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HELP!

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

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

Hugo Reyes

"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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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!

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.

Barbie Fanart

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

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

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

Floatin

2010

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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...

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 !!!

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

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

Grey Today

"The Amazing World of Gumball"

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

A whole lot of Tweetin' goin on

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

I didn't really cry...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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