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@ThomasScholes
Thomas Scholes
2 years
Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm a Freelance Concept Artist specializing in environments and architecture with 15 years experience. Clients include 343 Industries, ArenaNet, Bioware, Disney and Riot. Check out my website: for my full portfolio!
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a tiny tiny love letter to onions, thank you for lending your flavor and aroma to just about any meal <3 3"x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil
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Sketches with the nature kit from my RPG prototype for this week's throwback (2017):
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two tiny tiny love letters to doors, doorways and other very fine portals:
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YELLOW, for this week's throwback:
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For the final throwback of the year, a retrospective of this year: I've hardly done any digital painting outside of client work and have instead enjoyed/survived on an outlet with traditional media and these "tiny tiny love letters" (3x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil)
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a tiny tiny love letter to house plants; thank you for the comfort and beauty you provide <3 3"x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil
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Illustrations done for Fandom this year using a modular kit. Great client to work with :) :D Thanks Tina! ✨Freelance Schedule now OPEN!✨
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a tiny tiny love letter to the overgrown paths of late spring. missing you already <3 3"x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil
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Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm Thomas Scholes and I've been a concept artist for 12 years now with clients like 343 Industries, ArenaNet, Disney and Riot. Check out my work here on Twitter for the most updates and at my website: for my full portfolio!
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two tiny tiny love letters to tiny tiny carrots and containers. 3"x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil
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Loose sketches from a building kit from 5-6 years ago I don't think I've ever shared:
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a rare oasis in the 10,000 day desert for day 22 of MaySketchaDay
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RED for this week's throwback:
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and now, many more mini-mini-maps:
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the long journey to the settlement has come to an end, your guides now members of new Oppidum; Day 31 of MaySketchaDay
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#faceyourart "trollololololol" says the environment artist!
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throwing it way way way back again this week to some golden oldies circa ~2008
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exploring and evolving the watercolor building kit for day 9 of #maysketchaday
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Hello again #PortfolioDay ! I'm a Freelance Concept Artist with 13 years experience. Clients include 343 Industries, ArenaNet, Bioware, Disney and Riot. Check out my work here on Twitter for the most updates and at my website: for my full portfolio!
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introducing mini-mini-maps; built from the 1st generation of tiny tiny love letters to maps - graphite, watercolor, colored pencil and digital
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three tiny tiny love letters to Mother Nature; thank you for the sanity you provide <3 3"x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil
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another three tiny tiny love letters to mother nature built from the first tiny tiny love letters. graphite, watercolor, colored pencil and digital
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Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm a Freelance Concept Artist with 14 years experience. Clients include 343 Industries, ArenaNet, Bioware, Disney and Riot. Check out my work here on Twitter for the most updates and on my website: for my full portfolio!
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Some of my favorites from the first #MaySketchaDay in 2015 for this week's #ThrowbackThursday #tbt
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Some modular environments done for Arenanet's GuildWars 2 in 2018. These needed to be done quickly and since they were for cinematics they needed to be fully layered with room to move the camera with parallax, so modular was a great fit! ✨Freelance Schedule now OPEN!✨
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This week’s throwback: PURPLE
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Some tiny tiny produce and tiny tiny props done as I warm back up to watercolor and colored pencils. ~3"x4" Any requests for the next batch? :D I like the maps a lot and think there are more in store.
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Some 2~5 year misc. personal work throwbacks for this thursday :)
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new generation of tiny tiny love letters to mother nature. I'm missing Spring-life but enjoying Fall temperatures. - graphite, watercolor, colored pencil and digital
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Some less often seen work from way back 2009-10 from my time on ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 - for this week's throwback Thursday!
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Quick misc. color sketches done for Pocket Gems in 2017 for this week's Throwback Thursday! Concept Art schedule opens in Feb! Hit me up for environmental and architectural concepts!
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Would you play an RPG that looked like this? Sketching with the shelter kit mixed with a few others kits:
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the only town, eastern-tundra; day 29 of MaySketchaDay
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a tiny tiny love letter to ... cabbage?! thank you for your crispness and for staying crisp in my fridge longer than anything else <3 3"x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil
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three more tiny tiny love letters to nature built from the first tiny tiny love letters. sentences from an alphabet graphite, watercolor, colored pencil and digital
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Green and Gold for this week's Throwback Thursday! These are all from 2018's May Sketch a Day :)
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New week, new work. Keeping the blade sharp! Freelance schedule is OPEN!
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one more, start: :feeeeeeeeeeeenish
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Sky, fire and water temples from the Modular Dungeon Kit for this week's Throwback Thursday, more in a bit! <3 Link's Awakening on Gameboy was my first Zelda game, what was yours?!
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#BlueMonday , I guess it's supposed to be the most depressing Monday of the year? I'm excited for spring so I'll shift to Cyan on my way out of this post <3
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New week, new sketch, Nov. edition. ✨Freelance schedule is OPEN!✨
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some towers from the modular dungeon kit for this week's throwback:
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Happy to be able to share early Pre-Vis done back in 2017 for Fogbank's Storyscape: Eternal City but very sad to hear of the studio's recent closing. Thanks Ken Capelli for your excellent Art Direction and Kate Burgess for all your help! Will share more soon! :)
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Some modular environments done for Arenanet's GuildWars 2 in 2018 for this week's throwback:
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Some experiments with an outdoor "tileset" for the RPG kit in honor of the record breaking heatwave wilting our garden this week. RIP 🥲
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Some of my favorites from #MaySketchaDay 2016 for this week's #ThrowbackThursday !
