Irasto Gyararii

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2011-12-29T23:50:00.000-12:00

Beaver and Butt-hole

2011-12-06T00:26:00.002-12:00

More Christmas fanart fun! I am SO AMAZED with this new series of Beavis and Butt-head. Amazed. I could never have imagined it would be exactly the same as the old series, in look and in feel. I don't know how anyone can manage to maintain their exact vision for this long but I am delighted Mike Judge can! Hooray for the return of Travis and Bob-head!

The Way of the Aardvark

2011-12-06T00:22:00.001-12:00

Aardvarks have mystical powers.

Underwater Friends

2011-12-06T00:07:00.004-12:00

So i've been having some pre-Christmas fun drawing the characters from Metalocalypse. Nothing more relaxing than music and fanart. Wonderful show anyway, Metalocalypse. I really hope I can work on something so inspired some day..
It's the kind fo show where I find it impossible to have a favourite character (Like King of the Hill in my mind). At the time of these fanarts I had just watched a couple of particulary noteable Toki episodes... but the show couldn't work without every character being there. Even Mashed-Potato Johnson.

His cat died :c

My X-Factor Debut

2011-11-23T13:46:00.002-12:00

So me and Elaine Snowden did this thing for Kelly Clarkson's What doesn't kill you.

How cool is that!! I was executive in charge of rotating plants, waterworks and zooming out.

this is the most people who will ever see anything i ever did ever. And I thought concrete giraffes had a huge audience. ahhh!

Drawin' stuff

2011-10-06T09:06:00.001-12:00

Juuuust makin' pictures

Go Away Birthday

2011-09-20T11:48:00.000-12:00

Mind your own business...

Nobody Puts Baby in A Corner

2011-09-17T04:32:00.006-12:00

I wish Marik and Bakura could have their own little show. Them and the evil men that live in their jewellry. Although I suppose Bakura killed the guy whos head he was in... did he? Yeah somebody must have. As for Marik.... he had a guy living in his head/jewellry but also has
schizophrenia (dissociative identity disorder. No offence, schizos) making him 3 guys.... jewellry Marik died? I really didn't follow what was going on in that show very well. Any 10 year olds care to explain the fates of these 2 (5?) characters?

Piggies and deers

2011-09-15T03:29:00.004-12:00

I LIKE BOARS

Black and Massive

2011-08-07T06:12:00.003-12:00

Here is a lovely drawing of Dr Jimes Tooper and Dr. H. Donna Gust. Leading universe scientists.
I love learning about the Big Dipster most of all.

Also here are the scribbs...

Comedy Festival

2011-07-23T13:03:00.007-12:00

Tim and Eric were amazing! Along with David o Doherty, Nick Thune, Reggie Watts and others whos names I never knew. Sorry nameless guys.

Neat Shows

2011-07-16T07:45:00.009-12:00

Theres a lot of neat tv shows in the world. This weekend i'll be drawing some of them.

Zenmai Zamurai

Kimba the White Lion

Gegege no Kitaro

Nintama Rantaro

Yatterman

Bird men

2011-07-11T09:52:00.000-12:00

Living tiny bird lives

Sometimes I take photos!

2011-07-10T22:36:00.006-12:00

I love photography. If drawing stuff is my job then photography is definately my hobby. I don't really take photos with the intention that they be 'art', it's really just a way for me to make sure my photo albums are as nice to look at as they can be.

The photos I keep are the ones that best represent my memories.

Go go go go go

2011-07-10T07:21:00.001-12:00

Delllicious Birdddd

2011-07-09T12:01:00.000-12:00

Flop

2011-06-20T09:24:00.001-12:00

Hahaha I don't really know why I drew this. I was talking with a friend about like...catching a lung infection in your kidneys. I guess the end result is just having your organs flobb out.

The wolfman!

2011-06-19T08:09:00.002-12:00

Or....the hairy idiot. I think he caught an STD.

GUYS!

2011-06-17T10:18:00.001-12:00

Lovely scribbles

Pigs!

2011-06-17T10:16:00.000-12:00

Piiiiiiiiiiigssssssssss

I can see your dirty pillows. Everyone will.

2011-06-17T08:43:00.003-12:00

Breasts, Mama. They're called breasts, and every woman has them.

So I hope you've all seen those horrible frightening Japanese body pillows. If not this isn't really going to look like a hilarious joke. I promise you it is a hilarious joke but just to make sure your eyes don't go on fire I censored myself lole.
Anyway...enjoy? Sorry!

2011-06-11T06:03:00.004-12:00

Actually going to go have a NAP of all things, but first I wanted to post some pictures of....

