The Art and Times of Jill Fogarty

Force

2012-01-28T08:21:00.001-08:00

JBDubs.

2012-01-23T16:38:00.001-08:00

For Tara's Drawing Jam. Love the song and the video!

Christmas Gift

2011-12-25T12:57:00.001-08:00

Something I made for my niece and nephew.

Backgrounds

2011-12-16T06:49:00.000-08:00

Here are my Backgrounds for my latest Animatic, "Fluffy".

Ballet Dancer

2011-12-15T20:38:00.001-08:00

Trying out Painting in Photoshop.

Final Animatic

2011-12-15T13:42:00.001-08:00

The Dig Animation

2011-12-14T16:15:00.000-08:00

My first 'completed' animation.

Rough Lip Sync

2011-12-14T16:07:00.001-08:00

Christopher Lee

2011-12-11T15:45:00.000-08:00

Another Drawing Jam.

Happy Holidays!

2011-12-09T18:20:00.000-08:00

For Tara's Drawing Jam... Lady Gaga in the style of Jem and the Holograms.

Name Animation

2011-11-28T11:11:00.000-08:00

I was inspired by Lotte Reiniger for the artwork and inspired by my friend Phil for the technique.
Done in Flash and After Effects.

Pencil Test

2011-11-26T11:12:00.001-08:00

A short pencil test.

Drawing Jams

2011-11-02T17:33:00.000-07:00

For Tara's Drawing Jam.

Montage Animatic

2011-11-02T10:58:00.000-07:00

Any constructive criticisms are welcome! =)

Creature Designs

2011-10-22T06:54:00.000-07:00

Our project was to take Human anatomy and mix it with two animals to get a new creature. My two animals were a cheetah and a peregrine falcon. Here is what I came up with.

Zombies

2011-10-02T10:54:00.000-07:00

School project in which we had to turn our model into a zombie using tracing paper and anatomy references.

Warp Pan- Coloured

2011-09-19T06:06:00.000-07:00

Done in Flash. A warp pan with organic shapes. It is a harpy statue with a frightening pool of water below.

Bear Design

2011-09-15T08:41:00.000-07:00

My character design for my Front on Run.

Warp Pan

2011-09-11T10:43:00.000-07:00

This is a warp pan from school last year. I will clean it up in Flash.

Market Pan- Painting

2011-08-07T18:39:00.001-07:00

From last school year.

Art Inspired by a Poem

2011-07-18T12:36:00.000-07:00

One of my first paintings done entirely in Photoshop. It was the first one of it's kind by me, anyway. I learned a lot from this experience.

I wanted a strong sense of envy so I used a lot of green. There is meant to be some contempt on the man's face.

Some of the colours are a bit off because it was done originally in CMYK for print. I changed it to RGB for web viewing.

Last Figure Drawing Assignments

2011-06-21T11:16:00.000-07:00

New Drawing Jams

2011-06-05T15:44:00.000-07:00

Drawing Jams! Cirque Du Soleil and Aishwarya Rai!

Edit: Adding a Samurai Jack- Bruce Lee to the bunch!

New Layout

2011-05-31T12:49:00.000-07:00

Layout for my Wild West heavy lift animation.

Character Design

2011-05-29T14:21:00.000-07:00

A character design for my next animation before revisions.

Drapery

2011-05-29T10:59:00.001-07:00

Working on Drapery in life drawing.

Flash Vids

2011-05-26T09:14:00.000-07:00

My submission for our class's Daisy Chain.

My pirate ship pan.

Four Legged Walk Cycle

2011-05-15T11:54:00.000-07:00

My first four-legged walk cycle. Lots of work. Harder than I thought it would be, but I enjoyed making it. It's a deer in case you weren't sure.

More Figures and a Finished BG painting

2011-05-14T08:35:00.000-07:00

This painting is done on two levels with acetate on top and in between the layers. They are only attached at the top. The figure drawings were done using indirect light.

Tonal Studies- Direct Light

2011-05-01T09:54:00.001-07:00

First Flash Animation

2011-04-28T12:37:00.001-07:00

Well, not my FIRST first, but the other one I did back in the day doesn't count. (Cause it was no good.)

16 Frame Run

2011-04-27T13:53:00.000-07:00

This is my most recent animation. I had a hard time starting out, but I'm happy with the results. I have a bunch more animations to upload. I'll get around to it!

New Semester, New Drawing Jam

2011-04-21T11:06:00.000-07:00

Done in Flash.

Animatic

2011-04-09T11:02:00.000-07:00

An animatic we had to do for class.

Landmarks

2011-04-08T14:39:00.000-07:00

Some 15 minute poses.

