More tab-doodles

Another quick tablet doodle - looks suitably pencily

Tablet doodle

It's been a while since I've posted something here - work has been crazy. I'm been Making a short film called Deadly and working on a cute preschool show called Boj. Things are beginning to ease up a tiny bit so here's a quick doodle made on my tablet using Sketchbook Pro. It looks a wee bit like famous bad guy and wolf puncher Liam Neeson...

Animation Art Show

So as always I've been ridiculously busy recently so sorry about the lack of posts. Here's a little work in progress of a piece I've done for the Animation Art Show which happens this weekend (2 & 3 November), called "Cat Idol". I haven't done a lot of paper craft/collage before, but it was fun to do so I might try to get into it some more.

Some amazing art will be auctioned for charity at the show, so if you're around Dublin you should mosey on over to the Science Gallery! www.animationartshow.com

Saturday (!) Doodle

Busy weeks mean I'm posting the Tuesday doodle early this week. These two are form the latest dr sketchy's session in Dublin - the theme was post apocalyptic...

Wolver-doodle

This Tuesday's doodle takes the form of my submission to the Irish Sketch Society sketchblog - the topic "Wolverine"

Overdue doodles

So looks like I've taken a bit of a summer holiday from posting, but I'm back now - this time with a few sketches from Dr Sketchy's Dublin wonderful Metropolis themed session...

Pirate Tuesday

Sorry for the lack of posts lately - work has been pretty full on. Here are a couple of doodles from Saturdays Dublin Dr Sketchy's session. They're pirate drawing so they arrgghhh! (sorry)

Indy doodle

Just a day behind on this week's Tuesday doodle - for the Irish Sketch Society again - a quick Indian Jones...

Holy Doodle, Batman

No doodles for two weeks - sorry about that - work has been crazy, plus I've been writing when ehat little spare time I have. So here's a quick Batman that I did for the Irish Sketch Society on facebook. Tis the Bat Man... (biro and tippex on paper)

Final life doodle

Here are some my latest drawings from the final of Niall Laverty's Gesture Drawing for Animation course - it's been another great course, that went by too quickly!

Stand Up for Life Drawing

More Life drawings - this time standing poses...

Figure doodles

More from Niall Laverty's Gesture Drawing class. This week I invested in an A3 sized brown paper pad - which meant I got to have fun with black and white chalk!

More Life Doodlin'

No post last week - apologies for that - work is pretty crazy at the moment - not too crazy to find time to get a little bit of life drawing done. These are 2-5 min poses using charcoal and felt tip pen for a change!)

Also in case you don't know we've put up Episode 2 of the Flipped Animation Podcast (feat. Sony story artist/director Fergal Reilly) - www.flippedpodcast.com

Life doodles

More life drawing doodles from a new term of Niall Laverty's Gesture Drawing for Animators class in Trinity. Didn't get too many great drawings out of the evening, but, you know, first day back at it...

Hydey-Hi

This Tuesday's post is late again - sorry about that. Here's a sketch of a Mr Hyde type character I did for a class I'm teaching to students at the Irish School of Animation. I'm teaching the (2D animation software) CelAction. - we've been rigging this fella - which explains the not too pretty T pose!

Pirate doodle

Here's this weeks sketchblog entry - the theme was the "easy going rogue" _ at least I thought it was! Also, if you haven;t already - please check out my new Irish Animation podcast "Flipped" - www.flippedpodcast.com

A Quick Digi

Completely forgot to post this yesterday. A quick digi-doodle for the drawing blog - the topic was "The Spiritual Assassin"

Random Tuesday

I've been rushed off me feet with work at the moment - intense, but exciting stuff. Here's a slightly older character design for these weeks doodle...

Random Sketch Book Page

Happy New Year 2013 - hopefully this year will be a happy, healthy and busy one for you all. It's already shaping up to me interesting for me - I'm working on an animation podcast - the first episode of which should be released by the end of January - so watch out for that! In doodles this week, I've scanned in a random page of a sketch book...

Top 10 Films of 2012

So it's that time for the year again. Here's a run down of my favourite films of the year - bearing in mind that I didn't see

all the best film 'contenders'

10. Skyfall

Back to basics and some much more - ticked all the Bond boxes and looked brilliant.

9. Margin Call

Taught, thriller(ish) filled with moral ambiguity and great performances

8. Wrinkles

Moving Spanish animated feature

set in an old peoples' home

7. The Imposter

Almost unbelievable documentary about a man pretending to be something he's not...

6. The Descendants

Excellent, slightly low key drama - wonderfully put together

5. Paranorman

Brilliant stop motion combining 80s adventure with 70s horror, great humour and fantastic animation

4. Argo

A fantastic story that manages

to perfectly balance drama, tension and humour

3. The Raid

Makes you wish all martial arts movies were as good as this

2. Moonrise Kingdom

Fantastic, charming, funny Wes Anderson flick.

1. Martha Marcy May Marlene

Creepy, haunting, extraordinary story of life in a cult - outstanding performance from Elizabeth Olsen.

A few special mentions in the following categories:

In the 'Not As Bad As They Say' category...

John Carter of Mars

Prometheus

In the 'Every Bit As Bad As They' Say...

The Man with the Iron Fists

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

and finally in the 'Not As Good as They Say' category...

The Hobbit

The Master

Shame

Here's to a good film year 2013 - see you on the other side with more doodles!