About Matou Canaille's Strange Art

Behind Matou Canaille is a Canada-based artist and that would be me. :)

Originally from France, I used to work in many different fields before dedicating all my available energies to my art.

It has been a few years since Matou Canaille pushed his then-traditional sketches or fan-art in the digital direction too (that's when I started pairing my Mac to a Cintiq tablet). I'm now starting to get comfortable with the digital medium as regards my illustrations aided in this by an experience as a graphic designer of several years.

Passionate about graphic arts, comics, illustration, I love when a work tells a story above all and conveys emotions. Sharing what boils in my head is what I humbly set as a goal when I launched Matou Canaille, hoping it would enlarge my capacity to reach people's heart.

As to what is inspiring to one's Matou, we could mention incredible artists such as Humberto Ramos, Terry Dodson, Dan Brereton, Thierry Lassonde, Grzegorz Rosiński, Alessandro Barbucci, Mirka Andolfo, and many more. Besides I have always loved to dive in classic fantasy, sci-fi, or historical novels, movies or video-games. That's why I might sometimes be found drawing characters straight out of childhood memories...

I'm really happy to have you here in my little arty corner! Hope you'll find something in my shop that touches your heart or tells a story that resonates with you.

Thanks and a whole bunch of love.