Sketchbook

Haven't posted anything in a while, so here's some stuff from my sketchbook :-)

Illustrated Little Ladies

Haven't had much time lately so here's some
character designs for a illustration project that didn't take off.

TCD Life-Painting

Been busy doing some painting in my free time as you can see. It's been really fun to go the second-sitting of the pose. I hope next sitting I'll be able to capture the model's face in the painting, she has such a great face for painting, it's very sculptural. God, now I'm sounding like the teacher....someone help me. LOL



















This is a portrait of my friend Jurgen. I know the eyes aren't done so well but I really enjoyed painting this portrait. Usually when I draw I make sure that I capture the eyes and try to make it look like person but this time I had more fun playing around with the colours and expermenting on the painting.




















Our next task for homework is to do a self-portrait in acrylic and anything else of our choice. I'll see if Volodya will pose for me our else I'll take a trip to the botantic garden paint something there....I was supposed to go to Howth and paint there but I don't think that's gonna happen.
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..... and last a warm up drawing....I just liked this pose.

Hidden Bathers

When I went to the zoo, I saw this little creature havin a bath - she was so cute I had to draw her!
I did draw some of the other animals but none of were really posing for me ;-)

and they were also movin' too much!

The Legend of Fiog......continues :-S

Okay....where to begin? After finishing off that really bad version of my college film in 2001 (and still thinking that "I knew it all) , I stuck the idea away for ages. I got my first job in animation and realized that there's so much more to animation than what I thought. Besides all the fantastic drawings, painting, animation, line-tests, storyboards etc etc, there's that whole pre-production side of the industry which I just LOVE!

Okay, I admit I'm just a wannabe concept/story artist at this stage.
Sometimes I watch films or animated films and think, "gee, that could've been a heck of a lot more powerful/wonderful" if.......I dare not say what I think hehe, I know I would have a heck of a lot of people to answer to.

Anyways, not straying too much from the subject. So, as I mentioned before, my college film was a disaster but now with some professional experience I'm ready to give it another whirl. At this stage I'm just doing concept work on the character. Her name is Fiog. It's Irish for Maiden or Twigs. In my mind I sort of imagined this character to be connected with nature, sort of like an indian guru or a witch without the fantastic powers. I didn't want to create the typical sexy girl in rags, I want a natural looking girl, skinny, she has a family, the style is not cartoony but easy enough to be animated because I intend doing the animation myself (LOL)

Fiog's story is a tragic one, she re-lives her past everyday, her family was murdered by the neighbour village, she lives on an island (impossible for her to abandon), she lives off the land and remembers her family....she blames herself for her powers. Now and again people seek her wisdom...that is the only company she has. That's the rough story, pretty tragic, huh? I love it!

The drawings are mostly of Fiog, her mother, and lover. I started making a sculpture that I know I'll never be able to complete because the designs keep on changing, nevertheless I still like the rough outcome of it. It gave me some insight into keeping it simple again!

Monica and Barbarella

This post is dedicated to Monica (my co worker at BoulderMedia) , for fun we had to do caricatures each other. I tried make my look like the great Kirsten Ulve style, no need to say...unsuccessful but it was still fun to do!

The next one is my own version of Barbarella, a ridiculous cult film!

Concept Art

This is some concept work I did when figuring out what my mouse character, "Marcus", would look like.
My friend Donal came up with the idea and story, and I did the sketches. After sometime I felt the style of drawing was too classic-illustration book; so I did some simpler drawings of the character. You the new version of Marcus on my first post :-)