Gills Blog

Gumball picks Up An Annie

2012-02-06T09:10:00.000Z

Thanks goodness Gumball is doing so incredibly well on the Awards circuit or this blog would fall flat on its face(bar Ryans awesome pictures of course!)
Saturday night The Amazing World of Gumball picked up An Annie for Best Animation Production. Congradulations again to the creator Ben Broquelet, Mic Graves and the rest of The Dandelion Crew and Studio Soi....
But an even bigger congradulations to the wonderful, the amazing BOULDERMEDIA who did all the 2D and 3D animation on the show.

Next up is the IFTAS on Saturday night so fingers crossed for this one....some of us from Boulder will be gracing the red carpet for this one...so I'll post some pictures next week.

Slan,
Gill

Introducing the talented Mr.Ryan Comerford

2012-01-18T09:33:00.001Z

"Grandad"

Ryan, Helen and Isabelle

These were made by my little nephew Ryan in Australia . He made "Grandad" for my Dads birthday in December, so cute!

Awards, Awards, Awards

2012-01-18T09:21:00.003Z

What an incredible start to 2012. Gumball has been nominated for an IFTA in the catagory of Best Childrens/Youth Series. The awards won't be held till February so fingers crossed for the Boulder Crew!

Christmas 2011

2011-12-20T13:47:00.001Z

What a year it has been...busy is an understatement. This goes down in the records for the worst year for posting ever but a really good year for Boulder. 2012 is going to be pretty busy too by the looks of things. Which I am not complaining about by no means but maybe I can manage my time better so as to keep myself doing at least a doodle a month for the blog. Amonst other creative things I have been working on and slowly but surely hope to share early in the New Year.

Happy Christmas to everybody who stops by and I look forward to what the New Year has to hold.
I have so much up me sleeve....

ToodlePip
Gillbo
x

The 2012 Annies

2011-12-07T17:48:00.001Z

Well what d'ya know, "The Amazing World of Gumball" is up for another 4 awards.
The Annies-Animations Highest Honour.
The catagories Gumball is up for are.....

Best Animated Television Production – Children
Best Directing in a Television Production
Best Music in a Television Production
Best Voice Acting in a Television Production

Fingers, Toes and Everything else you like to cross crossed again!!!!

Gumball bags not one but two BAFTAS

2011-11-28T09:21:00.001Z

"The Amazing World of Gumball" lastnight won two BAFTAS. One for best animation and the other for best writing. Congradulations to all involved, Ben Bocquelet and Mic Graves at Dandelion Studios, Studio Soi and of course the one, the only Bouldermedia. Great for everybody!!!
Just a couple of links to the great news on IFTN and the BAFTA website.

Warwick Davies presented the award, how cool is that?!?!

Banana Joe

2011-11-21T09:18:00.000Z

This is some fan art my godaughter Isabelle did in school of Banana Joe from "Gumball".
Love it!!!

Gumball nominated for a BAFTA!!!

2011-10-24T14:17:00.000+01:00

Yeahy!
"The Amazing World of Gumball" has been nominated in the 2011 BAFTA Awards.
Check it out here BAFTA nomination

Fingers crossed for Gumball everybody!!!!

Zig and Zag

2011-09-23T12:32:00.000+01:00

Here's a short we did for Flickerpix a while back featuring good aul Zig and Zag (originally tv puppets that kept most Irish children entertained after school until they moved across the water to be part of "The Big Breakfast" morning show)

Some of my Gumball Animation

2011-09-19T14:17:00.007+01:00

I was cruisin around You Tube and found this Gumball clip. Turns out I Animated the majority of the sequence(bar Rocky, the Orange guy in the Red Y-Fronts!!) Thought I would just stick it up here let you see some of what I did.

A quoi ça sert l'amour ?

2011-09-09T12:32:00.000+01:00

Here is a beautiful piece of Animation called "A quoi ça sert l'amour ?" by Louise Clichy.

Is there anybody out there ?!?!

