Sinead Plushy

 Every year i try and make a present for Sinead at christmas. And this year was no exception. Althou, technically i cheated for 2010. After seeing the Lousies work i had to get her to make a plushy of Sinead.

After the class week I've had with her, I had to post these images. Obviously the drawing is the design I did. was pretty happy with how it turned out.

And here's a photo of the doll. I love the little details Louise puts into the dolls. On the Sinead one, shes made the hair individual strips and the hat is separate to the rest of the doll (something my nephew finds amazing!) She added the stitching to the Doc Martins and I love the cheeks and nose.

Sinead was really happy with it and i cant recommend Louise's work enough.

Louise's Plushy Blog

Check out the "Link" and "Spock" ones (think the Spock one is my favourite)

Dearg agus Gorm

Did this real quick obviously, spent the last 2 days celebrating my birthday.

I like the flat colours myself  - its the animator in me. Not too sure if the web motive works aswell on this one, but had to add it to match the black one. Would love to design a spidey show (althou in fairness Cheeks did a bang up job on the last one)

Hope you like it!

Teehanwolf Tuesdays!

As mentioned before on the blog, I hang around with the lads from the Eclectic Micks - Each week they do a sketch for the blog on their assigned day.(although at the mo, it seems anything goes!)

Anyway - they started actually theming each week, and at Christmas the lads asked me to draw an image for the TMNT week. Well that came and went, and every time i meet Mooney he says i should draw something for 'em. So last week was spidey week, and for all you people who know me, I'm a pretty big fan of Spider-man. So I had to do something for it.

While the micks blog was full of the red and blue, i had to draw the black costume -Ii love the design of it! Really had fun with this and no doubt I'll recolour it red and blue.

 

I figure I'm gonna try and keep up with the lads, its a great idea, although I have no idea what Robotech looks like! (I might be 30 this month but I ain't as old as Moondog!)

A request!

So after the last image i did of Eoghan, he asked me to do a old school Street Fighter 2 one. Its the battle of the champions - Eoghan vs Tom - literally Ryu vs Ken. Both have been playing this game for 20 odd years now. And have been playing the game for 4 years in work against each other.

Gonna do a gif version, just have to recolour Dalton to work in gif form. And probably do some more detail on Tom's hair. Anyway..

I'm pretty happy with this. The Eoghan pose is taken for a photo, and is something he usually does, Tom's head is taken from a photo, and his body should be pretty obvious to any fans of the game.(was running out of time, and really wanted to post this.)

Had great fun doing this, and this no doubt will result in other drawings of friends in pixel art form.

Plus there's nothing better than annoying the lads while they battle for the glory of "Friday pints Champion"!

Freelance Fun!

During the year I made it a prority to get back to doing some work outside of the studio - always good to stretch the aul freelance muscles. But for all the benefits with it there are always the downsides to it.

Did a gig early on and  this is how i discovered the design got used, while driving past it plastered on the back of a bus. Mad!

Still, did enjoy seeing it got picked.

Be My Brother

Last year my cousin, Gav, set up a charity organization to support testicular cancer patients.

Be My Brother supports Testicular Cancer patients around the world . Education is critical to raising awareness amongst young men .
You can contact him in confidence at bmybrother@gmail.com for further info or on Twitter @bemybrother.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Be-My-Brother/112738372091207

To show how serious Gav was about it, he stopped drinking alchol for the entire year. This was an amazing feat, especially for a Teehan! I stopped drinking for January to help him, and it was hell! He set up a blog for it too - 

http://www.2010ayearwithoutbeer.blogspot.com/

Gav raised something like 11000 euro for cancer research. And this year we hope to do the "cycle" in aid of Be My Brother.

Anyway...  this was the logo i designed for the whole thing. To be honest its actually inspired by a family photo of all the Dublin Teehans, so I'm pretty happy with it and even more happy once Gav saw it.

Gav hopes to have a website launched this year for the charity to make it even more official. Here's hoping 2011 is a kick-ass year for it.

NYCC 2010

 Went to the New york Comic con last year - to say I had a brilliant time is an understatement. There with a bunch of the "micks".

http://eclecticmicks.blogspot.com/

The eclectic micks are a group of comic artists that I'm friends with. The group are all talented fuckers and you should go check out the blog right away.

