steve doogan

New linocut

2011-12-05T13:28:00.001Z

Recent doodles

2011-10-06T16:22:00.002+01:00

Some recent doodles.

2011-09-26T13:22:00.001+01:00

Chekhov etching, used in Abbey Theatre poster.

Etching

2011-09-09T15:25:00.001+01:00

Some cartoon kids what I did once

2011-05-18T12:05:00.003+01:00

These were done years ago and I just rediscovered them when I was cleaning out the Mac. The campaign they were done for didn't go ahead, but I quite like them anyway.

Storyboards

2011-05-11T14:13:00.001+01:00

This is what I do most of the time - storyboards and visuals for advertising. These were all for various Bank of Ireland rugby campaigns over the last year.

Cornerstone magazine cover

2011-05-09T13:38:00.000+01:00

Irish language poster

2011-04-26T16:19:00.002+01:00

Those dashing young men Conor and David asked me to do an illustration for a series of Irish language poetry posters for use in schools. Here's the English translation:

A minute in the morning

A smell of ironing
this morning in the apartment
on Hanover Quay
You standing there at the table
ironing
your clean shirt
for an appointment in work
and me looking at you.

The iron moves slowly
over the clothes,
removing every wrinkle.

I hope that things between us will be
as smooth as that, my precious.

New drawings

2011-03-31T14:06:00.001+01:00

These were dome a few months ago, just drawing to see where it would take me. It ground to a halt, but maybe I'll pick it up again.

Old heads

2011-03-29T12:28:00.000+01:00

An old etching of some old heads.

Heart

2011-03-29T12:24:00.001+01:00

The Small Print's review of 2010

2011-01-17T15:07:00.002Z

I was delighted to appear in The Small Print's roundup of 2010. I may have to get Renaissance Man printed up on a t-shirt now...

Roisin's chair

2010-12-13T16:19:00.002Z

I painted this chair for my daughter back in August for her second birthday. There are some pictures on the underside too, but they're secret ones for her.

Red shoed reindeer

2010-12-10T11:53:00.000Z

Leaf bird

2010-12-10T11:49:00.000Z

Found just outside my front door yesterday.

Wise Women

2010-12-02T17:35:00.002Z

I was asked by the nice people at The Gloss magazine to make an illustration for a piece about women's mentors, the influential spiritual/emotional figures in a woman's life. The melon makes sense when you read the article...

ICAD book 2010 Pt 2

2010-11-08T15:39:00.000Z

ICAD book 2010 Pt 1

2010-11-08T15:34:00.001Z

I was invited to make illustrations for the ICAD 2010 book. Here are a few for the various subject headings: advertising print, design, TV, Directory, and the Upstarts section.

ICAD judges 1

2010-11-04T13:34:00.001Z

I recently did a load of ink portraits and drawings for the ICAD book (The Institute of Creative Advertising & Design). Here's a few.

ICAD judges 2

2010-11-04T13:32:00.001Z

Shehorse

2010-10-26T15:51:00.000+01:00

A miniature etching, 35mm tall.

Pumpkin art

2010-10-26T14:54:00.000+01:00

Burning Dog at Laundry

2010-09-30T17:03:00.001+01:00

My other Laundry piece (yes, I put in two pieces. Sue me).

Laundry etching 1

2010-09-23T13:06:00.001+01:00

I considered using this as my Laundry piece, but did a linocut instead that I'll post after the show. This is about my youthful pyromaniac tendencies.

Laundry looms

2010-09-23T13:00:00.002+01:00

I've been organising a big group show here in South Studios, it opens for one night this Wednesday 29th. 70 creatives from illustration, design and photography have made an A1 sized work on the theme of "airing your dirty laundry". Some lovely work in already. Looks like being a cracking show.

Package

2010-09-17T17:38:00.001+01:00

September etching 1

2010-09-16T10:09:00.000+01:00

Pyromaniac

2010-09-07T13:26:00.000+01:00

2010-08-18T12:21:00.001+01:00

Cover image for Cornerstone magazine.

