A Dapper Dragon

                 

A few bits and bobs

So I've been busy with a few commissions and getting ready to move to America and I've been playing around with a new style. It's much more graphic than I would normally do but I'm really starting to dig it.

This was a college exercise. The premise was that it was the 80th anniversary of the sci-fi classic Brave New World. I kinda left the project till the 11th hour and the style was determined by what I thought I could get done in a few hours.

 This was for a hotel

The following are part of a re-branding of the Biology Dept in NUI Maynooth college.
There are 6 more, 1 in a similar style to these and 5 in different styles.

Illustrations for a Q and A article with Grant Morrison

This was an exercise in editorial illustration and layout.

The bulk of the interview borrowed from a blog that took excerpts from a Rolling Stone Interview was about "the death of comics" so I used that as the theme. 

Beginning at the end. I left out the symbols as it seemed unnecessary.

 This one was the most fun to do.

 I liked how it worked out. Superman's corpse is one layer of passing.
The second is the worn and faded look, like an old photo or a memory .

The last image I wanted to have something cosmic and ethereal.

The first attempt was just too much.
I'm gonna play around with the second style as I'd never tried it before 

and I think it's pretty cool.

   

The Vitruvian Freeman

Joker, The Early Years

I'm really starting to like digital painting

Lindsey

Ho ho ho bub!

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".

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.

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.

A few more updated sketches.

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.