Wed-Ness-Day

Gah. So tired. Must blog. Why.

Basically just been plodding away with Sushi stuff over the past couple of weeks which is fun, but I feel I've lost my mojo with it a bit. Deadlines tend to drain the inspirational fuel-tanks somewhat. So yes, that's the reason I've not really had anything to blog... And it's no different this week unfortunately. But, I feel kinda content with dropping some Sushi stuff in here. So here. Have some backgroundz (uncoloured):

Sc09

Sc10

Sc28

Sc29

Looking forward to starting to colour these and get the characters onto them. Scenes 28 and 10 both have rough keys so hopefully they'll start to come together as complete scenes by the end of the month (with a little inbetweening/cleaning/colouring help)

If you wanna check out the rest of the production then you can click MY SUPER NIFTY BUTTON AT THE SIDE OF MY BLOG >>>>>>

It took me 3 hours. 1 hour to draw and code, 2 hours to embed.

So worth it.

Ok. I need to sleep now. Was up too late last night working on colourscripts. So let me leave you with some nudity I drew tonight as I got itchy fingers in prep for life drawing tomorrow.

Looseh gooseh.

Needs more line dynamics.

Je veux habiter dans le ciel

Laziness is the only way to describe the recent hiatus on this blog.

"Urgh, I don't know what to post this week... Aw look, it's no longer Wednesday..." *sleep*

I also blame the recommencement of Uni, but that's a cop out.

So, for this post, have some little design experiments for a wee project that's currently bubbling away in the back of my mind...

Une cabane construite dans un arbre

et

Des personnages...

A bit of both worlds.

Once Upon A Time In A Faraway Ireland...

Apologies for the late post this evening. I got on a roll with work and figured it foolish to break it considering the productive stagnation I seem to have adopted as of late. And thanks to a bum week, I've barely got further with Sushi work let alone anything new and fun for blog times.

So, bearing in mind that I've been working on backgrounds recently, I figured this post should continue in this vein. Here I've delved back to a project we started about this time last year, that unfortunately never quite made it to see the light of day... Set in Ireland and based on the Protestant/Catholic divide, the animation told the story of a Catholic schoolgirl who wandered into the Protestant area of town on her way home.

It was going to be magical. 

Despite the fact it never quite came together, I'm quite pleased with some of the work I produced during it. So here are 3 of my favourite backgrounds I produced for the film.

Considering this was my first time doing both backgrounds and digi painting, I don't feel I did too badly...

'Dem Posh Fermer Toypes.

Spent the last weekend avoiding backgrounds and wandering off to a country fair which my family goes to every year. It's the sort of thing that never changes and of which the novelty wears fast but yet we go every year. Mainly for all the dogs. They're fun.

What I've noticed is that these types of events seem to bring out all the posh farmers. The ones that love to hunt and wear the clothing but have probably never done any real manual labour in their lives. I present them thus:

I was planning to have coloured them, but my attention has been slightly diverted with a new addition to the Muir family household...

LOOK HOW TINY SHE IS.

I think my excuse is valid.

Gingers In Paris

Not too long a post this time. Gonna start with a mandatory holiday illustration.

I found that in Paris, as soon as you sit down, it's inevitable that someone is going to come up and try and trick you into giving them money. I kept wondering why it was happening to me but then when I stopped and looked at myself I realised that a pasty, ginger kid on their own in Paris is a blatantly obvious target as an unwitting tourist. Luckily I wasn't scammed, but made this cartoon anyway to show my feels to the situation.

Think I'm going to come in and colour this at some point as I'm pretty pleased with it. Been working on my more dynamic posing too...

In other news, I've been doing some backgrounds for Sushi which you can find my

CLICKING HERE

And finally, I'm currently making a present for one of my friend's 21st Birthday. When we were in Primary 3 (So 7/8 years old) we loved PokéMon. In that class, we were given booklets of blank paper to do what we wished with. So we made our own version PokéMon and I decided to make a draw of us in the middle of in intense battle in commemoration of this.

So here's me. Deeply involved in the intensity of battle...

Really like this style I've somehow come out with here. Definitely want to keep this up.

Shameless Back-Posting

Trying to get myself back into work and a routine this week. Hasn't particularly worked... But I figure that any work after a break is good. Now I've just got to take that energy and plant it into something slightly more productive in terms of Sushi.

Got distracted last night doodling this thing. Like I warned you, reminiscent Séjour comics may well appear from time to time.

This is almost definitely exactly how things went.

I realised through this that I really need to get some more life into my drawings. My poses are pretty dead - as is my mark making... Need to make a conversion to a more ruthless medium I think. And source out some more dynamic life-drawing poses.

Speaking of which, did some stuff to get warmed up. Feel pretty apathetic about most of these but, you know. Stuff.

Return From A Land Down Under

The "Land Down Under" being France.

It's been oh so quiet here on the blog front. Chances are you were thinking (hoping?) that was the end of me. Pecked to death by a flock of angry seagulls on a dark Dundee evening.

But no. I had escaped to France in order to mould the lives of young, impressionable francophones. Then travel. Whilst I was away, I had the very honoroable intention on keeping a sketchbook travel diary and filling it up with wonders and tears and magical moments in which one gets lost in for years to come.

Alas, that never really came to fruition. My intentions were good, but in practise I never had any time to myself whilst barking at French kids to behave and then when I did have time, all I wanted was sleep. And wine. So much wine. However, I did get some pages done which I've added below and the experience has given me much inspiration to get back to drawing now I have nothing to do with my life at the moment, so what was first intended as a travel diary designed to record events as they happened, my travel diary seems to have morphed into a tool in which to indulge my nostalgia...

Or at least that's my excuse.

So expect some kind of little cartoons of my adventures in up and coming weeks, but for now please enjoy a wee selection of what I actually managed to produce and like during my "Séjour en français":

Funky house with a crazy tall roof in Tours. 

My wee friend from the first week, Clément. I shared a room with him and he talked in his sleep. At first in French and then English by the end of the week. Job well done I say. That boy was a real life cartoon.

Drawing in the Rodin museum, Paris. Some American guy's got a picture of me drawing this. He asked me to take the picture of me in such broken English (thinking I was French) that I didn't understand him. When he departed with "Au revoir - merci beaucoup" I realised that he still didn't gather I wasn't actually French...

Italian mother and son chilling in some gardens in Paris. Reminded me of Yzma and Kronk from Emperors New Groove, had Kronk been Yzma's son...

I went to visit Gobelins L'école de l'image in Paris. My reaction was exactly how this describes. 

I MUST GO TO THERE.

Cool structure in Brussels - the Atomium. Pretty dull on the inside however.

Till the next time, France... You've treated me well.