2011-09-07T17:07:00.003+01:00

Hello...hello...hello......hello
Is there anybody still out there?!?
Well, I wouldn't be suprised if there wasn't after the absence of posts over the last 3 months or longer. So I am going to try incredibly hard to post more artwork and in the meantime distract you with some megga cute pictures I took of my best pal Ben. Isn't he too cute :)

Why the absence? Well Boulder finished up on Gumball and has been preparing for a new "Big Project" that will be starting very soon. All very exciting with alot of new staff starting in the next few months and a newly renovated studio. All very exciting indeed. Time just seems to be passing too quickly and mulitasking has become a bit of a talent for quite a few of us here!

So hope to post something soon and keep up with more regular artwork. I always said I wouldn't let the blog go...and I ment it.

Introducing Mr David O'Sullivan

2011-06-02T12:26:00.000+01:00

Just to let people know a very good friend of mine Dave O'Sullivan has his own website up and running. So go check out his drawings and paintings, they are FAB! He uses his little nieces as subjects for his paintings and has had an exhibition in the Oisin Gallery recently. I went to college with Dave and then worked along side him in Boulder for about 10 years. He is now growing a rather large beard and spends his days drawing and painting, doing a mighty fine job too by the looks of things.

Cartoon Network UK - The Amazing World of Gumball Promos

2011-04-26T09:11:00.002+01:00

Only a week to go now...exciting!!!

The Amazing World Of Gumball - Meet Gumball

2011-04-06T15:21:00.000+01:00

And here's another trailer for Gumball!!!

Spamalot

2011-03-22T08:48:00.001Z

More Spam more Spammers...enough said!

Belated Paddy's Day Greeting

2011-03-18T14:13:00.004Z

Just a little belated Paddy's Day picture(don't have the net at home to post things, living in a cave I am). Not very Paddy's day themed but you do get bored looking at the stereotypical red haired drunkards, holding a pint of Guinness dancing about with a leprechauns hat on.

Happy Paddy's Day Yesterday!
:)

More Gumball News

2011-03-18T12:10:00.003Z

Just a little bit more Gumball news here and here
:)

Cartoon Network's The Amazing World Of Gumball Sneek Peak

2011-03-11T11:30:00.001Z

Here's a clip from one of the Episodes of Gumball that Cartoon Network have released. The release date is apparently in April. So sit tight. Hope you enjoy the clip.

Two Little Birds, One Little Girl

2011-03-04T16:38:00.000Z

Bull Terrier Sketches

2011-02-17T12:57:00.000Z

Finally some drawings :)

It's a Wrap

2011-02-17T08:41:00.001Z

It is well overdue I know but here's a quick update on "The Amazing World of Gumball". On the 15th January at 5pm Bouldermedia finished work on the first series of Gumball, for Cartoon Network. I would like to say a big gigantic NICE ONE to all of the people especially at Boulder who worked their asses off to get this show completed. When I said before the show looks amazing....it's seriously looks amazing. I can't wait for the airing to see how it is received, very exciting stuff. I have been lucky enough to have seen the final fully finished episodes one by one and each one gets better and better. That's all I can really say about that. So sit tight (till September, I am told) and look forward to "The Amazing World of Gumball".
Here is an article that was writen on the Animation Ireland website about the show if your interested.

Oh No!

2011-02-09T14:41:00.003Z

I had promised myself I would post more and more this year and sure would you look, not a dicky bird or not a "yellow bird" as the case may be at all since last year...disgraceful carry on. I have lots of excuses but whats the point in wafflin on about them, it still doesn't change the fact there is no new art here!!!

So instead I am going to tell you, visitor, about this...
Last year I decided to do a little bit of good for some animals and became a volunteer at the Dogs Trust rehoming centre. They are a great bunch of people, who work very hard to make better lives for all the dogs that walk through their doors and let me tell you it is far more dogs then people would believe. Some of the dogs have been very badly mistreated, abandoned or have lost their owners through old age etc. The Dogs Trust tries to rehome as many dogs as they can possibly squeeze in to good loving new homes. It is a very tough but a rewarding job. I thought I would just mention them and all the good work they do. So if you know anyone looking for a new dog, maybe try the nearest animal shelter/dog pound and give these guys a second chance. Here is just one of the fellas Dogs Trust have up for rehoming at the moment and if I could, I would take him myself in a heartbeat. Luah is a 4 month old Bull Terrier and probably one of the cutest Bull Terriers I have ever seen.