Google duck

2010-08-18T12:19:00.002+01:00

Part of a recent piece for Red Dog design, a Google press advert.

My new website!

2010-07-20T16:42:00.002+01:00

Go to www.doogan.ie

Recent etched portrait

2010-06-11T13:10:00.000+01:00

Offshoot

2010-06-06T16:24:00.001+01:00

I'll be giving a 45 minute talk this coming Thursday about my work. Let's hope I get to go on first this time!

Pecha Kucha

2010-06-01T12:15:00.000+01:00

Drawers on Flickr

2010-04-01T15:38:00.002+01:00

http://www.society6.com/studio/stevedoogan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64092812@N00/sets/72157623740722708/

Drawers at South Studios

2010-03-22T14:02:00.001Z

I've been organising this show for the last month, and I can't wait for it to happen. We'll have 26 illustrators, designers, architects, photographers and a fashion stylist each working on their own small chest of drawers, customising it in their own style. It's going to be an amazing show, just from the few things I've seen so far. I still haven't decided what to do for mine. I'll be working on the day of the show with the 12 other illustrators who will be making their pieces from scratch. It's only on for one night, so try to get down if you can. We'll be posting photos of all the chest on Flickr when it's done.

Drawers tests

2010-03-18T13:59:00.001Z

We're having a show of customised chests of drawers next Friday, here at South Studios. Here's a couple of ideas I had, worked up in Photoshop.

Bank of Ireland campaign

2010-02-25T13:50:00.001Z

You can see this currently in all Bank of Ireland branches - on posters, leaflets, even piggy banks. Medium: Photoshop.

David Caldwell

2010-02-05T08:52:00.000Z

An etched portrait of a painter friend.

New York subway sketches

2010-02-03T14:37:00.002Z

Tumblers

2010-01-24T18:00:00.000Z

Victorians

2009-12-29T18:06:00.000Z

Some linos

2009-12-29T17:47:00.001Z

Woofer

2009-11-20T15:54:00.001Z

Peepshow at Monster Truck

2009-11-10T13:10:00.001Z

My entry for Peepshow, an exhibition of erotic art at Monster Truck Gallery. Etching, 16 x 20cm.

Wrestler

2009-11-06T12:43:00.001Z

Been hitting the lino lately. It's much faster to complete now that I have the etching press.

Breast Health awareness leaflet

2009-10-28T13:30:00.001Z

Monoprints for Kubrick show

2009-09-10T18:10:00.004+01:00

A couple of monoprints made for a show in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield. I'll only be showing the top one.

The Black Sketchbook

2009-09-03T16:03:00.002+01:00

Absolut Original embroidery

2009-09-03T00:45:00.003+01:00

Now showing in town here:

The Red Sketchbook

2009-09-02T12:21:00.003+01:00

I travelled around the world for ten months in 2005. I kept a few sketchbooks of the trip, making portraits of some of the people I met. Approaching people in parks, on trains and trams, people in bars, people I was teaching English to, fellow travelers, it wasn't hard to get people to sit for a while. This is one of the books I kept, an Indian pad of handmade paper.

Duchess

2009-07-27T10:06:00.000+01:00

Guinness beermats

2009-07-25T14:31:00.001+01:00

I painted 33 Irish pubs for this Guinness beermat campaign. That's a LOT of painting...

