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Darth Threepio: A Star Wars Excursion

12 Mar 2010, Posted by matthewchilders in Illustrations, featured, 1 Comments

Darth Threepio: A Star Wars Excursion


So I bought a new Cintiq digital tablet and have been itching to actually work on a digital painting. It’s so addictive. I also have a lifelong obsession with Star Wars so I felt it only fitting that I do something with that. (more…)

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Melancholy Goth Girl

09 Feb 2010, Posted by matthewchilders in Comics, Illustrations, featured, 1 Comments

Melancholy Goth Girl


While I’m not really able to show the actual sequential pages for the story I’m currently illustrating, this was a character piece I did to highlight one of the main characters and to give me a little more confidence in the style I’m working in. (more…)

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Historical Ticket

23 Nov 2009, Posted by matthewchilders in Advertising, Illustrations, featured, 1 Comments

Historical Ticket


Last spring was the 50th running of the Coca-Cola 600. I was asked to help produce an ad that would help celebrate this fact so I found inspiration in the past. I found the original ticket from the first World 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway and (more…)

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New Hampshire Motor Speedway Concepts

23 Nov 2009, Posted by matthewchilders in Advertising, featured, 0 Comments

New Hampshire Motor Speedway Concepts


I was given the pleasure of working on concepts for the June race in New Hampshire Motor Speedway. These were a couple of the ideas that I helped put together to promote the event. (more…)

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Holiday Illustration for Lowe’s Motor Speedway

21 Nov 2009, Posted by matthewchilders in Advertising, Illustrations, featured, 0 Comments

Holiday Illustration for Lowe’s Motor Speedway


Recently I was asked to concept a holiday illustration for a promotion they were doing. They wanted something fairly specific.. a santa in a 50’s style car type sled. For some reason I wanted to give the illustration a Norman Rockwell feel. So after laying down an initial (more…)

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Animatics for National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration

02 Nov 2009, Posted by matthewchilders in Advertising, Television, featured, 2 Comments

Animatics for National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration


These are a collection of animatics I illustrated for a proposed campaign of tv spots for the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration. The last one is the one they chose to go with. Maybe you’ve seen it. (more…)

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Rude Racing Ad Campaign

02 Nov 2009, Posted by matthewchilders in Advertising, Television, featured, 2 Comments

Rude Racing Ad Campaign


This was an print and tv campaign that we did for the 2008 Bank of America 500 for Lowe’s Motor Speedway. It really stripped things down to the essence of racing. The beating and banging and fan interaction with the drivers. (more…)

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All-Star Slugfest

25 Oct 2009, Posted by matthewchilders in Advertising, Television, featured, 2 Comments

All-Star Slugfest


For the 2009 All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway we concepted and designed this wrestling poster parody to help promote the event and sell tickets. The wrestler bodies were actually illustrations that I drew based on old wrestler photos and we topped them with driver heads. (more…)

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Addy in Wonderland

25 Oct 2009, Posted by Matthew Childers in Illustrations, featured, 0 Comments

Addy in Wonderland


In 2007 I was asked to design the Addy Show Booklet and cover. The theme we had that year was Alice In Wonderland and I knew immediately I wanted to do an illustrated piece. I was really absorbing alot of James Jean at the time… and decided to do something that felt like his style. (more…)

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The Expatriate pin-up.

20 Oct 2009, Posted by matthewchilders in Comics, Illustrations, featured, 0 Comments

The Expatriate pin-up.


An old friend Jason Latour who was the artist on The Expatriate for Image Comics (written by B. Clay Moore) asked me to do a pin-up a few years ago as a filler page in his book. I happily accepted and came up with this little diddy. I tried to keep with the color scheme of the actual book.. not sure if I did since I never found a copy of it. My comic shop at the time was rather lacking in the image books. But regardless I liked the piece. (more…)

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