Louise Skinnader!

So here's an attempt at Louise Skinnader, not entirely sure I got it right yet. But I wanted to post something tonight, and not slip into "no posting for ages" again.

Go check out her blog - http://louiseskinnader.blogspot.ie/

(now to go a scan some pictures to update the monday mates)

Maws!

Tonight's monday mate is the unmistakable Maureen Walshe!

I hope I got that mischievous look she always has when making a classic Maws joke!

Go have a look at her blog - http://poisonarrowblog.blogspot.ie/

Group shot

Here is the group shot I was building up to. Now Pete isnt in there, but I have one more to finish and then I'll balance it out again.

Cmdr. Slattery

So tonight's monday mate is also a trekked pic. 

It's one of my best friends, Pete Slattery.

I gave Pete the TNG season 1 costume, because he wore one for halloween once and it's one of my favourite photos ever.

We have a stag this weekend and I can't wait for it. (Haven't seen Pete and the lads in ages.)

Anyway head over to Pete's blog, he's been posting some great work lately.

http://www.peterslattery.blogspot.ie/

(gonna probably have another stab at this again, think it's close... but needs a little fix, maybe. Just wanted to get it posted before the stag!)

Crazy commission!

Got commissioned at christmas to draw a friend's aunt as the incredible hulk. Probably one of my weirder commissions. 

Based the drawing on the Avengers movie Hulk. The reason I'm posting the drawing is because of the way I coloured it. Think I'm gonna try to do this a little more.

Here's the alt version I gave him too.

Anita Gaughan!

So tonight's monday mate is the amazing Anita Gaughan!

Without doubt, one of my favourite animators and she's not even finished college yet!

I order you to go immediately to her blogs right now to see awesome stuff!

http://anitagaughan.tumblr.com/

http://anitagaughan.blogspot.ie/

Ciaran!

Tonight's monday mate is the brilliant Ciaran Lucas!

Go check out his excellent website - http://www.ciaranlucas.com/

And here's the Trekkie scribble I did for Ciaran too.
(very Riker ;) )

Lieutenant O'Brien

So here's the last of the first batch of trekkies... Jenny O'Brien. 

Happy birthday Jenny!

Ka'plah!

So, Ed requested a trek pic of himself as "Worf"... well, the Klingon version is still in the works(not really working so far) . So I'm gonna post the "human" version I did first. I added a more klingon beard and Worf's klingon sash. And in keeping with Ed's personal style, I figured he'd wear the captain's waist coat as his uniform.

Claire Lennon!

In order to get things back on track, I decided a "done in one" could be a great exercise. So, I decided to draw Claire Lennon!

Pretty happy with this!

Lt. Boomer

Here's Graham Tormey!

The only request for a specific uniform color!

Beat it!

Quick scribble of Micheal Jackson.

Wouldnt be a trek theme without a Jordie!

Here's the amazing Jordie Bellaire!!!

Went really red hair, but I think it works with the uniform!

(drawing this all day, gonna tag it as a Tuesday girl too!)

Here's the original post it I drew today too, think there's something in it too.

Galvinated!

Really happy with this one!

So I finally get round to posting this one - the talented Mr. Tom Galvin!

This was a very tough one, Tom is incredible at caricatures and as I will show it took a journey to get there.

The Process

 Some very early attempts. YIKES

 The first drawing breaking down shape and features.

 Was trying to create the pic using a definite shape... like the beard stuff in these.

The final 3 drawings. The first is the one where I think I nailed it, the middle and last lose alot of the energy and character, I think.

I'm posting this for a second reason tonight too. As a thank you for Tom's help over the last 2 months. Tom very brilliantly sent some notes and helped me with some stuff to do with my new job.

Go check out his blog right now

Thanks Tom.

Captain O'Toole

Not entirely sure about the likeness, but here it is anyway. Darrin O' Toole as an enterprise era captain!

Ensign Brennan!

One of my favorite things to happen during season 1 of Randy Cunningham is that I converted my friend Neev Brennan into a bit of a trekkie. She had never really watched any of it, and now she loves both TNG and DS9!

(gonna make this a girl tuesday drawing too)

Happy Birthday Lean!

 

So tonight's Monday Mate is my new producer and friend of 14 years, the brilliant Lean Duffy!
Drew this on week 1 of my new job as director in Geronimo.

Get off my bridge!

Had to do a version of Dec Shalvey!!!. Was gonna draw him in the white dress uniform but he mentioned on facebook that the grey was his favourite uniform. I also drew him a little more serious than normal, cause I think it fits the rank :P

And it was pointed out that Steve needed his pips coloured in... so here you go Moondog!

Chain of command!

So, made a new profile pic for facebook the other night, just a quick scribble of myself in a gold uniform from Star trek OST.... kinda to signify how brilliant the new job is going.

Anyway, Mooney gave me the usual grief about it.... (tom paris my arse!)... but in the banter I said I'd draw him in his favourite uniform... now his favourite is ost too. So I decided to draw him in his second favourite, TNG season 4 uniform. (this is probably the nerdiest post on my blog ever!)

It's a quick cartoony one, but I think it worked!

First post of 2014 - Franners!

So at Christmas just gone, the awesome Aine McGuinness organized an art swap for a bunch of people. I got one of my best friends, Fran Johnston!!!

So I decided to do a drawing of Fran himself, in a style I thought he would like. (Aine's :P)

I was pretty happy with how this turned out. It's mainly cobalt blue ink, tried to keep it nice and christmassy.

So I did tonnes of drawings to get this right, but I'm only gonna post a selection of previous Fran drawings.

The first version of Fran I loved, from back in 2008 (i think)

The cleaned up version, obviously.

An early sketch for the idea I had of the picture.

Fran sitting at his desk. Drawn for the caricatures wall.

I like this one, a cartoony version!

But this is probably my favourite of them all!

some roughs, you can see some other picture ideas in here.

more roughs

even more roughs!