Be still, my beating art

Hi all!

Myself, Ciarán Duffy, Louise Bagnall, Matt Horan, Rachel Feury, Conal Kelleher, Éamonn O'Neill and Kieran Crowley were featured at a recent exhibition curated by Laura Venables, a former tutor of us all. I thought you guys might want to see some of the photos from the exhibition.

My figure stuff

My sketchbook stuff

Rachel's goodness

More Rachel tasties

Matt's gorgeous little things

And again! Such divine benevolence!

Eamonn's deadly drawings and designs

Ciarán's multiple image onslaught

Lovely lovely rats on the right side of this one.

Louise's bunnies and non bunnies. The big one is HUGE!

Unfortunately I didn't get any good photos of Conall's and Kieran C's stuff the day before the show, but there's loads of stuff to enjoy on their blogs!!


As well as our illustration and figure drawing work, we also screened some of our animation and video work. Here is a full list of the screening programme:

1. My Day - Eamonn O'Neill 2008
2. The Rooster the Crocodile and the Night Sky - Pádraig Fagan with Eimhin McNamara 2008
3. Donkey - Louise Bagnall with Ciaran Duffy 2009
4. On the Quiet - Eamonn O'Neill 2009
5. Untitled excerpts - Eimhin McNamara 2009
6. Morningbird - Eamonn O'Neill 2010
7. Font - Eimhin McNamara 2010
8. Odd little things - Ciaran Duffy 2011
9. Isaac the Alchemist animation test - Eimhin McNamara 2011
10. I'm fine thanks - Eamonn O'Neill 2011
11. Cecelia and her selfhood - Eimhin McNamara with Adrien Merigeau 2011
12. Twitch - Ciaran Duffy 2012

Another little morsel from Rachel

Ciarán's book "Ink animals" was also on display for the opening night. BUY HERE

What would an exhibition be without our own very wizard, Grand Vizier Ryder.

"BUT WHAT COULD IT MEAN?"

Head of School Donald Taylor Black, looking as intense as ever.

My mother catered the event. Many many multi-coloured cupcakes.

Louise and Ciarán made a surprise visit

Watching "Cecelia and her selfhood" which I worked on with Adrien Merigeau

The lady of the hour Laura

WAIT A MINUTE IS THAT ÉAMONN HERE!

Leroy approved of the show too, most importantly.

Unfortunately do to conflicts with scheduling we have had to forego the continuation of the show into next week, so Saturday was the last day. If any one would be interested in purchasing the prints from the show, they can contact the respective artists for a quote.

Thanks for listening/looking!

Eimhin 

Life drawing at the Drawing Project 08-03-2012

Managed to get a little bit more done at yesterday's class, and even made one drawing that bears a passing resemblance to the model, Niall, a fellow animator who also teaches life drawing, both in Ireland and abroad on the continent.

I primarily used a wee refillable brush pen thing that I got in Annecy years ago but never used. I like the range from fine line to broad stroke you can get, may use it a little in the next class too.

Here are the drawings in chronological order:

likeness

 For a part of tonight's class we produced sequential drawings, breaking an action into 3 poses; beginning, middle, and end.

First sequential drawing, wanted to concentrate on the face for this one mainly

I next attempted to draw the poses one on top of another, as you might do when onion skinning animation.

(failed first pose of the sequential above, distance between shoulder and hip is all kinds of wrong.)

I then did my usual sugar paper pastelly stuff.

All drawings are for sale. Email me if your interested and I can give you a quote: eimhinmcnamara@gmail.com

Life Drawing Experiments

A series of videos made using my students drawings:



First I set them up encircling the model, evenly spaced, so that the rotation rate would not be too jittery. Each frame is made up of a drawing which would have taken between 10-20 minute to create, using a mixture of charcoal, pastels or whatever else is at hand, so for one person to just create the drawings would take about 5 hours, so the model would probably not survive.



I then photographed each drawing, working my way around the room in sequence, so I could keep track of the order of the drawings and how they are placed in the 360 degree view of the model.



After cleaning up the images a little digitally I then brought them into Aftereffects and lined up any points of reference in the drawing, using a vertical line going (usually) straight through the middle of the head, as the locus of rotation.



By piecing them together, we can see the consistency in the pose over the multiple drawings, what people concentrate on, what is on the periphery. The interesting thing is that even though many of the drawings are quite radically different, in proportions, tone, and colour, our eyes still prefer to view the similarities rather than the differences, and the sequence of drawings feels like one rotating pose.
A video by Aoife Balfe got me thinking about doing something like this a while back: vimeo.com/user5046445

Though attributing a drawing to each person is kind of tricky here is a full list of the Production Design for Stage and Screen Students which participated in these classes:

Make Up Design:
Sarah Butler, James Christie, Amy Connolly, Ruth Curran, Caoimhe Duignan,
Helen McGinty, Ashley O'Sheehan, Marie Sweeney, Hazel Williams

Costume Design:
Molly Burns, Claire Collins, Connor Dalton, Alexandra Delaney, Audra Levinskaite,
Emma Loughlin, Niamh Ryan, Sophie Shannon, Sinéad Smith, Caoimhe Smullen

Production Design:
Chiara Byrne, Victoria Carney, Niamh Devitt, Nicole Kelly, Emily Mahon,
Fiona Patten, Brian Phelan, Gary Monahan, , Nicola Ryan


Special thanks:Martin Marley, Mark Joyce, Laura Venables, Keith Foran,
and the Production Design for Stage and Screen 1st years!


Made with the participation of:
the Drawing Project Dún Laoghaire and the National Film School @ IADT