Any way. Here's the sketches I got over there - the first is a J. P. Leon -  the man is pure talent. Its probably my favourite sketch of the con. Pure Class. Leon is a part of The BLVD. more on that later.

Eric Larson sketch - one of my favourite spidey artists, i think i have his whole run on Amazing. While everyone was talking about Todd Mcfarlane, i thought Eric was knocking out far better stuff on the title.
Meeting Eric was great, he has the craziest way of holding a pen while drawing. Plus i watched him go through one of the worst portfolios I've ever seen and still try to be nice to the guy. (it ended with him telling the guy "you really need to learn how to actually draw")

Gabriel Ba - love his work. Really exaggerated stuff. More cartoony, so you can tell why I'd like him. Great guy. Him and Fabio had a queue of women trying to get photos with them.

Fabio Moon - Works with Gabriel a lot, similar styles. I love their stuff.

Bernard Chang - Bernard is part of The BLVD - a collection of brilliant artists that go to cons together. Love this wonder woman he did for me.

http://www.theblvdstudio.com

Trevor Goring - Loved chatting with Goring and his wife. Goring too is part of BLVD. He told me he wasn't a big fan of drawing sketches at cons, but i still got one out of him. He's working on a book about the history of story-boarding in film, and i cant wait to see it.

New Banner

So did a new banner while watching united. I'm a big gamer and a fan of 8_bit art. So naturally i had to make something to show that. think it turned out quite well.

lunchtime art

Did a little drawing of Eoghan using a pixel tool for flash today... thought the style suited him. (he's an 8_bit fan like me)

just thought i'd post it before going drinking tonight.

plus here's the link to his blog too

http://www.rgbvalues.blogspot.com/

Gumball

GUMBALL!!!

So, what have I been up to for 2010. Well i spent the last year and a half as a supervising animator on Cartoon Networks next big thing - a show called "The Amazing World of Gumball".

Its gonna air in September of this year and heres hoping its a successful as we think it'll be. A hell of a lot of hard work went into it by alot of very talented people and it was great to work with 'em all.

Here's a link to 2 of the crew that i thought were class (2 of many, i'll link the rest later)

Chris O' Hara -

http://chrisoharaportfolio.blogspot.com/

Louise Bagnall -

http://elbooga.blogspot.com/

And when I was at home, I had decided to work on paper and not on the p.c. - So I put everything from the last couple of years into sketchbooks (a photo of my sketchbooks obviously).

Also kept my new years resolution going, decided last year to fill a sketchbook a month. might have only been A6's but I enjoyed it.

Panoramas

Spent Saturday stitching together some photos. I had a few from a couple of different trip and things, but i'm just gonna post a paticularly special one.

This is taken at my friends Simon and Pam's wedding. The wedding was held in a nature park in Sligo and rates as probably one of the best weddings I've ever been to.

I had wanted to post a large version for the lads who were with me to look at, and to not post it on facebook.


The second one is from Christmas day 2010 - its of the pitches behind my folks house, just kinda liked the light and the surrealness of it actually being a white Christmas.

2 in one year!

This might turn into a hobby after all - here's another one of the designs I did for the anchorman character. This one is another inspired by a real person. Was really happy with this. Again this was nothing like what the style is, but i had fun

two thousand and what?!?

Was actually thinking I should have killed this black hole off back in 2009 - but thanks to certain friends (you know who you are) I didnt.

So here it is - a NEW post!!!!

So here's a character design/ charactiure I submitted for a project in developement in work. No where near the style of the show, but I still like it. Can you guess who it is?

2009!!!

How did that happen!

I neglected my blog for long enough. And with the encouragement of my friends (you know how you are you shower of c*^ts) I've returned to my blog.

To be honest, the lack of stuff on here is because i grew very tired in the last year of looking at computer screens. Hopefully the new project i'm working on about to begin it'ill help inspire me a little too.

So heres the first post in a year. Theyre 2 portraits I made for my folks for christmas. I got them printed on convas cause i cant paint for shit.
Anyway roll on post 2...

(Thanks lads)

Boulder

Yes yes, i know its 2008 and i havent posted since october of 07, but i've been kinda busy. Anyway. I finish my current contract with boulder quite soon. So as a thing i posted this picture on the company blog. Its a collection of drawings i did of nearly everyone i've worked with there.

To say i was more than happy to have spent the last 4 and a half years working with these people is an understatement.