Vampires

2009-07-24T16:39:00.001+01:00

Frankenstein, Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker

2009-07-20T12:08:00.003+01:00

Polidori

2009-07-16T17:16:00.003+01:00

Alice and the Hatter

2009-06-30T14:29:00.002+01:00

Monoprints 2

2009-06-22T12:35:00.002+01:00

monoprints

2009-06-17T18:43:00.003+01:00

Petria

2009-05-28T00:17:00.001+01:00

January etchings

2009-01-27T11:21:00.005Z

Bob and Bob

2008-12-03T15:34:00.000Z

Jimi

2008-11-20T17:55:00.000Z

Monkey batman

2008-11-20T17:46:00.000Z

Cambodian etching

2008-11-07T14:51:00.002Z

New etching

2008-11-05T14:02:00.000Z

First hard ground etchings

2008-10-22T17:36:00.004+01:00

Etchings

2008-10-07T13:08:00.010+01:00

War artist

2008-09-22T15:41:00.006+01:00

These were for a recent pitch that never happened. Sometimes being an illustrator feels like being in World War One: you're asked to go way over the top, only to get shot down.

Boom boom.

Linocuts

2008-06-26T19:34:00.002+01:00

Candy Karaoke

2008-06-04T15:59:00.000+01:00

Brown paper sketches 3

2008-04-20T21:01:00.005+01:00

In progress

2008-04-19T20:59:00.004+01:00

Brown paper sketches

2008-04-16T23:19:00.005+01:00

I spent the evening drawing these: each is about five foot tall. Nice to go large again.

Oddness

2008-04-11T19:02:00.002+01:00

Sweeney Among The Nightingales

2008-04-09T19:30:00.009+01:00

The previous Menagerie image reminded a friend of the character Sweeney, of Irish folk tale fame, which then reminded me of Sweeney Among The Nightingales by TS Eliot. The description of animal markings fitted nicely with my first sketch, so I thought it would be fun to flesh him out a little.

"Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees
Letting his arms hang down to laugh,
The zebra stripes along his jaw
Swelling to maculate giraffe."

Sketchbook project

2008-04-07T10:55:00.007+01:00

This is my first entry for one of a series of sketchbooks that I've sent to 36 illustrators around Ireland. So far I've just been managing the project, but now I get to join in! It's a simple idea: ten sketchpads, each with a different theme, circulating by mail amongst the group. Each book comes with stamps and addresses: you receive it, make your entry and post it on to the next person. We're hoping it'll build into something quite nice at the end, even if only a small show and a glass of wine. Unfortunately three books have already gone missing - but that's the risk you take with this kind of project. Anyway, we have some extremely talented people contributing, so I have high hopes for it. Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/64092812@N00/ to view the work so far.

Oh screw it

2008-04-04T12:56:00.006+01:00

I've been so bored with my recent advertising work that I decided to throw up some sketches that I had just a little bit of fun doing. It's funny how quickly a blog that sets out to be an honest dumping ground for whatever you might be playing with soon turns into a very dull place indeed. These doodles may not reflect any great skill, but they would be a better indication of how I'd like to work for a while. I'll bang some more up as they appear.

The day job

2007-12-11T17:33:00.000Z

Here's some random storyboard frames from the last couple of years. Some of these ads were made, some not. You tend to generate an awful lot of stuff doing these things... I've left in some of the pencil work and different versions of the same frame.

Renault Twingo ads

2007-10-25T13:54:00.000+01:00

Nudes

2007-10-18T09:30:00.000+01:00

Some recent life class sketches.

Today FM billboards

2007-09-28T18:32:00.000+01:00

Some recent 48-sheet billboards for Today FM, a local Dublin station. The idea was to show the essential character of each DJ. I passed the 'joker' one on a billboard the other night and it looked mighty creepy to me. Darker than my original illustration, but hard to ignore.

Spiegel Club poster

2007-09-20T15:06:00.000+01:00

Peacock Theatre poster

2007-08-07T13:01:00.000+01:00

I submitted a few other options for this job, a few of which you can click on below. I like to play around with an image, and tend to give the client a range of solutions. The brief on this one was to give it a painterly feel. I threw in some crows at the end, loosely sketched in sepia ink, and the client went with it. The woman was done at a life drawing class, a one minute warm-up exercise.

