KJA Artists - Matt

Over his 20-year freelance career, Matthew has worked on a variety of commissioned projects from art and illustration agents, as well as from his own clients of design agencies, publishers and manufacturers. He's experienced many changes in the design industry: "The biggest challenge was making the change from traditional airbrush to digital back in the late 90s."
The Batman project was a commission for the Dorling Kindersley Bat mobile Owner's Manual in December 2007, and one he thoroughly enjoyed. "It was important to make it look believable, but at the same time have a feel of 'Bat technology'," he says. Another of his commissioned projects was Muscle -part of a series of anatomical illustrations for Carlton books in April 2008."The most important part of this project was making the textures look organic, but keeping them relatively simple," he explains. "The challenge was getting the exaggerated perspective of the different layers to look okay, while keeping a sense of scale that allowed all the parts to be easily understood."