JailHouse: Matt's SketchBook(UPDATED Jan 12, I'M BACK!!!)

[spaztastic]

I see you are drawing the hair monster herself. JESSI RULEZZ!!! I don't know why but i am really starting to dig the more unrefined gesture type art. meh who knows may become my favorite style yet. oh and *hugz*

[JailHouseRock2]

Reject-D- Hay man thanks, and cheers for the link to your blog, you got some real sweet work on there, really hope you start posting here again.

spaztastic- Spaz thanks so much again, Haha, yeah Jessi rulez! Really pleased and surprised you saw her tho, I didn't think it look anything like her (she's much better looking), so thanks.
And yeah I know what you mean aye, some times more unrefined has a lot more life to it. cheers and hugz.

Was feeling really uninspired the other day, and this put me right back on track,
So if you haven't see it already, here's some very wise words from Jason Manley ,

first, you are not trapped in your situation. You can get out of any situation you want if you are willing to take the pain of doing all the things you dont want to do..the long hard way. The fruitful way.

At seventeen I was homeless and orphaned, taking care of my fourteen year old brother who I somehow managed to keep in school. I had dropped out of school. I did two years of wasting time eventually trying to get my head on straight. At nineteen I was homeless again. Scraped together enough money to get my ass to arizona to study art. Got a temp apt to get me through to the end of the month and took a job at subway (applied all over til I found something). The subway job paid enough money to sometimes eat and pay my small studio rental. I went back to school to get my graduation and was working full time (thought I needed to graduate from HS to get into a good college). Trust me...it was fucking painful. I transferred to a community college the following year and slowly got better and better jobs. Worked telemarketing fundraising to afford a 1977 datsun and art supplies. Shittiest job ever but paid double what subway did. Worked three jobs during the summer to get caught up including going to alaska to work the salmon docks across the country. I did not give a shit what it was, if it paid for my goals to be met and didnt involve anything illegal, I did it.

As time went on I realized I needed to arrange my priorities again. I took a night time job so I could exhaust all my energies in my art and studies. Eventually got a job at AT&T...Att this is Jason how may I help you?...I was still far behind those who had life handed to them their whole life. However, I was catching up. In time I realized it was not a chase against others but to only my own race to my goals. Kept the nose down. Chose friends who worked on art or learning always. Ignored the time wasting folk who never will amount to anything other than regular. Grew up around enough of those to realize the difference. After three and a half years I took my first art job and quit my shit job...have lived with and from art ever since.

By the time I was 29 I had achieved every goal I had reached for when I first set out. That is when I realized it was time to set new goals...each time this happens it feels like starting over...get something done..start again...in time your life becomes what you want it to be. Even those of money have to do this if their life involves learning, skill, and growth. It is not money that holds people back...is just their own mind.

The hard part about certain situations is not everyone is told they can do and reach their goals if they just work their ass off starting RIGHT NOW. Some know it and wont work for whatever reason. They listen to that voice that says I want to chill and watch tv or i dont feel like it. Others have addictions or mental issues keeping them from growing and learning. I didnt want to be any of that. I wanted to do cool stuff...to have an interesting life...and to work in a creative way.

Hard manual labor growing up taught me that my mind would rot if I chose that kind of path. I wanted something to use my mind. Bored if not...and with boredom comes making trouble or distraction. Gotta turn that into work ethic...no choice. Carl Dobsky was telling me this about the atelier every day. It has to be just uncomfortable enough to make the coolest thing to do be art. If there is a blaring tv or anything else, than there are other options. Options that keep one from not working to reach their goals.

Complacency is the womb of mediocrity. You clearly are not complacent. So do something about it in every free second of your day. All this wandering around doing not a whole lot but thinking isn't getting you much done. It is however, giving you a taste of life many others would never have the guts to explore. Just dont stay down there too long without coming up for air.



Good luck,



Jason

Have a good weekend everybody!
matt

[Φ]

matt, thats some awesome stuff your coming up with! giving ya 5*. you earned them…now GTF back to work

cheers

[JailHouseRock2]

bigfooTrooper- Hay thanks man! I don't deserve *5 yet but cheers all the same!

In a rush, so just a quick wip of the awesome Clochette! , will post more later,

so laters,
matt

[My57]

can you show me where you learned this style?
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1236556625

or was it just from playing around?

[~KJK~]

what you are 16 years old?! I never knew! God youre talented! At your age i was scribbling some disproportionate, ugly mangachicks all the time, and not improving at all. Youve got a great future ahead of you!

cheers

[JailHouseRock2]

My57 - Hi Sam. That piece was done in a program called Al.chemy, a really cool piece of software (and the best part is it's free!) and that sort of style comes really easily with it.
Here's the site you can download it from- http://al.chemy.org/

and here's a link to a thread in the lounge that you may find interesting too- http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=132177
Hope that helps, and you really should down load it, it's great fun!

NoodleDoodle- Hay Noodle, thanks for the encouragement mate!

Some doodles in Al.chemy, some studies and a couple of moleskin pages (Keep and eye out and you mite recognize someone...) and the awesome Colchette!

cheers
matt

[Sorknes]

Nice Alchemy stuff you have there.

Those portraits from the WDELL thread is really fun to see though, as several of the people we kind of "know" after all the pictures... ( *cough*... Stoph... *cough*... ) , hehe

Clochette and Spaz looks like, but Stophs is really great.

