Art Work
Matthew Vogt Style
Roses and Rutabagas!
Mar 8th
A wonderful completion!
Features:
- 100% custom HTML content + CSS layout = loads fast + topping Google
- Visual layout made to client’s liking = loves it!
- Photography credit, yours truly….
- WordPress powered News page for easy client side updating with images and writing
- Web Analytics for visitor info and page awareness
- “Well priced, awesome results” – Matt
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.
WaterColour #1
Oct 30th
Last night we had an introduction to watercolour with Stephen Baker (he’s awesome). It was a huge success and I’m proud of the result. It certainly was fun to break into a tactual medium!
Annoucement: Photography!
Oct 29th
Just a quick guiding head’s up!
Matthew has a Flickr account for enjoying Fine Art Photography!
Random highlights and adventures – more to come + peoples!
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….
Sold My First Painting!
Sep 20th
Don’t want to brag or anything but a painting of a local bridge on the Vedder River sold in the Chilliwack’s Fine Art and Framing shop last week!
Painted in 2007:
Reid Property Photos!
Sep 11th
I accompanied my Dad to Prince George last week to look at our property or Reid street. He runs a business doing lease-to-own and this one’s on the market now!
Here’s his website http://easybuyhomes.ca
Even taking photos of a vacant property can be fun and creative! Check out the colours in this place! http://evaluyzer.com/Reid/
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!
A Great Game Art Gallery (AGGAG)
Jul 22nd
http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_art
What’s really good is the Lineage II gallery:
http://www.freakygaming.com/gallery/game_art/lineage_2/
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….
Introducing Lawn Mower Man!
Jun 25th
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I saw this gentleman whilst driving home a sunset ago:
He was wearing a white dress shirt, classy shoes, suspenders and mowing while smoking. The glare from his glossed hair was nearly blinding…
"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!
Teapot Flip!
Jun 19th
Oi! A simple test of animation principles and a crash course in keying (animating) effects in AfterEffects! Great success yet again Matthew!
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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.
Gutted Matt's Website!
Jun 11th
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:
Charlotte and Matthew from Life!
Jun 11th
Done with a massive mirror – this studio setup was the best idea ever.
Done with mirror:
And minor update afterwards:
Random Paints from 2008.
Jun 11th
The in between paintings that better see the light of day (i think)…. just random incompletes hinting at the craziness found in creative fun!
Figure Paints!
Jun 11th
John Singer Sargent Notes!
Mar 29th
Yes of course Craig Mullins would have John Singer Sargent notes!
http://goodbrush.com/misc/painting_lessons/lessons.htm
Straight from the notes:
Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in he mind without ceasing a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight, and everything that is to be seen, the power of selection will follow. Be continually making mental notes, make them again and again, test what you remember by sketches until you have got them fixed. Do not be backward at using every device and making every experiment that ingenuity can devise, in order to attain that sense of completeness which nature so beautifully provides, always bearing in mind the limitations of the materials in which you work.
And some study advice?
Paint a hundred studies: keep any number of clean canvases ready, of all shapes and sizes so that you are never held back by the sudden need of one. You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
Bonnie Ayotte recommended me using the plumb line as well:
When drawing from the model, never be without the plumb line in the left hand. Everyone has a bias, either to the right hand or the left of the vertical. The use of the plumb line rectifies this error and develops a keen appreciation of the vertical.
Thanks to Gothic Gerbil for typing it out and Jan Keirse for creating the PDF.
47 Pages from Craig Mullins
Mar 29th
All right boys and girls – here’s a tip to tap into a massive list of writings from Craig Mullins.
His website is: http://goodbrush.com/
He has helped many people in his prime on the forum of Sijun.
Using the search engine: http://www.forums.sijun.com/search.php
Search for author ‘Spooge Demon’, set the results to display as ‘posts’ and change the max character count to ‘all availible’.
Yes 1443 posts, spanning 47 pages of goodness! Definitely a mix of themes/subjects but definitely some nuggets of knowledge within!
Figure Painting Begins!
Mar 11th
These were done using the “straight-ahead” method of apply color paint directly referencing the golden rule:
The right shape, right value, right color in the right place.
All done for Don Seegmiller’s course:
http://workshops.cgsociety.org/courses/000094/
Random Sketches!
Mar 11th
Panda studies for an old painting pal in Dubai and a highlight from the classic Moleskin – which is housed in my back pocket all the time.
17 Lady Portrait Tutorials!
Mar 1st
Portrait Painting with Don Seegmiller
Mar 1st
Assignment results for friend Don Seegmiller. Below are value studies, “value to color wash” and the straight ahead applying paint methods!
Don’s theme is this: Use the right color, right value and right shape, in the right place and you’re set!
Painting Tutorials
Mar 1st
Carlos' Tutorials!
Tim Simpson, hooked a brother up with this amazing resource.
All free, all awesome – a glimpse into Carlos’ process:
http://www.carloscabrera.com.ar/tutorial.html
World of Goo Soundtrack
Jan 21st
I recommend this game. The soundtrack is out and free to download!
Thanks Kyle – great work!
Environment Design Week 4
Nov 23rd
Perspective Time! An assignment of one, two and three point, perspective.
Thumbnail Process of Two Point Perspective
Environment Design Week 3
Nov 23rd
Value/Form Assignment: Create 3 pictures of a gothic interior, same area, different lighting solutions.
Following the educated approach, I studied some gothic goodness first:
And the week’s result:
Environment Design Week 2
Nov 23rd
Week two of Philip Straub’s course was about exploring further composition types.
Below, we have a circle/L hybrid, a circular (straight up), another circular and a cross/iconic.
