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May 25, 2011#

Magners Leage Final: Munster vs Leinster

Spent a few of hours putting this together in Painter and photoshop, after being given a very short deadline.
There wass some concern that O’Connell’s two fingers up behind O’Driscoll’s head might be seen by some as taking the piss out of him. I would congratulate those people on their ability to read into the bleeding obvious… and to point out that if O’Driscoll was any shorter, O’Connell would’ve been getting it in the goolies rather than the stomach, but that as it stands rugby will win on the day *wretch*.

However, i’m happy that it passed through the design committee successfully and that the tea lady was able to voice her opinions as well. Thank you Beryl.

The use of the text has probably helped everyone along, so credit out to Mrs Brown for the lines!

Appears on the front of this saturdays Limerick Post to celebrate the Magners League final: Munster Vs Leinster, held in Thomond Park, Limerick.
May 19, 2011#

Commission: Wedding Invitation


Now that the invitation has been sent out, i can upload the latest commission: a wedding invitation for my brother in-law and his fiance.
They asked for a superman theme, and this is the finished result.
I was trying to capture a bi of the Eamon’s goofy fun nature, and Lois’ kinda loving amusement by it. 

 

My initial sketch i had Lois holding Eamon, as it let me have a bit more fun making him look the part, but was asked to do the alternative one for comparison, which is the one they went with. I probably would have preferred the first one, but i’m still happy with how it turned out.
I manage to slip in a subtle play at them by flipping the ‘S’ on Eamons outfit, in honour if the dislexia that he wears proudly. I’ll add that it wan’t picked up until it was basically on it’s way to the printer. Make of that what you will.
December 1, 2010#

Solitary Turf War

The finished commissioned piece. It was a Christmas gift for the husband of the client. The husband is referred to as Francis of Assisi by the surrounding neighbours, as when he goes for a walk, his 4 cats, 3 dogs and Billy the goat go with him. And because he uses colourful nylon rope as a belt, because he feels that a normal belt just doesn’t cut it. The current colour is bright pink.

During the course of doing this work, the old labrador sitting in the cabbages died, so i was asked to kinda ‘nice’ it up a bit – i had made it a little geriatric and decrepit  looking.

For some of the background to this work, scroll down, or click here…

Client is very happy with the digital preview, as am I, though like most things, there is always something you ‘d like to change, or would like to spend more time on – but sometimes you just gotta leave it alone.

Been a good experience, full of learning and patience – primarily hardware shortcomings. (Taking donations now for replacement gear ;-) )

The print came back quickly from Steve at www.360-dpi.com and looked great printed on canvas, though paper would have been my preferred medium. After meeting the client on a cold windy day in the carpark of Coona Tesco the hand over was done.

Got a call on Christmas day to let me know everyone though it was great, which was nice, and a huge sigh of relief!

Submitted for Illustration Friday topic “Cultivate”

November 28, 2010#

Process Diary: Commission (part 2)

The continuing saga….

October 19, 2010#

Still Life With Jeans

muffin top A second to add to the Still Life Series. This had some challenges – the crusty muffin look, and the denim were a bit of a pain. Which is to say the whole thing was tricky, but started with a good sketch, and it made it bearable at least…

I have a screen capture recording that i’ll have to edit and speed up, to let any one interested to look at the process that was gone through to get this done. Could be anther couple of days…

Update: Video uploaded! Was a bit of a churn – 10.5 hours reduced to just under 9 minutes, speed increased by 8000% (for god’s sake….). 

October 1, 2010#

Process Diary: Cowen

Starting off some of the process diary stuff. This is a work in progress of the leader of Ireland, Brian Cowen. I’ve done a quick one of him before, but wasn’t completely happy with the likeness, so i’m having another stab at it.

Getting the jowls right is more of a challenge than i’d thought possible, in particular getting the to hang properly off those mammoth lips, but at the same time kinda prop them up…

Well see how this develops over time. Hope to keep going with it, but have to juggle a couple of other jobs at the moment too. Maybe it’ll be ready for Halloween…

July 22, 2010#

Willie – Published!

A post without an actual illustration, rather a digital clipping from the online version of the local newspaper – The Limerick Post – who have used my illustration of Willie O’Dea in an article about his life and reflections after the kerfuffle of the last year leading up to his stepping down as MoD.

Link to article in the digital edition here.
Link to the original post here.
July 12, 2010#

Comrade!

Was just flaffing around, and ended up with something that was a cross between people i saw on a recent trip to Krakow, Poland, and a russian strength guru i’ve come across in my quest for fitting in exercise around small children…..

July 1, 2010#

Limerick Vs Kerry (GAA)

Piece for Limerick Post.

Looks like Limerick hasn’t won the Munster Senior Football title in 114 years, and they’re going to give it a shot this weekend.
Kind of bizarre that Limerick hasn’t won in that long, and for the Irish that’s just how long it’s taken, but as some one who is relatively new to Ireland and really knows nothing about the sport (other than the suspicion it’s where AFL came from), it struck me that Limerick haven’t won this title in about half of the history of Australia under white settlement.

Seems much longer to me now….
June 11, 2010#

Ireland vs New Zealand (Optimistic)

It was suggested i do something for the upcoming Rugby Union match between Ireland and The All Blacks for Ireland tour of Australia and N.Z.

The possibility of it being used in a Limerick newspaper prompted me to pick one of Limericks most recognised and celebrated of rugby players, not to mention the current Munster captain, to use in the image.
I wanted it to be a Ireland supportive take of the match, with the giant man, O’Connell, towering over the kiwi’s.

Later I learned that a) Paul O’Connell isn’t on this tour, and b) Ireland are likely to be completely hammered by the apparently far superior team, the All Blacks.

I really should pay more attention to these finer details…. There’s still time; i might have another go.
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