Laura

Pencil portrait of a friend's friend. RIP~

Boycotting McDonalds and A for Ants

I refuse to eat McDonalds... so I made use of their stationary instead :D Sitting with friends/victims. My life drawing needs a lot more work. Crayons do not help. At all.

One of my missions for this summer was to create an alphabet book just for fun, but it doesn't look like it's going to be completed anytime soon. So far I only have A and C complete... and here's A!

Branch observation

Using un-natural-ish colours (?) with chalk pastels. Around 1hr 45mins~

Recap through EXILL

Cleansing the laptops overused file folders and came across some old stuff! I don't recall posting this before and it was one of the main submissions for the Cook Book assignment. Ta-Dah indeed.

The icon assignment-- choose one thing and draw it over and over until your brain starts seeping puss. I prefer this one to the colour one (previously posted). I want to fix the waves, for they agonize my corneas. Sigh.

And good old Alphabet Spreads. I LOVED this assignment. We were only assigned two letters to do a drawing for but I took on a third and this was the result! I literally just finished fixing this up on openCanvas-- the scan left it was a big gap between two halves of the drawing (this is A3, scanner is A4.. I'm poor) and I fixed the ellipse on the urchin :D

ProMarkers <333333

Illustrators Eve @ Easons

On Thursday (19th) a coursemate and I went along for the Illustrators Evening in Easons, featuring David Melling, Niamh Sharkey, Chris Judge and Chris Haughton.

David went up first and he gave a nice professional presentation, then taught us how to draw one of his characters in stick-man style, line by line (as did each illustrator after their presentation). David's character was a goblin from one of his books.

No Eoghan!!! You're doing it WRONG!!

Chris Judge (who previously guest lectured us for a class) explaining his The Lonely Beast storybook and illustrations.

A little mix-up though... the audience wasn't made up of children as the illustrators (or staff?) expected. A whole two hours of older people drawing cartoon characters and stick men the same way 6 year old's would be taught... priceless!

So cute!

Danleo @ KTContemporary

After running around in circles for almost a week I finally made it to Danleo's exhibition hosted at KTContemporary (the eye-melting bright orange building on Donnybrook Rd).

Fortunately photos were allowed to be taken! Huzzah!

Painting from the exhibition advertisement. Huge!

I have my sights on the Shiva painting! Lotto numbers, come to me...

The tree stumps and lightning clouds were painted onto the wall while the crane in the foreground was cut out of wood and popped out from the wall.

There was a little selection of 'layered' paintings-- layers of wood painted and placed into a deep frame and covered with glass. A cool change to just paintings was that there was even a clock in the shape of a birdhouse on exhibit. About 20~ pieces in total and a giant wall mural hiding behind the corner. Nice to see these paintings in person rather than online. Very kooky!

AIH1

Hanging around college after-hours and with only 3 formal classes left, it dawned on me that there were no form of keepsakes for anyone in AIH1... so I threw this class caricature of everyone from the course together over a few hours. Here's hoping they liked it and aren't plotting revenge!