John Matthews

tomatoes and peppers
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Liss, reading

nodding off on the train
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watching tv - timelapse
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TBT - girl playing marbles and Lucy the cat
pencil on paper. no idea how long ago i sketched this. the girl playing marbles was, i think, from a norman rockwell illustration? the cat was my old buddy, Lucy
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somebody’s gramps waiting at the dance class
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watching tv 2
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red chair in marcella’s house
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watching tv on the couch
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TBT - ready for a nap.
pencil drawing from years ago - can’t remember whose dog this was (maybe my friend erin’s?). looks like a good girl to me. have been working on a new project but won’t be ready to show for a while - maybe next week i’ll have time to do some new sketches?
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TBT - ghost chair/christmas light, from 2018
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snack in the carseat
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hey doran! i’ve been drawing for a looong time now… i think most kids draw pretty regularly in early grade school, but i never really stopped. have taken long pauses along the way but recently trying to get back in the habit and stay creative

TBT for yesterday: stormtrooper doing some casual reading.
sketched this maybe back in 2016?
#art #stormtrooper

facetime with bill.
was chatting with my brother, bill, on a video call so i whipped out this sketch of him while we chatted. it’s not the most flattering likeness, but i also felt like i captured some trueness (?) so i figured i’d go ahead and put it out in the universe

TBT again - lonely chair, from 2018
this chair is in my mom’s house. it sits to the side of her fireplace, near the curtains covering the sliding glass door that leads to her backyard. whenever we visit, i always somehow end up in this seat so i thought i’d sketch it

medieval times! we went to the medieval times show last week and it was a pretty weird scene. everybody was issued these hilarious paper crowns. did some sloppy ex post facto sketches.

sick day nap

TBT - i sketched jabba the hut on a post-it note waaay back in 2015(?), then added this little bit on ruled paper so that he’s holding a giant candy cane. because it’s important to take breaks at work! he’s now my official social media avatar.

lost in the matrix (reloaded)
going to slowly re-post stuff from my insta over here & will (hopefully) sprinkle in some new sketches along the way.
this one is “reloaded” because i didn’t like how the first version turned out, so i stripped it back to the original sketch and partially re-worked it

pepper, dreaming