Matthew Woodson was born and raised in rural southern Indiana. At a young age he developed a fascination for natural history and the elegant simplicity of silent moments and small deaths. He then moved to Chicago to attend The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where natural history was non-existent and silent moments / small deaths were few and far between.

He still lives in Chicago in an apartment full of hardwood floors and taxidermy, with an unapologetically vocal cat and a dog that is skinnier than the grain.

His illustration is obviously awesome but he also has something interesting to say. His subjects are people, often portrayed with unflattering directness and occasionally in compositions that don’t include the head, studies of natural objects like plants and animal skulls, and landscapes.

His site features comics as well as illustration, including a story called “Tendergrass” that was published in the Flight 2 anthology.

Selected clients: Action Heights Records, American Express, Bare Films, The Boston Globe, Complex Magazine, Digital Kitchen, ESPN Magazine, Fisher Mountain Bikes, Forbes Magazine, Ford, The House Of Blues, Image Comics, LA Weekly, Learning Media, Meathaus Comics, More Magazine, Nestle, NewYork Magazine, NextBook, Penthouse Magazine, Perry Ellis, The Royal Mail, Sandbox Strategies, Sparknotes, TFA, Threadless, Topshelf Comics, Type Records, UNICEF, Wired Magazine

His sometimes stark, sometimes poetic images are spare, usually consisting of linework and a few tones of gray or muted color. He works in pen, brush and ink, occasionally with the addition of color in gouache and frequently with color added digitally in Photoshop.

Source: www.ghostco.org