Mat Voyce

And they were like really, they're almost like architectural illustrations.

They were like really high spec, really detailed.

And they would basically just be like a front on view of the building, the Empire State Building or of the El Dorado in New York.

And I would illustrate these perfectly.

and then basically then upload them and try and sell them as wall art.

So for a period, I had this really detailed line illustration style, and that would follow through to doing things from movies.

So I would illustrate...

I'd illustrate things from my favorite movies as like little line illustrations or icons.

So it was very icon-based as well because I would create these little badges with these characters because I felt like when I was doing them with lines, they were much easier to draw.

So it didn't feel like I was going to draw them and they were going to look nothing like their original characters.

So I would do like these badge selections or these sets of building prints and...

try and build these little passion projects and at the time originally I would put these I would do these so I could put them in my portfolio so that when I found a job that I felt like I could do this all day because I knew I wanted to do it all day long the next role they would see my portfolio and see I knew how to illustrate and they could see how that could then come into their team so that was the idea and

Obviously over time that snowballed to then becoming, that could be a career, that could be a moneymaker, it could be something that could sustain me and maybe I could do it all day long.

So it pivoted, but they were very like movie based and totally different to what I do now at the very beginning.

So it was... I had three design jobs.

One was with...

a college working in-house.

That was like a year and a bit.

And then I got into agencies.

So that was my first agency role was two years, maybe just over two.