Eat It - Shirt Design

So I've recently enjoyed working out some T-Shirt designs to build up my portfolio. This is the beginning of the Apparel journey I'll be taking.

A quick background on this image. I ran with a Zombie theme and worked around the title "Eat It". Kept it fairly straightforward and will continue to do this with future designs for the time being.

For those of you that want to keep up on my process as I work through future projects, I regularly update my Twitter with snapshots of in-progress works.

Enjoy!





Below is an Inked version I managed to toss as I wasn't happy with the Stippling effect.

Distillation Show

For those in the Boston area, take the time to check out this gallery show on the 2nd of December. It has a fantastic group of artists, many of which are great inspirations to myself.

Basically, each artist was given a glass liquor bottle and given free reign to paint and do with it how we please.

Check below for mine and be sure to stop by the Gallery if you are in the area!

GOREFEST - Succubus

Number 3 on day 3. Enjoy! Also, this will be my last for the week as I'll be heading out of town tomorrow. I'll pick up where I left off at the beginning of next week though, so keep an eye out for future Illustrations!

GOREFEST - Zombies

Second of the series, Zombies! Third will come tomorrow!!!

GOREFEST (NSFW)

I'm currently doing a series of images based around the title "GOREFEST". Skipping past all that PG-13 stuff and going for the guts of the hard "R" rating. I'm trying to go over the type while staying within this Gory/Sexual/Drug infused theme.

If you want to see my progress throughout each day follow my Twitter account (On the right)

I'm also going to start up a Tumblr.

Enjoy.

Identity

Getting my feet wet with a little Graphic Design work. Decided it was time to re-work my "Identity" and I'm currently in the process of changing a lot of things up. This is just the beginning.

The Beezer

Something I've been working on throughout the week, messing around with different textures a bit. It's a helmet for a goaltender that retired from the NHL years ago nicknamed "The Beezer", which explains all the bees.

Drinking Water

So here is a decent drop of things I have been up too, starting with some personal projects.

7th Round Pick - This is a site started by myself, Chris Hoobler, and my younger brother (whom is yet to post!). Focusing primarily on the Detroit Red Wings. I'm a hockey guy and if you aren't into that kinda stuff you can still take a look at the pictures we are illustrating.




Next up is a batch of freelance work I have worked on.





And last is another personal project which is sort of on the back-burner so to speak. It's an attempt to build a Concept Art portfolio. All the characters back stories are in place, it's just getting around to doing it at this point.

Shark Week

I'll keep this short and to the point.

So I have been wanting to create a Shark Week themed illustration for a long time and finally got around to it. Linework was done with the trusty mechanical pencil on paper and the coloring was done in Photoshop.


I'll update later this week with a couple side-projects I have started.

What's new?

Well, I have been busy doing some commercial freelance work and have had little time to work on personal projects. I have three separate personal ones going on at the moment and the one below is my focus for now. I'm in the early stages of creating 5 characters for a concept art project and have 1 character finished and 1 ready to be drawn out and painted. The last project, the long comic project I mentioned earlier, is getting pushed back a bit as I work on more marketable projects and my story needs some re working anyways.

Here is a project based off of the famous "Shark Week" and my current inspiration of music with a bit of tribal vibe to it.

Phidias Gold paper toy

Here is a project I just finished not too long ago for a gallery show in Boston. My old roommate Wesley Eggebrecht has started up a clothing line which had a launch party at a gallery that including some 30 paper toys designed by 30 different artists. You can check out his site which has links to Facebook, Twitter and all that. Friend, Like, Add, do what you gotta do to follow this because it's gonna be good.

http://www.phidiasgold.com/

I should have a couple more projects up soon and am in the writing process of a 22 page comic. That's a bit of a ways away at this point though.

Enjoy!

A update, a update!

Alright, where to start. The majority of this work has been posted at other sites I frequently drop by. Sites like The Hallway Show, 36Pyramids, and others. I'll be posting some more stuff I've done soon as well, but I wanted to go the bulk of it out there. Most of it is sketches and quick portraits, a few are projects I did while interning at Root Learning and some are Illustrations for freelance jobs or personal work.

If you, or anyone you know, is interested in what they see and has some project that needs an Illustrator shoot me an e-mail at matthewbyle@gmail.com