Ed hitting on Barnfolk. Well the cute ones anyway..

He's bringin' sexy back

2011-05-20T02:33:00.002-12:00

ehuahh!! No maybe he's not. I drew this for a friend of mine of her bug character. He need Gok Wans help more than most I think..

I like drawing thiiiingsssss.

2011-05-08T05:06:00.003-12:00

But I need some bigger ideas.
I dropped my tablet yesterday and thought I had finally killed it. It wasn't being recognised and had no blinky lights or anything. Woke up this morning and it was MAGICALLY FIXED so, ta-daa THESE.

shield your eyes

2011-05-07T06:59:00.002-12:00

A new 7up campain involving hideous forest creatures. IT'S COOL TO BE CLEAR.

more flashercise

2011-04-02T08:10:00.006-12:00

MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW

Non consecutive pages

2011-04-01T22:35:00.006-12:00

that I quite liked....

See S Five

2011-04-01T21:46:00.003-12:00

So last night I downloaded the trial of Flash CS5.
I decided to Jeff around with that boar drawing I did a while ago. I wound up having to stop because it was so crashy when importing stuff to the library but oh well, we'll try again later.
Woe is him

Tattoo-you

2011-02-06T09:23:00.005-12:00

A friend of mine came to me with a tattoo idea she wanted realised. I realised it for her....
Alot of the drawings are obviously redraws from officcial art or based on in-show scenes but hey more important to be on model haha. Especially with the ewok there.
So yeah the girl was delighted with the design, and shockingly had all the lines done in one sitting. The tattoo on my back took about as long as that and its like...way way less involved.

津和野町 :c

2011-02-05T12:58:00.002-12:00

I miss the rediculous town I was living in. My brain has already decided to go back again soon...maybe with a couple of peeps from work if they weren't spouting fanciful stories.

This drawing is kind of alienating in the sense that its some really Tsuwano-y things and then complete self-obsession-y use of personal characters. Hopefully you can at least enjoy the colourful dogs and the massive tori gate.

I want to live in a toyoko inn.

Addittional interesting faces

2011-01-22T10:19:00.003-12:00

So I finished my yoke. I'm happy with how it turned out in the sense that it is finished at you can pretty much tell who I was trying to draw. Staring at scenes on loop all day was a bit mind bending but I feel like you make a better drawing from observation than from a photograph so I dunno... they may not be 100% true to form but at the very least I hope its obvious they weren't just pulled straight from an image. Why so serious Kelly?

Interesting folks faces.

2011-01-21T21:35:00.002-12:00

One interesting face from a whole cast of interesting faces.
Drawing a portrait with the intention of having it LOOK like the person is so difficult. It's a lot of fun though at least, and cool when the portrait kind of looks like them.

This is Robert Sheehan in a shocking transformation to the form of Nathan Young from misfits.
He spends most of the series looking rightly concerned, confused or stressed (which i hadnt noticed until i tried to draw him smiling in a relaxed fashion as oppose to concerned, confused and stressed) So this was definately a challenge. I don't know how I did but I still plan to draw therest of the cast if the gods will give me back my computer and time.

Also i drew this in photoshop cs5 on my mothers laptop. I couldn't manage to fix the brush setting so it would react how I wanted and I had precious little time in which to deal with it. TA DAA! Nayfun.

:c

2011-01-21T21:30:00.002-12:00

A sad, sad day for the boar. Also the wall is a light source. Innovative, hey?

But I am Marik Ishtar!!

2010-12-20T11:56:00.004-12:00

So I was asked to animate this lovely thing for youtube seeennnnsation LittleKuriboh.

The deadline was very short so you can plainly see what corners were cut and what I would have wanted to do had time been infinate, but overall im happy with how it turned out. I really like some of the posing and lipsynching and LittleKuribohs acting and writing are hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj6F_piB_HE

Exciting Patrick Francis.

2010-11-23T05:31:00.005-12:00

Patrick Francis is just about the fanciest range of stuff I ever worked on.
I was MINDBLOWINGLY excited to see a German lady rocking a PF scarf the other day which of course looked amazing. This image is tiny, but if you squint at the bottom right hand corner of the above image...you'll see my greatest achievement. The fanciest box in the world.

2010-11-05T05:55:00.003-12:00

Only a few weeks till I get to go back to my drawing deskkkk. AND MY NEW (old) TABLET.

Oh the excite.

Until then im on this couch balancing my paraphanalia on a coffee table WILLING it to be christmas.

This drawing wasn't supposed to be creepy... but it is. Sorry folks. Photoshop and photoshop.

