Mixed bag (nudies) + new site

[Mon]

Hey folks!

I sacrificed a whole weekend on redesigning my website, now it's much easier to navigate and I've included a section for speedpaints and quick studies. Check it out at www.mattiassnygg.com (http://www.mattiassnygg.com)

Hope you like it.

You might have seen the latest edition of the Official Playstation Magazine on the stands, the one with a The Dakness cover. I did much of the work on that one, and I'd post a picture if they'd let me... Here's a link to a tiiiiny picture tho I suspect it might not give a very good idea of what it looks like: http://www.us.playstation.com/opm.aspx

In that magazine there is quite a bit of my concept art for that game, I'll post all that stuff as soon as possible (probably after E3)

So that leaves my personal work, done at late nights and early mornings...

Here's a relatively recent piece, where I tried to take both the expressive side of things pretty far but also keep it tight in form and detail. Will probably keep investigating this dynamic for the rest of my life :P

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6388/stairwoman083fp.jpg

Progress shot (better...)
http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/3301/stairwoman014ln.th.jpg (http://img353.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stairwoman014ln.jpg)

A quick study:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8937/sunshadow1of.jpg

Both were done with photo ref.

Retarded comic strip style experiment:
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6465/younggolemcomp26oz.jpg

And here's an older piece that I reworked just recently, making it even more disgusting than it was before:

http://img315.imageshack.us/img315/1618/guts40bs.th.jpg (http://img315.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guts40bs.jpg)

Thanks for looking :)

[Calle_]

wow - Riktigt bra jobbat, använder du photoshop till att måla jämnt?
Gillar sidan också föresten, inget o klaga på =)
peace

[Jnurp]

greattttt
I really love the style of rendering
keep it up

[blog]

luv u!


xxx
blog

[Fellah.]

Im a BIG fan!! Always awesome stuff, man!

[Idiot Apathy]

Can you teach me to be awesome like you :( ?

Just astounded by the Golem cartoon, such amazing depth; edge control, colors... Got a bigger version?

Edit: Going through your site; link to "Guts" here http://www.mattiassnygg.com/tutorials/tut3.htm doesn't work anymore :(. Oh and, great job on the site btw.

[nonie]

Aw, I love the Golem piece! Wonderful from in the first one, too, but I kinda wish the top of her head didn't blend into the background so much...

[al-x]

great stuff mattias (that comic strip is funny, especially the way he runs in the first frame)

looking forward to seeing the darkness stuff. You guys at starbreeze have been doing some intersting stuff the last years.

Now try to get Axel to post some of his stuff here. I'm guessing his art has grown a lot since joining you guys

/Alex

[Atmospheria]

Great stuff mathias! I love your colors and lightning. thanks for sharing

[Lazy]

Helt underbart, du är en av kungarna!
fortsätt och överraska oss!

[nephilim]

wow, really nice work, especially the top one. i saw some of your portraits in the article about the darkness in playstation magazine, nice work.


mike

[One Down]

damn crazy crazy stuff!

då har man hittat en till duktig svensk, gött
var i uppsala bor du? vet du om det finns nå konst/grafik utbildningar i uppsala?

[Carnifex]

jösses,jag trodde det första var enkelt ett kort som du tagit o molat över. wow!

[cotron]

that first nude is wonderful, saving it to my inspiration folder.

[Groover McNab]

gorgeous stuff. thanks for sharing.

[Marko Djurdjevic]

Beautiful work mate, congratulations on the progression.


Marko

[Barts]

awesome kewl, yeah dawg

[magicgoo]

I really like these, but the first one's head seems too big for her body. That's really my only critique and you're way beyond my level anyhow, so I'm not even sure I should make a crit :)

[Egets]

I wonder weather should be speaking swedish here lol !! but anyways that little golem wohow how much more can you get colour values right, Im feeling my g-spot as Im looking at it (yes for real)

[Chuck,mate.]

ho man, these are EXCELLENT!
the Retarded comic strip piece is just to die for. the last frame in particular...
great job.
your site is all so refreshing as well. keep it up.

[undergroundsean]

awesome work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moogy]

Really, really nice. I like your comic style.

[Smitherines]

Wow, insane work.

[Alday.J]

Rhaaaaaaa ! Amazing stuff here ! :jawdrop: I love your stuff, man ! What software did you use here ? There's an amazing use of textures (And I loOove textures !). More, please ! :)
J.

[Ralph horsley]

Hi Mattias,

Nice to see your work here. I always enjoy looking at your pieces. Great texture and I love those intense spots of light you use.

Cheers,

Ralph
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[davi]

i love you

[Matt Smith]

Your work is always so cool to look at. Always has a sculpture look to it, especially the golem comic, it looks like you molded him out of clay.

