Gill!!!

Gill!

 So... I've finally gotten round to posting this one!

Gillian Comerford!!!

Gill is one of my best friends in Boulder. 

And this is probably gonna be my biggest "monday mate" post. I've drawn a lot of "Gills". Back in 2007 we did a team building exercise in work where we were to make a "top trumps" card of a person in work. I got Gill in the draw. Think the final drawing, the one above, is probably one of my best!

The re-inked version of the final pic.

A more cartoony version drawn for the Neev/ Jamie caricature wall this year.

The very first drawing I ever did of Gill, back in 2004!

The flash drawings I did the first day of "top trumps"

 

Some expression stuff for the card.

the evolution towards the favorite version

An alternative style, and it's evolution.

Another alt style, and it's evolution.

This is gonna be a weird week where everyday is probably gonna be "monday mate".

It's a wonderful .... drawing???

Challenge and a half!!! - gave myself a 10 min limit on this drawing. It's ment to be George Bailey from It a wonderful life. If you can believe it, I have never sat down and watched the whole movie in one go.

It just got added to my "to watch" list.

Spidey!

Had a debate with my good friends Fran and Tom the other night. About favourite super-heroes... I really do think as an artist, most of us literally illustrate our love through our art. Your favourite character is often the one you draw the most. And with that in mind. I drew this today.

Tuesday girl returns!

 So with Pegbar posting my blog on the official facebook page, I HAD to post some drawings tonight. So here's 2 I just finished.

Thank you so much for the nod Pegbar, it was a brilliant surprise!

http://pegbar.ie/site/

NOT a monday mate!

At the moment life has gotten pretty hectic and weird for me, and as a result the poor old blog looks a little like it did last year. So. Tomorrow I'm gonna work on some stuff and get this all back on track!

Just thought i'd post something I scribbled at lunch today to tide me over.

Birthday gif for Dalton!

Only posting this here cause facebook wouldn't load the gif properly!

Happy birthday to Eoghan Dalton! (nobody expect this to become a "thing")

Animation art Show

"Let's Roll"

 Here is my piece for this years Animation Art Auction. The show, run by 3 brilliant friends of mine, is open to the entire Irish animation community. Being an event mostly for animation members, it's a great chance for people who usually never get to show work in a gallery sense.

Last year the auction raised an amazing amount of money for charity, hopefully this year will be just as amazing.

Close up

My piece is titled "Let's roll!" - it's inspired by both the old video game Gauntlet, and dungeon and dragons. (I always played as the Elf!)

Pretty happy with the piece, considering I really didnt have a lot of time to produce something. (sickness, deadlines, traveling and some other stuff all got in the way)

If you're in Dublin the weekend of nov 2nd and 3rd, come along!

NYCC 2013!!!

 

So a ticket for New York Comic Con turns up, and I decided to celebrate finishing the first pass of the last episode of Randy by attending!

It was a brilliant week, and well needed. Most of the gang went too. Mooney, Dec, Jac, Franners Will and Bennessy! And as a bonus the Galvinator turned up too!

As always, I got maybe a little too much... and I even forgot stuff I'd seen that I wanted.

Where to start??? I suppose I have to post the sketches first, and with that I have to start with Adam Hughes! What an artist, and on top of that a brilliant bloke too! He was doing sketches for charity. So after messing up in 2010, I was determined to get a sketch off him this year.

Black Cat!

Wonder Woman... need I say more!

Black Cat print... youch!

Second is Ben Caldwell.... I love his art. In the last few years his style has had a big influence on me. So meeting him was excellent. AND he had the sketch I had suggested to him on twitter with him... so naturally I had to have that.

It's Back to the future/ Marty vs Dracula

Thirdly, I met Mike Kunkel. Wow. What a great guy. His enthusiasm alone inspires me to draw.

While talking to Mike (for the second time), Chris Eliopoulos dropped by... and I jumped at the chance to get a sketch off him!

Now onto the sketchbook scribbles. First up is Andrew Robinson. I got his Art Hogs book off him.

Got the newest book off Scott C, and I asked for a random scribble - He drew me a Turtle! (Class!)

Got a quick Rafeal Albuquerque batman.

Robbi Rodriguez was so modest when I was talking to him, he gave me free stuff. And this sketch.

Now on to the prints. 

One of the big draws this year was Joe Mad... he is a hero of mine. His art is amazing! He got a good giggle out of me telling him he's a legend!

 

Sean Murphy was there again this year... never got to talk to him, but we chatted a little at D.I.C.E a few weeks before hand. This is the print I never got in Dublin... love it!

Love this!

This is Ricardo Lopez Ortiz - He's really good friends with Dec and Will. And his stuff is excellent. The middle Link image is class!

And then this is Stacey Lee. I regret not getting the post cards larger now. I love her stuff too. Stacey is also friends with Will and Dec, and is Ricardo's girlfriend. (Now that is a talented couple!)

Marcio Takara's Supergirl. He had loads of stuff I would have bought too.

On the last day I met Andrea Tamme - Wish I'd spotted her earlier... Love this. Would have loved to talk to her more.

Met Jeff Stokely, the artist on six gun gorilla. What a nice guy. We had some good craic on Sunday night too.

 

Think this was the first image I spotted in the whole con. Both by Joanna Nagy.

This is great fun -  by Ian Brauner. He had some great optimus prime stuff too.

Absolutely love this. Adam Carlson's oils are awesome.

 

And here are all the books I got.... a very heavy bag returning!

Got a little more to post, but will do that later.

It's an HOMAGE!!!

Chris has been doing these brilliant "friend or foe" pictures on his blog. They're great!

But when looking at them I got to thinking "it would be funny if it was me and coke"

Anyway -  hope you get a giggle out of it Chris!

Group Shot!

Had to post this for the Monday mates. This is mine and Neev's window in work. A while back we started "comparing" our drawings of friends to each other, and decided to put em up and see if people could name them.

My attempts are usually on the right and in pen, Neev's in pencil on the left.

I tried to vary my style on most of mine. 

My ones will probably eventually make it onto the blog, but for now, let's see if boulder people can guess who made the window.

Season 1, Nailed it!

Today is the deadline for depts on a certain episode I've been directing over the last few weeks.

It is the final episode of season 1 of Randy!

 

I am so proud to have the privilege of directing this episode and over the last few days my team have put in an epic shift. As I sit here typing I want to talk about them, the crew. 

The anim dept and Helen!

 And what a crew!!! 

I think in the last 2 years they all produced amazing work. 

I've made so many new friends and laughed so much with this group, I hope I get to work with everyone of them for a very long time. I could be all day typing about how talented these people are, but even more than that, how brilliant each person is to work with.


Animation is a never-ending battle of talent vs time... 

and everyday, when you have a crew as dedicated and talented as we were blessed to have, I knew we'd make a great show!

So to everyone of them - THANK YOU SO MUCH!

shattered

Shattered after a brilliant weekend away for a Pete's stag. So I drew this

Grace!

So tonight's friend is the talented Grace McDonnell!
http://grace-mc-donnell.blogspot.ie/

This is from myself and Neev's caricatures wall. Think I got Grace's attitude right here.

So with that as my bases, I drew this tonight.

And then this one...

This was the attempt from earlier this year.

 

Found this and really liked it as a drawing. Think the silhouette is nice.

I thought this would be nice, a lot of different attempts, trying different things from different times over the last few years.