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Gecko · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:18 pm

Hey guys :)

I'm about to pass out from working almost 24h now, but I wanted to let you know I just updated my new portfolio with some 10 paintings from the last year or so, probably stuff I haven't posted at sijun at all.

So.... not dead, still painting. me.

http://www.pekuska.com

Rest of the stuff will come later... but if anyone wants to see the old illustrations from 2000-2005 or so, go to:

http://www.dlvisions.fi/~pveik/

I hope everyone is doing well, closing in on 10 years of sijun and all..... damn..
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Naeem · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:23 pm

nice gecko. some great stuff on the site!

Simon Gustafsson · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:41 am

Hi Gecko

Nice to see you post here again! If you have any more of those lifedrawings you did please post them!

Your new stuff looks great!
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Sumaleth · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:46 am

That first one is your best pic to date. Love it. Some nice stuff in your portfolio too.
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Paoo · member Member # Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 340

very nice man !!

Pringle · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:26 am

Love it. Nice work man.
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balistic · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:44 am

We miss you around here, man. Nice stuff.
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Tinusch · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:33 pm

Look at all the geriatrics crawling out of the woodwork! Good to see your work again, you've gotten even better. Much less subdued than your older work, as I remember.

Mitsui · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:41 pm

Nice stuff Gecko!
Which mattes did you paint on WTTS? I'm really curious!
any shotnumber? Wink

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The Insane Lemur · member Member # Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 768

amazing! glad you're not dead!

daryl · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:44 am

I agree, great to see new stuff from you! love the dragon.
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Max · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:47 am

Wonderful images! Really!!
I love the one with the girl and the butterflies (?) and the "omnilight" in the bg.
Very nice stuff!

waynebebay · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 6:38 am

Hey man! I know exactly how you feel. Great stuff, looks like it paid off.
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notic · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:58 pm

great stuff as usual!

And as Simon G said, i really liked the lifedrawings you did(was it in budapest you went to school?) they were so different in a very nice way

Mikko K · member Member # Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 639

Bump!
Tupa 4 are go!

Very Happy

gLitterbug · Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:48 am

I have to go with Suma here, that first pic really surprised me big time. Very awesome.

Gecko · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:54 am

hey hey.

thanks anni, and simon! im afraid i have almost all of the life drawings on display at the old portfolio, i have a few more but they are scattered to some different places (i gave some away) and its almost impossible to get photos of them. i wish i could return to czech republic to do another semester of drawing but i hear the prof. is not teaching there anymore so, i dont know.. not too many contacts left with the school.

suma, yeah this yak dragon painting was actually painted to boost a new portfolio and show that i can do very detailed painting too, since i got a lot of comments always about leaving sketchy parts in my works. if my brain was working properly i'd have posted some closeups, but here they are anyway!

paoo, pringle, thanks dudes!

balistic <3 aww.

thanks tinusch. i've been moving towards more strange techniques and doing more stop motion etc. nowadays... shooting a short film right now. not much to show yet but will be a mix of film, stop motion, animation, and its going to get finished around october.. so, i think all of this is having a very healthy influence on my painting, and it will get more weird.

mitsui man... i paint all the mattes! so fun to realize we've been working on the same movie for months. love the trying to wag scene! i believe its yours!

theinsanelemur yeah! tell me about it!

daryl, i hope youll enjoy the closeups too, if you revisit the thread!

max, this thing was an experiment of looking into abstract-like things for inspiration about subject matter and composition... i took some macro shots and went looking into these detail silhouettes for inspiration, i used the technique for some sketches and paintings but this one i tried not to alter if not absolutely necessary, so as much photo as possible only minimal painting to create a situation, part of story.

waynebebay! thanks a lot!

notic, it was Vysok� �kola umělecko-průmyslov� v Praze, www.vsup.cz in prague, czech republic. loved that experience. anyone who is in their school and has the possibility to do exchange studies.... do it. (pick a country with cheap beer).

mikkok, we are so go.

gLitterbug, thank you dude!

edit: for those that are interested. yeah i also wanted to add that the closeups are still at 50% resolution, the original painting is around 11 000 paintings across... wanted to try out the limits of my cpu, not that it matters much painting wise, probably less of that would have been enough.
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