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Happy New Year

2010-01-01T16:27:00.004Z

Starting the new year with my first finished itouch pic. I won't bullshit, this took an f'n age. done with fingers and a makeshift stylus. Have a great new year out there wherever you are! The pic's from it's a wonderful life kind of.

2009-12-15T01:44:00.000Z

very random, i sketched a caravan and kept buildong out from it. on the cintiq in ps.

2009-11-25T21:03:00.006Z

No motion, radial, gaussian blurs tonight, it's a 'Paper Chase.''All The President's Men'. Woodward spies Bernstein reworking his reportage.
I'm doing these to do something half decent after work in the evening. I can't put this level of detail into every board panel or sections of my current script suffer. So this fad is just a phase while I'm in the early stages of the current board. Start of next week the shit'll hit the fan as usual and the posts will cease for a while. Anyway I love my Cintiq and drawing on it beats watching tv in the evenings!, …And it only took from eight to half past nine tonight, it is really rough!

2009-11-24T23:03:00.005Z

Following Jaws, Duel remains my second favourite Spielberg flick. Different angle on this chase, from behind the protagonist on Mr Mann. More apres work fun anyway! Probably take a break until the weekend, next chase secne will be from Bullitt. So for the time being, "....you work your side of the street and I'll work mine."

2009-11-23T23:07:00.003Z

the climactic end of a great chase! This could be a cool hobby, draw scenes from the movies. These three were a lot of fun. This one I used the radial blur on the forest below, I don't know what president it is so forgive the unlikeness of it, and not sure if this was the angle, I think they shot the sequence looking down and characters cam right.. unsure..., but I remember the other presidents heads in the bg.

2009-11-23T21:30:00.003Z

one of my favourite movie chases. I'm havin a bit of fun with the blur tools, pure fun!

2009-11-23T13:26:00.002Z

tribute to that great short movie on youtube. a warm up before work today that started last night.. I changed the ol one's car to a type of Wayne's World car rip off. Laters.....

2009-11-21T15:40:00.001Z

survival of the biggest!

2009-11-21T00:52:00.003Z

Doodle I started when I was on the phone earlier. Wasn't too hard to find reference. Go to Ken Coogan's blog to see some proper caricatures, his Irish writers series is class!

2009-10-20T00:01:00.004+01:00

prickin around on sketchbook pro again this evenin, good fun

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2009-08-18T16:26:00.007+01:00

Above is some completely random fan-art inspired by District Nine. When you've seen it you'll know where I'm comin from, they're not good-lookin creatures at all. This is my version of a half-human half alien woman! (prawns as they're referred to in the movie! ...hence the giant prawn on her head...) Sorry if you enlarged it, it looks a lot better in a smaller format. It started out as a sketch of Mel B from the daily rag and ended up like this somehow!
Also head over to Colin Lorimer's blog for details on how to get a hold of his UXB comic. There's pencilwork and a couple of finished pages previewed on the blog, so well worth the visit.

2009-11-02T09:37:00.002Z

Sketchers yesterday.. excuse the brutal draftsmanship, I was sitting out on the tiny Bewleys balcony looking up and down Grafton Street in the freezing cold. Still at least I could smoke out there, so the lungs were warm!!

Hair yesterday, gone today!

2009-10-23T20:57:00.013+01:00

My sister got me the coolest birthday present, these goggles. They're bigger than the ones I had been using but now I get to see the used plasters and dirt at the bottom of the pool in widescreen. These will drive the women down in the sportsclub crrrrrraaaaaaaaaazyyy! I just know it! Anyhoo something different to distract from the bad art on the site! Oh and cheers to Garrett O Donoghue for puttin the pic below up on facebook. He still has hair, I've none. He's pickin his nose, I'm the sexbomb on the left. Centre of the pic is Maria Wessel (pronounced vessel). Ah hair, how I miss thee. I still remember the Vidal sassoon smell in the mornings after a shower. Now for some reason I smell like rubber! The pic was taken by some inhouse studio stalker in Filmkameratene in Oslo circa 1997 I think.