Working in Boulder was brilliant. The crew were a collection of the most talented people I've gotten to work with.


So to all my friends, i hope to work with everyone again.

This Is great

Just saw this on youtube and as everyone knows i love arrested developement...



(and yes, i have noticed that i havent posted any art in a bit, i'm on it)

Fran is a Legend!

So, i found out quite late about a comic con, some of my friends were going to in Birmingham 2 weeks ago. Mike Mignola was gonna be at it, and as everyone should know by now, he is one of my all time favourite artists. But alas, i couldnt afford to go.

However Fran being the total legend that he is, on seeing my disappointment, he got Mignola to sign a poster for me! So i went home like a child last night in a state of pure joy and took these pics of it.

And then i went and checked Fran's blog last night and look at this! it's Fran gettint the poster signed!

Mel Blanc

What can you saw about the most amazing voice actor to have ever worked in animation. He's pure class



However, does anyone else notice how much he and Galvin look alike!!!

To Mike Wieringo

I kinda wanted to post this separately. Not that my views on this will be read much, but i just wanted to post something about Mike Wieringo dying over the weekend.

As everyone knows i'm a comicbook nerd and i just wanted to post a picture in remembrance of Ringo. I first found Ringo's work when a friend told me to read Flash like 10 years ago. To say it had a profound effect on me is an understatement. I had always wanted to meet him.

Ringo was a brilliant artist and is one of my all time favourite spidey artists.

Anyway its all been said better than i could ever say it over on newsarama, so i just wanted to post a picture of his.

newsarama

I'm Back

Ok, so i've been a little distance over the last couple of weeks, but to tell you the truth i've been kinda trying to keep busy. Not that drawing aint a way to keep busy but i've found the last while a bit tough when trying to get started. Any way i promise i'll be posting artwork again now.

Thanks to everyone

So i thought I'd just post something small right now, a thank you to all my friends for 2 things.

firstly for supporting the cycle, i raised €1,050 and i was well delighted about that. I'll get the over all number of what we raised when Damo gets it all together, but i fairly figure we beat our target of €5,000.

Secondly, I'd like to thank all my friends over the last two weeks for looking out for me. With the death of my Grandfather I've been sort of running on auto pilot and that would explain both my lack of work on both this blog and the running of the boulder one...

Anyway, i hope to turn things round this week and get the head together!

I'll probably do a proper post tomorrow night about my grandad tomorrow night, but for anyone who hadn't met him or hasn't heard me talk about him (you should have listened), here's the article that was printed in the cork echo last week.

p.s. thanks Chris for scanning it and sending it to me

Evidence

So, due to everyone not believing me, heres some photos of the cycle to cork...

Group Photo - from left to right:
Matty, Graham, Me, Ro, Al, Damo, Wiggy and Stef

The Teehans

Ready, set, go!

Action Shot!

Garden Peas!!!

Mitchelstown!

Put it away!!!

The Rookies!

The gang in cork!

I have to convert the little bit of video i have and post it too. unfortunately i dont have as many photos as i'd like, but Graham has more pictures for me. It rained on day 2 so the cameras werent in use at all.

Oh and here's a link to Damo's myspace, the guy is a music genius and he has a couple of tracks on there.

Damo's myspace

ITS DONE!!!

Well, i'm sitting here and the only thing thats sore is the heart burn!!! How cool is that? I#m gonna put up a big post tomorrow of photos and stuff, but i was bord and couldnt sleep so i did the route out on the auld google map...

The route

Tomorrow, i'll break that down into its stages and give a detailed account of the trip.

Now this is a big post!

So, i havent posted in awhile... mainly cos i've been extremely busy of late. The cycle to Cork is this Saturday, so i figured before i post all the photos and video of me in pain, i'd post some pics.

the first is a gif for the boulder blog banner. First attempt... think i'll post it anyway.

This one's thoroughly inspired by Ed. Its the Jiger he was slagging me about during the hybrid theme on the work blog... really going thru a Hanna Barbara phase at the mo.

These two are for another work related post. The them was Summer blockbusters. So i did one of the lads, Simon, as the silver surfer... cause he surfs... I perfer the cartoon, but thought he'd get a kick out of a photoshop job too.

This is a sketch i did of hugo from Lost last night, while watching the last episode... i firmly believe the whole thing is a giant joke on the public. Any way i'll probably stick the whole thing out just like Prison Break and when it finishes wish i spent the time drawing!