Drawing Jam

2011-04-04T10:55:00.000-07:00

Another Drawing Jam!!

Repeat Pan- Laboratory

2011-03-28T15:25:00.000-07:00

My first repeat Pan. I'm not as happy with this one as the market, but we drew it so that we can finish it off in Flash. I'm pretty excited about that!

Proportions Review

2011-03-19T13:32:00.001-07:00

Ten minute poses.

Market Pan

2011-03-06T17:55:00.000-08:00

Here is my Asian Market Pan before revisions.

Beware. It may be huge... but then when you're scrolling through, it'll be like it's intended to be for the screen! =D

Leg Muscles

2011-03-04T09:00:00.001-08:00

Jungle Layout

2011-02-23T17:57:00.000-08:00

Here's an updated Jungle Layout!

Muscle Torsos

2011-02-17T13:10:00.000-08:00

Here's our next figure drawing project. You can see some of his outside shape around the muscles.

Some Jams and a Marker Drawing

2011-02-09T19:15:00.000-08:00

A marker drawing done in my sketchbook.

Over at Tara's Drawing Jam we had to do the classic "25 Expressions" sheet.

And my personal favorite drawing jam so far, Freddie Mercury. =)

Layout

2011-02-07T15:26:00.000-08:00

Here is an update of my jungle layout... still before proper revisions.

This one on bottom was my first layout ever. I enjoyed working on it. I can't wait to get it painted!

Arm Muscles

2011-02-02T13:23:00.001-08:00

Same as the heads only arms and hands this time.

Gene Fowler Drawing Jam

2011-02-01T19:19:00.000-08:00

Here is a pen portrait of Gene Fowler I did the other day for Tara's drawing Jam. He came in to class to talk about starting an animation company. He was very informative! =)

Global Game Jam

2011-01-30T19:10:00.000-08:00

This piece is a concept painting I did in Photoshop for the background of our Game Jam Game.

This piece is the painting we actually used for the background. I animated the organs to all pulsate as well. Hopefully I'll be able to show it on here sometime. =)

The Game Jam was a lot of fun. We participated in the Jam at Loogaroo animation studio here in Miramichi. I got to work with some very talented people and I learned a lot. I can't wait for the next one!

Layout and Scan

2011-01-27T16:59:00.000-08:00

A layout before revisions and a scan of my cat.

Emily Hanes

2011-01-24T16:01:00.000-08:00

For the drawing jam over at Tara's drawing jam.

Muscle Heads

2011-01-20T12:51:00.000-08:00

We had to draw the muscles under the face... Spooky.

Kiss Drawing Jam

2011-01-08T15:59:00.000-08:00

A couple of drawing jams... the theme was Kiss. There was no chosen style, so I just tried to cartoonify them. I may print out some style refs for the next one.

Some Characters

2010-12-30T07:55:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple of super characters (hero and villain) that we had to do for Character Design.

I have been working on my skeletons since.

This One is for Craig

2010-12-27T08:49:00.001-08:00

Tangled

2010-12-26T11:31:00.001-08:00

I loved Tangled. I hope the new animation developments they made while making that movie will allow me to have more opportunities in the animation workforce. =)

Super Heroes

2010-12-26T09:35:00.000-08:00

A gift for a friend. Done in Photoshop CS3 with an Intuos3 Wacom Tablet.

Figure Drawing

2010-12-12T14:00:00.000-08:00

Some Illustrations

2010-12-09T10:06:00.000-08:00

Some scans out of my sketchbook.

This drawing is of "Star" from the first season of the show, "The Tester". I know most people didn't like her, but I thought she had a good attitude. So there.

More Drawing Jams

2010-11-20T10:37:00.000-08:00

The theme this time round is Labyrinth in the style of The Last Unicorn!!

Tara's Drawing Jam

Drawing Jams

2010-11-10T10:30:00.001-08:00

Camp Kids Revised

2010-11-09T08:11:00.001-08:00

I worked again on my camp kids. I'm also doing a head rotation of the oldest character. I will try to put it up here when I'm done.

Character Design

2010-10-31T16:07:00.000-07:00

Here are some character designs I worked on so far this semester. It's hard to do, but I'm having so much fun here.

Camp kids. They are underwater kids, the young ones are 8 and the older one is 13. She's trying to teach them how to make bubbles.

More from the Sketchbook

2010-10-24T09:27:00.000-07:00

^^ For Tara's drawing jam. White Stripes. ^^

Tara's drawing Jam

2010-10-02T15:40:00.000-07:00

Done for Tara's Drawing Jam for class.

