Beginning to meaningful ends.

So here are some of the things I have been working on. Also consider this my official statement that I have a one man show coming up in April (no official date yet) at the Orange Glory next door to the Little.

This is my godson Wyatt and his mother Jennie. I'm pretty sure Wyatt is actually a mutant. A wonderful mutant.




This here is a robot I am working on for a painting.


The following drawings and respective sculptures are just me warming up for some serious work.

Air Brush Antics.

So Blog I got an airbrush for Christmas. I nice Aztec from my folks, I was adequately surprised. I practiced a little bit to get a feel for the controls and then laid down some paint on my new sculpture. It's not done yet. There are some more things I want to lay in on the surface. But what do ya think? I am feeling pretty spiffy.










Here are some close ups.

New Maquette.

Hello Blog! I got a real good go on my new maquette. Let me give you a little history, 'cause there is some. I have this idea to create a man/machine monster using construction equipment. So.. I bought Tonka Truck Back-hoes from the 50's and 60's off of ebay for dirt cheap. These son's a-guns are made of steel so they welded together nice. My buddy Ben helped me out there. So I changed up the original idea a bit after re-wathcing Akira and seeing the part where Tetsuo transforms. So now I have this mass of pulsating flesh that is growing out of the machine. Here's what I got so far.

More late night toils.

These are some things I have been working on...





More to come later.

ciao,
Matt

I Stroll With You.

Hello again Blog. I have returned for real this time. In the time since we last got together things have gone on. I put my portfolio together, started my summer job, and have been working on more models. Enjoy..

I did another maquette. This is of my new character Herkimer. I am especially proud of his hand







I got a book by the sculpture Donato Giancolo. He is incredible and builds his models from their skeletons through the musculature then on to the skin. I tried to follow his technique. Here are some wips.






The following are the characters I made for my character design class. These are just the color comps.

This is Herkimer the platypus.


This is Velomoto the sloth.


This is Myra the Echidna.


This is Lox the tankephant


Here is a rough I did for a client for her hotsauce she patented recently.

That is all for now.

Ciao Blog!!

Week 10 fruit harvest.

Good evening Blog. Here is a pretty big collection of my work from the quarter. Bbelow you'll see work from my Dimensional Illustration class and Illustrative Design. For Dimensional we had to do a series of three illustrations that were tied together by a common theme. My theme was: A futuristic dystopia where people have been mechanically augmented to clean the environment. Over all this have been looking good. Illustrative consists of 2 different assignments: one was a two page spread and the second was for a hot sauce bottle.

This was my favorite of all my sculpts. This was my Fat Guy. He was supposed to eat garbage an such. His figure was very very cool and a ton of fun to make. I am not to hot over the photo though. I am definitely getting better though.



Of all my dimension pictures this one probably turned out the best. The figure itself is ok. Her abdomen has a solid glass sphere in it I got a glass student (Rebecca Arday) to make. If you can't tell (which means I didn't do such a great job) she is supposed to be a water purifier.



In this pic we see Air Filter Guy. He's my least favorite. I lost something from his character during the transition between sketch and sculpt.



I did this image for my illustrative design class. We had to do a 2 page spread illustration for an article of out choice. I will post the text added version later.



Here was the original sketch for the polar bear. I may actually go back and prisma this one up a bit. I kind of like it.



This was made for my illustrative design class. I got to illustrate my own hot sauce label. I called it "Burns Ya' Twice"


Hope you enjoyed the upload Blog. I'll see ya around.

Letting go of it.

So I have realized that I was in absolute love with my maquette, the Key Keeper. Here is the break down. I took a class last quarter called "Dimensional Illustration" and twisted it into a class on building maquettes. I made two. The robot and the arm guy which you can see if you scroll down. I did well in the class and put a ton of time into the work. I loved it.

But I have realized that I was holding myself back to some extent. I didn't fully understand that I was hampering the process of my other classes. Which I also did ok in but not as well as I should have.

Anyway below is the final image that I sent in to my prof.


Now this is image is terrible. I am disappointed with the blurry quality and graininess. But that is the price I pay for trying to sculpt and paint down to the last minute.

This is not a personal bashing session, those are tuesday nights. No this is an honest critique of myself. Improvement has to happen or you suck forever...