Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine)

Robot Flux (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:45:37 -0700

The original idea came from playing around with typography. I created all of the type in the back first with a science fiction theme. Obviously something had to go in front of the type and for me putting a retro looking robot in the front was a no brainer. The name for the piece was originally just "Sci Fi Art" and was meant as a place holder. The words Robot Flux were clearly visible in the art so it seemed like the obvious choice. It all just ended up falling into place. This is my newest piece of art and I hope you enjoy it! T-Shirt will be available at www.misterdressup.com next Monday!

The Early Bird Catches the.... (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:52:50 -0700

COFFEE!

Bride (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:18:02 -0800

This is a new Bride of Frankenstein illustration I did. It's funny I havent seen any of the classic Universal monster movies but I love them so much. They're fun to work with.

Master of Suspense (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:09:06 -0700

Here is another Alfred Hitchcock piece!

Turbo Driver (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:42:00 -0700

This is one car that I did for a friend recently for his website! I graciously was okay with me selling it here as prints!

Evolution (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:40:48 -0700

This is one car that I did for a friend recently for his website! I graciously was okay with me selling it here as prints!

Blue Collar (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:20:08 -0700

This design was done for a site called Jam250. It is a limited edition t-shirt print. It's available here as a print. The shirt can be found at: http://www.jam250.co.nz/index.php/blue-collar-1.html

Jam250 T-shirts

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:47:21 -0700

This week I am the featured designer over at Jam250! Please check it out! http://www.jam250.co.nz/

Matt Good

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:56:40 -0700

This is a Matt Good illustration I did for a friend.

The Great Outdoors (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:49:34 -0700

This illustration was done for a New Zealand site called Jam250. It was done for the purpose of being printed onto a shirt. It's available here as a print. The limited edition t-shirt can be bought at: http://www.jam250.co.nz/index.php/the-great-outdoors-w.html

The King (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:31:03 -0700

This is an illustration I did for a t-shirt site. Will give more details when things are more finalized. The limited edition t-shirt can be bought at: http://www.jam250.co.nz/index.php/the-king-w.html

Empress (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:27:40 -0700

This started off with a black and white photo reference from some stock site..and evolved into this.

Noel Gallagher After Oasis

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:12:04 -0700

In November McSweeney's contacted me about doing an illustration for a book they were making called Grantland Quarterly issue 2. This is the illustration I did that accompanies the article by Chuck Klosterman called "Noel Gallagher After Oasis" I am pleased to show this to you all as I've been waiting months for the book to be published and now it finally is! You can get the book at: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/grantland-issue-2 and the article can be found here: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6937414/noel-gallagher-oasis

Night Call

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:48:55 -0800

This is another skull drawing I just did. I find that I am wanting to focus on CMYK colors lately. The emphasis is Cyan for this one. Maybe a Magenta one is next!

Ain't No Grave (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:31:26 -0800

So this just started out as a drawing of a skull. I like to draw skulls and skeletons once in a while because I think it's fun to draw bones. In the early stages I thought of this being like a successor to my CMYK Spacemen piece. So I just ended up using the cmyk colors a lot. In regards to the name. Sometimes when I can't come up with a name I turn on Itunes and look through my songs for inspiration. Johnny Cash's Aint No Grave song came up and this image of this crazy skeleton full of electric energy just came to mind. So it fit.

Man of Faith

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:38:53 -0800

This is an illustration of John Locke from Lost! This character has always been one of my favorite characters on the show. I did a painting of him a few months ago but since then my style has turned into one that is more vector based so I wanted to do a vector version of John Locke. The black smoke went through a few changes. First I just drew in the lines to place the smoke on the picture and then after that I added detail to it but in the end I decided that I liked it much more as just a solid black mass. To me it felt more imposing then it did when it had detail.

Parrot Sketch

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:37:45 -0800

I recently discovered the blob brush in Illustrator and started playing around with my pen tablet! Pen pressure in Illustrator! I love it!

Robocop In Love (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:11:02 -0800

I recently discovered Mondo tees and after looking at all of the prints on that site it inspired me to do something that was purposely meant for screen printing as well as something that had a fairly limited color palette. I wanted to work with a subject that is in a movie and I thought it would be fun to do Robocop! The inspiration for the sparks behind his head came from an illustration I saw on tumbr and there is an artist I like who I've seen do it and I always wanted to do something similar. I am talking about both the color and the look and after I did it thats when the title came to me! This is what happens when Robocop falls in love! There are sparks!

CMYK Spacemen (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:24:44 -0800

The idea for this stemmed from another illustration I saw which used blue and red and used transparency with two objects overlapping. My idea for this came from the use of 2 colors and mushroomed into 4 spacemen representing CMYK!

Fett (For Sale)

Matt Fontaine (mattfontaine) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:03:55 -0700

I've been wanting to do a Star Wars thing for a while and Boba Fett has been on the top of my list for some time now! My original concept was quite a bit different then this but as the piece evolved this is what it turned into. The final idea is a much more simplified idea.