Sam Thompson - Art and Design Page

Drawn in CLIP STUDIO, for The Speed of Sound

Wonder how Sonic would look, running along this beach? And in this style, no less, because originally that what this piece was going to be, albeit far from this kind of look. But what was originally a blockout for an illustration has become an abstract, moody scene which manages to make a respectable little bit of canvas poster appeal. And that's probably been the first entirely unintended piece of artwork of mine in years, and certain one that's been made digitally. I don't think even in my A levels this happened with one of my works. But hey, I'm pretty chuffed, and it only took an evening. Hope you can ruminate on it for few seconds of browsing.

Those of you who've played Pokémon X or Pokémon Y will recognise this beautiful floor pattern as the arena upon which your fight against Diantha - The Kalos League Champion, takes place on. It's entirely Illustrator made and it's taken about two and a half days of mouse clicks and aggravating my parents. Purely my fault. Work interuptions give me the grouches. You artists and designer's'll likely catch that slip-stream but in all seriousness. This was a piece long left clanking abouts in the 'Intend to someday create' bucket. Seems I've lightened that bucket's contents a bit now. This floor design in the champion's room is oozing beauty and symbolism and ALL of those messy pallet swatches of yours. I've wanted to create the pattern in high definition digital art form for some time now, and I've always been surprised when I've gone to search results and found nobody else has tried to do the same. All you'll commonly find are screenshots from the game, but the resolution of the Nintendo 3DS means that much of that detail is pixelated. This is my tribute to this gorgeous stained glass arena, a' la Kingdom Hearts HD remake overhaul (if you've seen the stained glass floors in the dives to heart you'll catch my slip-stream). And it was really fun to create. Hope it appeals to yourselves. Also disclaiming that this artwork is not my original design, but a recreation of a texture used in the Pokémon series, which is copyrighted to the Satoshi Tajiri, GameFreak, and the Pokémon Company.

These are pieces of what was originally a larger image, which also included Super Sonic. These are seven of the principle wisps found in Sonic colours, excluding Rocket, Frenzy and Void (The latter of which aren’t true wisps), which correspond to the colours of the seven chaos emeralds (Rocket would be as well if we’re talking Classic Sonic). The implication with this piece is that the wisps contained the chaos power of the seven emeralds, as denoted by the colours; something I took note of whilst playing Colours. I was going to call the piece: The Wisps Show Their True Colours, and I made the sketch for the whole image back in 2011, back when Sonic Colours was new. I'd never independently touched digital drawing before then, and it does show by the date these are being posted. But thanks to this picture, and some further practice between then and now, I can use photoshop readilly, and now most of the tools: Blur, Smudge, Layering, Masking, Filters, Layer Adjustments, Brushes, Colour Replacement, Mixer Brush were all learned from doing this and others. The whole image isn't complete at the time of uploading these pieces, and with everything together on one canvas it looked crowded, poorly composed and had too much going on. So instead of uploading that, I've separated each wisp out into its own image, and by themselves they're perfect. They're really where I've put all of my work into and you're not missing much with Super Sonic's absence. Sonic isn't owned by me, and credit for the chaos emerald I've used  goes to the achievement image from Sonic Generations. I made these pictures as proof of self production and progress, instead of letting them sit in my imcomplete folder.