Matte Painting

I love how one inspiration can lead to another and after looking into the Madison Gregory style of portraits last week and firing up the old graphic tablet i started doing a lot of reading, and viewing of Matte Painting.
I found some really good resources out there on the web and found some brilliant reference imagery.
Just to dip my toe in the water i started out using some concept art that was created for Mirrors Edge 2 on the PS3.



Then armed with the rest of my imagery i set about destroying the radiant views of futuristic Tokyo and this is where i arrived.
I only spent a short while on it as i wanted it to be as sketchy and loose as possible. The idea was to create an evil overlords HQ in the middle of the destroyed city with a lone soldier keeping watch over the raised entrance.



Comments as always are welcome,

Andy

Madison Gregory: Update

So i had a play around with a few photo's last night, found some really good tutorials and mixed up some styles to create these:



This was a panoremic scene i took on my very first morning in iceland at sunrise. I really like this picture and have wanted to do something with it since i took it. The colours have not been tweaked in any way, i have just applied a canvas look and a chunky oil look to it.



This was trying to stick more with the classic look that Madison Gregory achieves. I found my model, Scarlett Johansson in this case and really muted the colours back, blurred out exterior features but focuses closely on the eyes, creating deep contrast and adding exaggerated colour to really lift the piece. Finally i added some loose sketchy lines using my graphics tablet to loosen the style up and move it away from a photographic image. I am really happy with how these have turned out and will be producing many more...I now just have to stop looking at pictures of Scarlett Johansson.



Thanks for looking,

Andy

Madison Gregory

Came across this website today while on my web travels.

www.madisongregoryfineart.com

It's been a while since i have painted, but i really like this use of oil's and immediately set about producing some photoshop variants of my own using some of my own images and some sourced on the internet.

I love the individual layers that are created with thick oil, it gives the very subtle and muted colours real depth.

I will be updating shortly with a few of my own efforts, although i havent attneded fine art college like this man so dont expect to much!



Andy