Vodafone Giant's Causeway

This is another Vodafone Roaming Illustration that will print as a 48 sheet and can be seen up North at the border in various locations from next week. It took a few goes to get the causeway right as we wanted it to match the others ones we'd done. And we didn't want to upset any giants.

Lovely Cat

A colleague of mine, Maxi, spotted this amazingness earlier this morning and just sent it to me. It's from a big illustration I worked on last year in the docks. The cat's head was cut off in the printing but some amazing artist has finished it off. So brilliant.

Daily Drawing #7

Here's a really bad one I did late last night. I remember watching Footloose lots with my sisters on VHS and being amazed that Kevin Bacon's second name was Bacon and just by chance looked exactly like a pig! No one else seemed to care but it always stuck with me. Whenever someone mentions The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon I always think of a pig with sunglasses lying on a deckchair for some reason. My friend Mike also said that Val Kilmer looks exactly like a sweaty pig poured into a human skin sack.

Anyway, here's Kevin Human Meat, the pig actor from pigworld. I should have had a job in Oink Comic...

Dystopia

Here's next months Dystopia for Totally Dublin....ahem.

Vodafone Flying Phones

Here's the first of four Vodafone print and internet animation ads I've just finished which feature flying phones as birdies for a Roaming campaign.

After working on the first few, with DDFHB, we realised they looked a bit old 50's postcards so we tried applying a vintage distressed look on them but it looked all wrong. Ah well. Nice summery feel to them though. I'll post the rest of them here when they're all jazzed up.

Jo' Banger Wall Art

I spent all day Sunday scrawling on the walls of a new deli on Baggot Street called Jo' banger. It's a follow up to the too tempting Jo' Burger in Rathmines which I highly recommend. They'll be serving lovely fancy gourmet sausages and other delights.

Here's some shots of the final piece that I took, which are a bit dark as I didn't realise the lights were working until just before I left. I took a load of photos of the thing as I drew it which I'll post here to show how it was made. It opens on Tuesday so I'll go down during the week and take some proper photos of it with the whole place finished and post them here.

The whole place is decorated in B&W and florescent pink so I was a bit worried about how to do it all using just one colour with the B&W. I was introduced to the amazing Posca markers by the lovely boyos in Candy at the Garden Party last Summer which I drew all the black with them (gud englis cris). The florescent pink is Posca and acrylic. I drew it all without any sketches but the balance of pink proved difficult but after a lot of standing back and biting nails I think I found the right balance.

See you there for a bleedin' sausage.

Beasts Book 2 Submission

There's a great book that came out last year called Beasts published by Fantagraphics and they're just about to release another called Beasts Book 2 full of lots of amazing artists. They need to fill one more page so they're looking for submissions.

I noticed there wasn't any Irish Beasties in the first one so here's my submission.

It's called "The Phooka" or "Púca" in the Irish language. It's one of my favourite of all the mythical creatures we have here in Ireland. It plays a part in the best Irish novel ever written At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien.

More here about it.

Daily Drawing #6

Dailing drawing six. What kind of results?

Some Shots from Ink 69

Well, like, I've let myself down already in blog world and missed a few days on the Daily Drawing because of the exhibition. It was pretty manic with all the organising and all that crap but amazing fun! It was a smashing success. We sold 11 of 13 paintings so we're over the moon.

Anyway, here's some shots by the lovely Nicky Lianos on flickr. That's me on the right looking manic from being stressed at the opening and Fergal on the left. I have tons more photos that I'll put up here tomorrow along with shots of all the paintings.

Valentine Rabbits

More Vodafone rabbits appearing! I just picked up this mornings Metro on the bus which features a wraparound cover of a special valentine's day Rabbit illustration for the cover along with three other on the back and two inside covers.

Rabbit on the bin

While out in Dun Laoghaire picking up the paintings this morning I spotted this little fellow on the side of a bin. There was a granny walking by and I overheard her saying to her granddaughter "I don't know, maybe he just likes bins" while I was taking the photo. Sigh.

All set for tomorrow!

We just finished hanging the show in Monster Truck. When I say we, I mean Terry from the RHA who did an amazing job hanging them. I picked the paintings up from the framer this morning and it wasn't until I got to the Monster Truck before I actually saw the ones Fergal did. They're just amazing. If you're in Dublin drop in and have a look around while sipping a glass of wine.

Daily Drawing #5

Woah this is a late one for the daily drawing.
This one came out all wrong. I was thinking about a cute character on my cycle home with lots of noses who suddenly gets that twang of a cold and that moment of terror after the first groggy sneeze. I drew the noses but then the rest of the face turned into this plonker.

Daily Drawing # 4

Taking care of business.

Death Proof review

I made this illustrated review of Death Proof the other night as the credits rolled. I sent it to some friends and Mike suggested doing more for other movies. Next: No country for Old men.