So there you go, until next time....with some drawings and maybe, just maybe, a sneek peek at a new little project I have up my sleeve.

Fa,La,La,La,La-La,La,La,La!!!!

2010-12-24T11:10:00.000Z

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Funky Faery Lights....

2010-12-22T14:51:00.001Z

Happy Christmas to everybody kind enough to leave some feedback on my bloggywotsit over the past year. All the comments really are much appreciated. Hope to see some of you back for a visit in the New Year. Until then get drunk, be merry or do whatever you do for a laugh but enjoy the holidays.

Uooh, check out the snow from my apartment....Christmassy or what?!?!

Tis the season to be Jolly :)

2010-12-13T17:37:00.001Z

Just some Jewellery I made for a friend for his present to his Mam this year. Hope she likes it!
There is all Freshwater Pearls and Swarovski crystals and little spakly things like that on a Jade pendant.
Haven't had much time to draw anything for the blog of late but at least this is something creative.

Hope to get a Christmasy post up though....

Sorry

2010-12-01T12:31:00.000Z

Wow it's been ages since I have posted anything decent!! Wrapping up on Gumball has taken most of my time. I am hopin that over the Christmas holidays I'll be able to catch up and get some bloggin goin again.

But until then a very quick doodle from the vaults.

Halloween at Bouldermedia

2010-11-03T15:21:00.005Z

I thought I would just stick some piccys up of lastweeks Halloween Fancy Dress in Boulder. People made such a brill effort with their costumes. There was a Satan, a Hobbit, a Giant Dracula Legoman, Robots, ComicBook Characters, a Clown, a few Wearwolves and manys an insect buzzin about.

I took the more sinister approach, Samara from "The Ring"

The winner for best costume, Dracula LegoMan takes it all and well deserved ..... BORJA! BORJA! He made the whole thing from scratch with his bare hands.

Stairs: A LegoMans Worst Nightmare

Check this out, hilarious!

Borja getting a helping hand off Fran getting up the stairs in the Studio.

Grumpy Bum!

2010-10-14T09:19:00.002+01:00

Darwin

2010-10-07T17:35:00.004+01:00

Just a little sketch for Mr.Darwin who passed away yesterday. I'll miss you Buddy *sniff, sniff* You where the life and soul of The Tank.

Odd One Out ?

2010-09-22T14:00:00.004+01:00

Zoinked

2010-09-21T09:35:00.001+01:00

Enough said!

Boulder V's Brown Bag

2010-09-15T09:22:00.014+01:00

Well it all kicked off last Friday evening in UCD for the game of the year. Bouldermedia versus Brown Bag Films in a game of soccer. The atmosphere was excellent between Paddy's dodgy belly at lunch(nerves) and all the game tactics being discussed throughout Friday in work. Allan and Jamie mustn't have got any work done at all(he,he,he). I must admit I am no soccer fan but I was well excited to get out there and cheer for the Boulder boys and Bianca!

Boulder Team: Finbar Coyle, Stephen Mooney, Peter Slattery, Jamie Teehan, Fran Johnston, Mick O' Sullivan, Bianca Beneduci, Chris (The Guns) O'Hara, Mick Plummer, Allan White, Paddy Gamble, Stephen Kelly and Tom Galvin in goals and Brendan "The Legend" Harris

Unfortunatly, Brown Bag took home the trophy, with a score of 4-2 but Boulder put up one hell of a fight. With Brendan scoring a super goal in the last few seconds for Boulder. So it was out in town for beers and dancin afterwards. Everybody had such a great time :)

Bring on the next challenge!

Thanks to Allan White, Ste O' Connor and Estrela Lourenco for the photos I stole!!!