Animating Loops

2010-11-04T09:54:00.004-12:00

is soooo satisfying

Why on earth does blogger squish my timing into some nondiscript thing. Imagine you're seeing them at 24fps :c

Deers RUNNING!

2010-11-02T00:59:00.004-12:00

Want a laugh? Animate a fat deer. I've never tried to upload a .gif file with Blogger before. So fingers crossed It'll work.

Regarding Lions

2010-10-18T09:24:00.003-12:00

Why was The Lion King so popular? Not even Disney knows. I watched the sequel recently and it is HILARIOUS. Probably not on purpose though....Simba is a tremendous bigot., and there is a great deal of raised eyebrow facial expressions. I didn't feel Simba was qualified to give most of the advise he forced upon us, seeing as he is a racist bigot.

One character was very interesting though. Scars supposed mate Zira. After looking for ruff animations from the movie online I found that a lot of scenes of Zira and her family had been cut out. All of these scenes were either loving, or family oriented in one way or another. They didn't want her to seem at all loving or likable?

Anyway in dramatic fashion, her mate is murdered by simba, her son is murdered by some other asshole, and her daughter abandons her. She wants to HURT SIMBA right to her last moments, so when Simbas daughter reaches out to help, Zira decides to die in front of her and blow her mind.

My mind was blown anyway, because the scene was TREMENDOUSLY dramatic and had some of those most fantastic facial expressions you could ever hope to see.

Did i just write my biggest entry ever on Regarding Lions 2? Yes I think so.. :C

Business cards

2010-10-08T23:21:00.000-12:00

Strange business card job..

Pigs and pigs and pigs and pigs

2010-10-08T22:38:00.004-12:00

And an axolotl....

Myself and a friend got the idea in our heads that these characters were hilarious. I proceeded to fall in love with my boar character.
I was given a sketch with the instructions 'do something with this'....so I did!
The left is what I was given, the right is what I 'did'.

Couldn't help it....

2010-10-01T22:10:00.003-12:00

I think anyone who sees Mitchell and Webb probably wants to draw them.
WHAT INDIVIDUALS!

Character Challenge

2010-09-06T10:34:00.003-12:00

I was challenged by a friend to draw all the characters who inspired me when I was little.
I didn't get very far into my mental list so maybe this will have to expand.

Kitaro Visits Ireland

2010-09-05T20:52:00.006-12:00

and a kitaro constructed from tea leaves in my favourite place in the world ... Toyoko inn Gojyo-Karasuma

Zenigata, Lupin, Jigen, Goemon

2010-09-05T20:39:00.009-12:00

Courtasy of my lovely ink brush

Costume Change!

2010-09-05T20:33:00.004-12:00

There was a fabulous little meme wandering around Deviantart which linked to an automatic clothing generator. Not the MOST flattering clothing choices for the guys, but therein lies the fun.

Lu-lu-lu-lupin!

2010-09-05T20:31:00.001-12:00

The greatest creation of all time? Probably.

Pokémon

2010-09-05T20:24:00.003-12:00

It's impossible not to love Pokémon. This is my ill thought out little team..

Tiny Disaster

2010-09-05T20:06:00.003-12:00

I love my inkbrush so much. This was just me having bit of a play with the line quality I can get from my fvourite brush.

the all ighty ollar

2010-09-05T19:56:00.001-12:00

BUMS

2010-09-05T19:54:00.003-12:00

Everyone loves a good bum.

oops nearly a year went by.

2010-09-05T19:38:00.005-12:00

and i didnt notice....
How does that even happen!!??

oh well.... let's kick off my return with a couple of t-shirt designs

My favourite kids range ever!

2009-11-01T22:19:00.002-12:00

Hell yeah it's supersheep!

2009-11-01T22:17:00.001-12:00

DEERBOAR

2009-11-01T22:15:00.001-12:00

Ed has been very busy

2009-11-01T22:08:00.007-12:00

OH, DR. HOUSE

2009-11-01T22:01:00.002-12:00

im not entirely sure it can be classed as ''charicature'' when i do it this way....

i live to draw in msn

2009-01-12T02:05:00.002-12:00

you have no idea.

AHH WHY DID I LEAVE MY JOB AT TRADCRAFT I'M A MUPPET!

I LIKE TO COLOUR

2009-01-12T01:53:00.004-12:00

THINGS DRAWN BY MY FRIEND VICTORIA

THINGS DRAWN BY MY FRIEND ERIN

I LIKE TO DRAW

2009-01-12T01:49:00.002-12:00

GUTS

CENSOR BOXES

I'm so sad about the BBCs overreaction to Brands non-incident....

2008-10-31T13:20:00.007-12:00

so here's some love for him.... Keep up the good work, Russell. You little twit..

