Matthew Roberts
VCD – Character Design & Illustration
www.artstation.com/swxmatty
Visual Communications Design
Character Design and Illustration Major
Comics Minor
Profile image courtesy of Nora Hanako
Digital Artworks and Posters
Collection of digital artworks and posters created as stand alone assignments for classes.
Rolling stones magazine cover mock-up based on late Hip-Hop legend MF DOOM.
Internet article mock-up based on the war in Ukraine and NATO's pledge for support.
Recreation and reimagining of Destiny 2's cosmodrome map. Using in-game events and artwork to create a new look for the current game map.
Traditional cover edited in photoshop
Mock-up comic cover created for "Vampirella" as part of the pulp fiction project.
Poster
Created as a medical poster mock-up to talk about the effect of Asthma on a person's lungs.
Horus Heresy Mock-ups
Two book cover mock-ups to redesign Games Workshop's hit book series "The Horus Heresy"
Both mock-ups was done with mixed media. Traditional line work and digital colours.
Book cover spread
Mock-up created to redesign the cover of the first book in the series.
Society's Outliers character turn-arounds
Collection of Character Turn arounds and expression sheets used in the concept art book.
Each page was done traditionally on a 11 x1 7 spread and then imported into Adobe InDesign.
This collection showcases some of the major characters created to be used in the graphic novel "Society's Outliers".
Two page spread
Front and back veiw of main character and protagonist 'Spirit' as well as facial expressions and tattoos.
Two page spread
Front and back of main character and protagonist 'Harbinger' as well as facial expressions and ability illustration.
Two page spread
Front and back of side character 'Miranda' as well as facial expressions, tattoos and ability illustration.
Two page spread
Front and back of major character and antagonist 'Cornelia' as well as facial expressions and unique apearance.
Two page spread
Front and back of major character and antagonist 'Genesis' as well as facial expressions and power buffer.
Two page spread
Front and back of side character 'Makebate' as well as facial expressions, jewellery and scarification.
Society's Outliers Coloured Collection
Collection of mix media pieces used as concept art for a graphic novel pitch.
This set are some of the coloured drawings created for Society's Outliers.
Each drawing was pencilled and inked traditionally, then scanned and coloured digitally.
Most of my final school years was dedicated towards creating a concept art book to be used as my portfolio.
11 x 17 Mixed media
Showcasing main protagonists of the series; Spirit (left) and Harbinger (right).
Comic cover
Comic panel
Slimmed down and coloured to be used as a business card.
Full character design created to be used as the cover for my concept art book.
Society's Outliers line work
Collection of Black & White comic panels created for the concept art book.
Each drawing was pencilled and inked traditionally.
The purpose of each was to demo characters in their enviroment.
Full page spread.
Panel was created to showcase the inciting incident that takes place in the graphic novel "Society's Outliers".
Two page comic spread
Piece was created to show a large number of original characters who will eventually be used as the antagonists of the series.
full comic page
Test page created to show enviroment and panelling.