2 granddads

little illustration for a small job...

I've put more pictures on a seakayaking pictures blog.

See links

" I'm laughing..."

"Galway Girl"

Clean and first rough version.
First rough seems to better...(as usual)

Granny on prozac

old skribble

Found this old sketch I made of my son Robin, cuddling Sonic.

cork fisherman doodle

Castletownshend

I know, I'm supposed to post drawings here..
But here are a few pictures from the village I recently moved to first.

I love this place. It's called "Sandy Cove" just outside the village of Castletownshend.

St. Barrahane's Church next door.

Flashy Pirate

Oh...NO WAIT!

This one cracks me up every time

a bit of rain down in Kerry

Telephone doodles

Future selfportrait

Go on my son!

Run until you loose the colour in your arms and legs..?

Got a bit bored with boarding.

decided to do a very quick runcycle. AARRGGH!

BZZZZZ...

Lugnaquillia Mountain

Last sunday was the first warm day of the year and I decided to check out the area where we recently moved to, and take the dogs for a walk in the hills on the edge of the Wicklow Mountains.
I planned only to walk up the first hill with the dogs, look around, lie in the grass and chill out a bit. I should have checked the map of course as it turned out to be the actual slope of the mountain.
Once I realized this I din't want to turn 'round and continued up till a few hundred meters past this point on the picture.
There were whole groups of hikers passing me by fully equiped with everything, including food...and drinks... I didn't climb up all to the top 'cause I hadn't brought any food or drinks and my legs got a bit shaky and because I'm an idiot.
Luckily Ipassed a nice hiker called Damien who was just having a brake and he offered me some of his Lucozade sports drink and some yellies. It gave me just enough energy to make it back down again. I keep doing these stupid things..
Anyway, it was great and I will surely go back very soon

A bit of SKUNKFU!

This a storyboard animatic comparison.

COPYWRIGHT CARTOON SALOON

I gave this old rough sketch some colour.

I designed this beaver and toucan in the hope I could sell them to the

german telivision channel Kinder Kanal in '98 when they wanted 2 new logo animals for their program.

I never heard of them of course.

Anyway, after 9 years I decided to put them into a forest setting.

My girlfriend, who is also a 2D compositor thinks it

doesn't work 'cause the composition is way too messy.

She's probably right. I've posted it anyway.

New addition to the donkey clan at our place.

fishingboat tucked away on the shore of the river Nore in the forest south of Inistioge

"Skinny horse in front of car wreck"

Fat Billy

Scrooge

Kerry

Killarney national park.

The inland of the Iveragh peninsula, Kerry.

I've put most of my irish landscape pictures on a new blog.

You can check them out on wwwirelandphotos.blogspot.com

On the linklist it's called my landscape photo blog.

Nice doggie

Here's a scotch terrier. A brave little bastarrd.Cheerrs!

It's a beautiful day

eddy again..

Seems like eddy can't be watched in the larger version in the previous post. So here he is one more time plus some extra piggies.

old stuff 2

I haven't had much time lately to sketch new stuff, but I did find some old stuff that I quite liked and hadn't seen for ages.
(Above)These are a few concept sketches for a shortfilm I wanted to make since '97 about a bunch of pigs escaping from a truck on its way to the slaughter house.

And this is a very old doodle of a rapper.

old stuff

these are some very old rough character designs I made for a german animation feature called "The Little Polar Bear" about 8 years ago

little french fella

Here's a doodle of a little french fella. it's about 12 years old

'Ello!

without glasses..

Ha Chi

some darkness

I know, I allready postet this trol some time ago, but I just felt that he deserved some darkness

Some irish wilderness

Here are some pictures of Lough Coumshingaun, a very beautiful glacierlake in the Comeragh Mountains.

For more info check out http://www.dlscouts.ie/comeraghs.html

Harry Vetklep

Ragnar

first pencil sketch of an evil vikingchief.

Hidden boat

Sheep

Early this morning I went for a walk with the dogs in the Blackstairs Mountains not far from where I live.

