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/

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!)

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!

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!

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!

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!

ME!!!

The awesome Barry Reynolds drew this back in 2003!

The latest theme on the Boulder Art blog is ME!

So, with that I thought it might be fun to post some of the drawings people have done of me over the years.

Paul O Flanagan's pic from this year. Love this!

Neev Brennan's pic of me and coke... my first love!

Another quick Neev pic.

The last pic Neev did of me... a very romantic version of me.

Jenny O Brien's scribble of me. Dashing, right?

This is the "altered" Jamie model from Randy Cunningham. Good old Rob Fletch believed my design lacked the bare chest!

Tom Gray's version of me. Little bit Peter Andre, that I'm fine with :P

Shane Sadlier left this on my desk one day.

Shane slagging my love of Iron Man 3

Shane's version of me is pretty "strong"

Recieved this pic in an email from a very talented young animator that did an internship in boulder over the last 2 years. Billy Crinion... definitely someone to watch in the future, I was delighted to help him out.

I think I have more of theses in a folder, so hopefully I'll find em and post them.

Sir Tom Gray!

Very very happy with this one!

Here's Tom Gray, one of my best friends in the world. The "other best man"!!!

The 8 - bit art I did for Tom and Eoghan

The first drawing I ever did of Tom, from 2004. Not much has changed!

(I used to draw glasses on people like this though...)

the inked version.

Rob Cullen

Today's post is my boss Rob Cullen!

A sketch of Rob from a staff meeting.

A cartoony version

There were a LOT of attempts to get it right.

Go check out Rob's blog!