poses and postures from the human zoo

two hrs of life drawing in euston station london (sweet location to view the human zoo) lookin at s curves, torsion and weight combining to describe personality. Gotta do more of this stuff. the last is a sketch from the train inspired by the girl and a doors tune.
havin a real pain in the face with technology so thats all my schpiel for now.
peace

character developments

concepts, check below for details and some blaah blaah blaah..

"Shaman" developments from initial sketch to final illustration,
"Every good shaman must make sacrafices, personal and otherwise"

Short film development, "Duel with diablo" El Sheriff character development. more later...

Short film development set in post appocoliptic wasteland, character developments.
Random character design from sketch book, mixing animal. bird and human anatomies.
the lenghts some dudes will goe to just to get a females attention. Burty Paradise.


A portrait study from memory.


Yo yo, some new concept designs, well I say new, what I mean is developments on some personal projects that have been on the back burner for the last couple of years which I hav'nt had the time or skillset to tackle till now.

just started concept design at stafford uni in the north west midlands of england, the course looks great thankfully, 2d and 3d techniques from a scientific, essential
skill set oriented view point.

Got bumped into second year yesterday due to previous dip in animation from dliadt and 10 years work experience. nice. Hope it all goes this well though i know I'm facing a serious year of combining what I would have learned in first year 3d wise with what I will have to learn this year, phew!

luckily the town itself is small and I'm kinda geriatric in terms of the ages of my fellow students, though they all sem pretty sound so far, so its work work work for the next two years. luckily I do know some colleagues in the uk so its off to the major cities for partyyyyy!

Oh yeah, check this, the library has every educational dvd made by the Gnomon work shop and conceptart.org! geeeeek out.

Marie Thourhauge's blog

Heres a link to Marie Thourhauge's blog, shes a designer with the Saloon, what an awesome designer topped only by her ability as a wise ass viking!

http://www.artbythorhauge.blogspot.com/

great line, synthesis of forms, beautiful stuff..

cartoon saloon comic layout work

Hi, during the year I got the oppourtunity to work again with my old pals at the Cartoon Saloon doing layout work (layout, borders, bubbles, text, extra color and fx) on the "Secret of kells" graphic novel which culminated in my doing pep line work and color on a few of the prequel pages drawn by Maestro Tomm Moore and colored by myself, Marie Thorhague Torslev and Tomm.

I had the good fortune of earning my place on to the clean bg department of the film way back when and had the honour of viewing all the art work in psd form. I can vouch that reverse engineering the production techniques on these pieces thought me more in the 14 or so months working with these guys than I ever learned or was thought in college. annnnnd i got paid to do it! Ha! sweet deal.

It was great to take a trip down memory lane and review the collaborative work of the many, many contributing artists on these pages.
There were so many outstanding artists, all humble and hilarious , just as ready to rip the piss out of themselves and each other as the were to take time from their hectic schedual to drop pearls of wisdom about art/design theory and practical application.

A special treat was to work with maestro Barry Reyonalds who did the final designs on every single character in the film. I dont think its any offense to say of him that he did not sketch but drew everthing so well, on model in perfect pose and attitude that he quite clearly has something wrong with his brain, not to mention his banjaxed right knee which was the only time I could come close to him talent wise and that was at playing football.

aaaah. Happy days.

Thanks to Tomm for letting me use these in my portfolio.
you can follow the blog here
http://theblogofkells.blogspot.com/
and the saloon site..
http://www.cartoonsaloon.ie/

some character designs

some old character designs culled from a couple of self motivated projects...

i alsop updated my deviant art page with folders, you can just hit the sit back full screen mode and watch your work in a slide show, cooooool.
http://beigeape.deviantart.com/

Two studies

Yo, two studies, Friedrick deane and a Repin, lookin for that oil painting vibe....i love the lighting in the originals and the expressions, trying to tighten up on that. I shouldnt be workin from jpgs but heh, who's got time to sit for me.... any takers?

Im supposed to be leaving for England like many a mick before me cause there's no work in this country and true to form I just got offered work on tv series here, un buh leavable, now I gotta go count some chickens none of which have even hatched yet... sheesh, animation man, what an industry

peace ray