Where ever you look is a great view... and sheep.

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bad boy

bad dog

bad men

business man

He looks a bit like Danny Devito, doesn't he?
Anyway, I like Dany Devito

some more Irish landscape pictures

looking down while climbing up to lake Coumshingaun in the Comeragh Mountains.

Climbing up a stream at lake doon at the Connor Pass on the Dingle peninsula

Walking on the "plateau" of the Comeragh Mountains.

Climbing up at lake Coumshingaun in the Comeragh Mountains.

A small ruin on the slope of Mount Leinster in the Blackstairs Mountains, county Carlow

Climbing up to the glacier lake "Coumshingaun Lough" in the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford in the south east of Ireland.


My friend Gordon walkink up ahead with my two dogs at Loch an Pheadleara( Lake Doon) at the Connor Pass on the Dingle Peninsula.

nice dwarf..

little girl

There are lots of little kittens at the moment.
We've got 2 who will probably get a new home this saturday.
Another person I know has 14. Quite often If people don't know what to do with them here in Ireland, they have them put to sleep by the vet...

Aged centaur

vegetarian barbeque

I was at a vegetarian barbeque two weeks ago hostet by my friend Ross Stewart(leaning against the wall on the left talking with Tom who just finished his feature debut as a director on "Brendan and the book of Kells", a wonderful animationfilm you must see when it comes out. Ross was the art director on it and has gone back to painting and burning beanburgers). Sitting on the couch are on the left my very good canadian/scottisch friend Gordon Mc Bride( storyboardartist and layout supervisor on "Skunkfu!") in the middle Ross's brother Mark and on the right Nils The systemadministrator at the Cartoonsaloon.

Right, now, spot the vegetarian in this picture.

beach in Killadoon on the westcoast in county Mayo

a nice morning

A picture that took in the fields at the foot of Mount Leinster(Blackstair Mountains) when I was walking the dogs. After a rotten summer, september is great.

Okay Jean Paul , this one is specially for you again, a bit bigger

A doodle

I checked out county Mayo in the west of Ireland last weekend. It rained alot, but what a great beach this was!
Keel beach on Achill island.

Yo!.. Just coming back from lunch..in the foodcourt of Jervis centre here in Dublin..

some more old stuff to keep you bored

Sonic at a small waterfall at Kilfarrasy beach

My 2 dogs on a rock at Annestown beach

Looking through rocks at Kilfarrasy beach

A trol...why?..no idea

My son, Robin, exploring Curacloebeach, last summer.

Ancora Jetzt Digital

A still from a cinemacommercial that I made in 2004 in Munich.

Okay here it is. It's in german of course...

It's a commercial made for a company( called Ancora) who sells commercial time in quite a few cinema's in the south of Germany. It tells how complex making commercial changes were in the old analoge cinema's and how easy it is in the new digital (Ancora)cinema's. blablabla..Quite abstract. a bit weird to make a commercial about that.

some old sketches

The sweetest dog in the world: SONIC

Just after sunset at the river Barrow near Borris

cliffs near Dunmore east

more old stuff..

old stuff that I still like

A very old character-sketch.

Looking into the old orchard/field from our garden

Baby donkey from last year. There are new ones already, but haven't nade pictures yet

There quite a few donkeys in the grounds.

An old churchruion on the grounds of Shankill castle.

Shankill castle grounds in the morning.
It's great to live here

Shankill castle.

Ballydowane cove near stradbally, co. Waterford

This is one of my favorite places to go for a walk with the dogs: Kilfarrasybeach near Tramore.

Annestown beach on the left. Walking and climbimbing over the rocks twds the left will bring you onto a large desolate beach. You need a local tide booklet though, available at Dingley's shop in Dunmore east, because you can't walk around once the tide comes back in. In thatcase you must climb up a cliffpath.

Walking on Kilfarrasybeach.

Low tide at Kilfarrasybeach, near Tramore, county Waterford.

Walking here is an awesome experience.

I live here!

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