Dragonbat: 2008

Monday, July 14, 2008

Hi I'm Dragonbat and this is my portfolio

This blog post is something I use as a portfolio of the illustrations I do.

If you like them, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me at

fitzpatrickbrett@yahoo.co.uk

I am an illustrator with years of experience and quite a few commissions under my belt. I am always open to offers of work and I am very flexible.

A foggy day over the castle

Here is a nice picture of a flying horse swooping through the pink magical fog above a castle

I have been away from illustration friday for a little while and it is good to be back. In the meen time I have been working on animations. They are so time consuming.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Animation

I'm animating again, and this time with my own blog new animation blog at http://animationbay.blogspot.com and this is the first animation I uploaded..

One thing that I find annoying about blogger is that it converts animated gifs into jpegs and so renders them lifeless, I'
m hosting the animations at metacafe right now as a workaround. They are a profit sharing alternative to youtube and my stuff seems to get more views as well.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Latest work, produced for a client

Some designs for a client to chose from. The best one will be worked up into a logo.

Update: The client chose the version with a robot as the I in the youtube channel name

the logo is intended for ( http://www.youtube.com/user/SimChao ).
I think it's a great idea and I hope they like the finished image. I'll update this post one way or the other. The image here has the dragon bat studios watermark which will of course not be a part of the final logo.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Another interesting promotion option this one is Zazzle

I am always on the lookout for some way to make money from the images I am producing. By the way I decided to start a new sequential art blog, well a comic book really at http://planetskrimshaw.blogspot.com/ and this zazzle thing my just be a good idea
create custom t-shirts at Zazzle

I saw this widget working on the penciljack site and was impressed but it seems to be taking an awful long time to load on my site. No idea why.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Skrimshaw page1

I have decided to start a comic book. It'll be about a colony of robots that have lost contact with human space and who inhabit a planet where humans are a dim memory. What happened to the humans. That's the idea anyway.

It is available on a portfolio website to buy as well, who knows, perhaps it will be a project that I will be able to keep up with. I hope so.

Wrinkles

It's illustration friday time again and here is the illustration I've chosen. The creaturehas interesting lines on it's face. More posts and illustrations.

I'm really enjoying illustration friday, I think it is a great impetous for artists out there.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Imagekind

Here is another site I have discovered who will act as an outlet for my art. This first image I have placed on the site is a nice drawing of a fantasy pirate castle which I have had some positive feedback on over the years.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Shirt Shop

I have been creating fun character based designs for quite some time. Here are some of my best available as t-shirt designs to buy. To see how each looks as a t-shirt and to find out the prices just click the button under the image you like.

Alien DJ

Coffee Goblin

Ironing Man

A little pink fish

Spiral Bat Cat Su...

Sick little bunny

Cool Robot

The frightening S...

Caz, Queen of the...

Space Weasle

My t-shirt designs to buy at redbubble.

I am having a lot of fun creating these t-shirt designs and could probably even do t-shirt designs to order if required. This is all part of my effort to start making money from my alleged creative talents over the internet. The desgns are fun to create and I have received a lot of encouraging feedback about them.

The Coffee Goblin

This is two images created and posted in the same day, I'm very proud of myself. Although it is two oclock in the morning, maybee there isn't that much to be proud of.

Uploading the image is giving me a bit of a problem, seven tries and still no luck. The uploader isn't very reliable with my dodgy 3modem in another country connection to the internet. The connection keeps dropping out, probably for just seconds at a time, but the uploader doesn't seem to be able to cope. I'll give up and just save this as a draft. Hey, I waited five minutes and bingo, it worked. No idea why but I should just be happy I guess.

Ironing Man

I just saw the trailor for Iron Man the movie last night and was moved to respond in my own artistic fashion. And of course it is available to buy as a tshirt design at redbubble, just click the button.

I have always been a big fan of Iron Man, and this may not be a great reason but, because of the cool way he holds his hand out in a "talk to the hand" gesture and his palm blaster shoots a cool beam out. I am particularly proud of this illustration because I have included a scan of a bit of fabric as the cover for the ironing board, I think it works well and looks nice, I have spared a couple of thoughts to the copyright situation but I'm fairly sure that an image like this which is sending something up is OK. I'm still in Australia after 5 months on holiday but I'm going to be back in the UK soon. It'll be good to see the old place again I guess.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

A little pink fish

Another t-shirt design for redbubble. Redbubble mutes the colours as can be seen in their add below to reflevct the colours on a printed t-shirt more accurately.

A little pink fish

I really like this design and I am toying with the idea of producing versions in different cvolours.

The Spiral Cat Bat Super Guy

This is an image I created to primarily be sold as a t-shirt design on redbubble.

Spiral Bat Cat Su...

I think it looks great as a t-shirt but I'm not entirely sure who would be interested in..

...wearing it. It isn't as comercial as I hoped when I first designed it. I'm going to have to concentrate more on designs which more people would be interested in I think. I really made it first as a logo for a site talking about comic books which I thought I could create but after my last visit to a comic book store it's dawned on me how hoplessly out of touch with the genre I am. It might be fun to reaquaint myself with it and write about the journey.

Primitive Frog Gods

This image immediately jumped to mind when I read that the word on illustration friday was Primitive.

The characters come from a short science fiction story that I started to write but didn't finnish at the fantastical fabulist. Now that I'm looking at this image again I have the feeling that I would like to create a coloured version, watch this space. Although I can't promise to ever get round to it, it's so difficult to do all the stuff you want.

The overnighted owl

This was an idea I put together for an American competition before I read the small print and found out that it was only open to

people who are American or are resident in the USA or something like that. It's not finnished yet because I have been really busy enjoying my prolonged holiday. But I thought it was interesting as an unfinnished image and I'll post the finnished version at some later time.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Another t-shirt design, this one a sick bunny

I did the sketch for this design this morning. I saw a stain on a wall (I let my imagination play with it, just as Leonardo Da Vinci recomends in order to prompt creativity) and it looked a bit like a sick bunny. I drew it in my sketch book, worked on it with photoshop and here it is. This design is available to

I am really enjoying doing these designs for red bubble it gives me a great incentie to do work. The blogging and other sites have me busier at the sketch pad drawing board etc. than ever before. I am in Australia right now and the wall stain was at a marina on Pott's Point in Sydney.

Friday, April 4, 2008

It's a blue fairy

I have been thinking about tshirt designs since I sold a tshirt design on redbubble recently. here is the illustration I put together for my latest design

I have been thinking that I will be using this space, this blog as a portfolio and organising through the tags so it might happen that the design changes from time to time depending on whether I think a children's publisher or games company is looking at it.