Maybe I watched the show wrong....

2008-10-18T16:32:00.002-12:00

but Freakazoid is really, really scary

TEXTURE

2008-07-09T03:34:00.004-12:00

Thus Claire decided it was time for another approach to digital painting and overdid some MSN doodles.

and lowe, she liked it

Silly Animals

2008-06-11T21:49:00.005-12:00

Just a little post of some silly animal designs from work. I love doing this kind of silly character stuff. These are all hand drawn and inked then painfully vectored in illustrator and FINALLY flat coloured in macromedia freehand. Quite a journey for a silly graphic hahaha.

I'm lovin' it

2008-05-23T02:10:00.003-12:00

Canvas: brilliant fun

Inks: brilliant fun

Digital: briliant fun

Work for the soul

2008-04-03T23:35:00.006-12:00

On my list of things I intend to do...is a small nameless comic. My progess is slow but my interest is fanatical.

Art for arts sake

2008-04-03T23:21:00.006-12:00

Since starting work in dublin I've been in a wonderful and unfamiliar situation. When I leave the studio....that's the end of work for the day. So I get to, for the first time, draw for no reason other than wanting to. I don't think i've ever been so unpressured. I'm not drawing to improve or impress someone...i'm just creating whatever I want because I want to. I hope I can hold on to this feeling in the future and harness it to do my bidding.

2008-02-17T08:48:00.004-12:00

I'm getting less and less time to actually DRAW now that i am busy in work making sure vectors are vectors. I love pencils. mechanical ones. They're amazing. Not enough is drawn with pencils nowadays I don't think. Especially not by me. I am constantly without paper in work and it gets a little sad.

That being said I think my digital colouring technique has improves ten million fold.

The way we were

2008-01-16T21:54:00.001-12:00

I recently found some of my old keys for scenes that never were in a film that barely was.
Judging by them at least....it was intended to be much better than it was. Its an unfortunate thing, having to please a team of people with very very different views. haha.

I may very well reanimate the whole piece just for the sake of my own sanity.

Colour and detail

2007-11-09T23:51:00.000-12:00

Ever since starting work in Dublin Ive been limited in the amounts of colours/detail I can put into a design or drawing. BUT HEY! because of this it means I go home and draw and colour like crazy. Millions of colours, man! and DETAIL! Ive had so much fun drawing these, I hope you can see it.

Vectors

2007-11-09T23:46:00.000-12:00

Learning to use illustrator, freehand and other vector based programs.

Its funny to look back now on my first attempts at creating finished things with vector based programs. what used to take me hours now takes only minutes.

Animation showreel and the lost art of scribble

2007-08-27T21:15:00.000-12:00

This contains my favourite animation stuff from the last while. Some of it you'll see I chose not for it being SUPER CLASSE AWESOME animation, but because I really liked the composition and colour. SOME I chose because I really like the animation. Either way, it's all up to you to form your own opinion. I hope you like it.

It's no surprise to people that know me that my favourite thing in the world is facial expressions. Wild ones. Another favourite thing of mine is the doodlechat software that comes with the new version of msn.
Its a vector based scribblepad with no real special features, just you and your pen drawing in a few lines as possible to prevent the program from crashing. Its this forced line economy that I love, it causes me to only include exactly what I want. and because construction basicly goes out the window, its quite a challange to mentally map out what you're planning to draw before you draw it.

Experimentation with Texture.

2007-08-07T21:05:00.000-12:00

Drawings you can touch. ... with your eyes

I had so much fun playing with old wallpaper texture and suchlike that I found recently.
GRANTED in some cases here you cant really tell that I used them, but I wanted them to be part of the colouring and not the only thing you would notice. (markers and photoshop. click for MUCH bigger versions :3)

Photography

2007-06-05T21:44:00.000-12:00

Photography a wonderful and quick way to exercise you compositional skills.
Especially now with digital camera with huge memory, you can build up reference material like theres no tomorrow.

Adobe Illuistrator fun

2007-06-05T21:09:00.001-12:00

Some of these were designed for commercial use some for fun and practice.
There is nothing more exciting than a brief that asks you to 'use your imagination'. Creating lots of designs, following a whim or even making a mistake that has wonderful results.
It's interesting to take something as dead as a vector line and create something with movement and life.

2007-06-05T06:11:00.001-12:00

No matter how much I love using photoshop and illustrator, I don't think I could ever leave traditional media behind.

Fiat 500

2007-06-05T05:40:00.000-12:00

I created these for the launch of the Fiat 500. My aim was to create something unusual, but sadly I think they were TOO unusual or not unusual enough :3

oh well. I still want to get the new Fiat 500.

