A mere tasting...

Here are a couple of more things to add the stack.

This is the first painting in the series that includes the image of the girl knee dropping the duck from the previous post. Just gotta keep getting better.
I've decided to for now call this "Leffler's Terrorist Jab" and the other painting is "No Avian Flew". Eh, it's funny to me at least.



Turtle Shaman


BRB Blog.

More Monsters, Yeah!!

Hello again Blog. I hope to make posting a much more regular habit. We shall see if that holds true or even possible. I inked up some more beasties for ya. In the future when I have all of these guys loaded up I am going to do some coloring! Enjoy.

Squimp



Swamp Lurker



Winged Won



Hedge Hog Podge

Oh I almost forgot.

I'm doing a series of paintings in my Personal Focus class. I have been looking to Phil Hale to try and learn a thing or two. Here is one from my series of four, more to come.

The long hello.

Why hello Blog. I have not faded off into the aether, been de-atomized, or any number of things. I have been sketching and painting like a mad man though. Check it out.

Tadpoleon


Parahnoid


Ice Frog


Decadence Frog


Crark


Crab Claw Shark


Sweetness


Whalephant



On a side note this here is a sketch book made for me by friend Sara Wick. She used the subway map from our New York trip to make the cover. It contains pure nostalgic value.



More to come as I ink them.

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!!

The return...

Hey Blog. Sorry I haven't been around a lot lately. My camera is broken and as soon as I fix the bugger I will be posting more goodies.

Inspiration..

If anyone out there actually reads the things I write then you have a fair idea of what goes on in my head. The things I like and what I am striving for. Well I love it when life mimics my thoughts and we come across real life monsters.

I know these two aren't really "huge" per se but they are still impressive. Also i do love amphibians.



The antlers say it all.



I kind of dis-like the fact that we only tend to see these monsters when they're dead. But they are still sweet.



Mega hog!!



Here are some crocodiles. These beasties have made their rounds on the web already and I'm sure you've seen them.







Catfish. These only help feed my fear of being eaten while swimming.





Bunny of gigantic proportions.


So huge gigantic animals make me feel all giddy inside and frankly I like being giddy. I'm gonna go draw!!

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.

End of the quarter post, more to follow...

Hello Blog,
Long time no see. I have some new work to show you.



I ended up using my Hexaped for an assignment. I had to Illustrate a cover for a book and the also the title page. I was very excited when I got to use the Hexaped, he's (it?) an awesome monster. Anyway hope you like it.

As I get more done I will post more. My sculptures, paintings, and sketch book work should be done by the end of the weeks. So more on the way soon.

Keep it real Blog.