a little inspirational experiment

I was mucking around tonight, didnt get n e thing drawn that I liked felt like i hit a block sooooooo, i tried drawing white on black, came up with this.  pretty happy

Mandy, coz its Dean Yeagle's Bday 2day.

so i didnt post up anything last week, to make up for it, heres a B&W n sum colour this week.  just started doodling after dinner, ended up doodling Mandy, Dean Yeagle's character cause I'm a big fan n I found out this mornin due to the power of Facebook that its Deans Bday today. mucked around a bit with the half tone as well, just being playing with it a lot this last while, so i thought I'd jus continue to play with it as im havin a lot o fun with it. I liked the effect it gave the above  B&W. will try more things like it. hope it does Dean n Mandy sum justice.

Happy Bday Dean!  Thanks for all the years of inspiration!

n e ways until the next dose of inspiration, laters!

Black cat in dat new style im using lately

Here's where that new job is taking me. Its making me use a realistic style over my usual cartooning.  Havin a lot o fun with this its nice to be challenged to do something new.   Its even nicer to rise to the occasion.  Here's hoping it keeps goin well, I'm really enjoying it.

The job has nutin to do with Black Cat  and noting to do with the marvel verse at all. This is me jus mucking around with a style im using professionally at the mo.

Gorillaz

Muckin around with a lil bit o spare time again, (wasnt goin to post anything today but did cause i was aked to by Niki http://nicholakehoe.blogspot.com/ . Thanks a mill Niki!) i think the designs for all the characters in the Gorillaz are awesome! n yet ive never actually drawn them, so here's a sketch o 2-D.  Really just lashed this guy out had a lot o fun, ill prob draw the rest o the band eventually.   Hope u like it Niki!

Yippee Kiyay Mother Fudger!

Yo was looking for sumthin to draw this mornin to warm up into an illustration for a book I'm doin, n after a load o looking up sum artists, Colman, comics, imagine fx, gris grimly, blogger, Niki's ( http://nicholakehoe.blogspot.com/ )  blog n stumbled on a post my mate Dan ( http://www.zero-capital.blogspot.com/ ) put up,

http://zero-capital.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-is-hot-hot-hot.html


 These drawings he did r full o energy big twisted lines, some of my favourite drawings that he's dun n for the first time i looked at sumones sketches n thought, if i had to do that in my style how would i do it, wat wud it look like, wud i ruin the other persons sketches?  sooooooooooooooo i had a stab at convertin this guy into sumthin I'd draw.

He turned out v different, I was drawin cowboys at the weekend so I def went dwn the cowboy route with him ( instead of the introverted bus driver) n left out the crest on his t shirt, n changed his boots.  but kept the elongated neck n head, and I stretched him out a bit more.   I did a version o him with sum stubble, (i think cowboys shud have stubble) but keepin in with Dan's style i also did sum fresh faced sketches o him too. also liked how high Dan kept the hat sitting high on his head so i did that too, usually i have the hat covering the eyes n such.  My design looks a great deal darker than Dan's happy designs, but I'm pretty happy with the end results.  Cheers Dan!

I Scream!

Was mucking around after doing sum work today on my children's book and I had this little joke in my head.  might actually refine it, make a nu blog header or business card outta it.

apparently it takes about 10,000 hours of practice to excel in a particular area so I'm heading back to the drawing board!

G'luck!

more iphone gestural stuff

Another gestural sketch from my iphone. I spent ages on this one to tell truth, cleanin up on the iphone with sum clumsy man hands aint easy.  this is of a girl i saw on friday, cool dress sense, very cool pose and expression that sed "i dont care".  im goin to try n draw sum more of her  im def goin to draw full body complete pose, ive actually never seen n e 1 sit at a bus stop using a pillar and stop sign to prop herself up and actually look very comfortabel b4.

i doubt my iphone drawings will ever b this clean again this took a lot o patience, did an awful lot more drawin with the eraser than n e thin else. i ended up using my laptop on a few lil bits but i wudnt let myself do too much, felt like i was cheatin r sumthin. def more of this kind o stuff to come

Zoolander's reaction on BP oil spill

A wise man once said that "Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty." - not in BP's case tho. There's been soooooo much oil spilled into the sea i think it's really really ridiculous.

I started this this morning while waiting for feedback on a job I'm doing, thought I'd throw it up. I'm actually happy with the likeness.

laters

More Life Drawing

Here's sum more Life Drawing, still really rusty think i even had a better week 2 weeks ago in the class. but how n ever here's some work. top one is a gesture n the bottom 2 are sustained poses. all drawings are conte on sugar paper

warm up

startin a new gig today n its requires me to tone back my really cartooned style. heres a warm up i did to get myself started. still not completely realistic but realistic enough

figure studies

Trying to do more n more of these I don't usually post these up but I'm relatively happy with this one.  Especially since it was dun on the bus ( the gud oul 46a) n i hate drawing on the bus cause of all the bumps etc i usually get the worst linequality in the world!  n the line quality in this isn't at all the best could be but, I'm doing these more n more just make my library of designs grow.  Some people in Dublin (esp the women and even more so now that the sun is out) have an amazing dress sense and I'm just trying to see all the shapes, cuts n colours that I can so I can use em in my designs. I'll post up sum more soon whether they r gud r bad

Sum new Life drawin'

Attending new life drawin classes at the mo,  here's a couple o pics

The model we had was awesome, still feel pretty rusty tho as its been years since my last life drawin class, dont feel im doin the model any justice, but i have to start sumwhere.

G'luck!

pastels

Here's a big drawing I did for the Art n Hobby last weekend.  It was originally supposed to be loads o kids flying kites and soaking up the summer sun, but wen I woke up that morning it was lashing rain ( gud oul Irish weather) so I thought I'd draw a long armed monster keeping the kids dry while they eat their Mauds Ice-cream n play with toys from the Art n Hobby ( Mauds ice-cream is amazin! check it, n Yo-Yo's r always fun, if u do not have a yo-yo go to ur nearest art n hobby n pick one up!)  this was done on 8, A2 royale blue canford sheets n sum pastels.  twas fun.

Now time for something completely different

So here's something i finger painted on my iphone using the sketchbook express app. it was a gud bit o fun, i reckon ill do a few more of these gestural sketches... wonder who i'll draw next?  I'm gonna update this blog soon wih all kinds of visual goodness and more links to awesome places, i should be gettin a lil bit more time mid-week now soooooo in theory i should be able to start next week

a new post

yo guys sorry about the lack of posts, but i have a legit reason... work.  recently ive been up to my eyes. which is great cause being busy is the best complaint ever! esp in this recession.   so i cant put up a lot of the wrk ive been wrkin on for obvious reasons but heres sum wrk i can pop up. The thing is tho its a wrk in progress its no where near finished just the sketch (cleaned) and some colours im wrkin on. i tend to wrk strangley with colours due to my partial colourblindness.  it takes me a lil while to create a palette. so heres a piece im wrkin on that i can hopefully fill u all in on the details of the project in a few weeks.

bu heres sum wrk all drawn on sketchbook pro n coloured in the usual joys of ps

laters