The Art of Magic Girl

Hello everyone, my name is Matt Andrews, a 27-year old illustrator living in South Carolina, and the lesser known artist behind Magic Girl , Retro Atomic Zombie Adventureland , and most lately, Houdini . This thread will be a place for me to share the artwork I did for Magic Girl now that the cabinets are finally being delivered. Many of you have probably heard of ZombieYeti, who did the backglass and playfield art, but I also did a huge amount of art for the game that is used on the outside of the cabinet and for the digital displays. To start, I've attached the first painting I did for John after he asked me to work on the project in 2012, and I'll be rolling out more pieces in the days and weeks to come.

Constructive comments and questions are very welcomed. Enjoy.

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#2 7 years ago

SKN

Skins

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Looks great. Welcome to the fold and glad you're not in the shadows any longer. I think you'll find a great deal of people here that admire the work you contributed to MG.

#3 7 years ago

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dmbjunky

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Were you promised a machine too?

#4 7 years ago

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Got any good Jpop stories?

#5 7 years ago

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toyotaboy

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Welcome! Loved the art on BHZA. Contacted you a year and a half ago about buying a print of this:
http://mandraws.com/post/48566983289/posters-digital-promotional-pieces

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#6 7 years ago

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TaylorVA

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Are you still working on RAZA?

#7 7 years ago

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BrianZ

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Love the artwork... Looking forward to your updates.

#8 7 years ago

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sd_tom

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Love the work! Hopefully more of your work makes it into pinball machines that ship

Also, Kman was right, worth trying to get permission to sell some prints

#9 7 years ago

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guyincognito

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The art is incredible! Both you and Zombie's work is incredibly good. I didn't quite understand why a single artist didn't do the art for both the playfield and the cabinet though?

Thanks for the lengthy introduction on a recent unmentionable podcast. It was interesting to hear about your origin story and how you met John and worked with him.

I don't know if it's worth your or Zombie's time/effort, but I bet some slick looking pinball t-shirts with great art would sell out...

#10 7 years ago

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mandraws

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Quoted from dmbjunky:
Were you promised a machine too?

No, I was never promised a machine. I was introduced to the pinball industry by JPOP, and didn't know what to expect. I just treated it as a normal freelance project, which at the time, I had only a handful under my belt. I didn't have the space to store a pinball machine anyway, so I would have declined if I was being paid with a cabinet.

#11 7 years ago

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mandraws

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Quoted from toyotaboy:
Welcome! Loved the art on BHZA. Contacted you a year and a half ago about buying a print of this:
http://mandraws.com/post/48566983289/posters-digital-promotional-pieces

Quoted from sd_tom:
Love the work! Hopefully more of your work makes it into pinball machines that ship
Also, Kman was right, worth trying to get permission to sell some prints

I'll let you guys know as soon as I have the go-ahead to sell prints. I'll probably be putting them up on Redbubble so lots of different memorabilia is possible from posters to phone cases.

#12 7 years ago

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Wanna job?

#13 7 years ago

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Good move.

#14 7 years ago

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dmbjunky

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Quoted from benheck:
Wanna job?

Ben's not messing around.

Brace for another JPop rant about those other companies stealing his ideas because of their egos.

#15 7 years ago

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Quoted from TaylorVA:
Are you still working on RAZA?

Haha, I can only hope for the sake of all who purchased the game that I'm done with RAZA. I don't know the status of their assembly, but I'd like to make a future post for the art I did for that machine as well.

#16 7 years ago

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Skins

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Quoted from benheck:
Wanna job?

mandraws you seriously need to take Ben up.

#17 7 years ago

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Quoted from benheck:
Wanna job?

Well first of all, Ben, I'd like to say I'm a huge fan of your portable game consoles, and I've watched almost every episode of TBHS. Send me an email or DM, and I'd love to talk about it.

#18 7 years ago

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Quoted from benheck:
Wanna job?

YES! do it!

#19 7 years ago

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dmbjunky

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From Ben Heck's Zombie Adventureland to Ben Heck's Bible Adventures.

Sounds good.

#20 7 years ago

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My next game isn't Bible Adventures. Pretty far from it, actually

#21 7 years ago

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dmbjunky

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Quoted from benheck:
My next game isn't Bible Adventures. Pretty far from it, actually

Go on...

#22 7 years ago

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Pdxmonkey

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Very cool

Hope you land a great gig in pinball and out of weed whacking.

#23 7 years ago

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Quoted from benheck:
My next game isn't Bible Adventures. Pretty far from it, actually

Ben is the biggest tease in pinball

Looking forward to seeing the project you and Spooky come up with, keep being awesome.

#24 7 years ago

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Quoted from benheck:
My next game isn't Bible Adventures. Pretty far from it, actually

Hmmm... the Necronomicon is pretty far from the Bible. OMG PLEASE be Evil Dead. Actually, please don't, I can't swing another game for a while

#25 7 years ago

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GorillaBiscuits

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Sorry to derail, who needs resumes when you have message boards. Looking forward to a potential future collaboration with Spooky!

#26 7 years ago

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spfxted

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Do you sell original art? Can I commission something from you?

#27 7 years ago

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spfxted

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You don't REALLY need to get permission from jpoop before you sell anything, do you??

#28 7 years ago

desertT1

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Thanks for being on the podcast. It was quite an interesting story. I think if you worked on anything with Ben (which means Spooky) it would be a great chance to continue making great pinball art.

#29 7 years ago

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Drewblood419

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mandraws you should definitely look into coming to the southern fried gameroom expo in Atlanta this year it would be a great opportunity to show/sell some prints and meet the community

#30 7 years ago

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Quoted from benheck:
My next game isn't Bible Adventures. Pretty far from it, actually

S...Satan's Adventures?

#31 7 years ago

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fattrain

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Amazing art and now a new possible gig in the industry?!?!

This thread is already positively awesome!

THIS is what pinside should be about. Rock on bro!

#32 7 years ago

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FatPanda

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Hope you can be a contributor to the hobby on a long term basis! Your art rocks!

#33 7 years ago

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canea

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I know the Magic Girl and Houdini projects have been train wrecks, but I have to say that when I first saw them I wanted them.. based entirely on the awesome artwork. Nice work! Love to see original hand drawn art coming back to pinball.

#34 7 years ago

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Quoted from spfxted:
Do you sell original art? Can I commission something from you?

The downside to more work in pinball is less time for private commissions. Concerning the prints, none of the IPs are mine, so I'm assuming selling prints would get me in trouble, but I'm still waiting on confirmation there.

#35 7 years ago

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