Lion King Colour Study - Paint Over

Below is a 3 stage GIF Process and Before and After Comparison 

Weasel Sketches

Morning cat Illustration

Character Design for current Assignment

Cat Study #2

Sketch from Reference 

Cat colour study

Curly Hair Study

1 hour study on painting curly hair and basic flesh tones 

Polar Bear Sketches

Getting to know the polar bear for a current project 

Iceberg Concept

Exploring the colour pallet and textures associated with the Arctic for a current college project. We have to create a 30s-60s documentary and I have chosen the polar bear and melting ice caps 

2D Animation Lip Sync- Final Assignment

So here it is my Final 2d animation assignment of the year:

Brief : Choose 2 Characters from featured animation films and complete a lip sync 

Characters : Merlin and Madam Mim from the Sword and the Stone

Audio Track was edited from a scene in Two and a Half Men to fit my brief outlines

This lip sync was completed over a period of 2months whilst juggle 6 other Modules with converging deadlines.

I have learnt a lot from this assignment whilst also gaining so much more respect and admiration for the talented artist's who delivered such amazing performances from all my favourite Disney characters as a child.

This assignment was certainly one of the most challenging things I have ever attempted from a drawing point of view.

This short piece has roughly 300 drawings and from an animation point of view there is certainly room for a lot lot more. Unfortunately I didn't have time to perfect it or try and fix the mistakes I made.

I now know in future what to prepare for in terms of the huge of amount of work that goes into something like this and the importance of managing my time!

Anyways Enjoy :)

Script Character Design

Stylized Layout Design for Tv Production - My inspiration for the style was The Art of  Scooby Doo 

Visual Language Morph Assignment

A Visual Language project we were given as an assignemnt. We were to create 4 still images that showed a change of state/morph. Documented through a diary I based my morph around the overwhelming emotion people go through at the death of a close friend/relative. I represented this emotion throught illustrating my character melting, no longer strong and supported

Daft Punk Fan Art

A digital painting a did back in June of 2012, this was my second Digital painting that took me quiet some time, probably a week. Over layed/mapped Leather textures to their jackets, everything else is painted

Figure Drawing in class Colour Studies

10 and 15 minute colour studiees done during a Figure drawing class. My first time using my Laptop and Tablet to draw in class

Doodling before bed

In the middle of this right now, learning loads from trying to discover shortcuts and creating patterns for Brick work and the facades of the buildings. Learn by doing

Me and my mates were looking at going back for round two, travelling through Asia again. This time it would have to be Vietnam, so then I got inspired and started sketching

Doodling in photoshopy based off the Spider Monkey, really want to improve my painting skills this summer, need to understand colour better 

Exploring fashion styles and colour palettes with this one, keeping the style clean and basic

Humans of New York colour Study

A long way to go but practice makes perfect,  I used reference from "Humans of New York" facebook page for this study

I have to work on rendering skin tones :/

Layout Pan - Angkor Wat , Cambodia

A layout I did as part of a class pan project in 2nd year, our theme for the pan was "Travelling through ancient Civilisations" 

My section of the pan was through Angkor Wat in Cambodia, a place I cannot wait to see for myself. 

I want to add more to this and colour it some day when I have more free time, perhaps this summer?

My first digital painting using my first Wacom tablet back in 2011, a portrait of my friend Sarah from halloween fancy dress. This started out as a skin study to help me learn how to mix and blend colours in photoshop. 

Was very happy with how it turned out, I have learned alot since then

Characture  of a mate in my Animation class - Sean 

Quick sketch for todays @sketch_dailies topic on Twitter, go check them out it is a great profile to follow #sketch_dailies

Hercules  

 A 1st year Modelling project, using Autodesk Maya we had to model a bedroom and render it out. I was pretty happy with how my first rendering came out. I learned alot

These are 2 of my favourite Figure drawings I did in my first year of Animation in Ballyfermot College in Dublin. These were done towards the end of the year. I used wax crayon and Conte to draw these