www.alfiegallagher.com

 I've finally got round to a complete overhaul, redesign and recalibration over at my main site, www.alfiegallagher.com.

 

I wanted something that was trimmed down to the essentials and works smoothly across all screens and viewing devices so kept main elements centrally placed and dimensions to work snugly within tablet screens.

 

I wanted design elements, tabs, backgrounds etc. to work along with pre-existing branding-style design work I did. Initially I created the design below, a clean vector framework with a kaleidoscope of illustrated images all circling around my hand drawn 'AG' signature.

 

 

This was then carried through as a banner to be found on this blog and my Facebook page, incorporated into my Twitter account and also utilised in my business card designs.

 

 

I carried the neutral grey and faded framework design from the info side of the business cards across to the website as unimposing background elements which wouldn't override the actual work icons and samples.

Finally I have to give a massive thanks to cousin Dermot Cullen who had to carry out far too much massaging to the mangled Frankenstein coding and html page files I created and he also incorporated in the coding for the viewer application. Thanks Dermot!

Mirror - inks

Work in progress...

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Life Drawing 003

A struggle. Illustration can come down to utilising a personalised bag of bad habits. Life drawing is drawing what's in front of you.

Stage

 

I've just completed this piece incorporating pencil work, vector line work and a lot of Photoshop.

 

Originally, prior to colouring and adding vector elements such as the stars and anchor and ropes, I pieced all components together in greyscale.

 

 

When it came to overlaying the colour the colour I had to really hold myself back as I wanted a final look that would look like colours washed out with time and age or a look reminiscent of old hand tinted film footage with slightly garish colours such as emerald green and peachy red seeping through.

 

 

 

I'll have prints of this piece available when I'm attending MCM London Comic Con on the weekend of 25th-27th October.

 

Life Drawing 002

It's been far too long since I got the opportunity to do some life drawing. Every time I get a chance to do it I immediately recall how much I love it and to get back into it on a regular basis if possible.

Foolishly I attended this new class with nothing but large sheets of paper and pretty chunky charcoal only to find the drawing boards pretty small. I ended up trying to define small details with a glorified lump of coal. This in itself though was fun, as usually with illustration and comic work I'm using fine touch pencil lead so this is an opportunity to not be too precious and just enjoy the basics of mark making.

Sketchbook 013

Just back from a two week trip to Thailand.

Here's a number of sketchbook pages...