So Long Dave

2010-08-27T11:28:00.008+01:00

He is probably going to kill me for this but he deserves it. My good buddy Mr.Dave O Sullivan is leaving Boulder after ten long hard years. He is off to pursue his dreams and fair play to him for taking the plunge. I will miss his moaning terrible....just kidding. Dave has been an inspiration and a great pal both through college and work.
I'll miss you Buddy..... probably see you down the pub on Friday's for a drink and a sneeky smoke (sorry Marn)
Best of Luck.
*sniffle, sniffle*

Characature courtesy of one very talented Mr. Paul O'Flanagan www.pauloflanaganartblog.blogspot.com

Spiders, Spiders Everywhere

2010-08-25T17:35:00.000+01:00

What's the story with the humungous Spiders hangin around the place. Love Spiders and all but not on my sofa watching telly over my shoulder!!!

Spam, Spam thank you Ma'm

2010-08-20T16:20:00.003+01:00

Here they are back in full swing. It's the return of the SuperSpam...

Happy 10th Birthday

2010-08-05T16:07:00.018+01:00

I am pretty sure it is not exactly on the date but near enough, for the 10 year celebrations of Bouldermedia Animation Studios....Yeahy....whissly, whistle!!! I have been with Boulder 9 of those 10 years and jaysus how time flys. We have a handful of the original crew left Boss Rob Cullen, Paul O'Flanagan, Dave O'Sullivan and Stephen McGann and a good few very talented newbies and not so newbies. Here's to another 10 productive, creative and hair greying years!!!

To think I couldn't even use a computer when I started, Yikes!

We have moved to 6 different offices, travelled to the Emmys in L.A, numerous babies have been born, about a half dozen marraiges and a band was born all in my time here at Boulder. Not to mention all the AMAZING shows we have worked on. Well done Boulder.

and here is some of the crew, hahaha, yiz thought yiz were getting away with it...

Catch Me If You Can!

2010-08-04T14:09:00.002+01:00

Red T-Shirt

2010-07-12T08:18:00.002+01:00

HELP!

2010-06-24T08:31:00.004+01:00

I have been held captive by a Blue Cat and a talking Fish. They say they are going to let me go soon.....real soon. Somehow I don't believe them!!!!!

Hope to post something on my release,

Oh! here they come, shish, got to go..............

Zebra

2010-06-01T13:47:00.003+01:00

Check this for the groovyist, funkyist zebra ever. Isabelle pulls another cracker outta the bag. Nice one Little Bean. x

Hugo Reyes

2010-05-26T09:36:00.012+01:00

"Dude, that was like a....Jedi moment!"

Lost came to it's end this week so here's a little sketch I did this morning. The "Dude" himself, Hurley.

Jedi-Gill

2010-05-16T23:14:00.004+01:00

I got to play with a lightsaber this weekend and yes it was geeky and yes I did love it and yes, I WANT ONE!

Monday Blues

2010-05-10T21:59:00.005+01:00

So yeah it's Monday and with most Mondays some monsters get the blues....but Mondays pass and there is always a fun Friday lurking not too far away :)

Vantastival

2010-05-03T17:44:00.007+01:00

Spent the weekend at a music festival in Dunany Estate in Co.Louth. It was called Vantastival where lots of these babies congrigated. I want one oh so very badly! It was run by a couple of mates of mine Benny and Lou, they did a wicked job. Hope to see it back again next year :)

Hemitite Necklace

2010-04-27T18:48:00.007+01:00

I used to dabble in making jewellery but vwery, vwery little nowadays. I made this for a friends Mam as a christmas present a few years ago now but it needed a sprucin up cause she wore it so much...which is pretty groovy. So here's the finished, revamped hemitite, pearl, onyx, black swarovski crystal, mish mash necklace.

No Ctrl Z

2010-04-22T22:55:00.005+01:00

Right, so there is no undo button when it comes to using ink and paint. But it has been difficult taking myself away from my wacom.....practice, practise, practise and maybe next time I won't end up smudging ink all over the piece , myself and my clothes. It has been far too long since I took out my art materials and got stuck in....I missed it :(

Me...

