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Cap'n Mal

Captain Mal from Firefly, drawn for a friend. Happy birthday, Nick!

In the Navy

A friend of mine headed off to start his Navy career today. Best of luck, Andy!

Teensy Tiny Storefront Update

I'm now selling gallery-quality prints via Society 6, as well as original painted and inked illustrations via Etsy! Offering prints through S6 is looking particularly exciting, since they use far better equipment and inks than what I can muster at home with my dinky little consumer-quality printer. Their ability to print at sizes larger than 8.5"x11" is mighty fine, as well. On a related note, if there are any works that aren't currently posted to either S6 or Etsy that you'd like to get your hands on, then please let me know. Thanks!

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Prints via Society 6 - http://www.society6.com/studio/matteriart/store
Originals via Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/shop/mikematteri

Froud Orlock and a Hamster Pirate

These were made for some friends' birthdays this year. I've also been working on concept designs for a comics project recently, and I should be able to share a few of them later on this year. Fun times!

Oh, one more thing! I've started a mirror of this blog over at Tumblr! At this point, it's really more of a "let's see what happens" kind of experiment, but it could be useful, methinks.
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Drawings and DOOM on Tumblr: http://mikematteri.tumblr.com/

Sketches and Speedies

Here's some stuff from earlier in the month. Cthulhu and (what is likely a very unorthodox version of) Dagon were for a quick web project, and the Street Fighter/My Little Pony mashups were for fun.

Chess Phantasms - final

Done-done-done-done-DONE. I was thinking about adding rain and reflective puddles and whatnot, but the smokey tendril bits and overall level of visual congestion nixed that idea close to the end. Oh well, maybe next time.

Happy 2011 everybody!