Michael O'Brien

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I wish Chinese New Year’s Eve was like a second New Year’s Eve where everyone gets really drunk but dressed as dragons and rabbits and other zodiac animals.

I wish Chinese New Year’s Eve was like a second New Year’s Eve where everyone gets really drunk but dressed as dragons and rabbits and other zodiac animals.

— 4 days ago with 3 notes
#Illustration  #chinese new year  #dragon 
The backs of people’s heads (well, not exclusively). 
From buses, trains, lectures and home.

The backs of people’s heads (well, not exclusively). 

From buses, trains, lectures and home.

— 4 days ago with 6 notes
#Illustration 
Editorial Project-“The Last Kodak Moment?”
The last of the illustrations for the editorial project. This one’s for an article from the Economist about the fall of Kodak and rise of Fujifilm in the digital age.
Photoshop-18x9cm

Editorial Project-“The Last Kodak Moment?”

The last of the illustrations for the editorial project. This one’s for an article from the Economist about the fall of Kodak and rise of Fujifilm in the digital age.

Photoshop-18x9cm

— 5 days ago with 2 notes
#Illustration  #camera  #hokusai  #kodak  #photography  #rising sun 
This came out the tiniest bit cool by complete and utter fluke.

This came out the tiniest bit cool by complete and utter fluke.

— 5 days ago with 3 notes
#painting  #what the fuck am i doing?  #Illustration 

Odds and Ends

…Sorry for all the ballbags lately!

— 1 week ago with 1 note
#Illustration  #doodle  #sketch  #life drawing 

Life Drawing tutor said ‘Let’s get a bit mad’ this week and it really made me think in a different way.

I should get a bit mad more often.

— 1 week ago with 3 notes
#Illustration  #life drawing  #watercolour 

Linocut and Drypoint prints inspired by a verse from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

— 1 week ago with 3 notes
#Illustration  #poetry  #linocut  #drypoint  #print  #print-making 
Editorial Project-“Equals (=) Sign”
Starting to like using gouache.
‘Blue whale’ is not the first suggested result after typing ‘blue w’ on Google.

Editorial Project-“Equals (=) Sign”

Starting to like using gouache.

‘Blue whale’ is not the first suggested result after typing ‘blue w’ on Google.

— 1 week ago with 3 notes
#blue whale  #boeing  #equals  #illustration  #gouache 
Editorial Project-“The Great Martian Invasion”
A5 watercolour illustrating a 1938 newspaper article about how Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of War of the Worlds convinced people that Earth was really being invaded.

Editorial Project-“The Great Martian Invasion”

A5 watercolour illustrating a 1938 newspaper article about how Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of War of the Worlds convinced people that Earth was really being invaded.

— 1 week ago with 3 notes
#Illustration  #Martian  #War of the worlds  #watercolour 
Biro Sketch of Two-Face quickly coloured in Photoshop.
Vuvuvultures-Ctrl Alt Mexicans

Biro Sketch of Two-Face quickly coloured in Photoshop.

Vuvuvultures-Ctrl Alt Mexicans

— 1 week ago with 4 notes
#Illustration  #two-face  #batman 
I miss putting songs with my pictures on tumblr.
†††-Bermuda Locket

I miss putting songs with my pictures on tumblr.

†††-Bermuda Locket

— 1 week ago with 1 note
#illustration 
Editorial Project-“Smoke-Filled Room”
This is tiny (about 3 and a half by 7 cm)-pen and watercolour.

Editorial Project-“Smoke-Filled Room”

This is tiny (about 3 and a half by 7 cm)-pen and watercolour.

— 2 weeks ago with 1 note
#Illustration 

Tools and life drawings from today.

— 2 weeks ago
#Illustration  #life drawing 

Vacation Project-Illustrate the perfect gift for Alfred Nobel

Thought I’d get him a dog, he was a pretty lonely dude.

— 3 weeks ago with 5 notes
#Illustration  #alfred nobel  #german shepherd