Thanks Craig!

So we recieved a copy of the Foster's dvd today in work, and Craig McCraken actually sorted us out with a copy each. So thanks for that! Its a pretty nice dvd package and two scenes i did during the first 3 episodes actually are used on the back. Pretty happy with that.

Also, Steve sent me this so check it out, its great...

Youtube clip

For Stef

This is a piece of animation i did last year for a couple of reasons.
1)Last summer we had some down time in boulder, it was the period between foster's ending and el tigre starting, so they asked us to do some animated 10 seond clips that we could put on the website or show reel. Well in all honesty i was tired at that point and didnt really feel like doing a 10 second flash joke, so i decided to do something i myself could use on my own reel. So i did a dance sequence.
2)I also did it for my cousin Stef who was a dancer lent me most of the reference i watched before starting it.
3) The dance section of the gorillaz first video is class and i always wanted to animate something like that!

Now its not really finished as i never coloured it the way i wanted, but its a nice piece and it made it onto my reel back in march.

H3RO SQUAD!

I wanted to post this just for fun. I play Call of duty and enjoy playing online the odd night (in fact i think I'm addicted) any way last year before my friend Steve went gallivanting around the world we kinda set up a clan as a joke while playing Battlefield online. It was called "H3ro squad" after an excellent joke in Arrested Development.

Well, 1 year later we're back together and we decided to "clan" our game names again... So i thought I'd post a screen grab of us cleaning up in a server... (they tried to kick us, cos they thought we were cheating)

Anyway my game name is "Ricky Martin" after, you guessed, it Ricky Martin. Its because of a great sketch on SNL i saw back when i started playing C.O.D originally where jimmy Fallon did Ricky martin in a celebrity jeopardy... anyway, it usually gets a laugh on servers too.


P.S.

Just found this guy's blog now, me and a friend in work we're salivating over his designs in work today!!!

peter michail

Troy ride!

Disney just posted this on youtube, its a short i worked on last summer.Its not great, but hey, work is work!

wednesday news

so i dont really have any drawings to post today, but felt i better post something new. So i figure i'll post some news.

Well i went to spider-man 3 last friday, little disappointed with it, but hey, if the cost of spider-man 2 is a dodgey third movie, i'll take it.
Still looking into moving to Canada. Passed several tests as a first step to a visa. Probably the best bit of news i got is that Sinead's sister(Sinead being my girlfriend ) asked can she name her baby Jamie if its a boy. That was pretty cool i must say.

Oh and as a side note Nickelodeon spelt my name wrong on the credits of El Tigre, so i think i hate the show even more now! Anyway only about 4 weeks of it left thank god. Man do i need a break now.

Anyway i think that covers everything for abit... so heres a pic for everyone... its of the 3 rainbows that were over my house yesterday, i only had my camera phone, so you'll have to work to see the 3 of em, but trust me they were there.

My Sample Portfolio

Check out the tabs too, theres more than just the first page!

11

I wanted to do a kids book style thing for the boulder blog. The book i used as a basis is japanese and i've edited some of the text, some it probably means nothing!

I have some others done so i'll post them tonight.

steamy studios!

OK. This is a one minute pitch i put together with my friend ed. it was back when both of us were unemployed and there was a competition for a show on bbc3. it was aimed at 20-26 year old males... hence why we went with this. At the time i was really happy with this, it took a week all together. (that is to say, compensating for the crappy jobs we were boht working to get money). Anyway, i did the designs and animation and ed did the sound and the dialogue. Strictly adults only please

OVER 18's!!!

Back at work

So i'm back to work finally. Was in for a brief stint on thursday but then preceded to collapse on friday morning and weex for air till about sunday night... Anyway, i missed the frameworks deadline, but to be honest in my dilerium i had a dream where i told myself not to do it thru boulder. (i think you can safely call that a sign!)

anyway, i dont really keep any pics on this machine. so i'll post something when i get home.

Thanks Andy

Just a quick thank you to Andy for telling me the portfolio thing wasnt working... i'll probably just post the images later.

anyway, found this link on Andy's blog over lunch, its probably the best animation blog ever...

www.johnkstuff.blogspot.com

Yippee!

so i'm feeling a little better now. I think i'll go to work tomorrow now, and make myself ill again!

