Man of Faith
2012
Description
This is an illustration of John Locke from Lost! This character has always been one of my favorite characters on the show. I did a painting of him a few months ago but since then my style has turned into one that is more vector based so I wanted to do a vector version of John Locke. The black smoke went through a few changes. First I just drew in the lines to place the smoke on the picture and then after that I added detail to it but in the end I decided that I liked it much more as just a solid black mass. To me it felt more imposing then it did when it had detail.
Fields
Digital Art, Illustration
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Some type of sub-title - This is an illustration of John Locke from Lost! This character has always been one of my favorite characters on the show. I did a painting of him a few months ago but since then my style has turned into one that is more vector based so I wanted to do a vector version of John Locke. The black smoke went through a few changes. First I just drew in the lines to place the smoke on the picture and then after that I added detail to it but in the end I decided that I liked it much more as just a solid black mass. To me it felt more imposing then it did when it had detail.
Prints available at http://society6.com/mattfontaine/Man-of-Faith-DbI_Print 
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I am pleased to show this to you all as I've been waiting months for the book to be published and now it finally is!
You can get the book at: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products...nd-issue-2
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