xberts sketchbook :::last update Feb12th:::

[RaphaelLuebke]

hi!
uh its been a while since my last post oh wait last one was august?! damn quite alot has changed.. hehe well both it seems to me, and to this site
after 4 months working as a full time employee at atomhawk, i decided to go back to freelance again, for many reasons, mainly because i missed the freedom in what i do, and how i do it
since then everything has gone really great, i luckily have an awesome client base who keep constantly feeding me with great work and i putting alot of effort into any of those jobs
to move forward as an artist, and well in most of my freelance jobs i have a lot of creative freedom so its allways a great motivation to push the stuff extra hard
sadly all this work means that im not having that much to show here, as im mainly "just" doing work when i paint, theres only a few quicksketches i manage to do besides work every here and there
and most fo the job related stuff is under NDA for AAAAAGES anyway i wanted to get this thread active again, so heres abit after i replied to all the heartwarming comments of you great people!

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DennisH-Art thanks alot man, haha well its been a while since i used the animatrion function last tiem, it was a bit like when i discovered "chromatic abberation" first time, and had to apply it on EVERYTHING but wisdom comes after a short while of experimenting, and art becomes a bit more "normal" again

xyphid thank you i hope i can continue improving forever!

S.F. Batchelor yeah adrian smith has some really cool stuff going! thanks for the nice words!

yogeshj25 thanks man!

snatti masssive seagull power approaching щ(ಠ益ಠщ)

Joe

Theonlay thanks man!

PoO-kiE through every page? haha im sorry for the crap you had to look at for the first ... uhm 20 pages?! thanks man , means alot!

AngeUnge haha thanks!

jedijofis ehm... multiple faces?

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heres some new stuff, first some quick sketches (40-60min):






illustration done for applibot


and a personal piece im working on, well i was working on havnt touched it for 2 months now, but im plannign to continue it after i completed some jobs
i tried to paint a sky as realistic as possible, it took me at least 25hours so far, i think more, except some few gradients i used the soft round standardbrush for the entire image
wich might sound stupid and not really a economic way to do an image like that, but i enjoy it, its a bit like meditating (oh wait, hmm if i enjoy it, why didnt i touch it for a while?)