Matthew Beakes
2D & Concept Art - Character Design - Illustration
My names Matthew and I am a visual artist and comics maker, like a lot of comics folk I do a lot of other stuff too, I work in videogames and enjoying painting and visual development (feel free to have a poke around the site to see for yourself) I love to tell stories with as few words as possible through creating colourful illustrations and compositions (as well as sequential art when possible).
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A selection of quicker story compositions & illustrations.
Here's a summary of some of my small press comic and zine work form the past few years, some info on each in the descriptions. Ranging from 20 - 40 pages these small booklets are created in small runs that I mostly table with, alongside smaller prints and postcards.
In the past I've summarised my comic work as follows:
I'm making comics simply to figure out what they are.
As a result I've enjoyed making little zine media experiments, as much as attempting completed presented comic works, so tabling has been super important to getting a sense of where to go next.
Thanks for reading!
Matthew