Propaganda

2007-06-05T05:33:00.000-12:00

Aren't propaganda-style posters interesting. Powerful bold colours and very stern composition.

I disagree with me....

2007-06-05T05:26:00.000-12:00

I earlier said I couldn't imagine a tablet being as nice to work with as traditional media. Although its not as MESSY as traditional media, after making an entire film in flash using only my tablet I can say I'd be heartbroken if I had to live without it. My digital colouring will never ever be the same. God bless Wacom :3

It's Cool to be Claire

2007-06-05T03:59:00.000-12:00

Fido Dido, Lido Dido and Fidos Fido.

I'm a huge fan of Fido Dido and very glad to see him back in my bus shelters. I'm not so glad to see the most recent 3d rendering of him. I felt his spark had been lost, so I went and modled my own. ( Photoshop and 3D Max respectively)

Wacom Intuos 2 A4 Oversize

2006-08-29T20:13:00.000-12:00

I finally got my oversize tablet, I love it like an old dog myaha!
I have been scribbling and scribbling and just....getting used to the concept of drawing with it. I think it's going pretty well. I haven't really gotten as far as thinking I could work as well on the tablet as I would with traditional stuff. (traditional media is always more charming imo) But yeh. I scribble and colour until i find myself drawing the lines I want. There's nothing I enjoy more than drawing 2 second scribbles.

I've been given permission to use the song "Bottlerocket War" by Pain as my film soundtrack so hooray for super-relevance!

oh-hoooo

Flash Animation

2006-08-04T10:28:00.000-12:00

I do not want to do a "flash animation" (as it where) piece for my final film, but the more i use flash the more i like it. Flash animation WITH A MOUSE is nobodies idea of a classy mix, but until i finally get my new tablet it'll be a good tool to practice with. I'm really just doing little test pieces to learn where all the buttons are, but im also thinking about my film (the soundtrack of which is almost complete, yay!)

I decided to aquire a piece of music and THEN work out my exact story and timing for the simple reason that i don't want to deal with sound tech students this year after the disaster last year.
I have also made the decision to not try and please anybody but myself with this film. So long as it amuses me then it should be good. I definately don't want to make a cheap-ass piece of crap (which unfortunately it may be looked down as if i use flash during production). haha i'm such a downer! on a lighter note i'm going to buy shelves tomorrow.

Digital colouring

2006-08-03T07:53:00.000-12:00

A friend of mine offered to colour a drawing I did and it turned out SO WELL. Her deviantart is here

Ive been poking around to get my hands on a tablet for a long time with no great drive or ferosity but this kinda just gives me a kick up the arse to actually try my hand at some "real" digital colouring. I don't think my work with a mouse can cut it anymore.

So here's hoping I get my colouring skills up a notch soon and find the tablet of my dreams.

For my final-year animation I have decided to make a film called "battle tennis" or some such thing. Basicly violent tennis. Apart from the characters I will be using, that is as far as the idea has grown.
I'm hoping some mates of mine will have some good ideas to share and the whole thing will look well in the end. The films from my college have a habit of being mediocre and tedious and looking at the work from our "sister" college in scotland made me sick. Their work is of an amazing standard!
I really don't wanna embarass myself with this film. so here's hoping I don't. I ASSUME that because I am working alone on this film production will run smoothly and god I hope I don't prove myself wrong >XD
Then I have my dissertation to think about. auuuu!

Maybe it's a little lame....

2006-07-17T09:30:00.001-12:00

....but i am always so pleased when I draw somthing that doesn't look like I drew it.
I suppose that's the idea in animation drawing though, haha! But regardless, I see myself improving and that makes me happy.
I also did a comparison of digital colour and traditional. I guess theres not too much of a difference ALTHOUGH my screen is pure evil and means I can't see light colours well...so probably there are huge big marks from the eraser tool YAY!

I also went mad AND crazy and started obsessivly trying to draw freakazoid/dexter accurately.I have a drawing in my diary from when I was horribly young which i BELIEVE is supposed to be him. As soon as I can draw him competantly I'll show the hideous drawing. God i'm so afraid of it. It will haunt me to my grave.

It pleases me no end to look at these 2 sets of drawings and think that they don't look like they were drawn by the same person. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. >8I

2006-07-15T04:41:00.000-12:00

Wow. Every single username in the world is taken up on blogspot. What the hell. Too many people have the same name as me.

Why did I create this blog? I assume to post lessbad artwork than that which i post on deviantart. Most likely i will post the comics and things that I never post on DA.

Theres some cats there. One is fat and one is thin. THAT MEANS COMEDY.