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Oh Jake, I have been watching your thread since you started counting hours - always though that a clever idea. It's so soooooo nice to see it unfolding like this, and you're kicking so much ass.
Rock on mate!

Always nice to see your updates, keep it up man!
Also holy shit, some of your nature studies are crazy, love seeing those.

Pnate - Haha, yeah getting there. Cheers man, the studies are super fun. :)

Sula - Haha, it's one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I've just been doing it for too long to quit ;) Thank you :)

Crackedskull - Haha, cheers dude, really appreciate it :D

Not a ton to show today
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Pupa hatching - Did not go well at all. Didn't really have a plan, and well... yeah. Not cool.


Lava Pit - bit happier with this one :)

So many paintings man! Awesome sketchbook!

Almost 4000 hours man, impressive stuff :O With this much improvement in 4000 hours I can only imagine how shit hot your stuffs gonna be at 10000 lol.

Your stuff has taken a very unique style man, it's really cool watching it develop. Sounds kinda strange but on some of your pieces, the colours and values look so slick that it's tough to see how you've painted them lol. I like this grainy feel some of your pieces have too, like this latest lava pit piece. Is that done with a brush or do you drop a filter or texture on them at the end?

razvanb08 - Cheers man :)

Warburton - Haha, still a long way to go yet, cheers though :) Thanks man, I'm definitely getting more comfortable with how I paint, so maybe that's where the 'style' is coming in? No idea lol. Hmm, not sure what you mean. Thanks though, I think ;). And yeah, it's just an unsharp filter, then a noise filter on the flattened image right at the end. Not sure why I do it. Just became a habit, and I think it looks kinda cool lol. Gonna keep doing it until someone tells me to stop.

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Still Life - Did not go well, it's been too long


Sketches




Spitpaint - Angel Statue


Think that's the lot :)

Been slacking recently. Totally off the ball. Ah well, I'll get my shit together soon, hopefully make some time for personal work.

Here's some recent stuff though
Studies
100% opacity - this shit's hard




Regular




Gestures... sorta... kinda quick figures anyway



Spitpaintings
Island Castle


Hunted Man


Horned Helmet


Tudor


Sketches

Study


Figures


Spitpaintings
Desert Trek


Mansion Fire

jakeb! fancy meeting you here, out sketchbooks have touched many times on cghub!

Continuing to really like the progress, your studies keep getting better and better @.@ !!

Marc - Ah awesome, cheers man :)

Passed 4000 Hours Here :)

Keep forgetting to update, been a little busy.

Studies


eurgh




Spitpaintings
Ice Troll


Flying jellyfish monster



And some stuff from an art test, didn't get the job, so here's the work

cool stuff that horned helmet piece is so simple yet so well executed it's like a piece of cel shaded concept art, very impressed. Sorry you didn't get the job dude, just keep pushing :)

JonHop - Cheers dude, that one came out pretty well, I'm so inconsistent with spit paints though. Haha, it's cool, there will be others :)

New stuff

Spitpaintings






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Recent Client Work. Book Cover for Karen Myers' new book. Out soon http://www.perkunaspress.com/

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Spitpaintings

Nice work man. Have you ever had any thoughts about doing an IP. With your skill level it might get somwhere :)

Crackedskull - Cheers dude. Na, not really, don't think I'm at that kind of level yet. Also, I haven't really had any ideas I'd want to flesh out properly. One day though, always looks fun :)

Studies






Spitpaintings
Flame Sport


Camera that watches everything

i really enjoyed scrolling through these last pages. the studies especially keep getting better and better and your spit paints are simply awesome. more more more !

Passed 4100 Hours Here

BenFlores - Haha, cheers dude. Gotta keep studying lol, keep getting distracted. Imma try :)

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Sketches and spitpaintings










Spent a bit longer on this, not really happy with it though. Need to do more personal work....

Killin it! Keep up the constant hard work and pushing those limits man.

The sunset is killing it, and so are your other landscapes! Love it :)

pnate - Cheers man :)

Kaycee - Thank you, glad you like them :)

Quick Study


Spitpainting - Wrath of Zeus