primal]

so i was watching batman the animated series and this started as just a doodle, but i really like clayface and his background story of being an actor so i tried to refine it abit more. it was really fun

oh and im leaving for holiday in the morning so i wont be able to update for a while going to focus on traditional anatomy stuff though!

[Alla Primal]

quick thing

[Alla Primal]

been really lazy recently and unproductive. no excuses, im just shit. here is something though. 2 hour study

[Gpozzo]

Nices updates man,

Really liking the last two sketches on post #15, the texture and lightning on post #218 came out pretty nice and the last study came out great, keep it up man!

[LastGen]

Ah man, you know we all love butts - gotcha!

That ugly pink beast portrait is sweet...and disgusting at the same time.

[Alla Primal]

thanks for your replies, here are a couple of studies from today

[Alla Primal]

couple of studies from today

[kevin_]

o wow some great updates! really like the studies!

[Alla Primal]

thanks kevin



torso study. i need to work on my faces a bunch

[Alla Primal]

couple of portfolio pieces

[Psychobuddy]

Nice work Thomas, you paint green dudes so well.

[Alla Primal]

thanks psychobuddy, another green guy!

card art for dream reactor. my first ever jobbb

[kojot]

I think you can't fight more with texture brush and material differentiation because everything looks like clay

[Velocity Kendall]

your brushwork is just ridiculous, damn!

[aargh!]

Hi Thom. You're Awesome.

[Alla Primal]

Thanks for the crit kojot, I agree that I need to play around more and study different textures. And thanks for the kind words Kendall and aargh!, means alot

here's a work in progress for my second card with Dream Reactor, so far I prefer this one a lot more than my first. I did some work for Inkwell games too that I can post soon.

[p sage]

Stuff keeps improving, buddy. Are you finding that you're just working harder, or is the understanding just starting to flow? Something's changing for the better, though. The skull shape on this last one feels nice & solid.

Keep at it!

[Alla Primal]

aboleth creature commission. i really don't like this piece. also i was asked to do a line art version, which i've never done before. bleh

p sage: both really, I definitely feel my understanding of values and light is improving, you have to constantly be thinking about it, don't put down stuff for no reason, all strokes and elements of a painting should be there for a reason and a purpose.

[Alla Primal]

some studies ive done over last month

[Alla Primal]

card art for dream reactor.

[Alla Primal]

quick vulture studies and some imagination ones


studies




i'm going to try extra hard this month and be the goldenboy for october
i shaved my head too

[Eleyon]

Sure you can master volumes and digital painting very well! Keep going with your work!
PS. I didn't expect the last photo XD

[yochanan]

Absolutely ridiculous improvement. Incredibly inspiring for a fellow self-study...er?

[Alla Primal]

thanks for the nice words!

study and some anthony jones inspired stuff