Charcoal Study 2

Charcoal Study, 18" x 24"

5 Tickets to the Flash Museum, Please

Click to enlarge. This time we did the bad guys! Another collaboration between Tony Veronese and me. Prints available upon request!

Come Up Screaming

Charcoal and Colored Pencil on 18" x 24" toned paper. Click to enlarge, prints available at my etsy store.

Figure Study 11/18/09

1 1/2 hr study from last week's figure drawing. I'm rusty but still happy with it. Sorry for the lazy photograph, I'm sure you won't lose sleep over it. :)

3 Generations of The Flash

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This was a collaboration between Tony Veronese and myself. He did pencils/inks and I colored it. This is part of a larger collaboration between Jon Raney, Tony Veronese, and me, known as Pupil Food Press.

I hope you like it!

artofmattjohnson.com

Prints available if you drop me a line.

You HAVE TO Stay Quiet!

Since I hope to find my way into illustration for kids work one day, I thought I should start doing some concepts just to show some skills/looks that are solely mine.

This might be for a story of a little girl hiding a dragon in her tree house.

Painted in Photoshop.

PS: I just recently redesigned my site, go check that out if you haven't in a while.

The Bad Apple

The Bad Apple started as an idea to make a pin-up style illustration of Snow White, and turned into a concept ad for a [fake as far as I know] pub.

I used some old coloring book pictures for reference, entirely created in photoshop.

I'm not sure if I'm supposed to or not, but I know how Disney can be about their characters showing up in places they don't deem appropriate, so.....

Snow White is property of Disney, and this image is solely a concept piece not intended for any financial gain whatsoever.

Check out my deviantart page, and click the picture for a larger view!

Opera - Of Chorus!

Click to see full-size! This is a poster Jon and Tony and I just did for the Montgomery Chorale. We'd love to do more poster-illustration for people's events, etc. so let me know.

Logo Design

Logo design for 41 Fitness, a new crossfit gym opening here. Their gym is an old warehouse that will be rigged up to suit their needs, affectionately called the Boneyard. So, there you have it.

This is sort of another imaginism inspired thing. Bobby Chiu has been doing a lot of live sketches lately, and I drew this little guy for a friend in pencil, decided to photoshop it, and now here it is. This was maybe an hour you could distill down to about 30 minutes if I didn't play so much. click through to my deviant art and a larger version. prints available on etsy!

Hey look, its a two-fer!

Here are two new pieces, the most recent digital paintings I've completed. It was really hard to not put these up sooner, but I wanted there to be a couple of surprises at the show! Also, I now have a deviantart, so, yeah. :)

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Thanks to everyone that came to my show last night, also. WONDERFUL night!

Print Prices lowered

I lowered most of the prices in the store, in hopes of..you know, SELLING SOME. So go check it out through my main site. www.artofmattjohnson.com

Carley!

My friend Carley asked if I'd do something for her business card [she's a piercer] and this is what I came up with, fortunately she loved it!

House Show Announcement!

Come one, come all. Hors d'oeuvres and wine, too. It'll be a good time.

Pebbles Flintstone

Everyone's gotta grow up some time.

Prints available.

Prints available!

After a lot of hard work and planning, I'm selling prints of my artwork and photography! Right now its just the statistically 'most popular' items, but if there's something you want, I can make it happen, no problem. I hope that you'll go to my site and find something you like!

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Adrift

36" x 48"
oil on canvas

This is the first time I've painted in a while. Go to my flickr [link on the right over there], and you can see the entire process, as well as seven 'rules' I wrote that I sort of try to live by when it comes to art.

Thanks. :)

White and Sepia Charcoal, 24" x 18" toned paper.

This is the beginning of a series of classically drawn 'freak show women' of sorts. We'll see how it goes! I hope you like it.

Pencil and Photoshop. Click to enlarge!

Last Americans, Issue 1

Click to enlarge. The first cover of our comic, The Last Americans.

Website

For anyone out there that may be unaware, my website is www.artofmattjohnson.com. You can contact me there for any work or prints! Thanks for following, folks!

Izzy [pencil and photoshop]

Click to enlarge. Pencil and Photoshop. This is a picture of my friend Abby's daughter, one of the cutest kids on the planet. I hope you like it.

Blue

Click to enlarge. Pencil and Photoshop.

Red

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This was sort of a practice, get back in the swing of things picture. Done in photoshop, 11" x 17".

sketches

went to figure drawing tonight, this is what happened. :)

Walnocerus

So, this is one of the first originals I've painted since Bobby Chiu's class wrapped up, click to enlarge.

