Feeding Time

Here's another concept piece I threw together from various collaged artworks. You might recognize the bird from a recent MB post on alchemical artworks dating around the 15th century. The idea for this one is to show a room inside a castle where a giant bird thing is kept and fed by servents stabbing worm/snake creatures with spears from a pit in the floor. When I start drawing this the characters, bird thing will change a lot as I do my own thing to it but the basic composition you see here will stay the same. Originally I was going to have fishing rods hanging weird bits of bait creatures over the walls to feed the bird but I opted for the idea with the snake pit and two servants. I want to do something interesting with the chest of the bird creature, I'll either add some sort of grotesque face or maybe dozens of eyes staring out through the feathers.

Puzzle Piece Beast

Welllll... I'll break the weekend silence with a conceptual piece I was messing around with. This is constructed from screenshots of "The Adventures of Prince Achmed " by Lotte Reiniger. The idea was to make a large creature covered in puzzle piece designs of various odd animals with some pieces coming off revealing empty spaces in the shape of those creatures. I'll be using this to sketch from and rework into a more interesting composition, specifically changing up the negative spaces around the legs. The final version will be full color and part of a small series of colored pencil artworks I'm doing right now. I don't know how close I'll be sticking to the Reiniger beast, the tail and snout were collaged in as well as the back fin looking things that are actually shrunk down ears, but I'll probably stick close to this odd elephant like shape.

Beggar's Blues

I said I was going to update in here soon and then kind of didn't. That tends to happen a lot with emails,updates, and ect.

Well this was scanned in halves but it's clumsily pieced together here for your viewing pleasure.
This drawing is part of a series I am working on now and then. It takes place on our earth I suppose but 50 or 80 years in the future. The main theme revolves around humorous and forlorn destitute aliens/hybrids who are mostly homeless and separated from true humanity. There is not political message or deep concept here, just a kind of dismal look into a sci-fi tinged future full of unemployed experiments/star travellers. I read a lot of science fiction and am pretty poor. I don't intend to make a comic or a in depth universe or setting with these themed pictures, I think I just want to have stacks of them over time. There are all kinds of weird characters I can make and I have all sorts of daily situations in mind which they can be taking place in. Hopefully becoming like old issues of Heavy Metal combined with Pieter Bruegel....or a vague attempt at it.


Here is another.
ps.I haven't figured out the correct way to set up this pictures/text business correctly yet.
-Matt

Oil Painting.

This is one of the 3 oil paintings that the landscapes drawings were done in preparation for, can't remember exactly when it was done a few years ago.

Sorry about the flash glare, there's glass in the frame.

The Other Window.

This is based on some of the lyrics from 'The other Window' by Wire. It's for the second volume of this http://www.soundofdrowning.com/soda1.html put out by Paul O' Connell.

Landscapes

These are some landscapes I did in a small sketchbook a few years ago. I decided not to bother tarting 'em up in photoshop. I don't think it's cheating to use photoshop at all but maybe things are more interesting left as they are. I'm not sure really.

A Little Help?

Hi Everyone.

Just a quick question I figure you guys - if anyone - will know the answer to: What are these?

There're a couple more at my site... I've had these in my scrapbook for a while, but there's not really any identifying info on them. Ideas?

And thanks!

Digicidal Interwebs

Click to enlarge.
Both digital from drawings.

mean-oldy

this is a piece from 6 years ago. I found it in one of my old portfolios. To my recollection it was originally a sculpture (in sculpty) that I made- baked in my oven- then incorporated it into my photoshop and made this illustration. I was experimenting in this fashion for awhile. This is unfortunately the only piece that survived. I haven't seen the sculpture either, one of my friends probably snatched it (probably when I was wasted).

Humbilified...

...By the Mighty Mat Brinkman, via Le Dernier Cri.

I thought about going right to the site to try to order one, but then I remembered that the Dollar is worth like -2 Euros..

Actually, check out this whole set for some serious inspiration.

Kid at Heart

Christian from Stay Gold Clothing Company hired me to, er, flesh out a design he refered to as Kid at Heart. Essentially, the brief called for toys of my choosing to protrude from inside the heart. There were requests for playing cards, but I was otherwise left to my own devices.

