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iamgerardthomas

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I’d like to say I am big in Japan… but I’m not.

Analogue signals ♾️ digital multiverse. Industrial designer drafting a conceptually abstract corner of the science fiction universe, 'Sub Orbital Machine’, in lines of ink, graphite and pixels. CBR, AU.

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iamgerardthomas, to scifi
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Watched it for the umpteenth time last night. 42 years old and as long as you're not watching the original theatrical release, it's a near perfect film. A pure masterclass.

iamgerardthomas, to sketch
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#pencil doodle of a three legged #mech thing

#MastoArt #feditart #conceptartists #sketch #pendrawing #SciFiArt #scifi #sketchbook

iamgerardthomas, to fediverse
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Just a little reminder… I love and but I don't want to rely on the , as we’ve all seen what can happen when you lease expect it. If you really like what I do and want to be kept in the loop, I have a newsletter that I publish very occasionally that I will be putting more time into over the next few months:

https://iamgerardthomas.com/newsletter/

Please feel free to join up :)

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Busy with work, school holidays and doing rough development sketch work that's not for posting 😞 So here's something I like, done with ... Backyard hillybilly Mecha

thisnorthernboy, to scifi
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Greebling.

iamgerardthomas,
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@thisnorthernboy Mate! You’re on fire and making us all look bad. I insist you stop it immediately.

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Etchings. 1600's. From the 'Discovering Ancient Egypt' at the NMA. Magnificent stuff...

Closeup of Etching of ancient Egyptian statue
Further closeup of Etching of ancient Egyptian statue

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Two sides of the same coin... 3D photomontage and 3D single object renders; probably a reflection of my past professional use of the medium as a industrial designer and having done technical archiviz for many years. I am going to be using both of these styles in Sub Orbital Machine to do things I can't express with drawing in ink and graphite.

Closeup crop image of a photomontage of a spaceship over a turbulant ocean
Render of a space craft

iamgerardthomas, to art
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I know the clickthrough rate from SM to websites is horridly low, BUT!.... My collection of very brief world building words and equally brief PostIt Notes doodles is growing.

If you're at all interested in what the flavour of Sub Orbital Machine is all about, you can check out the collection here:

https://suborbitalmachine.com/sketches-from-the-silent

iamgerardthomas, to art
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iamgerardthomas, to art
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Jan Kaplický Drawings. Probably the most important book I've bought in many years. My father is an architect & I have vivid memories of an arch. magazine with Kaplický's concepts in it. They, along with Chris Foss's '21st Century Foss' set me on a trajectory I am still travelling. Finding this book over the weekend makes it feel like everything of the past year has fallen into place.

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Ya gotta pick the right weapon son, no point bringing a knife to a gun fight.

I love working in graphite, and all my fine art pieces for Sub Orbital Machine are done with it. But I have to accept that for some work, you just have to go ink...

iamgerardthomas, to random
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NASA getting in on !?!?! That's pretty damn cool!

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe/

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Keep it sharp people

iamgerardthomas, to art
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They sailed the skies in craft made of tin and cloth.

#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #conceptart #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #artist #design #scifiart #scifi #sciencefiction #artistonmastodon #spaceship #digitalart

iamgerardthomas, to bluesky
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It’s interesting just how many of my followers have ‘dormant’ accounts. Many came over in the artist exodus from TwiX, stayed a bit and then went elsewhere. It’s a shame, as there are many great folks in that list. I know a lot are active on that baffling place , so why have they left the ? What was the lack of appeal?

iamgerardthomas, to art
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"The MkIV seemed, on paper anyway, to be a brilliant idea. Until, that was, someone pointed out that it did nothing more than walk with one person aboard, had no cargo capacity and offered no protection from the elements."

Blue line pencil mech thing

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Mogalop (don't ask me...)

iamgerardthomas, to random
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Read this today and it’s really, really well worth checking out. I’m blown away about the amount of time and effort going into a production like this and then sticking it up for all to read. I don’t really get into the whole Patreon thing but if you do, support Jan! https://mastodon.art/

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Digital tools offer all sorts of advantages, mostly the lack of 'mess' and unlimited, 'non-destructive' undos, but there is a huge joy and mental calm that comes from using analogue tools in what you could call

They offer a chance to stop, contemplate and refine what you're doing in a non demanding way that digital just can not do.

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Sketch of a vehicle I still really like.

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Early experiment in sketch conversion to animated motion graphic. Exploring the idea of bringing life into a hand sketch...

https://thesilent.online

video/mp4

iamgerardthomas, to bluesky
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So I can post something on and get maybe 1-3 likes; if I hop on an 'art train' I might get say 4-5. (I’m doing an experiment) I am lucky to get 1 interaction at all, and that's always from the same person I've known for a few years. On , I can get 10 or more, for the same given content, plus people commenting. I think that says everything about the motivations driving the different platforms.

iamgerardthomas,
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@inkican Oh hell yes!

iamgerardthomas, to blender
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I modelled a thing to test out a design idea thing. The thing works. Yay for things!

3D model of a spacecraft assembly concept

iamgerardthomas, to art
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Sketching

https://thesilent.online

More doodles of spcraft forms in my sketchbook

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