..may not break any landspeed records, but is steady, cruiser-like. I have produced a pile of minor character drawings. I had forgotten how much I enjoy character design and it’s been entertaining to remember office personalities from the 90’s, the dawn of the information age. Like this tearful character called Elodie. Or the uber-tech Calum. …
Per my New Year’s resolution I have been drawing in my sketchbook every day. It’s an interesting exercise – warming up the eye, switching off the head. I don’t worry about making nice drawings, I make it about trying to understand the subject. Mostly these are people – strangers, friends, people on the telly, one …
And now: Remorse. It’s the modern nightmare tale of a girl, Penelope, who takes a wrong turning and gets stuck in a Tiger era call centre job for 10 years. I am having great fun exploiting my own past office jobs in – ehem – Certain Large Corporations. The environment offers such rich pickings: the …
Heh. I have to say I find there’s something ridiculous about writing a blog. I am writing a comic called FAT CAT, I might write. Here’s a character design for it. The world: *RESOUNDING SILENCE* STILL. Never one to let something trivial like utter absurdity stop me: I will blog because it helps me to …
We were in New York City last week. It was its usual 24hour self, and we stayed in midtown which feels very significant, somehow, like the centre of something. I still love it – I used to spend every possible moment there when I was working in O’Plenty Animation some years ago, but it is …
Thank you, for this great job, to my old friend Niall, whom I have known longer than time itself.
That all went well. Phew. A big thank you to Martin Leen, and Alison Pilkington, for their well-considered curation of the show, and, most of all, for their calm helpfulness. It was so good to see my erstwhile classmate Ivan and Ciara, (co-founder of the brilliant Mart) and finally meet Matthew in the flesh, as opposed to telephonically, as a …
There’s a lot of talk about the intersection between art and science these days – since Dublin is City of Science 2012 – including our own Drawing Workshops in the Botanic Gardens. [Insert roar of approval here]. It has given me to think. And I have, in my turn, written this statement for the Five Lamps show …
I’ve been enjoying the daily drawing diary, even on the days where I forget and have to freeze the TV and scrawl something quickly at 11pm. As it turns out, even that’s a helpful approach, I think, because it forces you to work within the 4:3 ratio confines. Confines are good. Ah, if I was …
The thing the novel form is best at doing is showing point of view, do you agree? That capacity it has to put you inside another person’s head. If you read a first person narrative, you have bias, you have sympathy, you are involved, you care. And radio has that very particular intimacy – it …