[spaztastic]

Oh My... you're 16.... dang jail bait.... I should be careful hehehehehehe jk.
anyway love the one of Clochette.

and ME XD YaY!!!! sooo happy.

[SMILEFACE]

WICKED UPDATES' its cool cuase i exactly who the people where an what picture they where from an i only saw the pics for a moment yall got the mad skill' keep rock'n

[dCepT]

Nice studies for sho'! The alchemy experiments rock! I started out with it, and kinda forgot about it... I should try it some more... heh... what you do here looks like fun!

The kingfisher and the one on toned paper in the last post are my favourites on this page!

Thanks for dropping in on my SB, man!

dC

[Aaron Death]

Love that Clochette painting, you should PM her to see it~~Your progress from the first page is amazing. Keep up~

[Nibras]

OH sweet painting of clo!
Really nice stuff man!
you working so hard and it's paying off!
Keep at it bruva!

[snootchy]

awesome portraits, great to see a face or what someone looks like
on CA.org

great alchemy tests btw!

SSG 69 ARTGASMIC FORCE
Mission: To push our skills to evolve to the point of giving you visual orgasm.
Eon l grenappels l snootchy l Peetaer l bleupencil

[AlexTooth]

Cool sketchbook man!

Have you tried a grey marker with your black/white pencil/brown paper? a 60% and 20% grey marker or so goes very well with that combo of materials

[JailHouseRock2]

Sorknes- Hay thanks Sorknes, glad you like and really pleased you could recognize everybody!

spaztastic- Ahh thanks spaz, glad you like your's!Haha, cheers for dropping by again

Grandmassa Mr. Spect- Hay awesome, glad you dig mate!

dCepT- Cheers dC, and no prob, yeah you should get back on to alchemy and play round a bit.

Aaron Death- Hi Aaron, Thanks for stopping by here man, you got some mean progress in your sb too mate, and it's cool you dig my Clochette painting.

lilnebo- Cheers girl, much appreciated! you keep on pushing in your thread too a right? ta.

snootchy- Hay thanks yet again, glad you dig the portraits.

AlexTooth- Hay Alex, thanks for the awesome tip dude, really appreciated!


Thanks everyone, every post is really appereciated!

Just playing around with some sillos today,
cheers
matt

[Benjie]

hey nice pics, the alchemy sketches is pretty sweet, love the anatomy studies good natural poses, u seem to be my biggest competition, considering ur 16 and from nz. you along with miles of course. cant wait to see more of ur stuff!

[JailHouseRock2]

rasta-art- Hay cheers Ben, and thanks for considering me competition!
Glad you dig some of my stuff, and yeah young Miles is in a league of his own!

A litte more...

[kelly x]

Hi Jailhouse, these small figures are looking great!! Clo looks good too! Hi!

[MJ_Alcazar]

That piece for the soldier turned out pretty well. Loved the colors in it. And your portraits of Spaz and Clo look pretty good too! Keep up all the good work!

[Reject-D]

great job! keep it up! i like your alchem and sillos there lookin good

[JailHouseRock2]

kelly x- Hi kelly! , haha sorry for yelling...
Thanks though, and I'm glad you like Col's painting too!

MJ_Alcazar- Hay thanks MJ, really appreciated.
Yeah the one with the soldier went alright I suppose, I got the message across that I wanted, but I think the presentation sucked, nevermind, I 'm really glad you like it!

Reject-D- Cheers mate, pleased you dig, lovin the updates on your blog too man!


Just started a sort of master study, a copy of and awesome drawing by William Whitaker- http://http://www.conceptart.org/for...d.php?t=152936
Useing marker's like Alex suggested.

cheers all,
matt

[GaussianRaider]

I'm afraid I don't have a constructive critique to give, my skills are not much...just wanted to let you know that i subscribed and I'm curious about what your development will be in a few years...you're 16 fer god's sake..keep on drawing on this right path!
Cheers

[snootchy]

very nice marker sketch on that last one!

SSG 69 ARTGASMIC FORCE
Mission: To push our skills to evolve to the point of giving you visual orgasm.
Eon l grenappels l snootchy l Peetaer l bleupencil

[Knarf]

gahhhdamn, nothing to say but NIOCE!

-Frank

[AsaB]

Matt, lovely new work! That last of the girl in the skirt is a beauty Got a real old feel to it, the brushwork is simply lovely. I'd love to see you do more studies like that! The silhouettes above are looking damn cool as well. Keep this up, buddy, loving it!

[hunchback]

hey man
thanks for dropping by the sketchbook.
The last whitaker study is pretty sharp. I think there is something about the proportions that makes here seem like a 12 year old rather than a women.
might be the hips anyway

maybe do another one but really study the tones.

anywho nice work keep on trucking xD

[YJ Lee]

good stuff here! and you're only 1 year younger than me......i need more practice..

[gutss]

been a while, matt! and you know, I think you've improved quite a bit in that time. sillos are looking rad, those facial features look stronger and the latest study is mint! the flow of the material and clean sharp shadows looks SO GOOOOOOD

KEEP KEEP GOOIING

and cheers for the lovely words of Jason. s'just what everyone needs

[tmbritton]

Your stuff is looking real solid. Looks like all the studies are paying off. Keep it up!