...and theres more.

"A Sunday ride out"

"Unicorn and the beautiflys"

This style is becoming quite adictive for me. I really enjoy doing them and they don't take that long to do. I awoke this morning at 6:45 (I know, not right on a Sunday) bright eyed and bushy tailed and got on with colouring these two. All I need to do now is get them printed and framed. If any body is interested in having a fully framed print please let me know. These will be going for about £10 (when framed) and £5 (unframed).

Anywho I shall be keeping thee posted about how I get on with them. :) Happy Sunday!

Some new illustrations

"The Foxy Gentleman"

"Lady Bird"

Just a mini update to show that I am still doing some arty bits here and there whilst working full time. These two will be framed to be sold. I was aiming to target little tea shops. I have bought some little white frames with a lovely old style border around an oval frame. York has many lovely little victorian style tea rooms and with a bit of luck some nice little place will want to purchase one of these beauties.

I shall be posting more soon... just need to colour the others. I will also post photos of these in their frames ready to be sold :)

"Domhain Aisling" Coloured

My strange dream world is now fully coloured and looking a bit prettier, it took about 5 hours... The title of the piece "Domhain Aisling" is irish for dream land... or something to that effect.
It has been a while since I have updated about my progress within the working world and also my quest to find work related to my chosen career. Unfortunately it is still apply, apply, apply and rejection, rejection, rejection. But I have a feeling it could be this way for a good few years. One day!

Anywho, I feel like my colouring skills are improving. When I did art at school I used to get so fed up with colouring because of how long it took. I am learning to be patient with longer pieces and I confess I am starting to enjoy doing it.

Without further ado here is my latest addition to my illustrative portfolio.

Ink sketch...

It has been a real challenge trying to keep on top of my animation and illustrative work as well as holding onto a full time job. I have applied to many illustration agencies for represenation, unfortunatley I have not been lucky at this time. I am trying to stay positive. It is hard to believe it has been a whole month since graduation, feels like a lifetime ago already. My weekends have become my creative days! This is what I knocked out over last weekend.

I am in the process of adding colour to this one. It is based on a very strange dream I had, it was a shame to wake up really, pleanty of flying around the place!

Onwards and upwards... I hope.

Granny's Gun Lip sync test

Well well well.... long time no post. I graduated from Staffordshire University on Friday 13th of July then promptly started a job the following Monday. I am greatful to be working even if it is not animation related. Money is Money. But because my new job is full time and long hours it has been a challenge to find the energy to stay creative. Weekends are just about the only time I have to persue my animation and illustration work. This weekend I was inspired by an elderly woman I saw on the bus on my way to work. She was very small and very softly spoken. I could not imagine her hurting a fly. So I came up with this piece of showing a sweet granny dealing with hooligans! It is a bit rough as I only have the basic tools to create minimations... literally paper, pen, lightbox, scanner, premiere. What more does one need. Anyway it has been a while, just needed to warm up the old animating muscles.

Enjoy!

 
Granny's Gun from Chloe Howley on Vimeo.

Serenading the man from the BBC

The Water is wide cover from Chloe Howley on Vimeo.

On Wednesday I attended "Top club" with my dad in Doncaster. It is owned by Madeline and Mark Smith, mother and father of actress Sheridan Smith. My dad regularly plays at their open mic night, I went to the evening to meet my dad's friend Howard who has done work for the BBC. He had heard that I am graduating this year and said he would meet me, he was kind enough to give me some tips on how to break into the industry. He shall be forwarding me some useful contacts soon which should be helpful.

After chatting about how difficult it is to get into the media industry, I was asked to perform a song. I was really nervous as it has been a long while since I have sang anything. But I managed to give it a go after a couple of G and T's! The video above is a cover of the song I did "The Water is Wide".

At the moment it's pretty much just pestering and making contacts with as many relevant people as I can. On a side note I may have some work experience in my good friend Lee Hutchinson's recording studio (BH media). Maybe he will auto tune some of my songs and make them better!

Tutor Character illustrations

Here are the mini illustrations I did of my University tutors as a thank you (I also gave them some choccies too! Incase they didn't like my interpretation of them). I can not believe how fast the last three years have gone. And sorry if this sounds soppy... but I will miss everyone, I have met some fantastic people and made some incredible friends. It is almost my time to venture out into the big, scary wide world!

 Daryl giving me a good telling off! I know he doesn't really mind me doing 2D in my final year!

 Laura Weston...The lady who introduced me to blogging. Thanks to her I now plaster my work all over this blog. Thanks for all the advice Laura, your wisdom shall be ringing in my ears for years to come!

And finally dear Adrian with a lovely set of wings! You mad man you!