concept

I want a reliable job outside of college, im working on a concept art portfolio. A teacher knocked some sense into me.

asdf

Two more !!! there both done??? I feel done. yah. maybe not. maybe ill do more work. yeah!

traditional!!!!!!!!

Quick update! First piece is an oil painting i had been working out for a few weeks now, its 24x48. first sketch is a sketch for my steampunk scientist portrait, ill be painting that up in acrylic and hopefully have it posted by wednesday or so. second sketch is some moby dick cover illustration thumbnails and below that is some character design for the man in the boat for the moby dick cover that im still working out and to the left of it is just an in class figure study. the last image is a new painting im working on 36x48 which im pretty excited to get going on! g'day!

ready?set.go!

ok heres two studies one of which is a colour study (top) and the other was a speed paint and technique study (middle) and a piece I am working on for my character development class which is suppose to involve three characters and it has to have something to do with historical character/events. If I would stop forgetting my connection for my camera back home I would be able to update with some of my oils but until then this will do.

Junkyardagins

Heres the Water based oil painting i have been working on since the beggining of the second semester. It's still a work in progress, hopefully I'll get it done by the end of the weekend here.

western

A new digital piece I started and finished today. Assignment was to create an illustration with a western theme digitally, so much homework to catch up on. adios.

creep!

Two new digitals (starting to enjoy this "virtual" painting thing) and a sketch to go with, a new oil painting should be up in the next  week or two.

Super de duper

Me super hero for me character development class, super!

paintering

Here is an assignment I just recently finished, we were told to create a super hero. I wanted to go a little out of the box and make my super hero a post world war three experiment.

P.s.

A few new sketches the first one leading up to the WIP photoshop painting(still have a ton to do on it) below and the last image is a piece i am working on for my independent study which i'm pretty excited to get going, I'll do a traditional piece over a digital any day of the week.

the digital post

Digital sketch's and what not, some traditional stuff should be coming within the next couple weeks here.

rablerable

Two illustrations i just finished the first one being an acrylic painting at 8x10 and the second was a painting i just finished that was for an in class assignment on a personal relationship with the dead. that one is 36x36 done with water based oils. enjoydiddlydo

Digitalizationialrepresentaion

Alrighty heres my first digital piece in a long time, was fun but i still <3 my oils more. Some process shots starting with my pencil, then to an acrylic wash type thing on paper and then to the good ol' Photoshop CS3. The assignment was to create an environment and he recommended to plop a character in it so i did the ol' floating rocks which are being carried away by birds. I decided to title it "Interview at the Ruins" which is the title of one of my favourite songs as well. enjoy.

Three cheers for an update! Heres some process for a book cover of about 9 short stories or so? they seemed kinda crazy and messed up and a bit gruesome as well so...ya. some process in my sketchbook and the final painting on canvas in water mixable oils.



And a sketch, yarrrrrrrp.

sketchadoodles

Heres an update, gonna try and do this update thing more often ya know?

some sketch's, some of 'em may see the canvas eventually. The party hat one will be in my next painting and the fat kids-a-runnin' should see some changes and make it to a collaboration with my friend Wes that we're working on. (ICE CREAM)




Oh, and an oil painting i finished before the circus freak one in a previous post but managed to be wet for longer so i never got a photo of it, ill post it too.

Bloggin'

Just got it up, thanks to the help of a good friend Wesley Eggebrecht, great artist so check him out!

I'm gonna post a new image I just finished, the assignment was to create in illustration based on circus freaks, water-based oils on canvas 16x20.



and a triptych I just finished for my advanced illustration techniques class based off of my 13 years of ice hockey



and feel free to check out my website at www.mattbyle.com :)