Spring Time (2012)

Spring Time from Janette Monahan on Vimeo.

My graduation film from BCFE. I created it using a mix of hand drawn 2D and 3D animation. A young girl has trouble sleeping made worse with the appearance of a loose bed spring.

Saoirse

Saoirse is a children's book I worked on in aid of the charity Aiobheann's Pink Tie. The series, of which there are currently two in an ongoing series are written by Mick Rochford tells the story of a fairy who is on the search for magical gold hearts and the adventures she finds along the way.

I created designs for the characters and Illustrated the first book with help from Dillon Maxwell, The Second book was illustrated by Lucy Toner.

Both books are available on kindle (click images for links).

 

These are some of my images from the first book

 

Below are some concept sketches for the characters.

             Saoirse                                     Teegan

Alden

Alden's Mother

 Draft sketches for one of the pages

Spring 2013 Gesture drawings 2

More drawings from Nialls' gesture life drawing classes the poses ranged between 1 and 3 minutes. I mainly used graphite and charcoal but for poses longer than that I switched to oil pastels.

Spring 2013 Gesture drawings 1

During February and March I did another gesture drawing class with Niall Laverty. The poses shown ranged ranged between 1 minute to 3 minutes.