Dragons and Ducks

I sketched this dragon during a work meeting about 8 months ago. I
found it the other day and wondered what would he be looking at. I
figure maybe he's a kind hearted dragon wanting to be friends with
someone. But who? The answer was obvious of course...a duck.

Wombats @ WHPS

Finished this pic for my son's pre-school class. He's in the Wombats. Go Wanniassia Hills Pre-School!

Dino-saw

Have taken more and more of an interest in dino's recently as my two boys seem to be smitten with them. Here's the good 'ol pleasaur.

Lil' Aussie Battler

Wanted to try and capture that summer feeling of being in Australia. Bright sun, blue sky, Strong light, gums and of course the man on the land.

Hill Cities

I took this photo from my front door then it just seemed obvious that there should be alien citidel/spacecraft some where in the pic.

Le Sketch

FW: Relaxed Jack

Illustrator Live Trace works like a charm.

I've got crabs!

Crabby characters for a kids book that didn't go ahead.

The Gargon

Here's a little alien design. The Gargon's are small but incredibly ferocious.

Schoolism

Just finished my 9 week digital painting course with Bobby Chui over at Schoolism.com It was a fantastic experience. I learnt a huge amount and had a great time. I'd recommend it if your wanting to improve your painting/illustration/design skills.

Also check out the new schoolism blog.

He's here!

Big news this month! Luke John Bacon was born 2 weeks ago. Everyone's healthy, happy and rockin! It's great to be a dad again.

Well I'm working on my last assignment for Bobby Chui's painting class. I'm also trying to finish off some learning objects for the NPS project at work. You can check out the progrss here: http://www.canberra.edu.au/teds/webct/NPS/

3weeks to go until DMF in Sydney. Looking forward to it.

-Matt

Skwark, Skwark

Just a pic I knocked out while waiting for some 3D to render. One of those things when you just start to doodle then all of asudden you have shape, form and viola!

-matt

Forget June. What about July?

Well the title says it all doesn't it. But August is here for the picking so it's time to get going. This month I start a 9 week digital painting/illustration course with Bobby Chui over at www.schoolism.com. I'm pretty pumped to get started. It's going to be a great experience learning from one of the guru's in the biz.

August also means we're 8 weeks away from baby No.2 making it's grand entrance. Now that's really, really exciting!

-Matt

EEK! What happened to June?

Been ages since I looked at the blog. Been buried under heaps of work. I've been picking up some of the slack as more people leave the place. Some of the work's boring and annoying but some is prety interesting.

I've been doing a lot of short video work, 3d modelling and pumping out the Photoshop. I'll post some stuff when I get the time.