▌02/09

[MattGamer]

▌▌NEW STUFF ON LAST PAGE.
WARNING: I AM LEARNING ART
I feed off of critiques and try to be as humble as possible.

"When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot,
I told him, 'The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off,
and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on
your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.'" -Chuck Jones

I am working with Mr. Delicious' schedule daily!

NOTE: I am going to log all of my important links; such as reference, books, etc here for my/your leisure.

▌▌Books - full book downloads herr

• The Complete Famous Artist Course (1960)
• Hundreds of Free Art E-Books
• Andrew Loomis Books on Scribd
• Constructive Anatomy by George Brant Bridgman - Scribd Version
• Glenn Vilppu
• Time Management for Creative People by Mark McGuinness (free ebook)
• How To Afford Anything by Ken Rockwell

▌▌Music - it inspires us all

• The Glitch Mob
• Digitally Imported
• UO's FREE LSTN DOWNLOADS: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4
• Pandora
• Last.fm
• The Muont Fuji Doomjazz Corporation -yummy music

▌▌Resource Sites - ref & more

• LCD Monitor Test Pages - test your monitor and paint better!
• Flickr Search
• Keep Designing - Free Vectors and Hi-Res Textures
• Defcon-X - Free Textures
• Pose Manaics
• Victorias Secret
• Character Design's Photosets
• Net Carshow
• UFC Pictures

▌▌Tutorials - for those who can't get past drawing 101

• Greg Manchess painting Canticle by Ken Scholes
• I Draw Girls 200+ Video Tutorials
• Demensions of Color by David Briggs
• Itchy Animation "Light Tutorial"
• Goro "Speedpainting"
• Sparth "Digital Painting"
• Morgan Weistling's Demos: "Bunny", "Pepper", "Dancing Bunny"
• Dollar Bill Ring Tutorial
• Matt Wilson's Demo
• Character Design's Tutorials
• CG Tutorials - Digital Painting

I'm Matt Berger, this is my new [2007-09] sketchbook. You can view previous works here. I have progressed, no?

[Dile_]

Great man! Looking forward to more stuff =)!!

keep it up =)

~Dile

[j a k e]

Matt! New SB how fancy.
The face in the Wood copy is good!
Hope you have a sweet 2007 dude!

[blanquish]

hey Matt, Youve really imporved, its great to see your being influenced by Ashley Wood, the mgs comics are good, although I reckon he overstylised Snake to the point of him losing his character.

I hear your up for OC sometime, Ill add you to msn.

[Razorb]

Happy new year! and good luck with ur new sketchbook will be lookin forward to seeing ya updates!

oh love the guys face on the right ... and ur avatar cool too

[Justin.]

Alright... bring on the work, happy new year! =D

[MattGamer]

Dile_: thank you and thanks for stopping by!
j a k e: you too, nice seeing you here. ;]
blanquish: sweet, I'm almost always up for OCing. i love Ashley's Snake, really inspiring though I would love to see another artist do the comics to get a different feel of it. thanks for coming.
Razorb: thank you! the avatar is from my old sketchbook. cheers, and i hope to see you back. ;]
Justin Oaksford: ok, you've given me a challenge. hehe, cheers!

Here's a 15 min quickie of a scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Oh, and a pencil rendering of Batman. Gotta love him. ;]

[j a k e]

Ah batman is great Matt. I like him with longer bat ears though

[Coinpurse]

Gotta agree with jake on this,
I dig batman with long bat ears
Good stuff in this sketchbook, keep going!

[MattGamer]

j a k e: hehe, as you requested here's the man with long ears. nice to see your checkin' up on me. ;]
Thestjester: thanks mate! glad to see you here.

I did Batman with short ears because he's much cooler that way. Haven't any of you seen Jim Lee's Batman? He's way cool with short ears! *sigh*

EDIT: Battiemannie! :]

[j a k e]

Haha great dude. I like the little bats!

[TomCardin]

Woo New sketchbook!

Love your stuff! I like how you did that speed painting from a scene from Indiana Jones, great economy of form and light.

[blanquish]

hey matt, batman is good.
WHen using pencil, your hatching seems a little too "choppy" to me. Generally its wise to use both soft rendering(going over, and over with a pencil), and hatching. Often the values arent realied enough with hatching, because the concern is with the form.
I respect your targets quote, Jp is one helluvan artist

[bhanu]

well I hate jim lees work , its so boring , but I dont mind the short ears, it depends on the artist I guess . I really loved that old sienkiewicz batman . yours is looking cool too man. both of them . you gonna spend more time on them?

