and heres the last of the new three.

Sorry its been a while.  Lost job, car, and some other things, had to restructure my life.  Here is some new art.  

Illustration for Crossfit York.  I think this is eventually to 

go on a t-shirt, among other this.  The caption is supposed 

to be "keeping you out of the dirt, a little longer."

Tour poster I did for my former band.

some quick history.

I started college in September of 2001.  At the time, I had absolutely no aspiration to be an artist. I thought that I was in school for two reasons; to get a business degree, and to make some kinds of impact on the institutions cross country and track programs.  Fast forward three semesters.  The school I was attending did not offer an art degree, but they did offer one art class . . . for therapeutic reasons or something, I don't know. Frustrated with my lack of enthusiasm for other subjects, I decided to enroll in this art class during my fourth semester.  It took about two weeks of class before I realized that even if i wasn't very good at art . . . it was something that would hold my attention, where other classes/subjects/majors had not.  I transfered to a school that had a bachelors in fine art and started working towards both a degree in graphic design and in fine art painting/printmaking.  Fast forward some more.  I have since graduated, and am not entirely sure what the next step in my own creative process is supposed to be.  I live in a basement.  I create art for friends, my band, and on very rare occasions, for small art exhibitions. This will serve as the current, updated account of what I am making from day to day. My name is Matthew Apol, and this is my sketchbook . . . these are the marks I make.  

This first image post is not of current work.  These are sketches

from when I was kicking around the idea of becoming an artist.

I will continue to mix in and upload more old work as I find it.

2003

2003

a few images from the past.

2002

2002