Matt Taylor Illustration
My name is Matt Taylor, I'm an illustrator and I live by the sea. I like drawing pictures for money, riding my bike, walking on the beach, appreciating comic books and rummaging through thrift stores for old photos. This blog is for works in progress, assorted drawings that don't have a home yet and things which don't quite fit in my folio. Speaking of which, you can see my full blown folio by directing your website towards www.matttaylor.co.uk
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Personal work, 2013
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Another cynical attempt to capture a market more popular than whatever one I’m in now - this time, the 1950s-knockoff illustration market.
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Crash and Burn by Budi Satria Kwan -
‘wish you were here…’ sun soaked California, 1950s style
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Kickstarter: Constellation Quilt
My dear friend Emily has an awesome Kickstarter (so awesome in fact that it met...
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Juan Manuel Fangio, Milan, 1958
Maurice Jarnoux
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Captain America #110 (Marvel Comics - February 1969)
Script: Stan Lee
Illustrators: Jim Steranko (Pencils) & Joe Sinnott (Inks) -
Loved working on this job with one of the best art directors around - Doris Oberneder.
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Teenage Sidekick by Paul Pope. Colors by James Jean.
I think it’s about time for another piece of work for Gallery1988 (and there will be more before the year is out). This Friday sees the launch of the Bad Robot Experience, celebrating all manner of shows and films that JJ Abrams has had his fingerprints on.
I opted to go way back to the beginning with Alias - partly because I thought there would be a glut of Lost pieces, but mainly because I just straight up loved Alias. True it went a bit off the rails towards the end, but Sidney Bristow was a kick-ass hero (even if she insisted on an utterly incongruous wig when ‘undercover’)
This will be available in an edition of 20 from the gallery on Friday and then online over the weekend at some point from the Gallery1988 web shop. I will no doubt tweet about it - you can find and follow me here for more art related tweets.
Well, I wasn’t expecting these to be as popular as they were! So thank you Tumblr - you are awesome. It seems that a few of you want these pictures on your wall, so here’s your opportunity:
http://matttaylordraws.bigcartel.com/category/daft
This is a timed edition. They will be on sale until May 1st, and then however many have been bought will be printed. Could be a handful, could be a huge pile. It’s more likely to be handful.
Buy, buy buy!
Does anyone apart from me remember Belle & Sebastian? Not the band, the other one. No, not the kids book either, the other other one. This one.
It was one of what I would like to think was a golden age of crazy European and European/Japanese co-productions that were serialized over many many weeks on kids TV and included Dogtanian and the Three Muskahounds, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, and Around the World with Willy Fog. I suspect that viewing them now would shatter some rose tinted memories, but I remember enjoying all of them along with the aforementioned Belle and Sebastian.
The reason for this long preamble is that when Jon at iam8bit got in touch and asked if I wanted to contribute to his Nickelodeon tribute show (currently showing at their LA gallery) I jumped at the chance without really having a lot of experience of the channel past bits of their original programming which drifted across the pond. Luckily it turned out that they broadcast a bunch of shows that I had watched as a youngun and so, well, you can see the print above.
Printed as ever by Parliament of Feathers and available in an edition of 30 from iam8bit (and a bunch have gone already so dont sleep on them) alongside a bunch more excellent art for the show from the likes of personal faves Jim Mahfood, Amanda Visell and Aled Lewis.
Rejoice! There is new Daft Punk material imminent! If, of course, you have been under a rock for the last week, i shall point you in the direction of this teaser of new track Get Lucky and this video of the new outfits designed by Hedi Slimane (and thus instantly coveted). All of this is VERY VERY EXCITING for someone who grew up dancing in smoky nightclubs to the first three albums.
Anyway, the long and short is that I wanted to draw Daft Punk so here you go: Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter in full robot regalia. Enjoy!
Take two: tried to upload this earlier, but it wasn’t showing up on my timeline, so lets have another go. Anyway…
This is basically Cintiq practice and a direct result of watching too much of the surely-soon-to-be-cancelled Smash. I can highly recommend both Smash and the Cintiq, although I admit that both wont be to everyone’s tastes.
A lot of the stuff I post on here is for shows, self promo and my own gratification. But as it turns out I spend most of my days NOT doing only that and in fact busting out a lot of editorial work (because, best will in the world, selling 25 prints at a show don’t pay the bills).
I don’t post a whole lot of it, mainly because it would clutter up your stream, but I was really happy with how this one turned out (because at a certain point, and for no explainable reason I tried to use ALL the colors), so here you go.
This will be cropping up in this months Computer Arts, and is to accompany an article about reinventing yourself as a creative (hence the man bursting out his skin in a new more creative form). Subscribers will have the magazine now and everyone else can pick it up next week - and you should, it’s a good read.
Next: more self indulgent drawings!
In a couple of weeks, the estimable Spoke Art of San Francisco are going to be holding a Scorsese themed art throwdown in NYC later on this month. You can read all about the details here, but the big news for me is that they asked me to contribute (and yes, I still get excited when an awesome gallery asks me to contribute to a show. It happened again today, but more about that in a month or two).
It should be obvious from the pictures above that I decided to try my hand at Bill the Butcher from Gangs of New York, which I re-watched recently and holds up a lot better than I remember. Regardless of what you think of the film (replete with a few shaky accents and an excess of Cameron Diaz), Daniel Day Lewis is pretty spectacular in it, and deserving of all the themed art which will no doubt be adorning the walls at the show.
Printed as ever by the good folk at Parliament of Feathers - three colors on black stock at a handy 11 x 14” size and available on the night (and thereafter from Spoke Art if there are any left).
Put April 19th in your diary New Yorkers!
The estimable Spoke Art Gallery will be crossing coasts from their home in San Francisco for three days of art dedicated to Martin Scorsese at the Bold Hype Gallery in the big Apple. Here is all the information you could possibly need.
And if you want to see more of my Gangs of New York piece (which will be available to buy on the night in the form of a natty three color screen print), you’ll just have to head on down because that little snap above is all I’m showing for now…
Hey! Remember those book covers that I am frequently going on about? Well if you’re in the UK and you’re so inclined then you are now able to go into shops (or Amazon if you wish) and get them.
Thanks to Penguin UK for licensing these so I can at last see them on the shelves.
I totally forgot about this. And seeing as I’m on a tumblr rampage this week, I might as well post it now.
So last month I did some art for the launch of the new tomb raider game. I wrote a blog post about it here. Anyway, as is the case with these sorts of projects, how it goes is you submit a bunch of sketches and then work one of them up to finished art. Due to a slight miscommunication I ended up working the wrong piece up to a finished state. Luckily, I was ahead of schedule so I finished the correct sketch straight afterwards, but that long-winded explanation is why i have TWO pieces of Lara Croft illustration in my folio.
I was really happy with this one too, so here it is, along with the sketch and a third sketch that I really didn’t have time to do. Enjoy!
