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...
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...
Princess Irulan
Portrait of Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan Denis Villeneuve's Dune sequel, Dune: Part Two, set for release November 3, 2023.I also used the portrait as the base for a mosaic tile background for an alternative movie poster to share with my social networks and poster...
Galadriel
Portrait of Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, the "Lady" of the woods of Lothlórien from the stories of J. R. R. Tolkien and films of Peter Jackson. Have an idea or want to work with designomatt? Enter your name, email address, and message and we will get back with you as...
The Shining
Portrait of Jack Nicholson as the writer Jack Torrance from Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of the Stephen King novel, "The Shining". Stephen King is one of the greatest American writers of the last century and Kubrick is a legendary film director, even before he...
Copy
My tribute, art reproduction, or flat-out copy of Frank Frazetta’s self-portrait from 1962. A painting, like so many of his, that I have admired my entire life. I grew up with many influences as a budding artist; I consumed pieces and artists from the Renaissance...
Stormtrooper
With my latest few pieces, I have been working with the new Adobe Aero to explore its capabilities with tradition and more immersive types of illustration. These pieces are delving into that exploration with a simple portrait as well as a more immersive augmented...
Iron Man
Continued experimentation with the latest Adobe Aero build and repurposing an older illustration of Iron Man. Building on yesterday's test in experimental dimensional portraiture, I thought I would move onto another existing animation and breathe some new life into it...
Adobe Aero AR
I have been experimenting with augmented reality (AR) recently, using Adobe's Aero tool. I have a long history of working in this space, having released what I believe is the first AR app for any major theme park back in 2014-ish for Disney's Animal Kingdom, so it is...
Revenge of the Fifth
To celebrate this year's Revenge of the Fifth, I sketched out one of the baddest bounty hunters who worked for the Sith, Cad Bane. It is a simple sketch created using Corel Painter, Procreate, with some touching up in Photoshop. If you would like talk about design or...
May the Fourth, 2023
For this year's May the Fourth, celebration of all things Star Wars, I chose to focus on Carrie Fisher and her role as Princess Leai Organa Skywalker. Considering my ongoing reimagining her role as the heroine of the Rebellion and Jedi Doyenne, that is not so...
For All Mankind
Portrait of Joel Kinnaman as Captain Ed Baldwin from the Apple+ Television series "For All Mankind"; a re-imagining of the space race from the very first lunar landing. If you would like talk about design or maybe to discuss your current creative development or...
Norma Jeane
Portrait of Norma Jeane Mortenson, also known as Marilyn Monroe, and an alternative movie poster for a fictitious biopic to share around my social networks; specifically the alternative movie community over at PosterSpy. If you would like talk about design or maybe to...
Captain Willard
A companion portrait of Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, to the portrait of Colonel Kurtz, for Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, "Apocalypse Now". Created using Corel Painter, Procreate, and Adobe Creative Cloud using custom brushes, patterns, and techniques that...
Col. Kurtz
A rough portrait of Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, in Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, "Apocalypse Now". Created using Corel Painter, Procreate, and Adobe Creative Cloud using custom brushes, patterns, and techniques that replicate natural media as best I...
Product and User-Experience Design Overview, part II
Image: Image transfer of the Apollo Lunar LandeerWe began this journey through the first phase, Understand, and follow up that post with the second chapter, of three, as we look at the techniques and practices used within the product & user experience discipline....
Product and User-Experience Design Overview, part I
Image: View from inside the cockpit of the Millennium FalconAs we look at the techniques and practices used within the product & user experience discipline, we can look at the macro level concepts of: Understand, Define, and Validate. These are considered by many,...
Iron Man
Testing out some new intaglio techniques with this new illustration of Marvel's Iron Man and concept poster. I have been focused on working in Corel Painter, Procreate, and Adobe Creative Cloud for much of my recent work; using custom brushes, patterns, and techniques...