The Art Of... Kate D

THIS GIRL ONLY RIDES UNICORNSSS!

2012-02-12T22:40:00.002Z

HOWDY HEY! Been trying to learn this whole new-fangled 'Digital Painting' I've heard so much about. I'm talking no pencil lines in the finished product, just like... full on digital...stuff. Ahem.

I watched a few tutorials for this, the most useful one was mostly about how much you can edit brushes and what all the different doofers in the brush settings do. It took me until I was about 15 hours in to figure out how to make the brushes work for me in a way I could control and do half-decently. When I got over that hurdle, things began to speed up and get fun, which is like... whooo!! I've got my WIPs all up in here. I think they're interesting, because I like seeing progress mostly! Also I'm really glad I didn't go for the crazy Gaga flamethrower boobs I had drawn in the first sketch... baby steps...

MILKY D Storyboards

2012-02-08T18:45:00.007Z

Sup folks! I've been drawing a lot recently, hurray! Bits o' painting, designing and boarding. Boarding has been fun! This is the start of a very stupid idea I had for a short animated film. I don't plan on making it, but felt it was a good exercise to board something that originated from my weird head.

The whole idea basically revolves around the fact that my housemate was rather partial to Nurishment and how I thought Yazoo was a really gay sounding milk drink...

Balloonie!!

2012-01-31T12:27:00.001Z

Here is a comic I did for issue #2 for Bear Pit Zine... a loooong time ago. I kinda forgot all about it! Enjoy, a true story about what happened to me one summer when I was a kid.*

*(All true, apart from the lies...)

'Walk This Way' business cards and flyers

2012-01-07T20:01:00.004Z

I got commissioned to do some business cards/posters for a dog walking business in Boston, MA. (international FUNZIES!!!) An absolute joy of a project to work on, I loved giving each dog its own personality :D

The first picture is the main artwork which reoccurs thoughout the 'set', followed by the business card back and some details of the smaller doggies. Pugs are awesome, so I had to include one in there. All o' this was inked and coloured in Photoshop.

And finally the original rough sketch. I always like to keep my sketches to see all the little changes and improvements that go on in a drawing. You can see the sausage dog didn't make it into the final piece, poor lil' guy.

Sexeh Boobeh Laydeh

2011-11-03T15:52:00.003Z

Too much doodling from one of Ashley Wood's books has left me drawing nothing but sexy ladies recently. I guess it's not a bad thing, unless you are disgusted by them. Maybe I should try drawing a few robots too...

Painty painty paint

2011-09-22T13:46:00.003+01:00

Hey internet. How's it going? Painting in Acrylic, 'cos I'm just not down with the oils thing. I think it's just the turps just scares me off... Anyway, this image has been in my sketchbook for a while now, and I finally turned it into a painting. Hurray! Really pleased with how it came out, and hopefully I'm gonna be doing some more painting in the near future whilst I'm looking for work.

Want a commission? I do weird stuff like this, as well as pets and once I painted someone's car. I'll have a go at anything really. Gimme an email at kate.derrick6@gmail.com =]

Prices start at a very reasonable £60! BARGAINOUS! AND ALSO AN IDEAL THOUGHTFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT DON'T CHA KNOW BETTER THAN THAT DVD AND SOCKS YOU WERE GONNA BUY TRUTH!

Kater out x

2011 Animation Showreely

2011-08-26T14:40:00.002+01:00

Kate Derrick 2011 Showreel from Kater Derrick on Vimeo.

HEY THERE YOU AWESOME PEOPLE!

Welcome to this year's showreel!
Featuring my most recent animation working on "Poppy Cat" at King Rollo Films and "Iconicles" at Dinamo Productions. Both of those shows were made in Cel Action. Also on the reel is some Flash work and some hand drawn 2D stuff from uni. Hope you enjoy!

Thanks for viewing :D

TRUE LOVE in Photoshop!

2011-08-19T11:03:00.003+01:00

I've been trying to brush up on my Photoshop skills, since I'm much more comfortable painting, uh... normally... rather than digitally. This is the first thing I've inked in Photoshop too, which was surprisingly fun! I'm pretty happy with it, I've learnt a lot about blending and making custom brushes. Next time I'll try to do something with stronger lighting and more texture I think, but for now, I'm happy with my improvements. Peace out!

