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Matthew · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:34 pm

Hello

In 2 days I have been in this forum for a year.
Well, time goes by fast when you are having fun and I have had a lot of fun here in Sijun forums, it has been some rough times too but I guess that is how life works.
I remember when I started to post here a year ago, I think I had one reply in that thread and I posted some pictures from geocities that didn�t work and the pictures wasn�t good at all either...hehe.
Since then I have had a lot of help from you people and also made a lot of friends in here, I thank you all, I love you guys and I love the speedy. :)

Maybe you have seen some early sketches of this Orc in the speedy, I have also made an Acrylic painting of a similar Orc pose.

Keep up the good work guys
Matthew

henrik · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:32 pm

Looks like you have improved your knowledge and perception quite a bit since last year Mr Matthew. Keep drawing and painting, work on your anatomy. You're doing well.
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Tomasis · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:23 pm

wow that is good.. it would be nice to see your acrylic painting too Smile

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cool

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Max · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:43 am

Concrats Matthew!!! Very Happy

You won't believe me but I remeber your first post hehe...didn't reply thought Laughing

Awesome image. Man, you have improved so much - that's stunning
I know, I say that all the time but since it's the truth...well
The style is great and so sharp too!
The hand is wonderful painted...like you have stolen the talent of some masters

Keep up the good work.
The second year will give you at least twice as much skills as the last one.
see you

Andromeda · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 7:50 am

keep it up man. i still remember the first few pics you posted at sijun. i must say youve really improved.
one thing i like about you is that you never give up ...
personally i think you post a damn lot but you take your art seriously and you dont let anything get you down. i respect that.

youre getting better everyday =] ...
keep it up matthew ...

oh and cheers to a full year in Sijun.
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Tinusch · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:26 am

Nice... You've made so much improvement since you got here, it's unbelievable. Could you post that really old picture of the guy in red holding the giant Q-Tip, just for comparison?

Iliya Zilberter · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:32 am

Congrats, and that a pretty neat pic, too.

*grabs calculator*

Over 6 posts a day? damn. Laughing

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maxetormer · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:02 pm

howdy congrats Matthew!!!! i have not been here as long as you but, i
admire your tenacity to do things, and hell if you are getting better the volumen on the face looks great man, Very Happy

one of the most original orcs i have seen, keep it up!!!!
(I also find very apealing that you post on a lot of works of many people no matter if they are newbies or not, so thanks for been frendly to the new people here, and to the old as well=) )
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viag · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 12:27 pm

ye keep the good work !!!

togusajr · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 6:25 pm

its been a ho' latta fun

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yea i agree, its been a ho latta fun

Matthew · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:40 pm

Guys I really appreciate all the commments here, thank you all. :)

henrik -- hey nice to see you in my thread, thank you for your comment here.

Tomasis -- ah yea thank you tomasis, I will send you an pm later when I have scanned the acrylic-painting and then I can answer your latest pm also, the acrylic isn�t that good at all actually, well you will see. thank you for supporting me.

gamerplus -- thank you.

Max Kulich -- you have been a really good friend here and I really appreciate your comments here. You are right about the hand, kind of have that michaelangelo touch. I hope I will improve the second year aswell, thank you Max.

Andromeda[*] -- ahh yea I got really happy when I read your post, some very nice comments, thank you. :)

Tinusch -- haha that old q-tip guy, yea I remember that one and I went through some of those old pictures. I will post some of the old pictures beneath the text here, thank you. I remember I was flamed about that picture..hehe.

Ilya Zilberter -- is it 6 posts a day? :) Wow, thank you.

maxetormer -- hey, yea I tried to post in all the 0 threads a while back but it got too much and now I try to post when I can in the newbies thread. I like your style in your art so it�s very cool that you are in my thread, thank you.

viag -- thank you viag, I really appreciate that you keep giving me comments.

togusajr -- thank you

broken pixel -- thank you

Ohh yeah it has been many posts and it feels like a history lesson when I am posting these old pictures. Once again thank you for all your kind comments people. :)
Behold the power of my old pictures...muahahaha. :)

The first one was posted in the wip thread and I made him red first and then after a while he became blue. Spooge made an over-paint of this picture and at that time I didn�t know that Spooge was Craig Mullins but I really liked that over-paint back then, I was told by Max that spooge was Craig. Spooge still has that picture at his site and it is called Mattthew.

