Thomas Schmall – Page 30 – Art, Games and a Blog

Portraits of Inez and Anna

December 15, 2009

Finished two new oil paintings - feeling I'm getting better with the values...

A sketchbook is complete

December 12, 2009

Roughly 15 more pages of my sketchbook from 2008. Funny thing: I always thought its the one before my current one. But just when writing this – I noticed it can’t be. I fill at least 2 per year. Well, turns out I have another full sketchbook lying around. Scanning all this will take me … Continue reading A sketchbook is complete →

Falling Town – revisited

November 30, 2009

So the image of the last update on Unearthly Challenge was the one I managed to finish for the deadline of the contest, but I kind of got drawn into the world… and wanted to spend a bit more time in it :). I think I want to make more of it than just this … Continue reading Falling Town – revisited →

Unearthly Challenge – Final Artwork

November 25, 2009

I talked before about the entry in the Unearthly Challenge. Our team could not finish the 3D version – it’s sad, but there was not enough time. So I took the whole thing into 2D. Interesting experience in a way. It has the disadvantage that we really started with 3D in mind. So we were … Continue reading Unearthly Challenge – Final Artwork →

Sketchbook pages from Japan

November 3, 2009

This is the next batch of pictures from last years sketchbook. I posted these before on conceptart.org and in the gallery – but I’ll show them here to keep things in the same sequence as in the book. I went to Tokyo, Takayama (in the Mountain area), Toyota City (yep, the town were the cars … Continue reading Sketchbook pages from Japan →

A Couple from Pompeii

October 30, 2009

A Roman Painting of a loving couple in Pompeii retouched...

Unearthly Challenge – Colored Concept

October 28, 2009

An update on the Unearthly Challenge. Maybe I should have explained a bit: It’s a contest where one has to do a 3D image of an environment. There is only a rough topic (End-Game). And one has to post updates, so that people can follow your workflow. It’s great for learning. Now I’ve done a … Continue reading Unearthly Challenge – Colored Concept →

Unearthly Challenge Started

October 21, 2009

First something about the last posting – I’ve updated the portrait of the blonde girl. Damn, it looked bad (heh, I deleted all traces). I never see how bad a picture is until a week is over or so. Was a good learning experience to analyze and fix it though. And yeah got no internet … Continue reading Unearthly Challenge Started →

Kevin Kelly on Extropy

October 13, 2009

Some links to scientists that try to figure out why nature and the world is so complex...