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Designing stuffs.

Bill Goats Gruff

This was for a contest that I never entered because I'm crazy lazy and finished today; read: 5 months too late.

It was a contest to illustrate any fairytale, so I drew the Billy Goats Gruff as Italian gangsters.

Photoshop and hurled feces; many hours.

"You and I are through, professionally..."

So this needs to be a t-shirt.

I will see if I can get it on at least one, and spread the awesomeness.

I photoshopped this together, but the image of Bale is probably copyrighted to hell, so I can't mass-produce it and sell it.

Poop. I want to get rich quickly and easily.

-Matt G

Hell, MI Fan art stuff

So I did this for mister Workhorse Illustration himself, Mr. Scott E Fresh, and his stellar comic Hell, MI.

Sorry it took so long, yo.

Better late than never, I say!



-Matty

Taking on another epic endeavor...

I've decided it's time.

If you've ever had it in your head to start a new project, or you've had an idea floating around in your head for so long you think it's just another ghostly haunting of a pipe dream that will never come to fruition, then you know that there are times when inspiration comes from the strangest sources.

My friend and ex-gradeschool "cartoonist" rival Megan Gedris has a couple of stunningly well-written webcomics (also in print) that keep that small hope in me of making it big in the art industry while still hailing from Grand Rapids a reality.

Her comic that I follow most religiously, YU+ME,  in my opinion, has "cult-phenomenon" written all over it. Given that she has printed editions and shirts and all that available, I'd say she's definitely giving her fans what they want. Were I a rich man, I'd buy some myself; but I DO have a commemoritive autographed edition of Lesbian Pirates from Outerspace, so when the shit hits the fan and she's making millions and being stalked by fanatics the world over

, I shall reap the benefits of having been her arch-rival in 5th grade.

She sent out a letter on DeviantArt notifying everyone that she would publish their illustrated stories under her company's name if they met the given criteria. This is where the aforementioned inspiration/kick in the pants came from. I said to myself, "Good grief! This girl's got three comics that I KNOW about and now she's helping other people kickstart THEIR dreams with her award-winning good fortune? I am a pathetic excuse for a working artist."

Such is the nature of art; you surround yourself with creative people not to compare yourself and feel like crap about your own work, but to feed off eachother's drive and energy and always strive for self-betterment.

And that's it! I'm making a comic of my own; or "graphic novella" if you will. And here's the logo!

That's all you get.

Until next time.

-Matt G

Painting is Hard

Behold Tundra the terrible.


This is gonna be the first image of the second episode of Pizza Jockeys. For the intro, I'm going to have an 'ethereal' recap of the previous episode made up of echoing screams of "integral" plot points accompanied by an array of paintings.

I just watched Punk'd for the first time ever. Take THAT celebrities.

-Matt G

Lemme Git Those Digits

I'm trying to get some pieces done for the Motor City Comic Con next week. This one's about not being able to escape time. CS3 and lots of mistakes to learn from along the way; hope you like it.

Couple New Things

Just finished some old pieces that needed to just be colored and done with. Hope you dig.

For the Running Man, I used the coloring style that I'm comfortable with, but which is not really fun to do. It's more or less dropping colors in selected areas; tedious.

The Surfing...Man is something I had to get out of my system for the time being while learning the limitations of "speed-painting" techniques. Not as loose as I want it to be, but if I didn't get it done this instant, I'd never get it done at all.

-Matt G