Retrospective

This is for the art blog in work, this month's theme is 'Retrospective'. Original post here.

 

Lifedrawing 18/12/12

 

 

The power supply on my pc blew up just before christmas so it was out of action for a few weeks, hence I got out of the habit of posting stuff on the blog but anyway, back in action now.

I decided not to use charcoal or pencil for this class opting for watercolours instead. I didn't think I'd enjoy it at all but it was a lot of fun so I'll use them again in the future. I also noticed that I seem to avoid drawing legs so I'll try remedy that next time.

Go Baltimore!

Tiny Rex

 

I should have posted this up immediately so I'm a tad late but... fair play to Bob Robinson who gave me this model he made for my birthday of a picture I painted a few months ago for a small auction... which he subsequently bought. Thanks man, it's cool and I'm chuffed with it. You can check out his website here which I highly recommend you do. I'd also like to take this moment to say the iPhone 3's camera fucking sucks...

 

Original

 

For the sake of scale

 

And his little house where he goes to sleep

Bob, please don't expect as good a pressie from me on your birthday........ hope you like boiled eggs with hilarious faces painted on them!

Eilidh

This one is a bit of a double-edged-sword for me. I did this photoshop painting for my girlfriend's neice's 3rd birthday. Due to time constraints I used the eye-dropper tool on the original photo for picking colours. So while I'm happy with the finished painting, I also feel like I cheated which dilutes the satisfaction.

I try not to use the eye-dropper tool as much as possible and pick the colours myself to help improve my colour theory.

So am I a big fat fraud or does the end justify the means? If anybody has any opinion on what I'm talking about, I'd love to hear it.

Lifedrawing 6/11/12

 

The drawings above were 1 and 2 minute drawings. The drawings below however, the model would do a pose and we had 2 minutes to draw how we thought it looked from 90 degrees to the right of what we were looking at. Pretty interesting exercise, fun too.

Lifedrawing 23/10/12

A couple of quick 2 minute sketches from last week's lifedrawing session. Haven't done lifedrawing in ages so it took most of the session to shake out the cobwebs. Good craic though.

Childhood Hero Start To Finish

 

Childhood Hero

I did this for the art blog we have here at Boulder, the theme for September was 'Childhood Hero'.... I had many. I'll do a post showing the stages at some point cuz I like that sort of thing when I'm looking at other peoples work. Enjoy!

Animation Art Show

I can't believe it took me this long to post this but here's my submission for the art auction we did back in July. It was in aid of The Children's Sunshine Home & LauraLynn House and we raised 8,600 euro, not too shabby! I sold this for 135 euro which I was delighted about, great day had by all.

Acrylic on A4 watercolour paper and I call it 'Chesire Cat', a name which took me hours to come up with.

November....

.... the last time I posted something was November, ridiculous. I've been very lazy, I mean busy! Still working like mad on Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, a show we're doing at Boulder for Disney XD channel. I think this is the first time I've mentioned it on my blog, it's a lot of work but I get to flex the aul' animation muscles quite often so I'll have some good stuff for my reel when it's all done! I think it premiers this Autumn so keep an eye out.

Now, some art...

Gill recently started up a new Boulder Media Art Blog which you see here. Every month a random theme is picked and everyone runs with it whatever way they wish, it's a fantastic idea and going strong I'm happy to say! This was my piece for the theme 'How I See Myself' and I call it 'Easily Distracted' ........... HA, pigeon.

This was my submission for an exhibition/auction that was held in the studio a few months ago to raise money for charity. Estrella and Bianca did a great job organising it, we were hoping to raise a few hundred but I think the final figure was around 3,000 if I remember correctly which was amazing! I sold this fella for 30 or 40 quid, not quite sure which.


Lastly, Estrella, Bianca and now Simon are holding another exhibition/auction at the end of the month to raise more money for charity. This time though it's not restricted to Boulder employees as it's open to the public so hopefully even more money will be raised. I'll be doing a piece for that too which I'll post here when it's done. All the info can be found here.


Peace,
Mick

Star Wars

I gave myself a couple of rules before doing these:

Paintbrush only, no lasso or selection tool to fix things

No erasing or using 'undo'

No zooming, the size you see em was the size they were done

One layer only

Use as much reference as I want but no eye dropping colours.

Took more time than I'd hoped but I had good craic doing em!

Mokepon!

I can explain........ bah!

Hell hath no fury...

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life

I just finished reading this, and it's just finished being made!

http://www.bohemiandrive.com/comics/npwil/1.html

It's fantastic

Bleh!

This has been a long time coming. I did a quick picture of this guy way back (which is further down the blog, and a horrible picture i might add) and said I'd make a model of it, better late than never! Good craic messing with sculpture again, it's pretty rough but I hope to do more and improve. Done with modelling clay and a penknife.

Some different angles:

The Amazing World Of Gumball Sneek Peak

I've been dying to talk about this new show so it's great to see Cartoon Network put up a sneak peek, I worked on it for about a year and a half doing 3d animation, compositing and a tiny bit of flash. It's hilarious... enjoy!

Drawing Inspiration

Hola! Drawing Inspiration is a short film directed by Wesley Louis and Tim McCourt. I know Wes and a handful of other people involved with this film from working on The Illusionist with them so I was happy to help out with a small bit of animation for it. The guys put a lot of hard work into it and I'm happy to say that it's turned out to be a very beautiful looking film so give it a watch and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOVo7k15uyE

There's also a blog with lots of cool art and pre production stuff so take a look.

http://drawinginspirationproduction.blogspot.com/

Hello Handsome!

Unfortunately this is inspired by a real photo of me... ladies, form an orderly queue please!

bus sketches

I decided to stop being a lazy bastard so I bought some sketch pads and am now learning to draw again! Mind you, I'm sick of drawing the back of people's heads.