Merry Christmas

Happy Christmas to all... hope you have a great holiday and normal doodle services will be resumed in the new year!

"Classic" Doodle

I've been busy with writing and boarding duties this week, so to keep the blog warm, here's one last post of design work from the Mr Ace video

Dark Doddle

This weeks offer for the sketchblog was "The Intimidating Musician" - I might have gone overboard with this the intimidating...

Ahem, er, Wednesday, doodle

Sorry folks, didn't get this posted yesterday, so here is this weeks Tuesday memorial doodle - form the sketchblog - The Jubilant Binman...

The Ace Man Cometh

So, for the last few months I've been making a music video for the horrendously talented Pale blu Jak, and finally it's finished!

Big thanks to Neil, Nicole and John for letting me do this little project for them and for agreeing to all my crazy ideas. And a special thanks to Graham Corcoran for the most of the background art and Jorge Ortiz and Bruce Ryder for helping out with the animation. Enjoy!

Sir Doodles of Tuesday

I've been all kinds of busy recently, so here's some notebook doodles for the ol blog this week

Sorry sir

A late blog entry (depending on your time zone I suppose!) this Tuesday. I've been ridiculously busy recently finishing a music video project I'm doing and so below is one of the designs of a squirrel operating a mechanical tree - as you do. Look out for the finished product very soon!

Tuesday the doodelth

This week sketch blog doodle ... The Aesthetic Anteater

Tewsday Doodle

This week's sketchblog effort. Theme was "the Short-tempered Clown"...

Tue-Fri-day Doodle

With life drawing over for now, seems like the the friday sketch blog doodle and my regular Tuesday doodle have become one - this week - Captain Spasm... (you may need to turn down the colour on your monitor for this one - sorry!)

Last Life Drawing

So last night was the last of the four life drawing classes with Niall Laverty . I really enjoyed getting back to the easel - even if I am still fairly rusty and look forward to going to more of his classes in the future. Below are last night's pick...

Friday frolics

This week's Friday Lobster Boutique sketch group theme - "The Unhappy Bandit"...

The mornin after the life drawing before...

Drawings from week 3 of Niall's life drawing class, including an interesting exercise in stopping and looking at your drawing for 30 seconds while the model held the pose. This mostly resulted in 30 seconds of curing, shame and wishing for better drawing ability!

More Friday fun

So this week the Lobster Boutique sketch blog theme was "The Unconfident Beggar". Been very busy this week, so this one's a bit more rough and ready...

Real life life drawing

A couple more from my Monday life drawing sessions. I probably should be concentrating more on gesture drawing rather than playing with the different marks you can get out of charcoal, but it's been such a long time since I used it...

What the Friday...?

So an unexpected Friday doodle today. A few buddies have decided to do a little weekly sketchblog thing (I'll post the blog once it's up an running) and our theme this week was gangsters. Here's my effort...

Good ol' fashioned life drawing

So I woke up this morning with a sore shoulder, stiff neck and charcoal indelibly ground into my hands. I think I must have gone life drawing last night. This class was the first time I've drawn at an easel with charcoal since I left college (a long time ago). So here are a couple of very rusty two minute sketches - the plan is that they'll serve as the "before" shots - the "afters" are to follow over the next four weeks of Niall Laverty's fantastic Gesture Drawing for Animators course

Vamp doodle

No digital nonsense today, just ol fashioned pencils and some very shiny brown paper...

Corny return

I thought it's about time I did another one of these single panel cartoons. I'm never very happy with they way they turn out, but hopefully it'll raise a smile. This one is inspired by the awful dubbing they used to do (still do?) on movies shown on TV...

Rejected Cows

In the process of designing this nonsense, there's always a few designs that for some (usually the right) reason don't make it to the finished product. Here are a few brightly coloured cow options I did for a video I'm working on that didn't make the grade...

Fez Cow

Justin Bieber Cow

and of course, Elvis cow