Image for my Lisa Hannigan post on The Round Table
It’s just a quick sketch with some paint-splatter layers and glows added to emulate her album cover (and Knots video). Check her out here http://www.lisahannigan.ie/
Standing In Front of You
Inspired by the beautiful track of the same name http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Zu7Aop684 by Kelly Clarkson and Aben Eubanks.
Christina Perri, The Olympia Theatre & lots of screaming teens.
My latest review for The Round Table went live earlier today… Here’s the linkage http://www.theroundtableonline.com/2012/01/trt-reviews-christina-perri-at-the-olympia-theatre-dublin-ireland/
I reused an old piece by just moving some layers and rotating the figure. It was based on Perri’s album and I quite liked it so any excuse to trot it out again I guess 
Here’s the original in my deviant art gallery http://Neale.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=48#/d3h3zol
Haywire
Just a quick pencil sketch before bedtime… (contrast fixed & paper texture added in Photoshop)
‘Haywire’ star Gina Carano
Colourblind, But By No Means Deaf
…see what I did there? Anyway, this is my illustration for my second ‘The Round Table Online’ post. Link http://www.theroundtableonline.com/2012/01/trt-reviews-bressie-aka-niall-breslins-colourblind-stereo/
Read All About It
Starting something new, reviews with illustrations of the artists. First up is Emeli Sandé 
Big thanks to JV at TRT for asking me to contribute… Here’s the link… http://www.theroundtableonline.com/2012/01/introducing-emeli-sande-the-next-great-soul-singer/#more-12298
Eat Yourself Happy
My submission for this month’s Collective Thinking.
They may not wear spandex, but don’t let that fool you. Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald are as evil as they come.
I’ve always been quite vocal about my hatred of fast food places, partly because of their treatment of animals, but mainly because their products are almost entirely devoid of nutrients. That’s fine if you’re the sort of person who mainly indulges in a Big Mac or a bucket of chicken tenders after a night out, or once in a blue moon, but less so if you’re a ‘parent’ who feeds their kids there multiple times a week.
I think fast food represents two of the seven deadly sins, Sloth and Gluttony. One ’cause you’re too lazy to cook something decent, the other ’cause the ‘food’ is rarely filling so you’ve to eat a bucket-load to feel satisfied (or sick, in my case)
A Long Time Coming
I’ve been meaning to draw Lisbeth Salander since I started reading the first book in this trilogy back in ’09 (during my Air Canada debacle funnily enough) but nothing I’ve done has sat right with me. After watching Fincher’s movie adaptation though I was inspired to get my pencil out and this happened. It’s not meant to be the leads from either movie version specifically, more of an amalgamation of the two. Personally I prefer Noomi Rapace over Rooney Mara, but she could be edging it due to simple chronology.
Stronger
I was going to redraw this digitally and colour it but I kinda like the line-art as is so I just scanned it properly and messed about with some textures. Given the section of the video that it was inspired by I stuck to metals and various layer options. I think the only other version I’d like to try would be a proper digital painting but I’m going to wait ’till I’ve taken a class before attempting that