And one final pic I had in a drawer here, taken by the incomparable Chris Scully during a second stint in Oslo circa 2000. I should probably have realised the only solution was to shave it off at this stage! Ha ha. There you go, you turn 35 and the retrospection begins. I guess it's all downhill from hereon in! I'll tell you what though when I think back I was a real nob, it's only recently I've become uber-cool! Ha ha!! Oh and just to clarify none of the art behind me at this desk below is mine, I didn't work on the Iron Giant and the black and white image was a location design by the uber-talented Svein something or other, can't remember his surname. I did do the space caravan stuff behind the lightdesk for something or other. And the photo of the guy rowin the boat above the desk is my Ol' lad when he visited for a weekend and we travelled up to the Arctic circle to Moskenes (Google Earth it!) for a weekend and drank ourselves into oblivion! Yeah I was 26 then and he wouldn't let me row the boat! Ah I guess I was very weedy back then. Oh and we stayed in a cottage when we were there next door to the Kuntze family! Ha ha! Childish I know!

Normal art posting, the main aim of this blog I guess, will resume shortly.

2009-10-13T23:44:00.003+01:00

I'm boardin in photoshop at the moment and after work today had a prick around with some of the pencil brushes I downloaded from the internet. Don't blow it up, canvas is a bit too big, it's really messy, and I only spent an hour on it so it's as short on detail as it could be. Probably looks better if you just squint at it!
Got a comment there from a Romanian artist called Einah, his blog is worth the trip.

2009-10-06T20:14:00.002+01:00

This was from the sketchers a couple of weeks ago. I just did a bit of prickin around with it in photoshop afterwards. The original was pencil and marker.

2009-09-22T23:50:00.004+01:00

Watched that James Stewart Tonight show clip again and did a few sketches.

Any audiobook/ radio play enthusiasts I bought the unabridged Count of Monte Cristo on itunes for 50 cent! (It's 50 something hours long!!!!!!!) Since reading the book, think it's thirteen or so years ago now, I haven't come across anything else that's come close to the pure page-turnability of it. I started listening to it on Friday and finished it last night. I'd recommend it to anyone.

On a side note this dude, Edward Ernest, left a comment on one of my recent posts. Really outstanding work.

Ruff Yuki Fanart

2009-09-04T20:58:00.004+01:00

-quick update - my sister's new babbie was christened at the weekend so I never got around to get much done on the piece, but here it is so far. I was usin' illustrator cause I haven't done anything with the program in ages. Anyway, work work work. I'll hopefully get some time to finish it off shortly. Cheers for the comments.

Takin' a day off boardin tomorrow, sketched this after work today, apologies for the ruffitude of it. I'll replace the finished version if I get it finished tomorrow. Just hadn't posted in a while thought I'd throw something up to keep me interested. I'll send it on to the facebook fanart group when I'm finished. I got the special edition book, beautiful inspirational compilation to have around.

Pyjama Madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-17T14:02:00.004+01:00

Spent an hour or so this mornin gettin my glasses replaced and my eyes re-tested after my niece therese got at them one too many times. To my disdain some ol' one came into the shop and paraded around trying on glasses dressed in her pajamas, complete with rabbit-eared slippers. At least she had the decency to wear a pair of knickers - I added the top of the pantyline. But her arse, her belly, her unsupported tits, Jayzus, were all hanging out. I love women as much as the next guy, but this is getting ridiculous. Pajamas are NOT an exterior fashion accessory. I've seen 'em bend over wearing thongs in tescos .... shite! look, I don't mean to bitch but I feel physically ill when I see bellys hanging out. Maybe the eye test will open her eyes hopefully! But look, how can this be healthy, the godawful smells that must be following these people downwind must be godawful! UUUUUUUUUggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Adding a p.s. to this post; I just got my copy of the Kung Foo Panda art of book in the mail there, really nice stuff. Anyone who hasn't seen it the opening sequence is great. Maybe it's cause at heart I'm a traditionalist and 2d was my television dessert, but it blew me away. I would have killed to have been a fly on the wall watching boarders pitch their ideas for that sequence. Shite it was good!

