A busy day in the capital.
This is a watercolour illustration, just extending on from drawings I have be sketching featuring bunnies. I would like to make more in this style, but I'll just have to wait and see.
(The colour and contrast is a little harsh on my monitor, it looks softer in real life.)
I made a lip sync for this months 11 second club. I didnt spend very long on the concept, I just wanted to get stuck in. Based the character on the business man from my film Colour Contamination.
Donkey has won best short animation at Darklight Film Festival!
It's so exciting :D
Here is a plushie and a related bonus sketch!
I forgot to post up this screenprint when I made it last year and today I was doodling something similar so I thought I'd post up the both of them.
I sent the two watercolour bunnies off in the post. I havn't forgotten my promise to have more giveaways but I had a crap-tastic cold last week and thats the excuse I'm sticking too...
I did these small watercolours recently and two are already gone (the photographer and the little one) and I have the two explorers left. SO. Giveaway.
The first two people to ask for them in the comments and to email me their address elbooga[at]gmail.com will get them in the post! It doesnt matter if you know me or you dont as long as you actually do want them.. Do you?
EDIT:
ok so I have the two names and addresses for the pictures and I'll send them out soon. Next week there shall be another giving-away-ness.
These are three high quality postcard prints of 'Lady at the Window', 'Lady with Umbrella' and 'Lady in the Snow' that I did back in January.
They are professionally printed on thin card and I really like the feel and the glossy finish of them.
They are available now in my Dawanda shop, separately or together.
Louise Bagnall - Showreel 2009 from Louise Bagnall on Vimeo.
This is my new short film, Donkey. Its about a donkey who is tired of his minimum wage job at the beach.
I have been working on it for pretty much the last year and it just premiered at Galway Film Fleadh last weekend. It got a really good reception which was great, I have been working so hard I forgot that it was actually entertaining :)
Anyway now its going to be entered into a lot more festivals around the world.
Here's a promo poster I did and below are some stills from the final film. I did most of the animation, Ciaran Duffy did the backgrounds and Eimhin McNamara did the colouring, comping, lighting and some animation too! This film was made at Barley Films.
That loveable tike. more zelda for ds please.
(note: i used no reference what-a-so-eva so I'm guessing there are inaccuracies)
Testing. more WIP that will probably amount to nothing.
I'm going to start using this blog to post sketches and works in progress as well as the finished stuff. So heres some bunny-centric sketches that have been building up on my desk.
This is a birthday card I drew a while back for a friend, (using a proper inky pen). Happy Bun-day :)
These are some designs and characters that I would like to develop, but for the moment I don't even have time to colour them.
I have started a project I'm calling cutscenes.
Its basically embroidered illustrations, using the texture and stitches as part of its appeal.
This is cut scenes of the morning birds I see on my way to work everyday.
If anyone has any advice on how to hang or frame embroidery pieces like this please let me know!
Linen and cotton mix with felt and embroidery thread.
I have been doing quite a bit of drawing lately and have found a new resource for reference; street fashion blogs! The're aces. Its much more interesting to reference real people's style rather then from images in magazine or catwalk.
heres a 3 that i found, but there is many many more.
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Draw straight down with a faber-castell multimark and coloured with pencils.
Another lady in the snow. More drawing, colouring pencil and photoshopery.
I find it a bit frustrating working in photoshop now, I think it would be easier doing it on a desktop instead of a laptop. Or maybe its just lack of practise.
Sorry to those who have to put up with my rants...
A quick sketch I drew and then did a bit of colour work to it in photoshop. Pretty simple but the first time in a while I have done anything with my sketches. I have a few more drawings of this lady that I'll post up in due course.
This is the poster from a short animation I directed recently called 'Colour Contamination'. It currently going out to festivals, but you can catch a glimpse of it in my new showreel. It about a buisness man who doesn't like colourful things.
My graduate from June 2007. I posted it up for the craic on aniboom and if it does well enough I might win something, but who knows.
I enjoy sketching mario and his brother. I think of Mario when he's not out fighting the baddies, but when he's on his break and a bit bored.