Scans from my Sketchbook

2010-10-02T09:08:00.000-07:00

These are all scans from my Storyboard Class sketchbook. (Don't look at these til Oct.20th, Tara!)

They're all done with Touch brand markers. They were first sketched with col-erase pencil (blue or purple) and in some cases outlined with Faber-Castell fine markers. I used a bit of crayola marker and some other markers in some of them (like Pro-marker and Prismacolor)....

I feel like I'm getting a better hang of markers! These aren't in any order in particular. They were all done in the past couple of weeks except for the Tom Green one.

For most of them I used reference photos.

^^This is the Tom Green one, aka the oldest one in this post.^^

Kaysar

2010-09-25T17:23:00.000-07:00

Designed a character for Screenwriting class. Lots of room for improvement, which is great. =)

Drawing Jam

2010-09-19T17:40:00.001-07:00

Done for Tara's drawing jam! Desperate housewife in Invader Zim style...

First week

2010-09-12T15:36:00.000-07:00

Something I did for Tara's Drawing Jam. Tom Green in the style of Scott Pilgrim.

My first character design. Done from a description from a classmate and in the style of "Lilo and Stitch".

POST 100

2010-09-11T08:33:00.000-07:00

Well, so this is my 100th post. (EDIT JAN. 12, 2012 - This is no longer my 100th post due to some post deleting for cleaning purposes!) I figured since I just began animation school, that I would post all the things I've done before I started classes. These pieces were mostly done in Newfoundland. A lot were done during the 24 Hour Art Marathon in St. John's. I taught a workshop while I was there about artmaking and idea application. It went pretty well and I think people had fun. Enjoy!

This was made during Benjamin Allain's artist workshop. We had to draw on pre-made coffee spills. We drew what we saw in the spill. I saw an elk thing and some skulls.

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A fanart of one of the guys from the band "Hot Chip."

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This is a concept for an acrylic painting. I don't know if I'll ever get time to paint it, but I enjoy the watercolour sketches I did for it.

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This final image was done because I was listening to the song, "Here in My Room" by Incubus.

HAPPY 100th!

Now hopefully you'll see some serious improvement. Onward to Animation Classes!

The Legend of Korra

2010-07-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

I leave for a mini-trip to Miramichi tomorrow. I'm going to bring up some of my stuff (bed, dishes) to my new apartment! Yay!

I don't know if you've all heard about the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender TV Series--- The Legend of Korra. I AM SO EXCITED.

Here is a wee fanart of her doing some water bending. I scanned a sketch and did the cleanup/colouring in Flash. It turned out pretty good for the amount of practice I have with the program. Took a long time... But I'm happy with it! I can't wait to see what my skills will be like once I graduate school! EE!

Anyway... Enjoy!

Painting in PS

2010-07-22T18:06:00.001-07:00

I'm trying to improve my painting skills... So I thought I'd start off with something fairly easy- Cartoon face. I think I'm learning. =D I LOVE learning.

Mar markers

2010-07-22T14:36:00.000-07:00

Today I begin my vacation now that my shift is over. =) I am happy.

Markers

2010-07-16T16:28:00.000-07:00

I was working with markers again.

A Self Portrait. I love doing those, apparently.

More with the cheap markers. Dog lady.

Cleaning Up

2010-07-10T08:48:00.000-07:00

I decided to clear out my old deviantart gallery and delete it. The username was "Pingu6312" and had been "dead" for about 6 years. It was about time! Here are 4 pieces I saved. They were all done in 2003 when I was about 16-17.

I had a huge crush on a boy. This image was a result... done in watercolour pencils I do believe.

This was inspired by The Dark Crystal movie. Jim Henson and Brian Froud's creations are always fantastic.

This was back when I was seriously into Anthro art. I still kind of am deep down... I find I've really lost my knack for it though. I had started colouring digitally back then. I'm kind of sad I went to university in one TINY way, in that I didn't practice drawing or digitally colouring or anything like that that much. Lots of "high" art but not nearly enough drawing practice. I think that's the one thing I'd change if I could go back in time... practice more.

Was, and still am a huge LotR fan. Hehe My old gallery was filled with Lord of the Rings stuff.

Anyway, I better get back to watermarking my current artwork. Thanks for taking this trip with me down memory lane!

Funnyish story.

2010-07-06T15:25:00.000-07:00

I had this big plan today in which I would practice my markers and then practice my photoshopping. I started with marker... found out that there's a right and wrong side of the marker paper. I scanned in my drawing and my practice ended up being solely Photoshop oriented.

Katara and Aang.. adulty-ness. In some weird place. Yes.

Edit: I like it better without a background!

