Matthew Vogt Style
Painting
Vedder Bridge – Chilliwack, BC
Dec 1st
Not the first time I painted inspired by the Vedder Bridge, I visit the trail there.
New Paintings!
Jun 3rd
What’s this???? Is it true???
Small teaser, they’re WIP – work in progress yo. Thanks for viewing eh!
Chilliwack East
USB Prayer Beads
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Blown Love
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House Cries
Whoa! It sure feels crazy updating this site, especially a wordpress site not for a client. Did you know I started this site around 2005-2006?
New Projects and Updates:
Charlotte + Matt do South Sussex
Feb 7th
Charlotte was over this weekend and we did a collab of Sussex in Photoshop. It just kept happening.
Pillars of the Earth Illustration
Feb 3rd
So I’m reading the 6000 page Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth. It’s a really, really good book and I’m about 2/3 through. I know they’ve make a TV series etc etc (which I close my eyes to) but for me, reading fiction (a rarity – though a growing interest), grants me the opporunty to stretch my visual storytelling database. I thought I’d share a sketch I’m working on, it’s a love-hate kind of thing me and this piece, it’s coming along:
I’m a pretty big fan of the cloud’s treatment, the random skeletal type connections, the warm/cool tones, flowing composition and some random structure smack dab in the middle…. hmphm
Phone Sketch = Girl
Feb 3rd
Everyone must do it I call this piece Sketching a Girl While Talking to Chris About the Stock Market…..
Should I even bother saying it’s a work-in-progress (WIP) ??? You can go straight to hell – conceptual time…. Ya… YOU
‘Crow Separation’ Video Tutorial !
Oct 27th
Hey Everyone!
I recorded a whopping 1:25 hours of 100% commentaried Matt Vogt Painting Process. I would like to do these more and more. Yesterday night is when this took place. Now please note what you’ll witness is an artist warming up from a day or two painting break. It’s like training a muscle (not speaking from experience) but we achieved some interesting results despite staring art making doom directly in the face. Yes.
This is the part of the video that was intentionally depicted to show how an artist can get his butt kicked by his own work:
(it was getting shaky in there) And this?
The result:
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Topics include:
- Composition
- Color Picking
- ‘Sweet Tweaks’ to keep the flow going and never give up (seen middle image?)
- Using layer adjustments to our advantage
- A layered, yet committed (backward) approach
Robot’s Manual Repairs
Jul 6th
Work in progress baby yeah!
Still much to do! Especially around the rear, tuggin’ guy and that “ship” (wreckage…). It’s starting to look like an Adobe commercial with all the blending colors and sweeping background lines – oh oh.
Figure Studies
Jul 5th
Like Sieff
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Aisii
Discovery Camps – 3D Animation!
Jun 26th
Completed a little promo-project for Gateways Learning Centre. I will be offering 3D Animation with Blender 2.5 come August! Sign up your kids mom, or “hey you” – tell your mom you want to get cool and smart this summer!
Birth of Consciousness SOLD
May 28th
A long time friend always had an eye for this piece – it’ll be his now!
40″ Giclée Canvas Stretched
Random Abstract: Splinter Explosion!
May 28th
Throwing down some random processes. Took no more than 20 minutes! Crazy.
Have to admit, I was kind of showing off for a special somebody. It began with this splinter I found at Manning Park:
Ford F-150 (junker)
Oct 30th
Found North of Harrison Lake, East side, heading to Lillooet Lake! Matter of factly, Charlotte took the photo as we drove by – beautiful!
The process on this one was unique in the sense that I blocked in the colors first, started over and drew her from scratch, then overlaid the sketch on top! Fun.
Autumn 2009
Oct 24th
Happy Autumn everyone! It’s with us now – fog as thick as milk, coldness, leaves dying, farmers taking stock, hibernation etc
For this piece I wanted to focus on the vibrancy and colour of Autumn, mixed with a cool breeze and that burning leaves smell. It’s a crazy time of year here.
WaterMan + Ideation
Oct 14th
I sat down to do a painting one night, itching to explore without photo reference – shelfing the studies…. I didn’t have an idea so I did 2 or 3 very quick sketches before the idea of an explorer finding a “WaterMan” came to mind.
The Capilano Grav-Bot
Oct 5th
Spotted in Vancouver’s Capilano University courtyard. Somewhere in the near future Grav-Bot’s will replace human watchmen due to their functional ability to remove unwanted guests from premise. Unfortunately, this bot has a dent on his brain….
Vedder River
Aug 10th
A fun and quicky – from the vedder river trail just east of the ol’ Vedder Bridge. Painted in photoshop!
Character Design Notes!
Aug 6th
Yes Indeed! Saturday night was a huge success. This little art studio (221 A Artist Run Studio East Georgia St.) held about 20 of us as Brennan Massicotte talked; it was low key, intimate and frickin awesome!
Brennan, being a seasoned duder from United Front Games hooked up some wonderful advice for us learning artists. His area of focus is total concept art. Concept, idea and function design – highest priority!
My favorite part of the conversation was his talk on Input VS Output. He reminded us of how amazing people can render (noodle away) at Concept Art.org or Deviant Art yet the final product begs the question why? What’s the function, story, or significance? Does it matter if this design exists or not? Indeed, this contrasting concept became clear as I redress my work towards high objectives while continuing related studies.
Personally an area for me to focus is considering a clear (not vivid) vision of what my created universes look like. Outlining the consistent limits and strengths of a design before beginning makes a lot of sense now.
Remember, “how cool” is always secondary to “the right idea”.
Talking with the local artists readdressed my process as we shared and compared. I now see the different benefits and usages for going straight-ahead-painting vs design line drawing. Sweet.
And by far, Brennan enlightened us more than most artists with his attention to study. Image making has its place in process awareness but Brennan reminded us all to look not at “the image” but what is that you’re looking at? Is it a green truck shape with a blue background or 4 wheels attached by suspension, drive train, engine etc and can you draw this? That’s exciting! To successfully rotate a design visually is where it’s at.
Anyways, to further my rant of awesomeness, I took his words to heart on an immediate study in which I found a great statue shot on corbis.com and did a quick sketch for acquainting myself. After, I imagined what the backside of the statue was and painted it. The creative design goodness continues!
Painting Process!
Jul 9th
In a conversation with Artists, Picasso touched on how our original vision affects the final paint’s result:
It would be very interesting to record photographically, not the stages of a painting, but its metamorphoses. One would see perhaps by what course a mind finds its way toward the crystallization of its dream. But what is really very serious is to see that the pictures does not change basically, that the initial vision remains almost intact in spite of appearance.
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Neato!
The Jesus Series – Cont'
Jul 9th
More illustration of the book JESUS, The Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran!
Mt Thom Study
Jul 7th
Neat stumps I found hiking up to the ol’ Mt Thom lookout in Chilliwack, British Columbia – a five minute drive from home!
San Fran Customs
Jul 7th
Abandoned US Customs, SanFran Airport (now destroyed). Why? To bring an old place to life!
A Staircase Study?
Jul 7th
Here it is folks, a quick staircase study – inspired by the randomly urban decay photography found present these days.
All in the name of knowledge….
"Alien in an Alley" Video Tutorial!
Jun 25th
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!
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ps: thanks to Tim Simpson for commenting on the fact that I said ark-way instead of archway.
Thanks buddy…..
Sketch:
Value Placement:
In Living Colour:
Final Composition:
Any questions let me know via commenting!
The Jesus Series
Jun 16th
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.
Figure Paints!
Jun 11th
