Mental Slummin'

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EDIT: Tried to tone down the glow on the skin and change the tone a wee bit. Thanks to ~Takafutoku and ~llawliet-ryuzaki for the great input!

Matty in his safehouse, playing his pink DS, drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon and eating Mickey D's. Yeppers.

This piece is a gift to my wonderful Matty-wife . The image itself is based on the cosplay pic she gifted to me with her as Matt: rachirujakotsu.deviantart.com/… I you and I hope you like it. It is mah tribute to your smexy Mattehness!


This was created in Photoshop. I printed and traced the general outline of the original pose, and used the transform tools to account for perspective. Everything else about Matt was painted and shaded in, with some liberties taken, but I tried to stay true to the original because she rocked that Matt pose so hard! I normally wouldn't trace the outline, but I am feeling super lazy. Forgive me?

The background is a stock photograph aeiryn.deviantart.com/art/indu… by

The McDonalds bag, beer cans and Matt's car are photo manips from random non-copyrighted photographs (you can see how crap my photo manips skills are...not exactly seamless).

The Pink DS was inspired by a cosplay picture of my lovely friend, and smexy Matteh

This was a challenge to do because of the dark atmosphere and lighting. If you take color point samples from this piece, you will see that I was working mostly in grays so color selection was really difficult and time consuming. I feel that his skin tone may be too sallow, but I had a hard time making him appear to be seated in dim lighting without going toward the darker tones.

Thanks to my comrade for offering her help and opinion when it came time to finalize this piece. I appreciate you taking the time, you rock!

The title of this piece is the name of a song by my friend Jay.



Comments and suggestions are always appreciated. Thank you all for looking and for your continued support!

You may have a beer with Matty now.

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Is it just me, or are all the Matt related clubs dead?