2010-04-18T16:52:00.007+01:00

I was sitting at my animation desk back in the college days and a guy says "here you go" and drops this on my desk and walks off. An incredible characature of me!!!! Turns out that guy was nominated for an Oscar for his animated feature, "The Secret of Kells". That guy was Tomm Moore.

Birdstack

2010-03-31T10:28:00.003+01:00

I have been so, so, so, so meggabusy in work on "Gumball" so haven't had much time to do anything for the bloggywog. Maybe over the Easter weekend? Until next time this will have to keep things moving....

Happy Saint Patricks Day

2010-03-17T17:34:00.006Z

So I am sitting here thinking draw something nice for Paddys Day...something green, and what do you get. Good aul Mike from Monsters Inc. Happy Paddys Day!

SPAMarama!

2010-03-16T16:54:00.008Z

STAY OUT SPAMMERS I SAY.....OUT. Is nowhere safe? Not even my blog? I caught 2 of them this morning Spammin away. It's funny, they are not quite what I expected Spammers to look like! Nippy little things too.

2010-03-10T20:55:00.004Z

Barbie Fanart

2010-03-08T08:49:00.005Z

Now, introducing a very talented 4 year old. This is my Ozzie godaughter, Isabelles, "Barbie" fanart. Isabelle is clearly an artist in the making. I'm loving her colour choices. Especially Barbies purple hair !

Congradulations

2010-02-24T13:13:00.006Z

No artwork but this is good too. My best pals and parents to one of my godaughters, Nafina, just had another baby, Arabella Joy Maguire. So Nafina became a big sister.... I am so proud!

Pandorian- Giant Blue Smurf

2010-02-10T21:59:00.013Z

Here's my first attempt at something in photoshop. A bit messy and all over the place but you learn as you go along.... Don't look at it closeup, it's PANTS!

NOOOOO.

Happy Friday

2010-02-05T08:37:00.001Z

Floatin

2010-02-03T14:04:00.009Z

2010

2010-01-06T23:49:00.009Z

A new year a new Gill?

It has been pretty snowy over the last few days. Got stuck on my bus home from work for 5 hours today, for a normal 1 hour journey. Then my wacom broke(it is the grandaddy of wacoms to be fair)....then I panicked, then I fixed it!
Then I drew this. Me and Ben and two randomers.

Happy New Year Everybody and thanks for all the comments and stuff you have given over the year. It is always nice to see that I might have made someone smile with my wee doodles.

X

The Night Before Christmas

2009-12-24T10:24:00.005Z

It was the night before Christmas.....and yes some of us are still in work!!! Really looking forward to a few days off to chillax. Have a great Christmas to all and to all a goodnight x

Jiffy Bag-Monsters

2009-12-16T13:42:00.005Z

I had alot of pressies to send around the world this week for Christmas cause some of my family live in Australia and then there is another livin in Amsterdam. So instead of the boring aul mustardy brownish yuck colour I decided to jazz up their parcles just a bit with a monster or somethin. My camera is très bad so sorry if the images are crappy.
Silly post I know but it's close to Christmas and I am run off my feet...bla,bla,bla...

Devastated

2009-12-10T17:09:00.008Z

Oh no!
The Terrible Yellow Eyes site I was telling you about in my last post has decided it has run its course and will be coming to it's final post on January 1, 2010. What will I do without The Wild Things?
I'll just have to go and create my own RUMPUS!

Only one more sleep...

"Where The Wild Things Are"

2009-11-30T08:30:00.009Z

I can't frickin wait for this. A very special friend of mine bought me the Maurice Sendak book about a year ago. I couldn't believe I had never heard of it before being a megga huge monster fan. How it slipped under my radar is beyond me but better late than never right? Now Spike Jonze has gotten hold of it and made it into something that looks pretty damn amazing. It gave me goozebumps when I seen the first trailor...seriously!

So "Where The Wild Things Are" is out on the 11th Dec.....exciting times!!!

