The Ballad Of Bad Horse - Animated!

Finally: IT'S DONE. It's finished, it's uploaded, it took ages, so please please please please PLEASE watch, share, like, comment, email to long-lost pals etc, my new short animated film. Probably won't make sense if you don't know Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. But please watch it anyway! There's Cowboys and Horses in it :D

Made in Flash CS5. Learnt a lot from this, and had fun too. Wonder what my next animated short project will be? Ah, I don't have to wonder, I know. TMI! Watch this space.

Hey Nicki Hey Nicki!

Today I drew a picture of Nicki Minaj. That is all.

Cowboy and Cowgirl :D

COWBOY AND COWGIRL Gonna herd your cows and drink your whiskey!

Gonna be releasing my cowboy-related mini film soon... tell your friends. :D

TiGRR + GRRly

Painting! Tigers! Women! That's all I like.

Angry Gallop!

I animated a horse, hooray! It dawned on me a few hours in to this that I'd never animated a horse before. Well I don't think I have... My brain is fried right now, so maybe I have. There's some stuff going wrong in this but to be honest, I don't want to look at it any more, and I like what's going right in it. HOORAY FOR HORSES!

Animated in Flashhhhh, the more I get the program the more I like it. It still manages to kick me in the boobs every now and then though.

Hopefully more animation to follow to fill out my new reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel

THE RETURN OF THE PUG

I decided it's high time I learnt some Proper Illustrator Stuff. A mishmash of tutorials lead to this. I'm well pleased because it's so much better than any of my other attempts! Illustrator is a tricksy program, but I'm gonna beat it... Damnit if I can tame Cel Action I can tame you Illustrator!!! I love Pugs, especially ones in tuxedos. Now time for some lunch and some sunshine!

Holy Dual Wielding Pickaxes!

Here's a test illustration I did for Wyrd Games, (www.malifaux.com) and I suppose Kate's first foray into game concept art! Hopefully there will be more, but who knows. Fingers crossed! I think it would be awesome to get to draw game characters for a living. *adds to list of things to achieve*

The start of a new sketchbook!

I think it always bodes well when the first sketchbook page is a half decent image, it hints at the possibility of cooler things to come! Pen and marker fun this be.

Graffitti GRRRL

GRAFFITTI GRRRL FIGHTS CRIME BY TAGGING... and... stuff. Been drawing, designing and animating my butt off today! Feel the creative force! Feel it!!!

THIS GIRL ONLY RIDES UNICORNSSS!

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...

:D

MILKY D Storyboards

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!!

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

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