Thursday 13 December 2012

A few random pieces.

I'm pretty sure I haven't put these up yet. I'm currently engaged in several college projects and commissions at present so on the one hand I won't have as much cool stuff up as I thought, on the other hand in a week or so I'll have a ton of cool stuff to through on here. 

Editorial assignment illustrations for a zodiac column in a magazine. The squares are where the text would go, but I kinda like it as an aesthetic thing.  



Johhny cash done in Adobe Illustrator. I was surprised how much I liked the program.
A drawing for the college sketchbook "monsters and aliens".


Thursday 6 December 2012

My first pen and ink comic ever!

So this one was quite fun.

We were asked in college to illustrate 3 or more pages however we liked from the first 6 pages of the script for the moive "Pan's Labyrinth".

We were given the option of doing lettering of some voiceover and character dialogue. I opted to go without any text as I wanted to practise communicating a narrative without dialogue and rely on composition and character work to convey everything.








Thursday 29 November 2012

Choosing the right article.


For one of my more interesting assignments in college, I was tasked with choosing from a number of magazine articles and creating an accompanying illustration. These were the most interesting ones I found..

 


Apparently I was the only one to choose this article.













Sunday 25 November 2012

Portraits.



For life drawing we were asked to do 3 portraits with some kind of contextual theme derived from their character.
I decided to draw my Brother. He plays a lot of video games and, like me, is more inclined to cool temperatures and prefers darker environments to brightly lit ones.
As far as figure studies or life drawing goes, these aren't a very good example of it. When left to my own devices, I tend toward a a dark graphic/comic book style that often flattens things out and looses the line work and sense of depth, form and weight.

Saturday 24 November 2012

The Walking Dave

 I found a few pictures of two occasions where I dressed up as a zombie. The second set employed SFX wax. It was not easy to work with as it never really solidified when it was applied in room temperature. It was for a Zombie Walk on a very sunny day so it had melted by the time I got home. It became a game of "who didn't know a zombie walk was on today?". There was a couple of hundred zombies taking over the streets. Good times.





Something about the melting wax makes it creepier than the torn flesh. There were bits of me falling off all over Dublin. It was awesome.





Saturday 17 November 2012

A few new paintings.









The three Batman paintings are about A3 size and those I'm trying to sell . The lounging lady was a custom commission piece which was about A2 in size.

Thursday 11 October 2012

Back In The Saddle.


So I'm back in college, so there should be a noticeable increase in posting over the next while.

In the mean time here are a few new sketches and drawings.