Basic Colour Theory

Was helping a friend with some colour work and made this as a guide, decided to post it as it may be useful to more then one person.

DJ Goldy and Mister Critical - Muted in Wonderland

This was a lot of fun as I'm a fan of 'Adventure Time' when I started on this I was told something like the cartoon with the boy and dog for style and it had no title, and I suggested a few things, and 'Muted in Wonderland' got a positive response and the first thing that came into my head was the two DJ's in a field with some hills and icy mountains in the background, and have the characters in muted colours while the background was bright and vibrant and this was the end result.

Then I was asked to add some craziness and odd creatures to it, so I did.

Ricki Rawness Space Raps Cover Art

For Ricki Rawness - Space Raps, which will be released as a series of 4 EP's, decided to go for something i had never tried before, a quadriptych and this happened, for influence i wanted something in the 2001 vein to begin with and get odder as it progresses across, and here's a look at the four parts as standalone pieces.

The Wren - Fallow Pin-up

The Wren is an all age's comic by the team of Jason Connor and Phil Roe, about an irish superhero, I was asked to do a pin up for the second collection, a review of which can be found here.

Runaways Ink/Colour

This has been in my fave's on DeviantArt for three years finally got around to inking and colouring it, on my lunch breaks in work, mostly. I'm happy with it, the roughness is due to being A4 and on photocopier paper, usually use bristol but it was just for fun/practice had fun with the coloring of Karolina, the light trail in pastel rainbow shades was a joy to do.

Pencils by Mark A. Robinson link to his blog and link to his DeviantArt

Stoker Poster

First things first Park Chan Wook is one of the best directors around at present in my opinion. His vengeance trilogy is a rare thing in trilogies, it starts well, has an excellent middle chapter, and manages to finish with a visually stunning final chapter, his other movies I've also liked, was a bit hesitant about his english language debut, but after watching 'Stoker' that hesitation is a memory.

So i wanted to make this poster in a Saul Bass style, which i felt was appropriate due to the many nods to Hitchcock throughout the movie, from swinging lights in a cellar to a shower scene to a room with a collection of stuffed birds, it felt right to do this poster as a homage.

Colour Swatches

Got asked how i create colour swatches for photoshop so thought I'd post about it. I keep a folder on my desktop of images I like the colours of, also on instagram and deviant i like/fave images i like the colour scheme of and use them to create the swatches, using the eyedropper tool and clicking into the colour swatch window on the side of photoshop and saving the aco file when happy with the selection. Here's an example of the swatches made from pics from instagram.

And here's a link to download a zip of those colour swatches.

Webcomic

This launched just before Christmas a webcomic in collaboration with Dylan Collins launched, poking fun at tech companies. Link to the site it's on.

Webcomic Submission

This was a submission for an Irish Webcomic to poke fun at tech companies and geeky stuff. I was sent the script which is mostly the text at the top and the narration boxes, and enjoyed working on this and coming up with what i hope is funny dialogue for the panels.

A First and Some Overlooked Design Work

This is a First for me, getting to see a design on an actual finished product, a good feeling, and it's a DVD ROM of African fairytales as audio plays, done for a Dublin based African Charity.
And here's a couple of pieces of design I like and had fun building but were either only visible for a second or barely visible in the final illustration.
First is a recreation of the Winkies logo, from David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive' which was for a poster for a fictional Spider-Man movie directed by David Lynch, it was for one of the old Whitechapel Remake/Remodels, I took care to get it as accurate as possible but in the ned it was barely visible.

And finally from my first animation which was a cut out animation, street fighter themed soviet fight, the Capcom logo got modified.