I have been working on a piece for an age now and it still isn't the way I want it to look so maybe soon enough I'll have a "Where The Wild Things Are" special. I could pop up the line drawing but that would just ruin it....and now I've built it into something bigger than it might ever be, so don't get too excited :)

Oh and for some really amazing Wild Things tribute art go to Terrible Yellow Eyes. There are a shit load of seriously hot artists posting onto this deadly site so check em out.

Roballoon

2009-11-19T18:05:00.002Z

John and Edward (Jedward....oh dear me!)

2009-11-18T17:26:00.009Z

So right, these two over confident, crazy haired twins seem to be gripping the nation at the moment with their out of tune singing and out of time dancing. Well, all I have to say is if they can make me laugh as much as they have they can't be half bad.
This is for my buddy in London.

Get involved Justine!

To busy to think

2009-11-16T08:38:00.002Z

Wow, it has been mighty busy the last few weeks both in work and at home. So a thousand sorries for no new little sketches or doodles over the last few weeks but there will be something new up soon....ish.

Gill :)

Baby Popin Tastic

2009-11-09T13:58:00.004Z

My Boss Rob and his wife Dee had little Oliver last week. He was born a couple of days before my sisters popped out. Congradulations people. Keeping Irelands population going strong!

Introducing...

2009-11-03T09:34:00.008Z

Liam Thomas Sheridan was born yesterday morning at 5.08. My new little nephew. He's a fuzzy little thing!

Back to the Future for Real !!!

2009-10-30T14:08:00.006Z

My brother got LOST in the space time continuum today or was it yesterday or two days from now?!? Who knows when or where he is now but next time I see him he will probably be about 90. He vanished in my morning and didn't turn up in my other brothers evening where he was supposed to be! I hope he brought a packed lunch, all that time hoppin can make ya fierce hungry...

A Little Song for Helen

2009-10-28T14:00:00.003Z

Happy 40th birthday Helen. Hope you like the song!

Grey Today

2009-10-20T13:49:00.002+01:00

"The Amazing World of Gumball"

2009-10-15T17:33:00.008+01:00

Finally I can mention something about what I have been working on the last while....
"The Amazing World of Gumball" got it's first press release on IFTN today.

It is a Cartoon Network show and Boulder are working along side two other studios, Dandelion in London and Studio Soi in Germany, to make the "magic" happen for Cartoon Network.

It is all about a surburban family and mainly the antics of Gumball the son who is a cat and his best friend Darwin, a fish. The show is a mix of 2d flash and 3d animation and realife backgrounds so it is something very different to anything we have done before. It is very funny and looks great. So have a gander at the press release and watch this space...

More Monsters and Birds

2009-10-14T13:41:00.001+01:00

2009-10-07T16:38:00.001+01:00

A whole lot of Tweetin' goin on

2009-10-01T13:58:00.001+01:00

Tweet, Tweet, Te, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet, Tweet !!!

2009-09-30T14:22:00.001+01:00

I didn't really cry...

2009-09-11T14:00:00.007+01:00

So I was out horseriding with my brother on Wednesday and went for a little canter in the stubble fields....except it didn't quite work out that way for me. The canter became a gallop and bye bye Gill. Straight off into a ditch full of mud and nettles. Rodrigo got a little(lot) carried away with himself and I had no choice in the matter. I was like a chocolate coated Gill after getting out of the ditch. Covered in mud. Hilarious!

Had trouble moving the next day....

Backgrounds

2009-09-09T13:52:00.007+01:00

Here is something a little different. I tend to stear clear of bgs, maybe something to do with a fear of perspective that grew on me over my years in college. This was a bg I did for an idea I was working on. Clearly you can see it is quite rough. But then my boss wanted to use it for something so he called in the heavies to fix it up a bit/lot.

and here are the results. Fran got to "Fransify" it and it turned out brilliant. This is what I am going to strive to do in future with my artwork. Take it to the next level and make it look like this. The composition works much better, shapes are more exciting, there is much more depth to it and the textures look great.

