new art!!

finally something new to show you, alright i did it on the bus on the way home but hey who cares?

submission

This is very old news now but I thought I'd share it anyway; a few months ago i sent a submission to marvel through a competition they are holding called chesterquest. The prize was one of 12 pencilling jobs for marvel- as far as i know more than 2000 people enetered so I didn't expect to have a hope in winning but I thought it would just be good experience. Anyway, I got rejected but the letter I got back was nice:

'Thank you for taking the time to submit to ChesterQuest, Matt. Marvel
has now selected the artists who they will be giving penciling and
cover opportunities to, and at this time, you are unfortunately not
one of those chosen creators. Thanks again for your time and best of
luck in all your future endeavors. We hope to see you working on our
comics someday soon!

Take care,
C.B.'

I would have liked some sort of comment as well like work on ur figures or layouts or something but hey- Here's one of the peices from the submission too (from thor vs sentry p1).

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ok im starting to get a bit of a handle on things; im starting to put out comic pages again (albeit at a rate far below what i want), im settling down at work - but still hate it- and my school work is moving along, again at not a good enough rate but its a start. I have also decided not to buy original art (with the exception of stuff by perez but come on the mans a god) although to tie me over and get something to put on the wall i recreated a a perez page and a bagley page.

I gotta say i thinks its a damn near flawless copy!