She-Ra Princess of Power!!!

For the honor of Gray Skull!!!

I'm still learning the masterful Avalanche methods of digi-painting. So it is with apologies to the honorable Sam Nielson that I steel his lighting scheme. A poor imitation I know. But hopefully I'll continue to improve. I just love that Teela painting soooo much. ;0) Once again super thanks to Seb and Ben!!!

Transformers Animated Gears!!!

Transformers Animated Gears!!! ~ In my never ending quest to get all the Tranformers that don't already have an animated desighn, animatedly designed... I present Gears!!! The grumpy-est Autobot this side of Huffer. Now I just need to add Black Costume Spider-Man and a webbed wrapped Megatron and POW we'd have the comic book cover for Transformers 3.

Mer-Man

Mer-Man

Finally!!! ... the fully painted and operational Mer-Man of Masters of the Universe Fame. I did that initial sketch a while ago... then a gray scale... and now!!! woo hoo... done. I sorta, kinda borrowed the lighting scheme from the popular Todd Harris piece... hey, steal from the best right? :) A very big thank you to Sebastian and Ben for invaluable critiques and suggestions and pure awesomeness.

The Last Magi

The Last Magi will die tonight! What great secrets will he take with him to the grave? Can we survive without his protection? Does he flap those eyebrows to fly?


My first life drawing from life in like, four years (embarrassed) ... It was a lot of fun... I think I'll do more :)

Omni - Oink! the Power - Pig!!!

I thought the Pig People of Padulang would have comics… if they are indeed civilized soooo… here is what I thought a pig comic might look like.

I showed my little girl and she started singing: "Can he swing ... from a web ... no he can't ... he's a pig ... "

nuff said... ;o)

The Last Magi

old magi with warts

shome more shtoof

Another Value study... I'm going to start color painting these soon.
Starla is a comic for Flight 6 or possibly explorer.
Another transformer!!!??? This time it's Cosmos the entrepid space explorer!

Cosmobot NumberTwo and Mer-Man value studies

Cosmobot Number Two


Mer-Man


Now that the value studies are done I'll be moving to color! A most treacherous enterprise even in the best of times. Wish me luck.

Sketch-a-Tron

What strange and interesting doodles live in the mind of the strange and interesting artist Matthew S. Armstrong... lets find out.

How strange and interesting.

RHINO RHINO studies

Here's some studies of real rhinos I did for my upcoming book RHINO RHINO SWEET POTATO. The Rhino's in the book ended up being highly stylized... but it always good to know what the real thing looks like.

Captain Power, Darth Vader and Ratbat!!!

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*Darth Vader*
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*Rat-Bat*
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Here we have the leader of the soldiers of the future Captain Power. What a great animated show that would make, no?
A slightly different version of Darth Vader. What is with Jedi and Sith always chopping off limbs anyway. They do that allot. I'd like to see a montage of all the limb chopping they do.
Finally, everyone's favorite Deception fuel auditor: Rat-Bat!!! It is theorized Megatron forced Rat-Bat to become one of Soundwave's tapes to keep a better eye on him. I did a sort of combo of the War With in Ratbat, my favorite parts of the original toy and Transformers Animated.

TTFN

Transformers Animated: Nightbird and Cosmo-Bot #5

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One of my favorite episodes of the ol 85' transformers was Enter the Nightbird. Nightbird is a female robot ninja!!! It don't get better than that. I was always so sad she was only in one episode... but maybe that's part of what makes her so cool.
I really wanted to see what Nightbird would look like in the Transformers Animated universe, so I did yet another of my Derrick "the man" Wyatt impressions. (I just love his work so much.)
Find out more about Nightbird over at the transformers wiki and youtube.

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*Comsmo-Bot #5*

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It's very cold in space.

And speaking of Transformers... here's the ultimate nerd-core Transformers Christmas video. Happy Holidays to yaz.