Lawl. Soz.

Recently i've been investing all my efforts into either my dissertation or my Grad film, so have become rather too relaxed with regards to blogging. I prefer to keep this blog mainly devoted to personal stuff, with bits of film work dotted in, which results in a lack of posts because I have had no time to do anything else...

But, after running myself deep into the ground and having to pick myself back up (or get others to pick me up) I realised I needed a vent on the side as not to get too suffocated with the film. So I've treated myself to a new sketchbook to put everything not Sushi related into. And it's working.

It's not much, but here's an extract of what I've got so far. Bits from a maybe future project:

(Gave this wee guy a colour on my TUMBLR. Check it out.)

And since it wasn't much and I've neglected you all for so long, here's a couple of pages from my observational sketchbook:

Hopefully be seeing you all again much sooner this time.

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.