Matt Searston Illustration

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Matt Searston Illustration

Illustrator and Graphic Designer.

01/10/2022

Happy belated Birthday to The Starman himself. Today also marks 6 years since he sadly passed away so felt like the right time to repost this.⁣
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Time to blast out some of our favourite Bowie tracks in what would have been his 75th birthday on Saturday too 🙏.⁣
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(Swipe through for more detail and an alt colour. Made with True Grit Texture Supply’s Distress Press which has been a lot of fun to use too 👌)

01/01/2022

Happy New Year all 🎉⁣
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Let’s hope 2022 is substantially more enjoyable than 2020/21 🤞. ⁣
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(Full disclosure this is actually a rehashed post from NYE 2019/20 so felt like it was worth remixing to get some extra mileage out of it 😅)..

10/31/2021

Technically just in time for Halloween 😅🎃👻.⁣
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Had a lot of fun making this one, and another with a shed load of different colour options but here’s two for your Halloween based enjoyment. ⁣
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(As with Ripley, I’ll be making these into prints next year so check out for updates on that when the time is right too 👌)

06/21/2021

Happy Go Skateboarding Day 🛹⁣
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This is a bit of a work in progress but I’ve been playing around with a different way to do shadows and textures with the Flood Fill tool in AF Designer so with it being International Go Skateboarding Day felt like the perfect time to put these out there 😅. ⁣
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Couldn’t work out which colour to go with so here’s three. Used the awesome True Grit Rusty Nib brushes with these too so can’t recommend them enough 👌. (Will be doing some prints of these at some point as well so more to info about that soon)..

06/15/2021

Some of you will already know about this but I’ve been working on a few audio side hustles for quite a long time now and the multiple lockdowns finally made me get moving with them. ⁣
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So here’s another snippet of what to expect (along with that glitchy video in my story highlights). ⁣
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Will be a lot of unnecessary drum covers, random guitar noodlings and some synth videos nobody asked for - along with a load of other stuff I’ve got in the pipeline for the next few months so if you suddenly start to see some random videos cropping up here don’t say I didn’t warn you 😅. ⁣
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Also if you like what you see and hear, dropping a cheeky follow on the page would be hella appreciated 🦂🙏🙌⁣
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04/28/2021

🔥 Flareon Nosegrinding Down a Hand Rail 🛹⁣
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Was a fun one to put this together. Great idea by the awesome getting people to redo OG Pokemon in their own style so go and check out the rest of the pack over at some really incredible stuff over there by some amazing illustrators 🙌. ⁣
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Been working on a lot of new projects so will be posting a little more frequently than once every 6 months like with my last post 🤦🏻‍♂️.

10/01/2020

⚡️ TIGER LIGHTNING ⚡️ ⁣
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Brand new YouTube tutorial streaming live today at 4pm!⁣
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So if you want to see how I turned this sketched idea into the images in this post (couldn’t decide which to use so just threw them all in 🐅) then tune in at 4 and I’ll be there in the live chat for Q&A too..⁣
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https://youtu.be/Vfo3vgvPglo
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08/11/2020

☣️ ‘I am the one who knocks..’ ☢️⁣
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Have been rewatching Breaking Bad the last few weeks and it is easily my favourite tv show of all time. (Followed pretty closely by Mad Men and The Wire 🙏). ⁣
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Has been so great watching it back years after it finished, so many things you pick up that you didn’t notice before and everyone involved in it really brought their A game. ⁣
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Wanted to make this WW illustration for a while too so seemed like a good time to post it now I’m at the end of the rerun. Aiming to make this into a small run of screen prints soon so keep your eyes out for that if you’d like one of these on your wall watching over you while you cook 👀.. @ Albuquerque, New Mexico

08/09/2020

👋 Waving or Drowning? 🌊⁣
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(Reworked this older drawing from last year. Can be really useful going back over your previous ideas sometimes - much prefer these bolder colours to the original version I made for sure). ⁣
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P.S. If you feel like you’re drowning a little from all the negative stuff going on at the moment - keep your head up and try and focus on the positives whenever you can 🙏. (Alternatively just try to avoiding social media and do something else instead - that usually works great for me 🤾‍♂️📵). ⁣
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P.P.S. New print shop finally on the way soon so keep your eyes out for some updates on that 🎨

08/07/2020

🔥 It’s an absolute scorcher today. Time to sit outside, find your old summer jam mix tapes and turn your music player of choice up to 11 🔥. ⁣
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Couldn’t decide which one to post again so added the multicoloured wild card at the end too 🌈...

08/06/2020

♾ Every Day is Groundhog Day ♾⁣
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Have been working on this in the background on and off for the past few months. As relevant today as it was at the start of April 🙃. Still not convinced it actually looks like the great Bill Murray himself but was worth a try 🤷🏻‍♂️.⁣
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(Made about a million different colour versions so here’s a couple more variations I could barely choose between).. @ Punxsy, Pennsylvania

07/17/2020

💀 SKULLSX3 💀⁣
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Just been reworking this older design - couldn’t decide which colour I liked so went with all three again. ⁣
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Can’t get enough of those half tone textures too. (Working on a free halftone, pattern and texture pack to bring out soon so watch this space for that 👌)

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