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Isric · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 12:48 am

last Christmas I got a fancy wooden box with a beautiful wood pen with brass nibs. I played with it for a while but eventually thought I was too fancy and put it on my shelf.
BUT! It somehow made it's way out, i was using it to draw the Narnia stuff (of which I still have stuff to scan), and fell deeply, deeply in love with it. I bought some nice ink, and I've been going banana's with this thing. It kinda sucks though, cause it's not portable (can't REALLY go carrying ink and pens around with my sketchbook). Anyway, here are some of the drawings I've been doing with them. The power over line is amazing, I never knew there could be so much...so much control *sniff*

in this one, that's a nazi on your right, and he's saying 'Ya. Hello. Mei Name is Igon Vonhinterburg. Can ei com live vith you?'

jeez it's 2:30 in the morning...

Binke · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 1:06 am

jesus isric, your linework is just fantastic dude. Really fucking inspirational. *saves*

neff · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 1:08 am

woha!
A new fantastic ink&pen artist

You have a amazing style, and the expressions in their faces looks very fine.

What about colorize them?

Ian Jones · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 1:39 am

Very nice. Seems you got the control that the pen affords you! Have fun!

[666]Flat · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 1:52 am

Holy mother of fuck! That iz truly m0st tasty and shall be continued ... for great justic3 !!1

StrangeFate · member Member # Joined: 20 Feb 2000 Posts: 199

that's some really sweet stuff yup

Binke · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:15 am

btw dont know if you wanted critique but, the girl's right eye on the last pic is very misplaced.

Germ01 · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 4:17 am

Excellent line work! You have awesome control, and your style has so much character. Just excellent!

Basement bound · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 9:17 am

Matt I just have to ask. Do you just spend day upon day creating costumes? Or do you just go with what comes to you at the time? Everytime I look at your characters you have such an elaborate scale of atire for them. Would love to see a thread just dedicated to costume design from you.

Serenity · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 9:43 am

I also really like your costume design.It's great. It works well with the great character design. Your art is really impressive.

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f3nce · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 9:44 am

Pen and ink is super-portable, isric. Just remember to put your bottle of ink (I like Winsor Newton) in a resealable sandwich bag in case it spills/leaks, and rinse off your nibs when you're done. Pen nibs will last 25 years if you take proper care of them.

Also, you should try at liquid acrylic. It's a thin acryclic that you can use with pens, although they work best in technical pens.

fuel_99 · junior member Member # Joined: 20 Feb 2002 Posts: 48

those drawings are beautiful.. very nice lineflow in all of them

Icannon · Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2002 5:20 pm

love em, man.

Bishop_Six · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 1:56 am

Jeez, those are beautiful man. Really spectacular. You have such great costume designs. *loves pours out of Bishop Six*

Weirdowe · member Member # Joined: 02 Mar 2001 Posts: 118

Awesome work matt...
Can I just ask you how long you went to (I assume you went to) ACAD. And which program there?

Basement bound · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 12:29 pm

Weirdowe- I believe that Matt is in his first year at ACAD. I would assume that he is in the VC program specialization in illustration. I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time.

Isric · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 5:11 pm

well a big thanks for all the compliments. now for the specifics

Binke- yeah, it's terrible. i didn't even notice it. I generally like to space the eyes out a little, but for some reason I went waaaaay too far and didn't notice until I posted it

Basement bound- it's mostly made up as I go, but I have been known to do a few pages worth of design for bigger projects

f3nce- hmm..excellent, I'll have to try that

Francis- thanks mate, I never even thought about that

criztu- why yes I have

Weirdowe- Basement Bound is correct, I'm starting second year in september, specializing in the Illustration branch of the Visual Communications program.

edible snowman · member Member # Joined: 12 Sep 2000 Posts: 998

are the cool random little patterns you've been putting in your work lately based on something? or are the just random designs you pull out of your head? at any rate, the time you seem to be spending studying different types of costumes/clothing really seems to be paying off.

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liv the fish · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:01 pm

How can I let an Isric post go without saying something?

Thanks for posting those! They're really great.

l.t.f. aka Isric's Art Puppy (er...maybe not

)

Francis · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:04 pm

Matt, what I really like is that the areas of high detail are very selectively placed - it's not just sprayed all over the image.

Much respect.

criztu · Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:50 pm

hi everybody (first post)
isric, i've saved your drawings to my personal collection of artist artwork. the way you put details on costumes is pleasing my eyes (like francis noticed). very easy to distinguish between different pieces of cloth ... have you thaught in creating a comics album ?
i like the work of a french artist - moebius/jean giraud, i think your style (the economy of detail) is close to his. (major grubert-garage hermetique du jerry cornelius)

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The Magic Pen · member Member # Joined: 05 Dec 2001 Posts: 321

Pretty works isi