Oh Canada

Hey Vancouver, I'm coming to town on Oct. 9th to teach a workshop for Daisho.
You can expect to see many different processes, techniques and tools uniquely Digital.

I'd hope to see you there, we can talk about art and maybe even highfive.
Please see here for more information: http://daisho.ca/thomas-scholes
There's only 30 seats, so do hurry if you're interested.

GuildWars 2 GDC China

Art Director Daniel Dociu has once again traveled around the world spreading the good word of GuildWars2 and just as before he's shared an enormous amount of concept and cinematic work to go with it. Some of my small contribution is below but you can and should view the massive slideshow on ArenaNet's blog here: Click!

Still doing my best with weekly updates at the Sketchpad

Far From

Just because I told myself I'd update tonight, I suppose I will.
I'll have to come back to this one maybe? Or maybe I will just spend the time elsewhere. Been really hard on myself and my art lately, feels like there is no time to lose.

Can't stop listening to: this
In a perfect world, I'd like to take a break and make music, or sculpt, or write, or cook or make films or get a puppy.


Updates at the Sketchpad

GuildWars 2 GDC 2010 Presentation

ArenaNet's Art Director Daniel Dociu gave a presentation at this years GDC that featured the art from the many and various artists working on GuildWars 2. Though I've only been here a short time I was honored that a few of my paintings were included.

You can view the presentation in it's entirely here: Click !
To see the art itself in HD you can view ArenaNet's Youtube Channel.
There is a lot of art in there from a lot of great artists, you should check it out.

All images are of course copyright ArenaNet and NcSoft.

The night's catch.

A quick two from tonight. After finding myself a little burnt out from too many bigger paintings going on at once I've found solace and even joy from doing lots of sketches. I think now may be a stage in which I should focus on studies and experimentation more and more ...




Hope you don't mind me posting studies here, I'm not sure what to think about it but I'd like to share. I'll probably revisit these two when the time comes.

I've had fun lately experimenting with smudge and sharpen if you couldn't tell already.