Here's an illustrated logo from September 2015 for the the Glens of Antrim Pipers. They play the traditional Irish Uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes to the Layman) and they are HARD to draw, believe me!
The Mothership
The HDC Store
HDC at Brough and Ready
HDC at Society6
HDC Stock Illustration
Thursday, 11 August 2016
Rewind… 33&1/3 at Gallery 1988. Christmas 2014
Christmas 2014 and I was back on Melrose Avenue… well my work was anyway. I'd been approached to contribute a piece to Gallery 1988's Thirty Three and a Third show. I'm glad to say my piece sold. I was also very pleased to have my work hanging in this prestigious pop culture gallery in Los Angeles too.
Rewind… Summer 2015 and the Golden Greats Exhibition
So let's kick off the Hand Drawn Creative re-cap with last summer's exhibition as part of Bangor's Open House Festival. I remember the opening night's weather being atrocious – heavy rain & black clouds don't usually get people out at night. But I underestimated the draw of the Open House Festival and opening night was a huge success and Sync Space was packed out. Here are a few of the pieces that were on show on August 2015 along with a short video from local filmmaker Ross McConaghy…
'Sync Space Presents' - Neal McCullough from Ross McConaghy on Vimeo.
I haven't gone away you know…
Okay, I'm still here in some form or other. But I see it's been well over a year since my last post. Why, you ask? Well, my two kids who are now at school/brownies/squirrels etc. and that takes up a lot of our free time these days, plus several years of ill health have unfortunately taken their toll on how much attention I've put into Hand Drawn Creative. Fortunately things are swinging back into action and my health issues are very much back in order; but severe sleep apnoea had me falling asleep at my desk up to 20 times a day, dozing off in the middle of conversations, and even behind the wheel of the car. So I quit driving for a while until the condition was diagnosed and treated properly at the start of the 2016.
So now it's summer 2016, I'm obsessed with cycling and mountain biking again – getting the blood pumping, losing weight and wearing the (horrible) clap mask at night to help me sleep well through the night. So like I said, HDC has taken a back seat – but I have still been producing the odd little gem. I just haven't been sharing it here I suppose. I'll try to re-cap on what's been going down and sharing illustrated highlights of the last year or so, before getting back into regular updates on the blog. If you want to comment or get in touch here or through my website, I'd love to hear from you.
Cheers, Neal