Amsterdam for my Birthday

2009-09-08T16:22:00.003+01:00

I haven't been drawing but I have been really busy in work with the new project and with still no computer it makes things pretty difficult to squeeze in any blogwork. We have taken loads of staff on and every day seems to be another challenge but we are getting there....kinda.
I managed to get away for a few days to Amsterdam to visit my brother for my birthday weekend. After nearly missing our flight through no fault of our own, myself and Aido got there and had a deadly weekend. Seens lots of places and there was lots going on. We met some really cool people. It's always a pain having to come home when you have such a great time. There is some picyures anyway to keep my blog alive for another few weeks anyway.

Finch, Darwin and what's left of the Mob

2009-08-12T13:40:00.008+01:00

To make up for the complete lack of recent artwork in the last couple of months, which I had already made an excuse for in my last pathetic post I decided to show you all my fish. Darwin (those of you who I work with will know why I picked this name) is the one with what looks like he is wearing and orange swimming cap, an Oranda. Finch is the big black one, a Black Moor and then if you look really closely there is one of the mob, a Minnow he is really small. There used to be two more in his gang but due to unfortunate mobster activity in their bowl they sadly passed away. I only bought Darwin at the weekend and he seems to be fitting in quite nicely although Finch has to be quicker for his food now. Which he always finds hard to see because his ginormous bulbous eyes are at the side of his head.

Hope to post something exciting (art) really soon.

Gill.

No Computer...

2009-07-28T08:23:00.002+01:00

Hi There. I know I haven't been posting in a while but I have reasons. My laptop died *sniff* *sniff*.... I was working on a couple of pieces but it is really difficult when I have no machine at home. I am looking into buying a new laptop and should have it within the next month. I am very excited about that.
Also, we have just started a new project in work and have been busy getting that all ready to go. I don't think I can say much about it though for another little while but what I will say is, it is a supertoon, really different, hilarious, kwerky and the style is deadly! So watch this space and I'll be able to post more about it.
I have created a new workspce at home and was able to buy myself some really nice new art materials from a voucher my mates gave me for my birthday lastyear. So over the next while I hope to post alot more handrawn pieces, sketches and stuff......now, that's hopefully ;)

Gretel

2009-07-08T08:41:00.011+01:00

For those of you who didn't know already I am a huge fan of horses. These are a couple of drawings I did a good while back of a horse that I learnt to ride on. Her name was Gretel and she was an amazing Cob. She had groovy flares so we were a good match.

Sadhbh

2009-06-30T14:04:00.006+01:00

One of the gals I work with, Moni had a little baby girl on the 29.6.09 called Sadhbh. Welcome to the world little lady.

This is Sadhbh and her Mam with some of the Boulder crew.

Murcia Spain

2009-06-26T08:59:00.005+01:00

I was away in Murcia Spain lastweek with Justine, Alli-cat or Albert (who turned the beautiful age of 30 over there), Denise(Dennis), Trish (T) and Barry. Back home now and the tan is fading super fast.....

Zen

2009-06-25T13:29:00.006+01:00

I was given this little project to do for a very talented young Tennis player called Julie. It is a bookmark type thing that she can keep with her when she is in tournaments to remind her to keep her focus and stay calm. I hope it works for her.

Update: here is the final piece... see what ya think?

A Great Start to June

2009-06-03T08:34:00.004+01:00

So here we are and after 2 years of no summer we finally got some sunshine. The past few days in lil' ol Dublin have just been just the most gorgeous days in such a long time. Trips to the beach and up to the Dublin Mountains for some fantastic views of the city followed by BBQ's and maybe a beer or two.

It sure beats the grey skies, rain and cold that the Irish have become so accustomed to. Long may it last I say.

More Doodles

2009-05-21T14:02:00.002+01:00

Tu- rough doodles

2009-05-12T13:42:00.002+01:00

Baby Falkor

2009-04-16T13:35:00.003+01:00

I dunno maybe this is pushin it ? First and Ewok now a baby Falkor. I swear he does really and when his hair gets a little longer......If he had a white nose ?!?... hey !!!

