OW SON OF A ****

Aieeeeeeeee, just pulled off an industrial strength sticky plaster, plus my brother and a local boy are taking off a road safety ad behind me to make matters worse, (I told them not to be pricks and they've shut up - neat.)  Any how, In the interest of keeping the gears of thought in motion I decided to make some illustrations based on my friends, the three amigos, Barry, Cian and (my extra friend) Finn (in alphabetical order to be diplomatic). I got the idea after Finn said something about Barrys polo shirt, Cians V neck and his own tshirt. (On reflection it turns out Cian doesn't wear all that many V necks but, I suppose it's more the spirit of the V neck if you will?.. Oh god what am I saying???)  So this template gave me the idea for two more illustrations. One is based on eyesight, Barry has perfect "20 20" vision, Cian is far sighted and Finn is near sighted.

The last one is based on the common factor that brought these musketeers together, the art college! Barry is a promiscuous printer and Cian and Finn are fellow graphic gowls. (Two points of interest - one is that Barry came to LeSAD set on graphics but hated it! The other is that I do not approve of the gowl moniker, I wasn't consulted.) Anyhow, even though Cian and Finn are both Vis Com, they have different approaches. Cian can draw, Cian can draw very well, Cian can draw so well people ask him to draw on their shoes!! (Cian draws on his plimsolls, word gets round!) On the flip side Finn is a mac prodigy, he already has an impressive portfolio of paid work and we aren't even in second year!!!

So yeah! I had to spend a while creepin facebook photos to check frame shapes and such but it was a fun wee project, I must keep them up!

NEAT!

Make-it-RAIN!!!!

My first ever paid commission! Last week my main man Keith Hogan ( or Hogey Bear on account of the fact he hooked me up... Does this reference still make sense? It did at 4 o'clock today...) put me in touch with a friend of his, an event manager called Tim Carey. Tim is promoting senator David Norrises presidential campaign and one of the events he organized was an "alternative fashion show" to raise funds. The alternative aspect is that the models are going to be be drag queens and lady kings! (I had always said drag kings but lady kings sounds nicer!)

 

So Tim needed a logo and he gave me fairly clear instructions, the event is called Divas V Demons and he wanted a contrasting girly Divas against an evil Demons.  So that's it up there, Tim was pleased so he asked me if I wanted to take a crack at the poster. First of all he sent me his first attempt, which as he said was constructed in the dead of night in a caffinated-sleep deprived haze so don't judge him on it!

Sooooo... I said I'd take a crack at it! (Well actually I said something about a bag or oranges... make of that what you will.) Below is my poster, I changed the bevel on the logo because the deep channels didn't work against the background. Also, spot the typo! (I didn't convert the finished one so this one has one small mistake.)

It's a milestone for me, my first paid job! Plus Tim was so pleased he said he's got a few more projects lined up for this year that he'd like me to work on, neat! (again!)