Muh muh muh MATT ATTACK!!! [NSFW]

[Matador]

I've been really bad about getting my art status updated. So heres a dump of things I'm doing.


5 minute poses from last nights live drawing session [the one where the model asked me to do a logo for her product.

Thunder Brother Concepts that I haven't finished yet 'cause I'm a horrible procrastinator [sorry: class stuff has to come first]

Messing around with style which led to a new drawing style for my eyes [inspired my Scott Campbell]

One hour Pose with some painting study [I suck with color, so I't important that I get better at these. Bear with me for a while]

Detail of paint

Not a live subject. Just more paint experiments [I Really need to get a more consistent effect and clean this shit up]

Figure study in pencil from a couple weeks ago. My first class, so I decided to focus on the parts I need to work on [torso, mostly]. It's not that I'm lazy with faces. It's just that I get more practice with them.



Line Study project.

Graphic design project. Scav is short for Scavenger. It's supposed to be a vulture, though I'm not sure I got that across.

[stock]

I think the logo would come across better if it took the perched/head hung low look that I think most people imagine vultures in.

[Knight]

Is that Raz?

[Matador]

Uh huh!

Scott Campbell is in charge of Art Direction at Doublefine [hence why the eyes in both games look similar].

[Matador]

More pics from the stuff I've been working on of recent. The One of the caboose is me returning to Jack Rouge. Mostly an experiment with painting in photoshp, though I still have a long ways to go. I really pissed myself off because I accidenlty saved the flattened version of it. Too bad, too, cause I like the composition of it.

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Electricity travels along a wire, cable, or charged surface.
But that’s not the point.
Sure, it’s origin point may be half a million miles of copper away.
But it transforms simple things.
It alters states.

Fumph Fumph Fumph Fumph from a speaker;
A melody transferred.
Twelve Feet away from it is a man scratching the navel of a guitar;
A beat to please the masses.
They are under his control.
Like a snake charmer, his fingers dance along the frets.
He fires a symphony through the black monoliths facing the crowd,
And they dance on his command.

The buzz they love has come half a million miles
Guided by copper and switches.
They came for the man, but he’s nothing without the buzz.
The woman he holds in naught but wood and metal;
Strings without life.

The Stage goes dark and the mob stops.
They look to the stage; an empty dream halted at the whim of a wire.

Above is a poem I worked on creative writing. It's already been workshoped and I plan on revising it, but I like it enough to share it with your guys.

[Joopac_Badur]

I really like that train drawing. I don't know ... something magical about it.

[Knight]

That's because it's a well known fact that trains + nighttime + snow = magic.

[Matador]

The Crowd
Six strings,
His fingers

Fumph Fumph Fumph Fumph from a speaker;
A dream half remembered;
A melody transferred.
Twelve feet away is a man scratching the navel of a guitar
And embracing her as a lover.
Like a snake charmer, his fingers dance along the frets.
He fires a symphony through the black monoliths facing the crowd,
Faster, Faster, Faster, Faster,
And they dance on his command.

It will never be done again. The Guitar is no more.
In his attempt of resurrection, he has broken his lover.
Her neck broken, he weeps.
Not out of love, but out of loss.
Never shall he love again.

It’s no wonder a crowd draws each time he attempts a resurrection.
Like Frankenstein, the man draws upon a wire to bring the cold frame to life.
A switch flickers and charges.

Rejoices, like those past; The excitement churning the air, soaked with blood,
Cut, his breathing harder

The buzz they love has come half a million miles,
Twisting, winding, crossing,
Guided by copper and switches.
They came for the man, but he’s nothing without the buzz.
Lovers entwined, powerless without that burst, and lonelier for it
The woman he holds in naught but wood and metal;
Strings without life.

Faster, Faster, FASTER, FASTER!
Nothing to stop him, nothing to slow him.
Her screams drown out his fellows, and even the crowd cannot be heard.
Their shouts, like a hurricane, cannot compare,
His fury hotter than the scorching sun, and her song rupturing all beauty.
Nothing past, nothing future, and nothing for all eternity shall compare to the love that is witnessed tonight.
And as she rises again, brought back into this world,
She sighs, and falls asleep.
His blood soaked breath slowing, and a swell of relief falls over him.
Nothing to do but to lie down beside her.
To dream, and dream of dreams, and to wake with her in his arms.
No longer empty arms.

One of the revisions made. This one was quite fun. We passed a printed version of our written work to the left, and they cut it into ten or more pieces. they then passed it back, face down, and we then threw out three of the pieces. We then numbered each piece. It was supposed to create the kind of happy accidents that can happen in visual or performance mediums. I was extremely satisfied with how the process turned out.

[Matador]

I'm trying to post more in my Live journal, so I'm linking it in hopes that I can gather some constructive criticism.

[Matador]

Invitation project I worked on. I'm happy with how the hands turned out. they were down completely free-form, with minimal referencing of my own hands. The knuckles should probably lead into the rest of the finger, but they work as is, I think.

The Seal was a simple render since it was a 2d object. Not having to render depth takes the difficulty out of it.

I need to practice tracing with the pen tool. I'm pretty awful at it at the moment.

[watermelon man]

I'm a huge fan of the Nintend DS

[Matador]

Damn my keyboard! I didn't notice that until you pointed it out.

So... Fuck you? maybe? I'm a little apathetic about that at this point.

[stock]

...yes?

[watermelon man]

Just trying to be helpful! Don't want it going out with that typo.

EDIT: D'oh! I just realized it's already happened SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Matador]

...yes?

Yes.

And no biggie. I mostly had trouble getting a decent font.

Mostly I wanted to create a cool render. The Text was mostly "Crap, I gotta follow the assignment."