Some Sketches

2009-04-16T09:00:00.000+01:00

Real Life Monsters

2009-04-13T15:44:00.007+01:00

Had a very quite Easter so rather than stuffin' myself with easter eggs I decided I would try my hand at makin' one of my little monsters into a real monster. I haven't really used a sewing machine properly before so it was vwery,vwery interesting. At one stage I had sown his arm on the insideout part....DOH! He is kinda bockety here and there and alot of everywhere but I think that adds character (well, that's what I'm sticking too).

Oh and his arms are suposed to be that long and his legs that short....a few people have said did ye mix the arms up on the legs? Nope, that was intentional!!!

Ben, my rescue dog.

2009-04-10T09:03:00.007+01:00

Hey now everybody. Here is some great news. I have adopted a little Shih Tzu, now called Ben. After the tragic loss of Molly the house felt so empty so I decided to adopt a rescue dog. I found Ben on the http://www.friendsofbendogrescue.com/ website by a total fluke. So I rang straight away to see if he still needed a home. A week later, he was rehomed with me and is doing really well. Ben was found totally neglected, matted and underweight. He is such a clever, happy, effectionate little dude. I am so chuffed he is living with us now.
The people at The Friends of Ben Dog Rescue Centre do some seriously amazing work for animals that have been thrown by the wayside and forgotten about or abused. It is heartbreaking to see so many dogs on SO MANY websites looking for homes. So if any of you out there are looking for a new family pet. Maybe try a rescue centre instead, rather than a brand new puppy and give some little runt a fresh go at a deadly new life.
I know it sounds like one of those save the animals ads but it's true. Ireland should be ashamed of the neglect of so many of their animals. Some of these Irish rescue centres/ pounds send off dogs to other countries to be rehomed because those countries don't have these enormous problems with stray dogs.
That's my rant done with for now.

Don't you think he looks a bit like an Ewok ?!?

Where did march go?

2009-04-01T14:00:00.003+01:00

As the title of this post makes clear, where did March go? Anybody? Sorry for the lack of postage or no postage at all in March. I guess I just dunno what happened, alot has gone on. Hope to post something amazing very soon.
Slan :P

Ringtail Lemurs

2009-02-16T13:59:00.003Z

and Finally....

2009-02-06T13:45:00.002Z

This is a picture I drew for Aido's 30 birthday pressie. It is actually a fully finished piece, Whoop! Hope you like it as much as I enjoyed doin it.

Aido

2009-02-06T13:43:00.004Z

Blushing

2009-02-02T08:54:00.002Z

Oh dear, shame on me. February and not one new picture to be seen. Watch this space I'll pop somethin up really soon......promise!

2009 in OZ

2009-01-01T06:56:00.004Z

Happy New Year to all who visit my blog. I am at this very moment in Australia. I decided to pack my bags and get the hell out of the doom and gloom of little ol' Dublin for the Christmas and New Years. It is pretty surreal celebrating Christmas in 30 degrees heat. It has been great just getting away from everything and relaxing for the few weeks and hangin out with the Ozzie part of my family, IN THE SUNSHINE. I was deprived of my vitamin D so badly. Ireland is a cruel, cruel place.

I am still managing to wear my wooly hats here too though, I don't think I will ever change. I get all lot of stick from everybody here...."what? you can't be bloody cold here mate!"

Anyway, thanks a squillion to all who have visited my blog and especially those who have come back again to see more.

I looked back over my New years blog entry for lastyear. It was funny. I had myself down to be a non-smoker this year. Pifft,that never happend....

Hello...

2008-12-11T08:44:00.000Z

Big Bank goes Boom!

2008-11-21T08:48:00.005Z

I have previously posted about my mate Paul and his friend Willzy's strip, Big Bank. Well great news for the duo. The strip went to print in it's first issue of You and Your Money magazine yesterday. So if you haven't been to visit the Big Bank site. Go there....NOW!
www.bigbankltd.wordpress.com

Molly

2008-11-05T13:30:00.006Z

And here is the real Molly. I personally think Bratso would have been the best name for her!

Update:
Molly passed away after a routine opperation in March. She was only 6 months old and was one awesome little pal of mine. I was very sad when she never came home that day. So.... here's to Molly X