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Cool! I love pop-ups!

So much fun June. I love all the little details.

I love these illustrations erin!

Uh-oh!!! Sweet little mouse!

A lot of mystery and narrative going on here! Very nice stuff!

I love these two, Anni! Attack animals - especially the cat. They must have been fun to work on!

Great expression on that cat! :-)

Wow... The angle for this image must have made it very difficult to draw!
I love all the texture of the paper when the image is enlarged, real washes are so nice to see.

R.L. is great for bad things happening to kids, the stories were all wild! Here, I had my son lie on the floor for a basic positioning photo reference, then I made up the cat so it could be more fantastic. Thanks for the nice compliment, I only work in "real" washes!

That is Scary!! Make you think twice about swimming... very nice illustration!

Well,there are nice witches too. This one looks like she would cast good spell on people!

A nice, reassuring depiction for the young set. Love the cat!

Ouch, gotta hate when you loose body parts! That's never a good thing. Great illo! Perfect for the Halloween season!

Love these shades of blue.
Great atmosphere.

I like the blue tone.. Great work!

cool

way cool. draws me right into the story.

Great expressions. Love the frustration of the monster. Can't blame him really... how can one expect to scare people silly if they keep losing their arm when they raise it up to chase people!

You've got such a nice style! "Less is more", and still plenty!
Something scary turned into tender and funny. Brilliant!

ouch! might be a tough repair job! I love the moodiness of this piece.

I really like your illustration style.

Perfect mood!

He means business. I think I'd be getting my mending kit!!
Nice work.

Nice illustration

Buaahhhhh.... spooky .. This is fantastic Matt!:o)

Love the foggy atmosphere. And the way your rendered his fingers is perfect too!

I'm a little concerned about the location of your signature though! ;o)

I like the toned paper. I need to do more of that.

Perfect for the season!

I would need to be extreemly desperate to even consider using that facility! Enough to give you nightmares.

Haha-- I love this! Unfortunately it reminds me of my (sometimes) lax housecleaning skills... ;-)

Yeah, Peggy, this reminds me of the bathrooms in my house, too! I like how you used the newspaper in the background.

They're aliiiivvve....
I like it! Poor kindly toymaker.

This is an awesome piece. Great lines, very magical.

Woa! This is spooky alright.. Awesome illustration Matt :o)

great energy and tension to this...

ooooh! Definitely spooky! Nice job.

Lovely!

so warming! love its atmosphere, really beautiful!

Like an original ‘I, ROBOT’…only scary.
Great feel, wonderful characterisation.

great illustration,awesome idea and composition,love the atmoshere

Cor! Fantastic Matt, has a real Ardizonne feel to it, and delicous linework.

I'd be angry too if someone hung me on a wall. Very wonderful illustration. Perfect for getting me in the Halloween mood.

Funny idea, I agree with that =)

Ones they'll get us.

=)

Very nice. It's Pinnochio meats Chucky.

Ok, I'm completely creeped out! Behind you! Look. Behind. You! Great, great drawing. I also enjoyed your other work immensely. I shall be back for more. :)

wonderful!

Fantactic! Love the dark atmosphere here and the contrast of the bright (and wondefully expressive) pumpkin :)

It is drawn in a very charming way and still...

I specially like the pumpkin! :)

I'm not very keen on dolls and puppets, specially when they move by themselves. Even the toymaker painting in red!

Great-great composition!

Really cool idea with the spin on Illustration Friday! Love this one!



oooeeeewwww....It's Freaky Illustration Friday!

Thanks, everybody! Gretel, you get the gold star for the use of the exclamation "cor!" (and thank you for the Ardizonne comment).

I hope there was a happy ending to this tale!
I rather like bats :¬)

Yowza! Well, the illustration is really great. I love the coloring, the linework, and the composition. Most of all I love the posing of the bat.

June-- I actually like them too! It wasn't a happy ending for him (poor little guy!) but it was for me-- he tested negative for rabies.

Thanks, Breadwig! It's funny-- their bodies are tiny, but when they're flapping around they seem huge! :-)

Beautiful use of color, and love the tilt.

Thank you, Anni! :-)

ouch - the negative rabies is a good thing! I will never forget my dad, every fall chasing bats around the house with a tennis racket....

Peggy-- I've heard so many stories like that-- it makes me think maybe we all overreact these days! Oh well, better safe... I suppose.

Holy bat bites ... that is a spooky story! Great art Jennifer! Sharon V

Thanks, Sharon! :-)

Love it! Fall is my favorite time of the year!

Thank you Susan, us too! :)

This is a really sweet painting-nice job!

Thank you Brooke. :)