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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 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.

#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #conceptart #drawing #artist #design #scifi #sciencefiction #artistonmastodon #slowart

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 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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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 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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"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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Sketching

https://thesilent.online

More doodles of spcraft forms in my sketchbook

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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They sailed the skies in craft made of tin and cloth.

iamgerardthomas, to art
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#MastoArt #Art #FediArt #conceptart #sketch #sketchbook #drawing #artist #design #fineart #artistonmastodon #slowart

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, 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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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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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

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

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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

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

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

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Excavation at Pompeii reveals new Roman paintings

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/style/2024/04/11/pompeii-new-frescoes-discovery-paintings-cprog-orig-us2.cnn

iamgerardthomas,
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@golgaloth They are stunning!

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

iamgerardthomas, to scifi
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    iamgerardthomas,
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    @nyrath @evildrganymede Does the tome have the art from the comics like the reviews say? It seems to be quite heavily illustrated by all accounts

    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.

    androidarts, to random
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    More Ogre stuff. Not sure what the scale are, since it varies a bit between drawings, minis and 3D models... as do the designs of the side silhouettes and drawings. Apparently there are ninjas in the game. I imagine they're only useful for taking out other infantry, and maybe some kind of OGRE sabotage with sticky bombs?
    Added a Stridsvagn 103 GEV for fun. Rifle is from a single drawing, as is the antennas, Winchell Chung did much of the original art back in the '70s.

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    @nyrath @androidarts Gotta love some.... GEV

    iamgerardthomas,
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    @nyrath @androidarts @fnordius Would have to agree. From GEV it started to get too granular and became 'another' war game. Ogre was perfect as it was snd represented the madness perfectly

    iamgerardthomas, to battletech
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    Blue doodle of thing hiding. A little bit ... but the pilot's got an open cockpit and that's going to end well, right?!

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