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Some favorites from my RPG prototype for this week's #ThrowbackThursday including the very first assembled room (4th image)
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A series of color sketches from 2013 for this week's #ThrowbackThursday #tbt
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a mix of oldies that all share roots for this week's throwback:
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Some of my favorites from #MaySketchaDay 2018 for this week's #ThrowbackThursday !
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Some quick spooky sketches done for Kabam back in 2014 for this week's Throwback Thursday! :)
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a mix of architectural concepts done for Fogbank back in 2017 for this week's throwback:
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a favorite from this years maysketchaday for this not so far back throwback today:
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Final Day of #MaySketchaDay The exhaustion of painting all day nearly every day for a month has made the last few days especially difficult to process - and the dissonance of enjoying art more than I have in ages contrasted with the horror of current events hasn't helped. (1/3)
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CHICKEN/DUCK for this week's throwback:
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New week, new work! Remixing to re-explore an area. Freelance Schedule is OPEN! Hit me up for environment and architectural concepts :)
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✨Freelance schedule is now OPEN!✨ Hit me up for architectural and environment concepts and especially modular design! Here's a few of my favorites from this year's #MaySketchaDay
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Some early concepts for a game that later became Motiga's Gigantic for this week's #ThrowbackThursday I did a lot of these modularly of course :) ✨Freelance Schedule now OPEN!✨
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Hello again #PortfolioDay ! I'm Thomas Scholes and I've been a concept artist for 13 years now with clients like 343 Industries, ArenaNet, Disney and Riot. Check out my work here on Twitter for the most updates and at my website: for my full portfolio!
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New year, new sketch. Freelance schedule now OPEN:
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New week, new sketch exploring value ranges
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The Sketch The Final Here's to everyone that works differently <3
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more doors, (one does not simply ...) ~ another tiny tiny love letters to doors, doorways and other very fine portals, 3x4" watercolor:
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Some of the earliest bits from an RPG prototype for this week's Throwback Thursday :) I either need to get back to this project or start a new one in this style.
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New week, new sketch. Nov. part 3 Exploring architecture and more perspective :)
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Round 2 of MaySketchaDay 2019 Start: Finish:
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3 WIPs from the cache, which should I explore further next?!
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💀🎃Happy Halloween ! 💀🎃 Undead architecture done for Kabam in 2014!
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#ThrowbackThursday with a few oldies (2010) but goodies from ArenaNet's GuildWars 2 to help celebrate the new artbook coming out soon!
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#ThrowbackThursday to some of the many and various marketplaces, shops and storehouses I've done throughout the years. 🌟Freelance Schedule now OPEN!🌟
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I loveeeeeeeee clutter <3
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seeing what I can do with the latest batch of mini-mini-maps:
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New week, new work. Staying warm - Freelance schedule now OPEN!
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Super early tests from the RPG kit from a far more cluttered much less grid-based approach. Would probably need to be a different sort of game but I still like the mess of complete chaos. Hope to dive back in sometime in the next month or two <3
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Day 22 of #MaySketchaDay A (brief) break from battle. Finish line in sight!
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Day 27 of #MaySketchaDay This one was a struggle >:|
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Full image from yesterday's video tutorial post. Built with a Quick-Kit from the 2nd image in about 5 hours. 3rd image is the Kit!
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two new tiny tiny love letters to mother nature; thank you for the sanity you provide <3 (3x4" watercolor)
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The travelling potion shop, for the first throwback of the year:
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Day 19 of MaySketchaDay, built with a quick-kit:
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This weeks throwback to Proptober/Propaday 2013, one prop a day done for direct painting practice:
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More quick-kit landscape sketches for this week's update! ✨Freelance schedule is OPEN!✨
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This week’s throwback: a series of structures
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Testing some backgrounds for the RPG prototypes :)
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Which one should be my next process video?!
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More and more doors, the next generation; I like the living tree doors and the spooky eye doors the best, any call to you?
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Day 2 of #MaySketchaDay Super encouraging to see so many people sketching all together this month! Here's day two for me, a bit of blue!
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Hello again #PortfolioDay ! This time around I'd like to share a new project I just added to my portfolio done for PocketGems. The project was built modularly for efficiency and flexibility. Check out the full project on my website:
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more sketch: :final (This week from May Sketch a Day 2019. Can't decide if I want to paint or try and tackle 3D for this years?)
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the infinite garden of the forgotten kingdom for day 23 of MaySketchaDay:
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MAGENTA - for this week's throwback:
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Hey All, One way or another I could really use a personal project to sink my teeth into and I'm trying to figure out what's next for my RPG kit. Should I, A. Make it available to the public B. Make a game C. Other? Please let me know and if you have suggestions on methods <3
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Which of these would you like to see as this month's print?!
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Misc. Sketches of various levels of finish from many different years for this week's Throwback Thursday :)
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Going way back (8-9yrs?) for this weeks #ThrowbackThursday with a cinematic illustration done for ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2. Lots of things clicked for me with this one :) I'll add the process in a bit!
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three tiny tiny love letters to maps; thank you for the guidance and wonder you provide <3 3"x4" graphite, watercolor and colored pencil
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Early sketches done in 2013 for Riot's League of Legends for this week's Throwback Thursday! (I don't think I've shared these before!)
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New week, new work. Pushing how I render and use perspective a bit further this week :) More soon! Freelance Schedule is OPEN!
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four elemental temples build with my modular dungeon💀 kit for this week's throwback:
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