Christian was super easy to work with. Aside from one or two minor changes, my original vision was left almost entirely intact. The original brief hadn't mentioned a need for the company's name to appear on the shirt and that was added in. The composition didn't even need a tweaking; everything worked out swimmingly!

The final design is five spot colors and the shirt color and can be seen here:






All in all, I completed this tee in one full business day. I wish all jobs went as clean and satisfying!

Details:

An Ancient Beastiary

I drew these around the age of 8 from what I remember. All but a few of the pages are attached to a small pad of paper with every page (front and back) covered in creatures.

NOTE

- I just sent out a group email to all EBDers. If you didn't receive one, let me know in the comments section. I sent the emails to the addresses used for sign-in on Blogger. Some don't use those as their primary address, so I thought I should make a note of it on EBD.
Carry on.

Gondarr Dire

Double-Rot Schism

So, as those who've been around these parts for some time know, I'm kind of a terminally confused guy when it comes to making art. I like so many different things,and enjoy making all different kinds of images, but I'm also all too able to decide that whatever I'm up to has some kind of essential flaw to it; If I'm making noisy, raw looking stuff, I'm not drawing the clean, refined lines that I like to make, when I draw some grotesquerie or another, I'm thinking about how some genuinely beautiful ornament should be in its place, vice- versa, etc., etc..
I'm always maybe a little too concerned that I'm not looking at what I'm doing objectively, unable to come up with a measure outside myself.I can obsess over some tiny aspect or concern in a drawing and later realize that it made no difference whatsoever . Myopia isn't exactly the hallmark of good work, I don't think. But maybe that's more interesting than anything else?
And I worry over motives: What am I trying to achieve, exactly? Is it simply a matter of pleasure in making marks on paper? Should I try to wrap up actual concerns in my drawings and present them to the viewer? Does that come off as didactic? Does it eschew the genuine confusion and uncertainty that I hold when it comes to everything I've ever thought? Am I even capable of presenting concerns in any real way?
Maybe this is normal. Maybe that's why artists seem to be a little alienated.
But I write this cause I'm interested- and it might be a little indulgent, I realize- in what you guys think of my various approaches. The great thing about blogs like this is that if any of us feel that need for getting a feel of what others' think of your stuff, we can do it here. I don't get that in my daily life. My girlfriend pretty much tells me everything I do is great and none of my good friends are that interested. They like beer and guitars and Bill Hicks. Like most normal people, doing little drawings in your spare time is seen as a pleasant little diversion.They like it when I draw huge tits with metal logos on them.Thats my greatest hit with these goons ( I love 'em, but yeah).
On a really basic level I wonder if I've just lost the passion.I imagine guys like Matt and Aeron hunkered down in their caves, knowing exactly what they want to do and doing it, engaging with drawing in a way that I did at one point, where I just shut stuff out and did it.

Samples:


-Click to Engorge.( each of em)

Decrepit Cupids

Vague Introduction

Hey,
I was invited to post in here thanks to Luke. We had a bit of a debate on my livejournal and upon checking out this blog I find it to be interesting indeed. I guess I could say that I have been making art throughout my life but it's only within the last two or three years that I have really taken a serious interest in it. I would say that my art focuses a lot on how I perceive the outside world to be and there are a lot of lone peasant characters pictured in my art. I stay at home quite often and wouldn't consider myself to be very social,well in real life anyway. Listing influences and citing my favorite artists is something I will leave to another time. I have been published by Nieves Books,Cederteg Publishing,Shoboshobo Books as well as Andthedragon. Doing a lot of group shows and getting my work into various magazines is what encompasses a lot of my time when it comes to art. I have done some work for bands and small labels,mostly noise oriented experimental releases and artists. When not making art I am reading,drinking,listening to albums,sleeping or working a boring office job.

*NOTE:Almost everything I do is on standard sized paper 8.5 x 11 or 11 x17 but sometimes I make an exception.
-Matt Lock

Doctor's Referral

Just a quick mention of a new post at my site - not my own work but a collection of old medical pics - if only because I figured some of you might be interested in this sort of imagery.

Have a look.

Face Dancer

This ink was originally inspired by the "Face Dancer" from the Dune series. As I worked, the ink took on it's own direction. I was trying to express it a little bit differently then, let's say, the Hollywood vision would be. Having said that, I feel like I want to make more of these and improve on them.

paradise