Stan Lee

Stan Lee

Celebrating the birth of one of my childhood heroes and an artist and savvy businessman who changed comics and popular culture; Mr. Stan Lee born this day, December 28, 1922. Born Stanley Lieber who started working at Timely Comics, which evolved into Marvel Comics...

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Preacher

Preacher

Portrait of the one and only Howard Stark, Dominic Cooper, as the lead character Jesse Custer in AMC TV's "Preacher".Have an idea or want to work with designomatt? Enter your name, email address, and message and we will get back with you as soon as we can

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Ruth Negga

Ruth Negga

Portrait of the great Irish actor, Ruth Negga created using traditional and digital techniques using custom brushes and intaglio. I first saw her in the AMC TV show, Preacher and have since seen her in a few other pieces where she is always captivating. Have an idea...

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Enter the Dragon

Enter the Dragon

Continued experimentation with introducting some new brushes in an established workflow to create a portrait of a childhood hero as well an alternative movie poster for Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon".Have an idea or want to work with designomatt? Enter your name,...

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Snake and Ripley

Snake and Ripley

More experimentation incorporating new brushes into an existing workflow focused on transposing techniques to digital illustrations. With a set of existing brushes and patterns that I have relied on for years, I recently purchased a set of natural media set from...

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Ripley

Ripley

Closing out the year with continued experimentation with techniques and textures in the ones-and-zeroes using my favorite pop culture themes. This is a portrait of Sigourney Weaver, as Ellen Ripley, from Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece - Alien.Have an idea or want to...

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2023 Illustrations

2023 Illustrations

Looking back on the year and reflecting on the illustrations and alternative movie posters created during 2023. It has been another year to continue to transpose my traditional painting background to digital equivalency. There have been many attempts to reflect...

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Marion Ravenwood

Marion Ravenwood

Sketch portrait of Karen Allen from the, Steven Spielberg & George Lucas, classic "Raiders of the Lost Ark" focused on the character of Marion Ravenwood.Created an alternative movie poster for the film to share among the poster artist community as well.Have an...

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Close cover before striking

Close cover before striking

My first introduction to graphic design, like many in my generation, was through the simple matchbook. It was a small advertisement usually consisting of a brand’s identity, logo, word mark, or some other representation to convey their brand proposition in this small...

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Furiosa

Furiosa

Portrait of Charlize Theron as Furiosa and alternative movie poster for "Mad Max Fury Road" from George Miller.Created an alternative movie poster for the George Miller, Mad Max Fury Road film to share among the poster artist community as well. Have an idea or want to...

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Nintendo Game Boy

Nintendo Game Boy

Latest in the series of handheld video games from my childhood; Nintendo Game Boy. An 8-bit handheld game console released in 1989. Like the others, this illustration began in Adobe Illustrator and was fully realized in vector format before jumping into 3D rendering...

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Black Widow

Black Widow

Portrait of Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff, also known as The Black Widow, from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.I grew up reading comic books and the growth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe over the past decade-plus has been impressive to watch. The growth of...

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Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel

Portrait of the Academy Award Winning Brie Larson in her role as Carol Danvers; also known as Captain Marvel from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Have an idea or want to work with designomatt? Enter your name, email address, and message and we will get back with you as...

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Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield

Sketch portrait of another one of Hollywood's greatest starlets and mother to another legend, Mariska Hargitay.Have an idea or want to work with designomatt? Enter your name, email address, and message and we will get back with you as soon as we can

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Captain America

Captain America

Dual portrait of Chris Evans as Steve Rogers and his super-soldier alter-ego, Captain America, for an alternative movie poster for "Captain America: The First Avenger". Considering his past performance as The Human Torch in a previous Marvel film, I was not expecting...

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Pee-wee Herman

Pee-wee Herman

This has been a hard couple of weeks for fans of popular culture. First Tony Bennett, then Shuhada' Sadaqat (formerly known as Sinéad O'Connor), now Paul Reubens or also known as Pee-wee Herman.  I had been wanting to do a portrait of Pee-wee for years and during the...

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Mattel Auto Race

Mattel Auto Race

A few years back, I was working with Adobe Illustrator and trying to push the boundaries of what I could create in pure vector format versus using Adobe Photoshop to refine my illustrations to achieve textures, shadows, etc. For a test subject I used the old Mattel...

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Aero Experiment

Aero Experiment

I have been working with augmented reality for the better part of the past dozen years, or more. I started exploring it as an option almost as soon as I began working in the Apple Developer Program. I had been interested in location-based awareness and the MapKit...

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