Happy New Year and a New Daily Project

First off, Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great holiday season! 2011 was a great year and I have a feeling 2012 is going to be even better.

One thing I'd like to be better at this year is updating this site. I definitely haven't been living up to the title of this blog! Work has been keeping me incredibly busy so i haven't had much time to do any personal work but the good news is that i have a little bit of free time at the moment so i'm going to start another monthly illustration-a-day project for the month of January.

Since yesterday was a holiday and i wanted to spend time with my family, i'll be starting it today. Instead of a theme like March of the Monsters, this time around it's just going to be a random character each day. This way i'll be able to keep it interesting and not get too bored (which happens often). I'm still planning on rendering all of the 30 Rock Characters so i may slip them into this project.

Starting us off today is the invincible Iron Man. Enjoy!

The Legend of Zelda

Here is my contribution to the Fill Up Your Hearts blog. My parents gave my older brother a Nintendo for Christmas of '86 (i think) and from then on we were hooked. We only had a few games starting out and this was one of them and it's still one of my favorite games. 

Be sure to check out all the other awesome contributions to the Fill Up Your Heart blog!

30 Rock Animated Sketches

So after finishing up the Frank piece, i decided i wanted to try drawing the characters in a more animated style. I thought it would be fun to show my process so here are the sketches of the main characters. From here i'll start rendering each one. Stay tuned for those!

Update: Added the dark color to Lemon's hair since a few people have commented on that. I was always planning on coloring it dark...just forgot to add that to the sketches!

 

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Frank Rossitano

"Skeletor's not my favorite...you are."

I just finished the 5th season of 30Rock, and decided to do some fan art, starting with Frank. I wanted push my work a bit further this time so it's a lot more detailed than some of my other stuff. After i finished i decided it would be fun to add some typography and turn it into a fake cartoon series.

I think i'll do a few more of these since there are so many great characters on the show.

-Matt

Toucan Sam

Decided to add another one to the cereal series. Toucan Sam was created by Manuel R. Vega in 1963.

Tony the Tiger

A companion piece to the Cap'n Crunch print. I think i'm going to do a few more cereal mascots and hang them together on my office wall.

The Adventures of Fail Whale

This was a really fun concept piece i did for a client.