Flash, Ahhh!

2011-08-03T08:43:00.004+01:00

Marv is a stupid bird. In my head he falls off of his little plateau before his mommy gets home or his siblings hatch, because he is stupid. Made in Flash, some practice for me using tweeeeens. My next anim I hope to do something tweeny and frame by frame... hopefully it will be good.

My my it is HOT TODAY!

Adventure Todd!

2011-03-19T11:49:00.001Z

A silly post for Saturday. A birthday card for Toddy because he is my FRIEND! And he likes Adventure Time. He has a site ----> http://www.toddsetter.co.uk/

The dinosaur is a doodle card by Jess Bradley: http://www.jessbradley.com/ She is lovely.

PANDAMONKEY!

2011-03-12T13:44:00.001Z

I drewed a Panda Monkey for the Mutant Zoo: http://themutantzoo.deviantart.com/
He comes complete with a cane and hat!

Tigerrrrr

2011-02-20T11:59:00.002Z

One of my plans is to do a big cool painting involving naked women and tigers. For now, a small sketchbook painting.

Showreel Stoof

2011-01-19T17:34:00.002Z

Over the next month or so I'm putting a new showreel together, so it's high time to reboot the Derrick brand!!!

I actually own this tiger hat, it's great. :3

Lion Valentine...

2011-01-19T15:52:00.002Z

Drawn with my new pens :3

New Batch O' Stuff!

2011-01-06T20:40:00.006Z

A Christmas present, a Christmas card and a birthday card. A little taste of what I've been doing this winter! :D

2010-05-25T15:51:00.006+01:00

Some stuff I found hanging around my computer that I'd finished during the No Internet period. The second one was inspired by Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip's second (and very cool) album, The Logic Of Chance. Got to see then in Bristol not too long ago, such wondrous gentlemen. =]

Unemployed (b.a. hons) Episode #02

2010-05-20T20:43:00.002+01:00

Unemployed (b.a. hons) Episode 2 from Kater Derrick on Vimeo.

EPISODE 2- ATTACK OF THE LOAN REPAYMENTS
This episode focuses on paying off that cumbersome loan, and the lesser-explored alternatives newbie graduates have for repaying it... Hope you enjoy!

Special thanks go to:
Terry Cooper, Becky Brynolf, Layan Nourouz, Miriam E Lewis, Gaz Machin, Ceri Haddon, Dan Mitchell, Bryony James, Todd Setter and Dramatic Prairie Dog.

Mini Moke commission woop

2010-02-24T15:33:00.003Z

Unemployed (b.a. hons) Episode #01

2010-02-15T16:44:00.001Z

Unemployed (b.a. hons) Pilot Episode from Kater Derrick on Vimeo.

Checkit my new video foo'!

Photoshops #2

2010-01-15T10:58:00.001Z

My first 100% photoshop majig. Hopefully not the last! =]

Christmas Commission! =]

2009-12-09T14:08:00.000Z

Photoshops and stuff #1

2009-10-06T13:30:00.003+01:00

ANIMATIONS!!! Part 3

2009-10-01T20:37:00.001+01:00

SHOWREEL TIMMMMMME. Yes. I'm a 2-D animator, bit of Flash thrown in there too. This stuff is from my second and third year at uni. Hope you enjoy!

ANIMATIONS!!! Part 2

2009-10-01T20:33:00.004+01:00

Now for two award-nominated* films.

My third year film, Shuck Horror:

Aaaand my second year film, Can Can Cat. Hopefully you'll agree Shuck Horror is better than this one.

* the nominations were from the uni's end of year show, The Glammies. The Glammies is awesome, you should go next year.

ANIMATIONS!!! Part 1

2009-10-01T20:18:00.004+01:00

Animations Part 1 eh?

Let's see what we have here.

2nd Year character performance, BOOM. Clip from The Mighty Boosh, slightly edited down for time.

Here's the model sheet of the character, Seemo. Had to cut off one of his bangs so they didn't get in the way of his face :D

say whaaat

2009-10-01T20:13:00.000+01:00

Sketch #2

2009-10-01T20:10:00.000+01:00

Sketch #1

2009-10-01T20:03:00.001+01:00

Paint #1

2009-10-01T19:52:00.003+01:00