Conánn FitzPatrick

Update: Written in early 2004 this page is painfully out of date. Doing more and more digital art these days, mostly 3D and not enough painting!

I have mixed feelings about digital art. While I really feel that it is worthless in the long run it does serve as a wonderful bridge between drawing and working in colour. Colour has scared the bejesus out of me for as long as I can remember. When I was in school I was very envious of people who could paint and that was only compounded when I started working in Sulivan Bluth Studios in Dublin where the background department was a thing of pure wonder.

Before I left animation I started doing some paint work in colour using Adobe Photoshop 4.0 and while the subject was limited in style and colour to things I had drawn over and over and where very familiar with, it did show me a way of working that was doable. As I went along I tried adding a few more colours but mostly relied on different layer tricks to get the results I needed.