[MattGamer]

j a k e: haha thanks, man!
TomCardin: thank you! i love Indiana Jones! and thank you for stopping by ;]
blanquish: i definatly understand what your pointing out and worked on it in today's sketches. thank you very much for the input.
bhanu: i dunno if i'm going to spend more time on them. hehe, maybe. sienkiewicz batman? never seen it. thanks for checkin up on me. ;] ohh... and you just bashed my favorite comic artist of all time, besides Humberto Ramos. i'm gonna have to do something about that! haha, cheers!

A birdy! And a 45 min black and white still of Ocean's Eleven. Yay! GO DRAW!

[MattGamer]

I couldn't resist on making my little birdy a little more detailed. ;] I think I'll call him Frank!

[j a k e]

Movie stills are great for colour study etc dude. I want to see more pencil studies and anatomy too Frank is a good name for a small bird

[bhanu]

oh sorry mate, didnt mean to offend you. But I guess its personal preference. I dont hate Jim lee. I was a fan of him . ANd I still think his knowledge of anatomy and sequential work is top notch. But there are just so many clones out there that every book I pick up looks like a jim lee. rip off. and soemhow I end up getting bored by it. wierd reason but Its true for me. I loved his work on batman hush . his best work by far. you should check out sienkiewicz bat man. Its really good. Its where he started experimenting with his style.
getting back to teh update. Its looks loose and nice(the last one). I like . birdy is too loose I guess. too blurry. Is it intentional? The other one looks blurry by intention. No It would be great if one of these updates are finished and tweaked.
Ncie work man. Its good to come here.

[Idiot Apathy]

WTF?! You didn't tell me you had a new sketchbook...
Looking good dude. Here's to Studio 2nd Street!

[Texahol]

hey matt, good new sketchbook, looks like you've turned over a new leaf

keep up the good work....DRAW MORE!!

[I want to go to studio2ndstreet too...I got one more year of school and then some debt to get rid of before I make it out there] +5pts emo

[designboot]

Love your batman dude!

[MattGamer]

j a k e: well frank loves you and your work. i like movie stills all around. i also love movies so you will be seeing more of all that good stuff. maybe some anatomy studies, if i feel the urge to scan. blah, scanning takes so long and i could be drawing! nice to see you again! cheers!
bhanu: yes, it can get boring to see the same artistic style being copied all the time. but that is why i love Jim Lee's stuff so much. he changes it little by little in each series he does. yes the Hush series was great. it's what made me a fan on Lee's work. that Sienkiewicz's Batman is really sweet too! thanks for stopping by... you will find no offence here. and i hope i inspire when you do come here. draw draw draw!
Tom Tom: i didn't think you would care much for my new sb. ha! thanks for the support and yes, Studio 2nd Street here we come!
Texahol: oh, man! would be lovely to see you at Studio 2nd Street. get out of that debt. debt is something that should never be taken lightly. keep up the good work! loving those master copies!
designboot: thanks and thank you for stopping by once again! ;]

Things I Learned Today Foo || Never underestimate the powers of procrastination. You may do one thing for 2 minutes and then it goes on for hours. This was my mistake today after getting on MSN for 2 minutes. Terrible. I was going to draw tons of zombies, but instead I wasted my day chatting with people. I feel sad now and will make it up tomorrow.

I want these.

Something that popped in my head and a quick movie still from The Game starring Michael Douglas.

[Ryan DeMita]

hey bro! nice SB started here. you're headed in a good direction. you're setting up good value structures an compositions! maybe spend a little more time on some of your paints and really polish your artwork. very nice overall though. keep posting!

-ryan

[MattGamer]

Ryan DeMita: hi. thanks a lot! i will defiantly be working on paints, once i get my values set. i really want to render landscapes, people, things, aliens, lions and tigers realisticly! but that takes time, so i must get at it. thanks for check the thangs out. ;] cheers!

Here's a girl really inspired by Andrew Ley and Ashley Wood. I love those guys!

[Idiot Apathy]

Mattmatt, change your header it still says Jan3!
Studio2ndStreet's new session starts in February, you coming?

[MattGamer]

Tom Tom: No. I cannot leave in February! I have to save up! Right now I have a good job and need to save, save, save! You going in Feb? If so, you will be like way ahead of me and so much gooder. ;[ AND I UPDATED MY STUPID HEADER!!!!!

Here's a cd and DJ Esther's logo I did for a www.generationtrance.com forums contest. Really great music, they just need a little help with design. ;]

[bradley]

hey matt hows it going, nice design work, i really like post#24

[MattGamer]

brad: Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a great new year! Nice to see you here. ;]

Finally... the quicky explains it all! GO DRAW NOW!

[j a k e]

Hey dude! The design stuff is pretty smooth man, so is Angela

I'm getting an Intuos 3 in a couple of weeks! yay!

[seth1]

You lucky bugger... Keep up the good work dude..