Hey guys, its been a long time since I've updated this blog with any of my work! looking at some of the work I posted last time makes me cringe!! and I'll probably say the same thing next year about some of the work I'm about to upload now.

I seem to have gone through a bit of a black and white stage! i've also been practicing with a lot of digital concept style art.

This set of concept art is purely just practice and experimentation with character design, landscape, and digital painting techniques.

Artwork from college until present

Hey youuu guys!!..

Right I thought I'd start blogging some artwork, its all the same stuff you may have seen on my Twitter, DeviantArt, and Facebook. But here goes. Ive also just started a blog on Word Press. My aim is to just start getting some stuff out there, Im still studying at University, so most of my artwork is project based - but also some of it is just for my own amusement, Hope you like it!

If you do, please follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/mjdawson23 or DeviantArt http://mjdawson23.deviantart.com/

Rightey-Ho...

Ill start pretty much from the beginning, with some stuff from Art Foundation

This was for my Final Major Project, Its a poster design for 'The War of the Worlds'. I was brand new to photoshop, however it still is one of my favourite finished peices.

This was part of a mural I painted in a Vintage Clothes/Art shop called 'The Craft Collective'. This was my first commisioned art Job outside of College.

This was a Covered Submission I made in my first year at University, You can see it here, along with the original cover. http://coveredblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/mathew-dawson-covers-venom-sinner-takes.html

I went on to redesign this submission again. I wanted it to look darker, and more Evil!

My girlfriend has an obsession with Lady Gaga, So I drew this for her, and coloured it digitally. Its drawn from the photo-book by Terry Richardson.

During my first year at university I did some EP artwork for the metal band; 'Beyond Broken'. This being one of the first ones.

I also made this peice, mainly using Pen, and colour pencil - I then added the Red colours using digital colouring.

I went on to create something more digital for the final EP cover. At this time I was very much influenced with comic style art.

Following the comic style of drawing I had started to like, I drew this. It was a character design for a Super Villain -  for the Sunderland University Comix Club - Run by PandaFunkTeam http://pandafunkteam.blogspot.co.uk/

Also some of the other Comix artwork can be seen on the facebook page  
http://www.facebook.com/groups/295034880557254/

This was another bit of artwork I did for a metal band named 'Secrects Beyond the Grave'. I did this a few months ago before starting my second year at Uni. looking at it now, I would like to reposition the skeleton, however the band were very happy indeed with it!

As I have my own fascination with the Metal Gear series, I thought it was only right to do another Covered Submission, this time covering Ashley Wood's take on the graphic novel - Only to find that Covered has shut down :-(  Oh well, it can go in the portfolio anyway!! Snaaaaaaake!!

Here is the full version of the image of Grey Fox. Hurt me snake!!
This was when I first got my Wacom Tablet, orignially it was a pen and pencil drawing, but then later got totally covered with digital colouring.

Continuing the use of the Wacom Tablet, I went on to draw this for a University project - I am currently designing a kids book, based on Aesops Fable - The Boy who cried Wolf.

This was an inital drawing for the same project, as I am now taking a more traditional direction of drawing for the book, as I think it is much better to see the mark making of real drawings in kids books, rather than digital drawings - which are more suitable for comics, graphic novels etc.

as a side project we had to create a poster designed for the V&A Museum, I put this together, mixing the usage of traditional drawing, and digital colouring. Also a lot of newly learnt skills using InDesign were included here.

This is a page design for 'The Boy who cried Wolf' for when the wolf appears in the book to eat the sheep. I used a lot of mixed media here, including charchoal, paint, pen, pencil, chalk, and digital colouring.

 

Here are examples of how the book will maybe look when its finshed. this is page 2 and 3

and here is page 4 and 5. A lot Inspiration from Dave Mckean's style of graphic novel has been used here.

This a drawing of Morbray Park in Sunderland, Drawn for the Design Magazine at Sunderland Uni.

This is a drawing of the Docks in sunderland, once again for the Design Magazine.