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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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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at Prime Meats
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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
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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!
ON. SALE. NOW
So if you want either of these Breaking Bad prints that I produced for the current show at Gallery 1988 (see the post below for more on that), then you can find them here. Editions of 50, and at the time of writing this there are less than 10 of the shrine print, and about 25 of the chapel print left *UPDATED* all the shrine prints have gone now, there are a few of the chapel prints left still.
Both lovely hand pulled screen prints courtesy of Parliament of Feathers (four and three colors respectively), and when they’re gone they’re gone forever…
Way way back in the autumn of 2010 I was contacted by the folks at Burton Snowboards and asked if I would like to design a pair of gloves for their winter 2012/13. Obviously I said yes (because, come on, it’s Burton), and worked on a calavera/day of the dead themed design.
Artwork was signed off and sent off, and then began a very very long waiting game, thanks to the substantial lead times needed in the production of snowboarding gear. Now, almost two years on from doing them, they are in the new season catalogue and online. Honestly i was slightly worried that seeing them now, so long after doing them, they wouldn’t stand up against my current work. But you know what? They totally do. I’ll try not to think about what that means with regards to two years of improvement in my current work.
So there you go - if you’re headed to the slopes this season, get your mitts in these. You can see them online here; not available to buy yet, but i have no doubt they will be soon…
Are you in LA? If you are, have you been along to Gallery 1988’s excellent Crazy 4 Cult 5 show? If not, why not - didn’t you see me mention it was excellent just there? Transatlantic peer pressure aside, I have it on good authority that this years aforementioned Crazy 4 Cult is the best yet (and the fact it can keep getting better after five years is a testament to the keen eye of the guys at G1988).
Obviously the reason I mention this is because I have a piece in the show this year. That’s it, at the top of this post. Point Break is arguably the king of testosterone driven dumb action adventure and this is my little tribute to the quasi-mystic buddhist bank robber Bodhi.
It’s available in an edition of 30 for the not unreasonable sum of $35, so if you want one, point your browsers towards the Gallery1988 webshop.
I know, I know - I keep posting bits of Matador art with the intention of it being the last one (and threats that you’ll have to buy the book to see them all), and while that’s mostly true, it also happens that this project is rapidly gaining more pages, so sharing a little more with you now isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Did I mention I was going to make these into a book? Well I hope to - currently dependent on getting a good price quoted - probably an A5 thing, akin to Cowboy Versus Indian (what’s Cowboy Versus Indian you ask? it’s this), but in color. And it’s also the first thing in a new publishing venture that I WILL blog about this week. Or next.
In other news, I’m going to be doing a comic. With a proper up and coming comic writer who has plucked me from obscurity and everything. Can’t really say any more than that right now, but expect to get tired of me banging on about it for the foreseeable future…
Early work in progress for some drawings of Mardi Gras Indians that i’m working on. Maybe to be a print at some point.
Two panels from my next comic experiment. As you can see, this weeks color tint of choice will be orange. Three of ten pages penciled, inked and toned, the rest to come over the next week…
So these are the fruits of my labors from the last two days. I’m mostly happy with how these two pages turned out - i think i need to obsessively focus less on making each panel a perfect illustration and more on the balance of the page as a whole.
A few notes - as well as the inspiration from Pope, Watterson and Woodson mentioned in the last post, the layout is wholesale lifted from Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier (i think the three panel page is a really nice storytelling device) and the face in panel two owes a lot to Fabio Moon’s line work.
More comics to come - these have been quite fun.
Hunter and bear in the snow. Having another crack at drawing some comics and this is my first completed page. Inspired in equal parts by Paul Pope, Herge, Bill Watterson and Matthew Woodson (whose tumblr posts of his sterling work for an upcoming arc in Northlanders put my mind on to the idea of a hunter in the snow).
Aiming to do some short stories a couple of pages long with a view to collecting them together for something. Not sure yet, but enough to keep me occupied until a new job comes in…
A brief respite from my assorted client jobs has allowed me some time to do little something for the Superheroes show that Society6 are running in San Francisco at D-Structure gallery this May. For legal reasons I should state emphatically that this is NOT Wonder Woman.
An embiggenable version here, and if you want yo buy it as a print then you can do that through my Society6 shop here.
