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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Artwork by Tin Can Forest (Pat Shewchuk and Marek Colek)
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Fully sequined @YSL tuxedos for @daftpunk in the latest @GQ_France
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A multicolor sunset for today’s #inspiration.
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some young avengers for you guys <3
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Love and Rockets vol. 2 issue 9 back cover by Gilbert Hernandez
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Just arrived in stock, courtesy of the wonderful print guys and gals at Static Medium - James Dean Live Forvever print. If you preordered one of these they will be on their way this week.
Edition of 25 sized at 8 x 8” and available for the princely sum of £15 from my shop.
Waiting for client feedback on about five jobs means… TIME FOR ADVENTURE!
So there you go.
Gallery1988: we all know the score by now, right? Pop culture artwork show originators, awesome events, etc. Good.
So no surprises, they’ve got an awesome show opening tomorrow night at their new Melrose location. The theme this time around is posters advertising ficitional products from movies, and seriously everything from Red Apple Cigarettes (from every Tarantino movie ever) to Oceanic Airlines (if I have to tell you, you don’t deserve to know) is represented alongside my contribution, Dapper Dan men’s pomade.
Once again screen printed by the wonderful Parliament of Feathers, this is a two color 11 x 14” screen print on heavyweight cream card. It will be available in an edition of 50 priced at a very reasonable $40. You will be able to pick it up at the show and then online at some point over the weekend.
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to produce a new piece of art to be used in a series of prints to accompany the release of the new Tomb Raider game (which just came out this week).
Obviously I said yes because otherwise this would be a pretty meaningless blog post, and also: it’s Tomb Raider. Whatever you might think of the later games, if you’re my age (early thirties since you ask), you probably played the first games - and the overwhelming memory of making lara swan dive into pools/caves/etc informed my illustration.
You can find this print on sale at two pop up shops that are happening in NY & SF this weekend alongside pieces by a REALLY great roster of artists - Victo Ngai, Kyle Smart and Sam Wolfe Connelly amongst others.
See the full line up and read the press blurb over on the Tomb Raider facebook page here, and big thanks to AD Marc Scheff for involving me in the project!
a couple of years ago i did this portrait of Hemingway, which seemed to be quite tumblr popular. i meant to revisit it at some point and do some other counter-culture and beat icons but never quite got around to it.
fast forward to this afternoon and I find myself with a few hours to kill waiting on client feedback and so do this. i think it turned out nice, and i would be even happier if i had remembered to save the file before i closed it. it’s a good job i took a decent hi-res screen shot before i did otherwise i would be fuming right now.
i have a list of more of these i might do, expect it to be about two more years til i get around to it…
If you would like this hanging on your wall, why not mosey on over to my web shop…
I really needed a break from my current project for an hour or two today and seeing as it’s Shrove Tuesday in the UK that would make it Fat Tuesday in the US, and thus Mardi Gras in some of the southernmost states, so here is a jazz trumpeteer.
Yup, it’s another post about those book covers. Sorry. I’ll try and keep it brief.
Don’t get me wrong, I have loved doing them but its been a shame that I have yet to see any of them on the shelves (being of course, American editions, and me all the way over in the UK and not having visited the States for a fair old while). Luckily friends have snapped pictures but it’s not quite the same.
You can probably guess where this is going then - the lovely lovely folks at Penguin UK have decided that they should be used in the UK as well. Which means that sometime this spring (i think April, but don’t quote me on that), I will be able to go into my local Waterstones and see them on the shelves. Which I am over the moon about.
Expect exciteable tweets and tumbls when this happens.
Brand. New. Website!
So January 1st heralded a return to working for myself again, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to redesign my website (but not too much because I was pretty happy with the old one - it just needed a little bit of a polish).
I am now available for freelance hire, so if you like what I do please don’t hesitate to get in touch - I will consider most things. You can drop me a message through Tumblr or send me an email at matt@matttaylor.co.uk - i look forwards to hearing from you!
One last drop of old work, and then it really is on to the new stuff. This is actually quite recent (only a month or two old), and was a sort of half pitch, half self initated piece whilst at the old day job.
I was really taken with this seasons Gyakusou collection from Nike and Jun Takahashi - the beautiful technical detailing whilst placing function above all and still managing to make a really good looking piece of clothing - and I wanted to try and replicate that mix of detail and simplicity in the drawing.
Again, I’d rather these were out in the world than gathering virtual dust on the hard drive so here you go. Next up, genuine NEW work (rather than rehashing the greatest hits of unused projects from eighteen months in a studio…)
Gallery 1988 are throwing another of their Under the Influence shows celebrating someone they think would make for great art and they have kindly invited me to take part this year. This time around the subject is the bespectacled East Coast master of neurosis - Woody Allen.
I don’t think you can really separate Woody Allen from his native city, so it would have been remiss of me to do anything but take it as a subject (and it sits quite nicely alongside this Hitchcock piece from last year). I tried a few new techniques and brushes on this, and while I wont be using them all the time, they turned out alright here.
This will be on sale on Friday at Gallery1988 Venice (and at some point soon after at the Gallery 1988 online store) - it’s an 11 x 14 giclee print in an edition of 20 and they will be $40 each.
(also, and this is of no real interest to anyone but me, this is my 100th tumblr blog - which works out at about one a week for the last two years. not too shabby, and hopefully more blogging this year!)
