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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Apropos of nothing, but I was chatting with a friend and fellow illustrator this morning about initial sketches and it reminded me that I had this image sitting on my hard-drive.
This is the rough process for my North By Northwest illustration for Gallery1988 earlier in the year (a handful of copies still available here - and with a seasonal discount!). You’re looking at my inital scribble (probably about 1” high), rough photoshop sketch to get balance of color and final art. There were more stages in between, but these I think best sell the process.
I’m a big fan of looking at other artists sketchbooks (Chris Ware and Paul Hornschemeier have both had lovely collections published). It’s a great insight into the creative process and can show an idea from it’s inception on the back of a diary page to a finished illustration. I shall be making the effort to post more sketchbook work in the new year - apologies in advance for clogging up your timeline…
Apropos of nothing, here is a sketch of something that i have been doing lunchtimes, evening and weekends. It will be a screen print, in may look slightly different in it’s final state, it’s for a show happening later this summer, and you will be able to buy it.
Don’t expect this to be the last that you see of this…
Sick of hearing me bang on about book covers? Then you should probably not read this post.
Once again, the good folk at Penguin (specifically Mr Paul Buckley and Gregg Kulick who art direct me and design magnificent type to sit over my drawings) have asked me to illustrate the covers in what is becoming a substantial backlist reissue of the books of John le Carre. You remember? I’ve made a few posts about them. These two (which have appeared on the coming soon section of the Penguin website, hence the blog post) will be numbers nine and ten, and there’s another couple to come as well.
Also: process sketches! Because that’s what blogs are good for. There’s some early ideas and my finished pencils for A Murder Of Quality (actually, ‘pencils’ is a misnomer, because i do everything digitally these days. But if i had been drawing by hand, this would have been the pencilled stage before i launched into colors and inks). I hope that someone finds these interesting enough to justify posting them.
These will be on sale in the summer - expect to be beaten into submission with more blogs about them (and the other two covers from this batch) when the time comes.
Just a little something something today - instead of utilising my lunch break roaming the streets of Southsea in search of a sandwich, I thought i’d put in an hour on something BIG i’m currently scribbling at for a pitch to one of my favorite publishers. I think if I did this every day i would start going vampiric from lack of sunlight, so don’t expect an update everyday, but i’m pretty happy with an hours work…
More actual blogs to come this week because i’ve done some new work that i CAN share. Huzzah!
This isn’t really representative of what this piece will eventually look like in a finished state, but what is a blog for if not for putting random pieces out there.
This is going to form part of my summer self promotional push and will be a folding poster with one big image on one side and a bunch of smaller things on the other. More to come soon…
Word has reached me from the other side of the pond that the February issue of American Wired has come out, and one of my drawings is in it. This is that drawing - it’s to accompany an article about songs written about Mexican drug barons. There’s a few sketches here as well if you like that sort of thing…