A couple of caricature gifts I did up recently.

2009-08-21T16:33:00.004+01:00

This chick is ex-Stardust and now Dreamworks model artist extraordinaire Nadja Bonacina, whose birthday I missed on the facebook yoke, something I don't check often enough, though I don't have 'get into facebooking' at the top of my list of things to do! Strange caricature in fairness, when I was back in Berlin, 10 years ago now, caricatures of everyone were floatin' around the studio, and when I sat down to do this one 'The Swiss' hadn't really aged?!?!?!? Well for some! Ha ha!

The dude in the shades is the uber-talented Matt 'Tooninator' Boismier, who leaves comment after comment on the blog here, something I should be more dilligent about myself. Side note on this dude, his current facebook profile pic has him standing shoulder to shoulder with Glen Keane!

2009-08-14T16:43:00.002+01:00

From DunLaoghaire last Sunday with the sketchers. The sketch turned out muck, made a bollix of the sky. I was prickin around with it durin the week on the cintiq and I'm not goin any further with it. the digital work is a lot lot darker than what's posted, I had to prick around with the balance levels, should have started with a ref pic, still the sketch was so rough I couldn't make out half of what I'd drawn, probably wouldn't have made any difference.

2009-08-14T12:03:00.002+01:00

I've really let this blog go over the summer, have to try to get back into it. I'm workin on a comicy thing in my own time, continuing on from the ruffs posted a coupl of weeks ago, and rather than just plough into it and start drawing I thought I'd just spend a month or so gettin character designs together that I'm comfortable drawing. Something not too complicated like, with simple shapes. Anyway, this would be the closest I've come to the female lead character. I had Marnie playing the other day and found the anti-heroine Lil (Diane Baker) a good study. There's one line in the original novel that sets her up as a sexual tease; temptress; provocateur type, and even though it's only a line that is discarded and laughed off fairly quickly, by the two lead characters, there's probably something to it, and there should probably be a touch of sauce about her. Anyway, there you go. I have loads more, mostly on post-its, I'll post them whenever they're presentable. Right now like everything else it's all a mess! Hope everyone visiting here is having a good summer.

2009-07-27T22:48:00.002+01:00

Really ruff and messy cintiq freehand distraction. When I get the other few pages done I'll go over'em properly and ink them properly. I decided that since I don't really have a great imagination for ideas and such, that to keep me going after work ends durin the day I'd do a few comic pages based on sequences I really like out of books I've read. I have a few more scenes after this one, it's an opening sequence this one. Anyways apologies for the unreadability of it. It's my first time drawin freehand in photoshop, I wanted to give it a whirl, only thing is I love sketchbook pro. Great for sketching.
Laters.

YUKI 7 Trailer

2009-05-26T21:07:00.004+01:00

With North Korea's fingers up to the rest of the world, politicians everywhere scamming our hard earned cash, and famed bald Brazilian football legend Ronaldo (not that w****r playin for ManU) starring as the face of a new hair restoring product; the legend that is Stephane Coedel - of Kid Cole and Clay pilot fame and much more - Kevin Dart ,the artistic evil genius behind the operation, and plot-twister Ada Cole comes the trailer for a superhero who might just have what it takes to restore our faith in humanity (or at least give us a good old fashioned, much needed, cinematic saucy spy experience)! The whole thinkin' behind this is great! Artwork is spectacular too! I've nothing to post myself, very busy! Laters

"A Kiss From Tokyo" Theatrical trailer from Stephane coedel on Vimeo.