Life Drawing March '12

My god, it's been about a decade since my last life-drawing class. So I approached Tuesday's class with abject terror. But actually, I came away with some all-right drawings! Here are 3. 30 seconds- 2 minutes.

Moar commissions!

This is a drawing of Sandra and her fellah Lee, which I was asked to do 2 weeks ago.

Been a busy couple of months, but there should be a couple of updates coming soon. So here's a drawing of my girlfriend Gill I did last night. She's a post-graduate support officer by day and a world-record holding weightlifter by night, hence the superhero motif. Colour, and more drawings to follow...

Poison Ivy sketch

Here's a drawing of Poison Ivy from the Batman universe. I intend to paint this up, once I find the time!

Gumball first look

Well here's your first look at the last show I worked on, The Amazing World of Gumball. Things have been kept pretty hush-hush on the show, but now the first clip is free to see. It's a mix of 2D, 3D and live-action and should be on your televisual box soon.

Trying to use Photoshop properly!

So this started out as a sketch. I decided to paint it up in Photoshop as it's a program I really under use, and should know better. But I have very little patience for painting as I always sucked at it. This took me about a day to paint up. And surprisingly, I managed to do it without kicking a hole in the wall or flinging my monitor out the window!

Pages from my notebooks... Part VI

And what the hey, a few more...

Pages from my notebooks... Part V

Thought I'd throw up some more sketch-book pages.

Drive-In

After the diner, I thought I'd continue the Americana theme and draw up the other great 60's stalwhart, the Drive-In. This one's been abandoned for some time, though, and has fallen into disrepair.
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And now for something completely different.

The Royal Society of Arts, modelled on the Royal Dublin Society (yes, that RDS) host a series of lectures which are really quite interesting. They also illustrate some of the lectures and it adds this whole new level to them. Below is one on 21st Century Enlightenment. A really interesting talk on who we are and where we aspire to be. Even if you're not interested in the message, the illustration is beautiful, and well worth checking out.

Diner

It's been a while... well, about 8 years, since I drew a background. So I figured I'd give it a stab, just for the craic. Had no intention of tying it to the last drawing I posted, the waitress. But about half-way through, I noticed they tied together! Serendipidous!
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Waitress

Just something I threw together for something to do.
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The Amazing World of Gumball

This is a promo shot from the last big project I worked on, The Amazing World of Gumball. This project marked something of a departure from the last few years of work, as I took my first steps into the world of 3D animation. And the extra dimension sure did cause a bit of confusion in the early days! But I really enjoyed the work, and the show looks great. Really great. It'll be here in a few months, but as of now, this is all that can be revealed!

New Vimeo Page

Well, I've resurrected my Vimeo page for 2011. It's got some of the stuff I've posted on my youtube page already. Should have some new stuff coming very soon too. Anyway, linkage-

Peter Slattery Vimeo

Calling Cthulu... Cthulu to the front desk.

Pages from my notebooks... Part IV

And some more...

Pages from my notebooks... Part III

And another batch...

Pages from my notebooks... Part II

Some more pages...

Pages from my notebooks...

Decided as I haven't updated this thing in 13 months, I'd bombard it with images tonight. Nothing spectacular! Just some sketches and drawings from some of my notebooks. These go from about 3 years ago, right up to today.

Wedding Invitations

Done for two friends of mine getting married in October. Done with Photoshop and Flash.

And an animated logo

While I'm at it...

Logos

While I'm at it, may as well post some of the logos I've worked on over the last few months. Some more successful than others, but still, another string to the bow! Dunno why the HAPM one is coming up shades of orange. It's meant to be blue! I'll fix at a later date.

Lara and Shane

A friend of mine is making a book for her boyfriend for Christmas. She asked for a cartoon of herself and himself wearing crowns, backpacks and magnets on their feet...? I don't ask, I just obey the brief. And here it is!

Animation Showreel Lite

Here's the lite version of my showreel. Pared-down, cleaned up and streamlined. Because the other one was a little heavy...

Solar System

An expansion on the original Earth idea. Obviously it's not the complete Solar System. Only Neptune, Jupiter, Mars and Earth. But you get the general idea. Used CC Sphere, fractal noise, Trapcode Particular, CC Particle and other bits and bobs. Doesn't look great here, but in High def.... slightly better....

Earth Rotation

Something I whipped up in After Effects the other night. It uses CC Sphere, fractal noise and some other little tweaks and effects. Quite a spiffy result considering I just used a regular old map of the earth! Good old Video Copilot and it's array of wonderful tuts!

After Effects test

Been messing about with my favorite new program of all time, Adobe After Effects. Just arse-boxing around with Particle World, and following tutorials from the wonderful site, Video Copilot. Took a photo of a courtyard at the back of the Boulder Media building and applied some effects to it. God, how I love After Effects.

I'm on the nets!

My website's finally up and running. It's not much, just a portfolio, really. But it's a beginning, and shall be redesigned, reimagined and reposted in the future. For now though...


WWW.PETERSLATTERY.ORG

Something I'm working on

Dwarf

In progress...

The Bear And The Boy

Completed in 2003, this is an animated short I created as part of my final year in college. The backgrounds are kinda weak and the animation is... dodgy, but it's a complete film! It'd be a whole lot different if I'd known then what I know now!

...And my actual showreel

My showreel, containing animation from college and my first 4 years in the industry. Includes work from Cartoon Network's Forster's Home For Imaginary Friends, and Nickelodeon's El Tigre. Music by The Go! Team.

Showreel Titles

The end titles for my showreel. Created them using Adobe After Effects, a wonderful program I've been getting my head around recently. It really is a great program! For tutorials, check out Video Copilot.

Robot Bear expanded

Here's another quick sketch I did. Based on the robot design I did before, but a little less cartoony... for a robot bear!

Batman

Something I was messing about with t'other day. Mignola-inspired (thanks Jamie) Batman

Christmas Ad

Let me explain... every year, my clan gathers for a battle royale between the five families. This year, part of the competition was to produce an ad for mince meat using any medium we like. This, is my effort.

Lidia & Sam

Just a quick drawing I did in flash of my godson, Sam and his mommy, Lidia!

Boulder Blog entry #4- The Thinker

This is my uncolored entry for the latest Boulder Blog theme- Scangers. Scangers, for those of you who don't know what they are, are a subculture of charming young folk in Dublin. They can be recognised by their thin, whispy facial hair, blood-shot, half closed eyes and pale complexion. They are typically adorned in tribal colors of Celtic jerseys and baseball caps perched at a 45 degree angle, covering approx. half of their beached hair. Known for their valuable contribution to society, small groups of scangers can be seen wandering the streets with cans of Dutch Gold in their hands, pointing out the quirks and foibles of any passer by. When travelling in larger packs, scangers are known to have a sudden surge of patriotic pride, a pride that paradoxically results in the destruction of the country the 'love' so well.

Samuel L. Wright

This be my god sonny, Sam. Born on the 9th August this year, he came into the world an 11lb 11oz little monster! This be a little sketch I did of him the other day. Head's a little long compared to how it actually is, but for better or worse, this is him!

MASCOT PREP (2007)

Here's another short we worked on for the Disney Shorty McShort's Shorts program. This one, entitled Mascot Prep was completed in April... or was it May....?