Abbey Theatre poster

2007-08-07T11:01:00.001+01:00

A recent piece for the Abbey Theatre. Poster design by Stuart Bradfield of Red Dog.

World trip portraits 3

2007-08-02T15:37:00.000+01:00

This Vietnamese village girl sat patiently for 40 minutes but was less than happy with the result. She asked me to make her look prettier, which reminded me of my days drawing tourists in Leicester Square. I thought I had.

The village chief's wife. I had dinner with the chief one evening while I was going nuts on malaria drugs, dining on store-bought spring rolls and fried intestines. I don't think she was too pleased with her picture either.

Rob from Manchester, in Siem Reap near Angkor Wat.

I took the Trans-Siberian Railway across Russia, Mongolia and China. This is Karin, a fellow passenger. A calm Swede.

Karin and her boyfriend.

A man from Hong Kong.

Mem, a Bangkok barmaid.

World trip portraits 2

2007-08-02T15:28:00.000+01:00

More portraits from the trip. The first three are from photos in Hong Kong, the last is of Gino, a very world-weary traveller in Pushkar, India. He hadn't been home to Italy for 15 years.

World trip portraits

2007-07-31T22:44:00.000+01:00

I got around to cleaning up a few of the portraits I did on my 2005 world trip. This is Eric, a French guy in Tahiti who ran his own tattoo parlour back in France. He looked a little intimidating and aloof at first, but turned out to be very easy going.

Becky was a Manchester girl who was travelling around New Zealand.

This guy hung around the campsite in Tahiti and was as strange as he looks. He would stare at people with a glassy expression and pad about the kitchen in his flipflops.

Florian (German in NZ), Elizabeth (English in NZ), Phil (English academic in Tahiti, cycling around the world).

Moleskine pages

2007-07-31T21:13:00.001+01:00

A bunch of sketchbook pages. I often like thumbnails more than the finished article.

Copper book

2007-07-31T11:29:00.000+01:00

The copper book, an old student project that still looks pretty good. It took about ten days to complete from brief to finish. I was more energetic then.

Postcard

2007-07-31T10:25:00.000+01:00

One from ages ago that I still quite like. The old handwriting is fantastic - it doesn't really need anything else.

Messing around

2007-07-31T10:20:00.000+01:00

Taurus

2007-07-30T16:30:00.000+01:00

Frothy jazz

2007-07-19T11:28:00.000+01:00

Some unpublished concept work for Guinness.

Vault

2007-07-18T21:08:00.000+01:00

Cardinal

2007-07-18T15:17:00.000+01:00

I did this many years ago and it kicked off an editorial style of ripped cardboard and splashy paint. I still get clients asking if I still do it, but it feels weird to resurrect something so old. This was never actually used, but I always thought it was one of the better ones.

Irish Museum of Modern Art

2007-07-06T12:15:00.000+01:00

A lot of Photoshopping, a little drawing: IMMA's new poster. We had to approach the artists for permission to use their works in the bag so some nice elements had to be left out. It was fun to try to make all the objects sit together, but I'm not sure I'd want to make a career of photo retouching. I was happy with the stretchmarks on the bag though.

Guinness Boot Camp Ad

2007-06-29T13:58:00.000+01:00

This was a recent one for Guinness Boot Camp. The brief was for a very stark, almost stencilled look, so we had graffiti sprays and runs coming off the main figure:

Here's the storyboard and final logo:

And here's the finished ad:

Guinness pint

2007-06-29T13:49:00.000+01:00

I'm sometimes asked to do very detailed, realistic stuff. This all done in Photoshop. It usually makes me want to go off and make a big mess with buckets and tarpaulins, but I couldn't be bothered cleaning up after myself.

Alice Cooper

2007-06-29T13:46:00.000+01:00

This became a real mask handed out free to advertise Ms Cooper's new radio show in Ireland. We had to make the mouth bigger to avoid people cutting their tongue in the hole.