Walnocerus

I guess I took a little inspiration from Bobby Chiu after drawing some random shapes and what came out was a Walnocerus. I'm gonna try to take this pencil drawing to the degree of completion in Whaleboy, we'll see what happens!

Jessica

Jessica

Brown/White Charcoal on toned paper. 1hr 30mins.

Figure Drawing 3-19-09

Jessica
Sepia/White Charcoal on toned paper. 45 mins.

Figure Drawing 3/18/09

Approximately 18"x6", 1hr 30mins.

Black, Brown, Sepia, White charcoal on toned paper.

Figure drawings

40 mins, charcoal on toned paper, 6"x12"

20 mins, charcoal on toned paper, 4"x12"

Figure studies from this week

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These are all 30-45mins. Not my best week, not my worst. Good practice, I'm warming up to the tonal stuff.

Assignment 8 & 9 - Bigfoot

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Bobby Chiu's bigfoot, painted from his line-art through completion. This was a doozy. I hope you like it.

Figure studies

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15 min on packing paper

15 min on packing paper, I call this one, the butt-picker


1 minute gestures



15 min pencil drawing

Assignment 7 - Vectors

Click either for a larger view. This was a lot of fun. :)

Painting study

This was about an hour in photoshop based on the drawing. I hope you like. :)

Logan Study

Logan study, 1 1/2 hours.

Wiggle Warily

There's a lot of stuff about this that makes me wince. I might put up a version later that is a little more refined, if that's even the word I want to use.

However, it was inspired by this young lady's self-portrait.

Assignment 6

Click to enlarge. Before you go giving me too much credit, the assignment was just to paint the hair, the face wasn't my doing. All I did to the face was the hair's shadows. I learned a TON on this lesson, really.

Assignment 5

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The before and after, from Bobby's line art to my final painting using the smudge technique and a little bit of the brush tool.

Assignment 4 - Before and After

Click to enlarge. Bobby Chiu's original base-coat for his piece "Kangamolebunny" is on the right, the left my work for the assignment. I'm completely exhausted now, thank you and good night. Oh, but wait, tomorrow is lesson 5. I'm loving this, don't take this as complaining. But good lord, its intense.

Assignment 3

This crap was ridiculously difficult. That is all I have to say on the matter.

Assignment 2

Assignment 2, Colorizing from Black and White. Bobby Chiu gave us this image in black and white and we had to color it. It is not as easy as it sounds, it took me over 3 hours.

Is anyone else totally getting tired of studies? Cause I know I am. I'm gonna be doing my new assignment for Bobby Chiu's class and trying to come up with some stuff of my own this week. OH YEAH CHRISTMAS. Well, next week then. Arg.

First Bobby Chiu Assignment

Our first assignment for Bobby Chiu's class was to "recreate" one of his black and white pictures. I don't know if I did it justice, but here's my second/final draft.

Also, I know its been a while since I've posted, I've been too busy making stuff to really stop for blogging, don't feel neglected. :)

A lot to show, and a little to say

Let's all not forget that this is all practice work, so a few of these are more trial and error things where I'm learning a lot more so than finished 'pieces' or whatever. 

This one here of Beth was a two hour pose, its like 12"x16" (these drawings are a lot better in person in full size, I think I say that a lot) and I learned a lot here about pencil technique. A new lead-smoother-outer idea from Barrett that will pay massive dividends in future drawings. You'll see the chalkiness/grainy stuff in a lot of my work but now I know how to fix it. :)

I really wanted these two tonal pieces to fit on the screen side by side but I couldn't figure that out and I'm in a hurry sort of. The top one is my drawing in white pencil on toned paper, the bottom one is to show how solid the forms are, that the figure reads really really well, so I feel good about my "eye" but I'm really trying to nail down technique and craftsmanship so my drawings look a little more graceful. I don't want my drawings to BE blurry....I just did that to show you that the structure is intact and that the pencil-quality sort of takes away from that right now. 

1 hour, Allison. 

These two are both unfinished, but something else I'm working on is not detailing features too much. Look how pronounced the eyes are in the top one versus the bottom one. The bottom one, as a finished drawing, would ultimately read better because its more true to life, eyes don't pop out of the shadows and glow, so I'm working on - as always - drawing what I SEE and not what I think I see. 

Also, look at that handsomely shaded sphere. Now that's just plain classy. (Barrett was talking light to the class, so I drew along. Never enough practice!) 

Jon's Octopus

Jon's Octopus Drawing, I just colored it.  :)

Logan Study

Logan, Approximately 13"x18", 1hr 30mins

John, Tuesday Portrait Study

John, 2 hrs

Michelle Portrait Study

Michelle, 12"X14", 1hr 30mins