The Art of Matthew Warlick

Another piece for the Metrosketchual blog. This week’s theme; Street Fighter!

Click the image to check out the blog and a larger version of the image, you’ll be glad you did!

Today’s Twitter free sketch winner is Scott Fogg.  His character of choice,  The 10th Doctor.

Enjoy Scott!

Follow me on twitter and check out the hashtag #followme4freeart and you might be the next winner!

My friend and fellow Dallas area comic creator Samax Amen threw up a sketch on Twitter yesterday that got me inspired. With his permission I threw down some inks and colors and made a wallpaper out of it, the first wallpaper I’ve made in a year or two.

It’s always fun to ink/color other people’s pencils. It’s nice to not be so attached to the original lines or the outcome and just have the freedom to improvise and do what feels inspired.

You can download the wallpaper below. And be sure and check out Samax’s site GhettoManga for all things comics, hip-hop, art & pop culture.

Ghetto-Core Wallpaper

Download the .zip file, which includes the following resolutions.
Standard: 1600×1200 | 1280×1024 | 1024×768
Widescreen: 2560×1600 | 1440×900

This time our winner is lucky follower #300 leo_depsky.  Leo chose one of my favorite childhood villains, TrapJaw, from He-Man for his character!

Enjoy your sketch Leo.

I tried a little something different with this one. I let the pencil under-drawing from the scan show through and then did white tones over a grey background. I really dig how it came out.

Follow me on twitter and check out the hashtag #followme4freeart and you might be the next winner!

I’ve been doing a free art promotion on my twitter account where I give one out of every ten followers a random sketch of a character of their choosing. Today’s winner is twitter user SnapPop who chose Clark Kent/Superman as her sketch subject.

Be sure and follow me on twitter and seek out the hashtag #followme4freeart, you might win some art for yourself!

So a few of us Dallas folk got together and started a weekly sketch blog called Metrosketchual. Below is my piece for our first weeks’ theme, Ghostbusters!

And here are a few rejected sketches that I just wasn’t feeling. They’re decent enough, but I wanted something that better captured the vibe of the first movie. Plus Slimer was a straight-to-ink warm up sketch.

So I’m giving away free sketches to random twitter followers, including a full blown commission to #400.

Congrats to the first winner, lucky #290,  ArtbyAdora. She chose She-Ra as her sketch.

Follow me on twitter or check out the hashtag #followme4freeart and get yo’self some free bling!

I’ll be in Austin this weekend to attend the 6th annual Staple! Independent Media Expo.

I’ll be out with the entire Space-Gun Crew (Jake Ekiss, Evan Bryce, Paul Milligan and Vinh-Luan Luu) hawking prints, sketches and copies of Senryu.

Staple! is a blast and my favorite con of the season to attend, so if you’re in Austin come out and have a look around, you’ll find some of the best independent comics America has to offer.

And for up -to-the-minute news on the day be sure and follow my twitter feed.