http://www.livestream.com/tomscholes

[Ryn]

Hey mate! Happy (incredibly belated!) birthday!

As always, your last handful of updates are pure inspiration. The more art you produce, the better the world is. Definitely going to be drooling over your work in overtime as I push myself to do more environmental studies.

Never stop the lovely things you do (and update more )!

[Idiot Apathy]

Ryn: Thanks! How's 19 treating you? Aww come on, the more art I produce the better the world is?! I can't handle that kind of pressure! Thanks for the kind words
Kaoki: Been missing your stuff dude! Happy to inspire someone who inspires me.
algenpfleger: I'm being watched?! <_< ... >_> Cameras? Hehe, thanks!
Donkeyslayer: Thanks buddy! *handshake*
cartoonfox: no you aren't, you're a bloody pikey! WOOP!
cartoonfox: Again?! Was very cool to hang out in seattle dude, you're a badass rockstar mofakaa from across the pond. Let me know if you need another nude print of me to hang above your bed. Fisticuffs ey?!
Gerbil Fetus: WOOOOO SUPERDAMNCOOLAWESOME! *cough* Why thank you very much.
Utum: It's my pleasure dude, makes me happy to help out. That file ... got really bloated at around 450mb. Too much experimenting and way too big of a resolution. (5000x2600 or so) Bleh. Cheers!
TOOLED!: Thanks dude! It's been fun!
Alex Alexandrov: I've always been a monster, but now I am paintmonster. MUAHAHA.Let's just do something stupid and fun dude. I hate pressure. Just start a doodle and pass it to me, rinse and repeat
invinciblewombat: Haha, I've got a long long way to go with value and color and the rest. We should have hung out in Seattle dude. Anyhow, for the children! *chugs vodka*
Coinpurse: Why thankya much! Hope you didn't get bored going through all of it
William b. Hand: Hahaha, my schedule is packed! What do you want to know? You seen the vid below yet? Maybe that's of some use...
AmontilladoAg: Sweet! Are we talking like pirates? YARR! Thanks very much for the kind words. Indeed that is Mista Brynner there, what a badass. Cheers!
Cup of Joe: Bummer that OC doesn't work on a mac. Bummer you couldn't make it to seattle. Not sure I will make it to shanghai but the next few sound like fun. Cheers!
Miles: Well then do some environments! Thanks!
nethus: Thanks, that was a good break on that one. Been awhile since I had painted personal stuff actually. Cheers!
lalovergel: That's a mighty big signature! Just keep painting and paint a lot, it will come Cheers!
Ryan DeMita: DUUUUDE! Your LMS knocked me out, huge step up for you! Hell yeah. Cheers dude!
Interceptor: Lol. I miss you
ForScience: Now that the milestones are kind of over we should get our learn back on dude. Lez do it?
Ezidof: Thanks! I need to visit some beaches. Snowing like mad over here, bleh.
iceman478: Thanks!
panda: That's bullshit! you could have missed your plane. bastard. Kidding.. kidding. Peace dude!
Apocalypse_Rex: hehe don't study too hard, might make you retarded!Cheers!
MattLloyd: Hmm interesting thought yeah. It was from reference after all - not even an alien, a bloody fish thing! Cheers!
yoitisi: Thanks dude!
Miau: Thanks Miau; been a fan of yours since I joined CA Cheers and hope to see you around more!
Brendan N: Sup foo! How's life?
SprayNation: Thanks dude! Was glad to meet you in Seattle
Mr.Blonde: What up mofakka! Learned a ton from you in Seattle, thank you!
Spirit: Thanks very much.
Kevzip: Thanks!
hummdrumm: pewp! Hope things work out buddy.
vctr: Yeah dude, it's my pleasure
BludHund: My pleasure dude. Hey shit, did we meet up again in seattle or no?
carsonsky: Thanks
maxetormer: Thanks doodsmith!
Unbreakable: Craps, did we meet in Seattle or no?
Anthriel: Thanks dude, I didn't finish much this post; lots of WIPS that will never get finished. Little bit of burn out I think? But I'm back at it. Cheers!
Koto Stomp: Not late Christman, early birthday! WOO! Cheers dude!
Call0ps: Hehe will do! Cheers!
Stark: I paint 40 hours a week at work, give me a break you plasticwank! Kekeke, how you been? Poop.
nobody_knows: Sup Rich! You haven't been playing much lately huh?
krossj: Thanks dude, some more pencils this post but they are just thumbnails hehe. Cheers!
TheGnoll: Yup yup, cheers buddy!
max3d: Thanks! Peace!
Koppa: LUUUUUUUUKE, lllllllllluuuuuuuuuuke. What up gfunk!?
InvertedChalupa: Hey mike I love Matthias Snygg's stuff too. Was great to meet you in Seattle.
Farvus: Thanks dude! I got bored with that one, was originally going to be my LMS but I lost interest. Happens I guess. Cheers!
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Links!
GorillaArtfare.com
http://www.gorillaartfare.com/
Group blog full of badasses, crazy amount of updates. Just launched, don't miss it

James Gurney
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/
What's that? I've linked to this before? Damn rights, now make sure you bookmark it this time. Sheesh.