[Bomba]

Really amazing work. Love the strokes and vibrations you create. Also, just saw a preview for 'The Darkness' and saw some of your concepts on that game. Truely awesome work! Definitely raising the bar for game concepts.
-J-

[el coro]

hey good to see you are still alive! always a treat to see what u have been working on. this latest batch doesnt dissapoint. hope yer well.-c36

[Main Loop]

always one of my faves.. thanks for posting

[James Kei]

Fantastical! Great understanding of form and values.
Bravo man!

-JK

[Denart]

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6465/younggolemcomp26oz.jpg
this is the most badass creature i've seen in a while

[Mon]

Cheers you guys

...all the swedes come out of hiding ;)

Calle, it's both Photoshop and Painter on all of these. Painter for the real work, Photoshop for cleaning up the mess.

Idiot Apathy, fixed the broken link! Thanks for spotting it.

Thanks for all the support you guys, I really appreciate it! Gotta get back to work now...

[p4b10]

Great stuff, love the way you render skin with that warm tones and sat!

congrats, great work!

pablo

[tiger1313]

badass stuff mon, love rendering on 1st one and color use on the little comic-stuff. keep posting!

[janni]

phenomenal painting Mon! i had never seen your work before and i'm just totaly blown away from the stuff on your website. thanks for the great inspiration.

[vigostar]

Im with Denart on the creature.. thats badass! Beautiful work always

[deltron05]

Damn!!! this stuff is great ...i like your first one a lot......so sexy and dark..but mostly the facial expression is so beautyful.. Shadows and earthtone colors are blend is such a marvelous way !! congrats....more more more !!!

[DSillustration]

that first piece is stunning!
great stuff.

[m@.]

Yes, more Mon goodness! thanks for sharing.. I love that little comic piece :)

[Living Rope]

so nice to see you back Mattias. I've just paid a visit to the new website... Very impressive. Still in love with your strokes.

[viag]

great stuff , i want more comic strip like this :)

[e338]

just keep staring at them'all. Excellent. First pose is awesome (pose, anatomy mmmm, light, texture...), comicStrip is pretty fun.
thanks for sharing

[rWDrk]

Really nice and helpfull site!
thnx!
Hope there will be more tutorials in the future :D

cheers R3M

[Theo]

Site is looking darn good man! kämpa på.

[rogfa]

Beautiful stuff! Nice job on the website too (yaay, no popups!).

[Prometheus|ANJ]

Looking good! I like the general treatment of stuff, nice balance between texure and cute.

[strych9ine]

The Corben and Me section of your site had me laughing my ass off, too damn funny. Love your work, the zombie is even better with a new pass over...

[redehlert]

ho man, these are EXCELLENT!
the Retarded comic strip piece is just to die for. the last frame in particular...
great job.
your site is all so refreshing as well. keep it up.

exactly what pat said. hot damn! that's refreshing work. great tuts and compressed movie on your site too.
cheers!
d

[Gilead]

The nudes are very nice and the last pic is as disgusting as you say. All skillfully done though.
Will probably keep investigating this dynamic for the rest of my life
With any luck, yes.

[Profil]

I'm in awe. The first piece is just magnificent.

Jag såg på din hemsida att du hade studerat målning och skulptur i tre år. Var studerade du detta? Själv har jag inte hittat så många olika bra skolor i Sverige som skulle vara mer inriktad mot den akademiska sidan än den moderna.

Tack på förhand.

[Layil]

great stuff, especially the images on your site.

[twoheaded]

Your painting technique is quite exceptional. Color temperature is spot on.
Great tutorials on your website too. Especially the second one.
what is your background education if you dont mind sharing?

[cateaic]

Awesome work on the website! Youre brush technique is beautiful...

[I.was.ink]

You are too cool
for school! :pirate:

-ink

[Eric Lofgren]

Humbling as always, Mattias. I could devote a life time of study of your work and your technique and I'd still come up shy at the end of the day :/

You need to post more of your work here whenever you can, dude :)

[Mon]

heyhey thank you all so much for your nice comments!

rWDrk, sure thing man, I'm actually working on a new tutorial right now.. But it won't be anything like the others... :swepimp:

About my education.. Like it says on the site I studied for three years in rather unprestigious schools. First one was sort of a Basic Training school called KV Konstskola (Gothenburg), where I spent one year going through all the elementary stuff. Very high tempo, learned lots and lots of things in both painting and sculpture, probably the best education I've ever had. After that first year I applied to Gothenburg School of Art (supposedly a little bit more fancy), and went there for two years.

That one was a lot more laid back and relaxed, people got a chance to try out things on their own with some help from the teachers. It was okay I suppose, because I had the time to experiment a lot, but it kind of made me fed up with art schools in general :P

Cheers everyone :)