Bird Head Man

2010-07-04T11:43:00.000-07:00

Drew this at work today. Yep.

Practicepracticepractice

2010-07-04T11:11:00.001-07:00

My first piece using markers on actual marker paper. Wee fanart of Hitomi from Vision of Escaflowne. LOVE that anime.

Third try: Katara from the cartoon: Avatar- The Last Airbender. My current fav cartoon("anime?").

A Jelly. My second try with the makers on marker paper. I was trying out blending. It didn't work as well as I had hoped.

Random watercolour on crappy watercolour paper. I like the colours, though.

This was my latest work using markers. I really like it! Birds on a Wire.

And a lovely angry man that will belong to my bbfitww, Alicia! For her Birthday. <3 Or whatever holiday comes up. Haha.

A lot of perspective and a lady

2010-06-24T12:26:00.000-07:00

I have a hard time photographing my work due to hot spots. I don't have a setup that allows nice photos. I'm hoping I'll find a solution in September. Ideally- I'll find a GIANT scanner. *Drools*

Summer

2010-06-12T18:14:00.001-07:00

This was drawn with reference to a wonderful picture of my boyfriend and I... that's him. What a charmer.

A cartoon-y drawing loosely based off of a vimeo video lady. She was funny but I don't have a link. Sorry!

Today really felt like summer. =)

Digital Painting

2010-05-30T10:55:00.001-07:00

I'm trying yet again to paint some stuff using Photoshop CS3. Here is a weird creature looking at some rocks... Yes. I really need to work on backgrounds/background ideas and detail.

I am trying to work with colour as well... I need to start paying more attention to the colours I'm choosing, and not just doing what I think "fits" because... I am becoming dissatisfied with the results.

Robots Are Too...

2010-05-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

Really liked working on this one... <3 Will be for sale somewhere in NL.

Painting again

2010-05-15T09:22:00.000-07:00

I've been brooding for a long time about what to mail to NL to my PMU cohorts for a cafe feature thingy... so I've finally started painting. I'm going to mail them drawings and some portrait paintings. Exploring myself and my life.

Here is my first acrylic painting. (I've dabbled with them once before on some scrap canvas paper... haha)

Here is a WIP shot. I really need to take advantage of a sunny day, go outside and get some good shots of my larger pieces.

I'm really enjoying the medium. I just need to figure out/fix my earring. =P I miss oils though. I had them figured right through.

Perspective Class

2010-05-12T15:46:00.001-07:00

I'm taking a class in perspective. The first class went over 1 point and 2 point perspective. Our second class was "draw this hallway in 1 point." Here are the results of those lessons.

In the first class: He hauled out a giant cube (metal bars) and told us to draw it. Then halfway through he tossed on a pillow and told us to include that with some tonal study.

Here he showed us how to prop up our drawing boards, and we spent the next 2 and a half hours breaking our backs drawing the hallway in front of us in one point perspective. I'm learning a lot and starting to enjoy perspective. Crazy huh?

Apres Wisdom Teeth

2010-04-26T07:44:00.000-07:00

So I had my wisdom teeth out Friday, and I'm finally able to mentally tackle art again. I really wasn't feeling up to it til now, so here are some pieces I've worked on.

Opinions

2010-04-18T06:18:00.001-07:00

Some things I'm working on for a new series of paintings.

This is the design I'm settling on for my first painting. Any suggestions? I'm going with acrylic on a 16X20 canvas. (Store bought crap- I don't have the resources to build my own canvases right now =() For colours I'm thinking of mostly off-whites for all of them. This one will have a brown-y reddy tinge for the linework. Is any of this explanation making sense? Anyway, suggestions? Comments?

Also- This is from last week's drawing jam.

What I've been up to

2010-04-09T15:33:00.000-07:00

What does Diglett look like underground?

Some sketchies.

Watched some weird video with a horn-ed boy.

Tinyface lady.

Ever go slugging? Me neither.

Sketches and stuff

2010-04-04T06:20:00.000-07:00

I was working on a piece to do with a robot...

My DRAWING JAM image.

FISHGIRL

2010-04-02T06:55:00.001-07:00

Here is my fishgirl... and her bff- owl girl.

Asking opinions

2010-03-26T07:38:00.000-07:00

Hello! So I'm working on a new body of work. The concept is very freeing for me. Any media, any size. The only criteria is that the imagery comes from a snippet of a comic idea. Some plan that I've had that I've never gotten around to creating into a full length story- or even just a scene that I thought would be awesome, but don't know anything about the plot. The images are turning out to be mostly one- two panels. I'm going to use text when I feel like it. (Unlike how I felt it was taboo in Uni. I'm letting myself be a little more free.)