John Watkiss
http://johnwatkiss.blogspot.com/
Probably linked this one before too ... Worth a double.
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Some art stuff...


Did a vid for this one; for PSD and Full Res Video go here: http://www.crayonboxofdoom.blogspot.com














Bunch of thumbnails I keep near my desk when things are loading/processing... hehe.


Study from reference, learned a ton


Process if you are interested!
http://www.gorillaartfare.com/IA/process.jpg

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[DanielC]

Don't you ever, EVER, say you suck at figures again ..... 0_0
Thanks alot for the vids !

[paperX]

i already told you this, but brilliant hues in the enviros...love everything

[Moai]

This last update is the strongest collection of images I've ever seen from you. Really, each image is a huge success and a joy to look at. Your colors, your values, your use of brushstrokes to create texture, it's all great, man.
Thanks for the inspiration.

[Brendan N]

Hey bruthar! I'm good as always and you? what's going on in the life of Tom?

Just wanted to drop and say this is such an awesome update. Your ability to play with shapes in an enviro like that is something I'm positively downright jealous of. The figure study looks amazing, nailed it amigo.

Cool man, keep pumping stuff in here and thanks for those links up there.
ciao!

[kinnas]

thanks for the video! I learned quite a few clever tricks from it. also, great choice of music

[cakeypigdog]

loving your enviros mr apathy: you are really hitting a style all of your own, you ought to get them printed up: i bet people would pay good money for them. The general public were really drawn to the digital landscape peices in our exhibition. Keep on trucking mate, you are an art hero!

[HunterKiller_]

Environments are absolutely stunning!
Lovely study of the girl.

Peace out.

[MeTaL-Mike]

as usual man, amazing stuff. love the last study from ref nice!! the color demo vid is very interesting. cool techniques.

[jMarkus]

amazing.

[Form]

mc freshpants coloroni, breaking it down like uranium depletion. Some of these i havnt seen... too good. too good.

[Puck]

Thank you very much for the beautiful sketches and studies, especially showing your process in the gifs and youtubes. All your posts are inspiring and educational.

[nobody_knows]

I love your environment stuff, very inspiring.

[El Jeremie]

Nice study buddy and nice model too

[Brun]

Great going tom, the landscapes are killer, the thumbs are lethal, and the video...well its amazing too, I learned a lot from it, after beeing sea sick from your zooming

great work

[DANKA]

Really stunning work! love the ligth...and all...no others words... :-o

[Stark]

So this is what it looks like when you eat the crayons, poop them out and then draw with them? Amazing sir! Plasticwank? Seriously? _-_ You never cease to amaze me with your eloquent vernacular. Love the figure study and the enviros. All of it look like melting ice cream treats. *drool* I'll get those assignments finished soon sir, you no worry about me. Got some more updates in the work and will post when I feel I can make you tickle yourself. See ya!

[liam.c]

great to start and jsut keeps geting more and more awesoem !

[m@.]

dude! killer update!

[Lake]

as usual, really good to see those enviros. This time, though, I'm really drawn to that study. I can tell a lot of work went into it.

One interesting thing about these enviros is that they have much much softer edges than some of the stuff that you've done before. Great to see you playing with different edges, but remember to include some sharper ones in whatever area we're focusing on to give the image some extra "oomph."

[`rawr]

beautiful sketchbook, thanks for the vid!

[Cup of Joe]

Lovely as always man! Also, I saw that Gorilla Artfare website over at Drawn.ca, and there seems to be some insane talent gong down over there. I'll try and keep up to date with it.
P.S.- Drop me a line next time you have a mentor opening, bud!

[Carnifex]

don't think i've commented here in a long time...nice meeting you at the workshop. awesome stuff.
would appreciate some tips in my sb

[Chris Noeth]

I SO want to know which kind of reference you used for the last one hehe

Best,

Chris

[Mark Bot]

well that's quite an update.

excellent vid. excellent landscapes. brilliant study.
crits? yea... sure... uh.... try some more 'unnatural' landscapes
you've got plenty of mountains and grasslands. what about volcanoes and alien planets?

seriously though. this shit rocks. keep it up.

edit: i dunno what it is but when i dl the full res version of your demos some of their sound doesnt work
is there some plugin i'm missing?

[TimGillette]

Wow! I'm definitely inspired. Nice work here.

[alice_]

I have nothing constructive to add here...

that process video made me feel like I was at a party.

[SprayNation]

Cool bro'! I'm actually just inquiring about the band playing during your video. I could care less about the art! LOL, j/k j/k. Seriously though, send me a pm with the bands name. Melodic ambient background noise is always great stuff to paint to . I'm getting a little tired of the typical german, industrial, metal mashing I usually listen to.

Now art talk: I love your environments! Your shapes tend to get a little too smoothed out at times though. The shadows in your lms piece were guilty of this I think. I think some sharper edges will make your softer shapes jump out more . Also, A little detail here and there can go a long way. For most people, there is too much jittery detail. Problem can probably be solved by examining reference more closely. Stylization aside, I think this will help regardless. Anyway, great work on LMS. I knew yours would advance .

Eric

Keep in real in Utah

[krossj]

Great post IA, Your environments are fucking excellent! The colours and shapes you are using really make them stand out.

Great study aswell and thanks for the vid, cheers.