matt walker art

Coffee

This piece and the previous one have really been an experiment in how to add painterly touches to my digital work. You might ask be asking yourself, “Well if he wants to make his work look painted then why doesn’t he just use real paint?” The simple answer is time. I almost always start aContinue reading “Coffee”

Tour De France

This is more of a prep piece than anything because I’ve got a commission on for a Tour de France poster. I wanted to experiment with giving the work a more traditionally painted look by adding texture and inconsistencies in the application of lines and paint. If I’m honest I’m really happy with how thisContinue reading “Tour De France”

Just Run

Feels like it’s been a while since I last posted! Sorry about that… I’ve got lots of work on at the moment, which might take me a couple of weeks to clear, but it’s a good problem to have. Most of these pieces of work are private commissions, but a couple are editorial illustrations forContinue reading “Just Run”

Lockdown Self-Portrait

Need I say more?

Bloody Dingoes

A man goes to a pub for a drink and spies on the counter a glass jar filled with $50 notes.“Bartender, what’s this then”, the man asks pointing to the jar.“Oh, that’s for the local dare we got set up, put in $50, you do three tasks and you get the whole jar. First youContinue reading “Bloody Dingoes”

Not Quite My Tempo

This was such a frustrating piece to complete! I went back and forth for ages as to whether I should make the composition landscape, but eventually settled on portrait because all the others are same and it would break up the series. The background characters were the main issue because I just couldn’t find aContinue reading “Not Quite My Tempo”

Slap-da-Bass!

I didn’t technically say I was going to do another one of these but it was heavily implied, so here it is. I’ve got two more I’d like to get around to doing as part of this series, that being a drummer and a singer, but don’t hold me to that! This character took quiteContinue reading “Slap-da-Bass!”

All Leeds Aren’t We

This took an age to get right. I went back and forth on the design, layout, style and colour countless times and ultimately it was the introduction of the text that forced the final design. The text set me a constraint that I had to work around, quite literally in this case, and it wasContinue reading “All Leeds Aren’t We”

Everyone likes Sax

This was a fun one to illustrate, mostly because I kept making saxophone noises while drawing it. I don’t want to say “I might do a series of these” because I’ve said that before and not followed through… however… This’ll be up on the shop tomorrow. Cheers Matt

Outcomes

The images above demonstrate the vast differences in outcomes that can arise from the same idea. It was pissing it down yesterday and it made me realise that summer is well and truly behind us. I think we’ve all at some point been caught huddling under a broken umbrella in the meagre hope that itContinue reading “Outcomes”