Here are some examples. I'm looking for any constructive feedback or any thoughts on what they might be of. Or maybe even a story that comes to mind? Any comments are MUCH APPRECIATED! Thank you!! <3

These two would be suspended by fishing line and connected by fishing line- with a space between of say- half an inch? I'm not sure if I want to attach the fishing line behind the images or through the corners. I would like to connect any other related images together in this way. Thoughts?

OH NOES ZOMBIE POOL PARTY!

Flying Girl

2010-03-20T11:05:00.000-07:00

Edit! Couple of sketches!

More practice with Photoshop. Used this image as a background reference.

It was done for the drawing jam! This week's theme is Dreams!

More digital Painting

2010-02-20T06:44:00.000-08:00

I tried to really get into the "painting" aspect for this piece. I think it's the farthest I've pushed the concept of paining in Photoshop so far. I feel like I'm starting to get on the track I'm looking for.

Still Photoshoppin

2010-02-19T06:56:00.000-08:00

I was practicing some fellas in Photoshop...

I read somewhere about an artist I love that she practiced a ton of little digital paintings. She didn't get into the big stuff until she was pretty good at the program. So I'm trying to follow her example!

Edit: An important (for me, I think) discovery from Drawn! is this Disney/Pixar fellow who has a whole slew of drawing videos... helping you to draw better gestures etc. I've only watched one, but it was amazing. I want whatever pens/paint pens/ink pens he has. THEY LOOK SO SMOOTH AND LOVELY!! He's Here. On YouTube. Watch and Adore.

Jammin and Dancin

2010-02-18T19:55:00.000-08:00

Here's my Jam post. Found at JAM!

Naked and Toothless

2010-02-16T11:39:00.000-08:00

Still thinking about it... Embarrassment, fear, falling, helpless. Like a bad dream!

Edit: Drew something else... Someone mentioned having antlers on Facebook...

Sharpies

2010-02-15T20:00:00.000-08:00

Here is a little somethin somethin I worked on today. I'm in a bit of an art slump.
Done with a fine tipped sharpie and my markers. (My art markers and my crayola. I don't discriminate.)
A character from our Graphic Novel.

Example

2010-02-13T16:07:00.000-08:00

Never thought I'd post something like this, but I thought it'd be a neat exercise for people wanting to draw more/wanting to learn anatomy... I go to www.posemaniacs.com and do 45second sketches all on top of each other. Just a huge mass of drawings. I find I learn a lot quickly, and it is a great warmup for my day. Whole thing took about 20 mins? Didn't really time myself.

Love for the Jam

2010-02-11T11:48:00.000-08:00

Here is my newest drawing for the jam! I tried to go with a much more tame look, also left most of the original sketchy lines instead of creating photoshop lines. Sometimes they look too "clean".

Posted at the jam HERE!

Fear

2010-02-09T08:31:00.000-08:00

So I had a trip to the oral surgeon today about my wisdom teeth. My appointment is confirmed for the end of April. That's fine. However, he told me that he's extracting ANOTHER tooth, my hidden canine. The one that's haunted my dreams since I was 12. The tooth that's embedded in the roof of my mouth. It will finally be gone, and not cause me any more problems! However, this means I will be missing one of my adult teeth. This also means that when my baby canine FINALLY decides to take a leap out of my mouth, I will have a gap. SURE there are falsies, but since I don't know anything about those, the thought terrifies me. Here is a watercolour of me without my baby tooth. Haha. FEAR!

Edit:
I was thinking more and more about missing teeth. I have never seen a business person with a missing tooth. I feel like missing teeth can depict poverty, for if one has the money, one will have great teeth. Dentistry is so expensive, but also such a huge priority. So unfortunate. I'm awful at expressing my innermost thoughts, so here is a sketchity sketch.

Kitty Girl

2010-02-08T09:41:00.000-08:00

Something I whipped up today. May make a story about her, someday. She's got spunk.

Navi Girl

2010-02-07T17:24:00.000-08:00

I sketched up an Avatar character tonight, and went to town colouring her. Thew in a background, and VOILA!

Acrylics

2010-02-07T08:57:00.000-08:00

I'm not a huge fan of acrylic painting. I prefer oils, or watercolours. I'm used to oils and watercolour, so I figured, "Hey, I'm going to try acrylics out FOR REAL and get to know them, and maybe, just maybe, I'll like them." SO I went out and bought acrylic paints and some cheap 'canvas paper'. Here is what I came up with. I ended up cutting the paper to a strange shape. I can't WAIT to get a nice scanner. Maybe I'll do that on Thursday...hmm.