Matt Kohr
Matt Kohr is a concept artist and art director who created Ctrl+Paint’s digital painting lessons and art-directed Batman: Arkham Shadow.
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Matt’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus his backstory and Starbook, where fans write.
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ArtStation LearningOverview
- Work
- Concept artist, art director and digital painting instructor
- Education
- Savannah College of Art and Design, sequential art
- Creator project
- Founded Ctrl+Paint in 2011
- Game work
- Marvel’s Iron Man VR and Batman: Arkham Shadow
Mini bio
How it started.
Matt studied sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Drawing imaginary worlds appealed to him, even though he did not plan to make comics professionally. He went on to work as a concept artist on console games before moving into freelance work.
Building Ctrl+Paint.
In a 2015 PolyPlane interview, Matt traced Ctrl+Paint to a spell of unemployment in 2011. He wanted better tutorials for beginners, so he began making his own. Viewers arrived and bought lessons, and more than two years later he committed to the site full-time. Its short, ordered lessons give fans a way into digital painting without having to piece together a curriculum themselves.
From lessons to game worlds.
His credits span teaching and production art. For Marvel’s Iron Man VR, he designed drones, architecture, weapons and props. He later art-directed Batman: Arkham Shadow. In a 2024 interview, he described studying the older Arkham games and adapting their visual language to the demands of first-person VR.
Explore the archive.
The Concept Art Playbook pairs Matt’s visual instruction with game designer Ryan Darcey’s briefs. Challenges range from props to city layouts, showing how a design needs to solve a gameplay problem as well as look convincing.
Creditschronological, newest first
Games
- 2024Batman: Arkham ShadowArt director
- 2020Marvel’s Iron Man VRConcept artist, including drones, architecture, weapons and props
Teaching
- 2020Concept Art PlaybookCreator and instructor, with game designer Ryan Darcey
- 2020Concept Art for Games: First stepsInstructor
- 2011Ctrl+PaintFounder and instructor
Awards
- 2025 D.I.C.E. Awards: Immersive Reality Game of the YearAwarded to Batman: Arkham Shadow, which Matt art-directed. A game and team award, rather than an individual award.
- 2025 New York Game Awards: Best AR/VR GameBatman: Arkham Shadow received the Coney Island Dreamland Award. Matt was the game’s art director.
- The Game Awards 2024: Best VR/AR GameAwarded to Batman: Arkham Shadow, the Camouflaj game art-directed by Matt.
Quotes
I want to teach as many beginners as possible, and Ctrl+Paint is my best way of accomplishing that goal.Matt Kohr, Ctrl+Paint FAQ
Explaining why he makes lessons that many people can watch instead of offering individual tutoring.
Trivia
- A Fellowship of the Ring DVD introduced him to concept art, according to his ArtStation interview.
- He says he enjoys grinding in Japanese role-playing games.
- He studied comic books at art school without intending to become a professional comics creator.
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