Was wondering if the leaflet thing was working for anyone, and if it was could you tell me!!!

So Still Sick!

So I'm still sick! yahoo.... I'm at home today and pissed off cause 4 days in bed is a waste of time and not exactly helpful when my deadlines are this tight. I'm up because i had to sort out the permissions for the boulder blog and then, its back to bed. The only consolation i have is that it looks like rain out side. Anyway, sorry for moaning again, and for anyone whose read this i decided that you deserve something nice to look at. So on Saturday i made an online portfolio thing (I'm trying to sort out a web site for myself), so i may as well post it here for the time being...



if you like anything on this I'd love to hear it, so feel free to comment!

Just checked this blog!

I ment to add this to the previous post, it's Gabe Swarr's blog. Gabe is one of the Head guy's on El Tigre, the show i currently work on. Forget his work on that stuff thou, i much prefer his Super Mario stuff. Anyone who knows me knows i'm a nintendo nutjob, so i find all that stuff on the site much more interesting! Maybe someday he'll get a mario show, and if i'm lucky we'll work on it too! Anyway, go check it out!

Gabe's site

Not feeling too good!

So, I've been in bed for the last 2 days, so its been a really great bank holiday week-end!!! My sister brought some viral thing home and after a week of her being sick, i finally got it. So I decided to post an image from my show reel DVD i made when i went to Canada. It's one of the last images on the DVD and i really like the mega man head. I also found some pretty great blogs and sites during my "in firmed" time! Go check them out there's some brilliant stuff. I think my favourite blog i found is actually a guy in England called Andy J. Latham. He's learning to animate so its refreshing to see some one with such enthusiasm!

Andy's blog


Andy's got some great video files on there. Go watch!

Sandra's stuff

Sandra gave me her blog link for the boulderblog. But it thought i'd post it on mine first. Sandra is the Production artist on Funky Fables (aka twisted tales). It's the other show boulder have in production at the moment. It's pretty cool having someone in the company actually drawing up characters for a show. Sandra is just as nuts about animation as i am so go check out her stuff!

Sandra!

My showreel

so after about 2 hours figuring out youtube (yeah, i know, i'm an idiot) and my computer crashing several times, i finally got my reel posted. The reel is made up of most of the things i've worked on in the last 4 years. I only included 3 shots of El tigre because when i made the reel, only 2 shows had actually been shown. Anyway enjoy!

Pete's reviews

while i'm posting i might aswell put this up. Pete has a film review site, check it out. He doesnt really know what he's talking bout but the world loves a trier...

http://www.criticalmassreviews.blogspot.com/

(actually it aint to bad, no rating system thou!)

Fruitbat!

So after about 10 months of faffing about in asia, steve murray has finally got some work to show the world....

http://fruitbatanimation.blogspot.com/



hopefully his return means H3ro squad is back in action and i can go back to playing online games!... this social life stuff is hard work!

Dammit...

Yeah, just posted ... man it looks like all i draw is that bloody acrobat!!! so here's my homage to an image thats burned into my brain from youth. Its my version of the Hulk Annual #1.(go find it if you dont know what it looks like)

Holy Crap! its 2007..

Yeah i know, in the space of time between this post and my last, not only has the world gotten one year older, but so have i! Unfortunatly i'm now 26... dammit. (quick shout out to all my friends and family who were there to rub it in...).

Any way.... whats new? Well i've been promoted in work, kinda... i'm an animation director now. seriously, i am. Its the reason i aint posted in 2 months. So i thought i better put something up before they close this thing down.

Here's a colour version of the acrobat i did for the work blog.

acrobat

Here's the cleaned up version of the acrobat design... still not coloured, but i'll get round to it at some stage.

acrobat!

just had a week off... spent most of it watching t.v. and drawing on paper... yes you heard it, paper... really enjoyed it so i figured i best show something for it... but because i promised myself not to use a computer till today i have none of the stuff scanned.... so heres the starting sketch for the dungeons and dragons thing on the work blog. this waas the second or third drawing while in the studio late. its been the basis for one path i took with the stuff. any way enjoy...

herrrreeeee'sssss Adam!

My mate adam kelly has set up his blog (which includes a really dodgey photo of himself)

Adam works with me in boulder and is a class animator, but thats not all, he's got some great stuff lined up for his blog... his sandman pic is great.

anyway check it out

adam's blog