This second picture was posted in the Gallery finished and I was working maybe 3-4 hours on this one back then, I remember I felt good about this piece and thought it was pretty good. I remember that Jr and Mindsiphon made over-paints over this picture and then I saw how bad mine was...hehe. :)
I called him Jungle Creature back then.
The thing is with my old pictures, my old site was stolen and I wasn�t allowed to get back to it so I had to make a new one, that is why the old pictures from the beginning a year back won�t show.

And so the Q-tip guy, haha, I tried to make a lot of characters with different poses but the strange thing was that apparently I made this same strange pose in all of my characters, even in my Robots and Mechs, I think I was doing more Mecha Robots back then.
This character was also over-painted by a guy who made fun of the picture, I won�t mention him cause I made friend with him and he is cool guy.

And yea that was a few of those old pictures and when I am looking at them I can see that I have learned some things but I still have a long way to go, I hope I will improve even more this year.

see you and have a nice day
Matthew

Tinusch · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 2:46 pm

Haha there he is! That pose is priceless...

henrik · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 2:50 pm

Haha, no offense, but that red guy made me smile. "Revenge of the rubber man." These pictures are a part of your old past, they'll haunt you forever.
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Ian Jones · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:00 am

heh, the red dude looks like he's about to de-wax some serious ear!

Matthew · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 6:32 am

hehe yea the red guy is hilarious, I remember some guy compared him with Ricky Martin, I guess he is shaking that living la vida loca thing..haha. :)
thank you guys for your comments. :)

Matthew

Mon · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:03 am

you're really doing great Matthew, I'm in awe of your determination and hard work. cheers!
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Matthew · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 8:47 am

Mon, thank you. :)

Here�s the acrylic Tomasis, made last week when we had some project about old skagen-painters and painters from denmark. haha, I made an orc. :) well it was on the day when I already was finished. :)

Matthew

Max · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:52 am

haha

that were some nice stepts into the past. I remeber all of these Very Happy

Matthew · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:09 am

yea some history there, thank you Max. :)

Matthew

buki · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:45 am

amazing matthew.
congrats to you and your improvements.

keep up the robots!!!11one
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CwStone · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 3:11 pm

hey i remember those ol' pics too! 'Course that was back when i wasnt a member and just lurkin around...good times....

i never knew they were yours tho, mat. I guess u made so much improvement by the time a really started postin that i didnt match the two up...i dunno. newayz, like everybodys been sayin, congrats, u've made incredible progress, cant wait to see what u'll be doin in a year.

Cheers!
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Matthew · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:10 pm

buki, thank you buki. :)

CwStone, thank you CwStone. :)

Matthew

Sightunseen · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 7:53 pm

Hehe, *I* remember the jungle creature and q-tip guy..... you did them probably a month before I left....
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Matthew · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:37 am

Ok last time I bump this thread now, I am gonna leave this thread to the Sijun history now.
Thank you for all the lovely comments I have got here people, I really appreciate them.
For anyone that answers after this post I thank you.

Sightunseen -- Thank you there. :)

Matthew

Sightunseen · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:45 am

I forgot to tell you how much you improved.... dear lord, your still-life in the speed painting thread, that's absolutely amazing.

Keep up the good work Matthew.
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Awetopsy · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:22 am

Matthew,

When you joined a little over a year ago, some f the long time members had been leaving because of all the N00bs posting more and more work and then getting all mad when anybody critiqued their work. So you appeared right in the middle of that "rough time" and Ill admit, Im ashamed to say, I kinda had an attitude about you too. (for instance my little cartoon about you and teletubbies) But I really do think that you have come a long way since then and your art has really developed. You seem to be somebody who has gleaned alot from this forum and the many great talents here. Good job man. Good for you for plowing through all of our jokes and trash talking. Good for you for becoming an active helpful member of our community here.