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June 2009

"Alien in an Alley" Video Tutorial!

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An old time favorite of mine.  Here I explain how I arrived at the visual solution for an Alien Finding a Baby in an Alley.  Thanks for that one Iain!

[flashvideo file=”http://mattvogt.com/media/alienAliProcess.flv” /]

ps:  thanks to Tim Simpson for commenting on the fact that I said ark-way instead of archway.
Thanks buddy…..

Sketch:

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Value Placement:

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In Living Colour:

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Final Composition:

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Any questions let me know via commenting!

The Jesus Series

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It is time!  Reading Kahlil Gibran’s JESUS, The Son of Man inspired me to paint these.  The book is split into around 64 chapters highlighting, in their own words, what people back then observered around Jesus. The sweet thing is that the visual adjectives weren’t too apparent allowing my creative visualizations to run like crazy!! Please enjoy! Just adding to the Biblical Art movement – more to come.

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Gutted Matt's Website!

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I just destroyed my wordpress blog (http://mattvogt.com/blog) and started afresh with a new wordpress install and re-imported my posts.  Like my life, I’m simplifying things – back in the hay-day’s of 2005 I really pimped this place and customized a ton;  now, I arm-chair it by using the chill standards allowing more flow for me!  Yes.

At this current time I will listen to this awesome dude’s advice (thanks Charlotte!) and implement such goodness: