Boots

Just pencil and paper today, quick doodle while cooking dinner.
One thing that's crap about summer: too hot to wear boots : (
I like my boots.... a lot.

Swimming

Playing with pencils and digital watercolour... fun! I didn't spill anything and there's no mess...
Digital doodling FTW!

My New Gaff

Started doodling and got carried away.... had loads of fun though!

A loovial plane

This is a card that I've just done for a Geography teacher who's retiring,
preliminary doodles and a really crap photo of the finished thing.
Fun remembering the ol' school days and the grief we used to give teachers....
really, they're an amazing bunch. ( either that or they're misguided masochists).
I know I couldn't do it!

The Black & White Version

This is the Black & White drawing of the previous post. Lil' Hilbo rightly pointed out that the colours took all the yummy goodness out of the thing. So this is what it looks like when I don't arse about the colouring.
Lil' Hilbo is wise in the Way of the Doodle!

Bats & The Vampires

Time off is sooo cool. It means I can muck about for the whole day noodling with doodles like this. I love Batman.

Sketch 29-05-10

Doodley doodley doo... have Tank will travel!

Sketch 16-05-10

Little stories, floating about, slowly beginning to take form.

Dawn Chorus 2010

Every year, in conjunction with Bird Watch Ireland, people organise early morning walks to get up and out and hear the dawn chorus.
This is the poster I did for this years gathering in the college campus in Maynooth.
So, everybody, up at the crack of dawn to stagger blinking into the light... it'll be worth it!

Sketch 03-05-10

Quick sketch, scanned and then playtime with the funky techie toys.
Found out how to make my own pattern brushes, hey hey: texture-time!

Team Tank - Yay!

A doodley-doo in appreciation for all their effort
Read more Tank Girl!!!
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On the other side....

Todays post is on the Minnie blog

Guiseppe Fatale

Ok, this is my favourite so far....
Guiseppe Fatale is an assassin, a hitman for hire.
He greatly admires Christopher Walken in True Romance. He wouldn't mind being described as 'part eggplant'.
Guiseppe is not a Sicilian, he's definitely not Italian; and his mates, especially Kate, don't think he's actually ever killed anyone.

Kate Hawthorn

Kate is a mate of Joeys... Bright lass, bit of class...
but, if needs be, can kick seven shades of sh1t out of offending cretins.
Does not tolerate fools gladly.

Joey Chan

Making up characters who might get to be in stories...
Dunno, we'll see how it goes...
Always seem to have more than a few half-baked ideas running around my head. Should try to do something with them.

Getting Creepy

Muckin' about with the pencils again. Experimenting without reference to see if I could make this sufficiently believable to give myself the creeps... I think it worked.

Pyramid Head

Okay, a little while back I did a doodle of the nurses from 'Silent Hill' and toyed with doing Pyramid Head.... so here he is.... the sound of scraping metal: shivers up your spine!

Companion Cube

'Portal': coolest most head melting game ever!
I want a companion cube!

New Look

Righto... Me 'n' my mate Hilary have been known to challenge ourselves to a doodle-a-day for a month. Being a sometime glutton for punishment, here goes another month of fun.
My doodle-a-day will appear on one or other of my blogs, depending on what I'm in the mood to doodle. (Being 'puredaft' I thought it was a good idea to have two blogs!)
To get the ball rolling... first post is a new profile pic. The above is the large/full version, for use on special occasions. The actual, everyday, version is off over to your right, knuckling down and getting on with what it's meant to do.

Longstone Comic Volume 4-Cover

This is the cover of the next Longstone comic which should be out shortly.
This is also another tentative foray into the completely digital way of doing things. Didn't look at a piece of paper, never mind pick up an actual pencil. Have to say, a bit of a head melt keeping track of everything, but wow, the digi-thing is fast. This took about seven hours, mostly because of the magic that is 'Ctrl Z'!
Oh, the illo is to do with one of the stories in the comic (obviously), but not saying anything because that would spoil the reading pleasure! : )

Doodle

This is a doodle done a few weeks ago, the old fashioned way... paper, pens and markers.

Sketches

Finally manage to get some sketches uploaded. My laptop's on the blink, so no internet... suffering severe withdrawal. Anyway... Silent Hill 2, has to be one of the best games ever for totally freaking your head out.... brilliant... The nurses give me the creeps every time.

Might try ol' Pyramid Head soon.... really need to get laptop fixed or get a nice new shiny one!!

Pigs...flying...all that shite!

Space Penguin - 24hr Comics Anthology

This year for the Irish 24hr Comic Challenge Cliodhna put together a cool little anthology.
Since this year the challenge was associated with Children's Books Ireland and included workshops for kids... this little yarn is rated G. (unlike what I drew on the day... more on that later.)

Hang in there chums

Halloo, hang in there chums, I know things have been a bit lax the last while.... been busy hunched over the ol' drawing board and/or keyboard, not to mention the hours off out tryin' to earn a crust!
Any way... the Longstone Halloween Special is nearing completion, the 24 hr Comic Challenge is hurtling towards us at speed with accompanying anthology, all organised by Cliodhna, and all things comic-y should start hotting up in the near future!

A Note in the post

Had a lovely surprise today... got a parcel of goodies from Phil Barrett. I had asked Phil for a copy of The Littlest Arsonist which he and Liam Geraghty collaborated on, and tucked into the envelope with it was one of Phils's Phamous Notes. Have to say, well chuffed and thank you so much Phil. Check out Phil's blog Blackshapes!!!

Special Request for Ian

This was done in the pub last night. Hilbo was telling us the story to which this is the visual accompaniment... It's okay, the lady who collapsed was fine, but Ian and I split our sides, cos Hilbo tells a story really well and I couldn't resist doodling.... so, here ya go Eno, enjoy!

The Gang visit the Aul' Sod!

Another bit of Fan-Art... for those cretins who don't know, this is Tank Girl, Booga and Barney in a field somewhere after imbibing large quantities of Arthur's best. The TPB of Alan and Rufus' story Skidmarks is out in November, Yay!

The Rune Keeper Dealo

This is for Weeman, AKA Dealo. I know this is a good bit late... but...
Happy 21st Birthday!

Muckin' about

A bit of muckin' about to see what the software can do... or more to the point what I can do with the software..... findin' new things every day. Fun, fun, fun!

Amanirena

So here we are, final day of the challenge and I nearly lost the old eyebrows at the very last moment. Real hard to get my shit together today. Anyway, finally settled down to doodling and had fun with a character that I'm going to use in a future story. This is Amanirena, a Rim Worlds prospector and sometime mercenary. Right I'm off to party with Hilbo for the weekend.... post soon.....