Matt Elder

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Name: Matt Elder
Date registered: November 14, 2010

Latest posts

  1. Catwoman Crouching 01 Portrait Oil Painting — April 30, 2012
  2. Hulk Smash Brick Wall Oil Painting — February 9, 2012
  3. The Flash 01 Oil Painting & Pencil Sketch Study — November 29, 2011
  4. Optimus Prime Transformer Marker Sketch — September 6, 2011
  5. Store Now Open — August 23, 2011

Most commented posts

  1. Hulk Smash Brick Wall Oil Painting — 4 comments
  2. How to Draw & Paint: Masterclass 02: Self Portrait Oil Painting by mattelder.com — 3 comments
  3. Female Gambit Digital Painting — 3 comments
  4. Free Video Tutorial: How to Draw: The Basics — 2 comments
  5. Wolverine as Indiana Jones Oil Painting — 2 comments

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May
19

Joker Pin-up Oil Painting

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Tweet Had a lot of fun with my Wolverine as Indiana Jones oil painting so I thought I might try another. Next in line is this Joker painting. Pencils & Inks by Mike Deodato Jr. Colours by Matt Elder (me)

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Apr
28

Wolverine as Indiana Jones Oil Painting

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Tweet Thought I’d take my love of oil painting and apply it to my love of comics and came up with this Wolverine as Indiana Jones painting. First time I’ve ever really tried to oil paint a comic character and first time using someone else’s linework. Learnt so much doing this piece and was the… Continue reading »

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Apr
11

Unknown Heroes: Anzac Soldier I – New Painting

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Tweet Late last year I made a trip to Anzac Cove in Gallipoli (Turkey) and was inspired to do this painting: My style is still evolving and changing so while there are many elements here I thought worked well as a first time attempt, there are still some I’d like to fix (translation – I’ll… Continue reading »

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Feb
09

How to Draw & Paint: Masterclass 02: Self Portrait Oil Painting by mattelder.com

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Tweet I’ve just recently finished my yearly self portrait oil painting and this time created an accompanying free time lapse video tutorial of the painting from start to finish. This is a new addition to the How to Draw & Paint: Masterclass series and hope you enjoy! Feel free to drop me a line if… Continue reading »

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Dec
29

How to Draw: MasterClass 01: Ayers Rock / Uluru & The Olgas / Kata Tjuta

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Tweet I’ve created a new series of videos called “MasterClass”. Here the idea is to see artworks / sketches created combining all techniques and ideas learnt in the How to Draw: Basics series. This video show sketching on site at Ayers Rock and The Olgas in the outback of Australia. The thought process and ideas… Continue reading »

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Dec
07

How to Draw: The Basics of a Playstation Controller and Peanut Butter Jar

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Tweet This video continues to build on skills learnt in the previous video “How to Draw: The Basics of Lines…”. Using simple shapes of boxes, cubes, ellipses and cylinders, we build up to drawing a peanut butter jar and a Playstation controller. How to Draw: The Basics of a Playstation Controller and Peanut Butter Jar… Continue reading »

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Dec
07

Free Video Tutorial: Introduction to Blender

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Tweet This free online video tutorial will show you how to get the open source 3D software program Blender 3D, load a file and basic navigation. Introduction to Blender from Matt Elder on Vimeo. To download the file used in this tutorial click link: Playstation Controller Zip file containing .blend file (1.5MG) Links The links… Continue reading »

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Nov
23

Free Video Tutorial: How to Draw: The Basics

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Tweet I’ve decided to start doing some video tutorials on drawing and art. Best of all, they are free to watch / download. You can watch them below here, or the full video on my Vimeo channel (where you can download the whole video for free) or individual sections on my Youtube channel (or click… Continue reading »

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Nov
17

Website Facelift … ’bout time

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Tweet My website was finally driving me crazy and needed a face-lift badly. Originally I coded the website, got that done and wanted to give it  a face lift shortly after… that was almost 5 years ago. The content on my website kept growing so decided it was time for a proper website that would… Continue reading »

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Nov
14

Selected for Waterbrook Art Exhibition

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Tweet “And The Son Will Set Another Day” painting of mine was recently selected in the Waterbrook Art Exhibition. Details of the exhibition can be found on the waterbrook website: http://www.waterbrook.com.au/greenwich/events/waterbrook-art-exhibition

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