Pep Guardiola - Genius

NEW PAINTING - Pep Guardiola thinks differently to every coach in football.

Genius.

This will be available as a print in my store very soon. Anyone who wants to pre-order their print, drop me an email on info@kevinmcgivern.com

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Website Update

Updated my website with new work..please check it out and share...or not. Whatever.
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Raven Queen - Promotional calendar painting

• Something I painted for my agent, Advocate Art's "Heads Up" promotional calendar this year 
  

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Star Wars The Force Awakens Alternative Poster

Alternative poster site, Poster Spy, are running a contest alongside Curzon Cinemas, to design a poster celebrating the release of Star Wars The Force Awakens. I literally couldn't keep myself from entering!

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Saltire/John Ferguson

I was honoured to be commissioned by the guys at Diamondsteel Comics to paint their writer and creator John Ferguson with Saltire the Scottish superhero.
This was such a great commission to work on both in terms of subject matter and client. They were an absolute pleasure to deal with.
If you haven't picked up a copy of their graphic novel, you must!

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Duke of Wellington statue

NEW PAINTING: The Duke of Wellington

Thanks to everyone for the continued support of my work! Every like, share and reblog is so much appreciated! 😊

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SNES study

This started off as a quick hand study but I was having too much fun painting it! The good old days...

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Dana White

Last weekend, the UFC came to my home city of Glasgow. Put me right in the mood to paint the main man Dana White. Would love to work with the UFC one day, but for now, this is just for fun!

 

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Dougal Mackenzie from Outlander portrait

I'm a huge fan of the Outlander tv show. It inspired me to go on a tour of the Scottish highlands earlier in the year. Here is a painting I did of Dougal Mackenzie from the show!

I also made a time-lapse video showing my process HERE

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New Painting....

Not had a lot of time recently for personal work, but had this one "on the easel" for a while. Managed to get it finished, so here it is! Hope you all like. And likes, shares, reblogs, retweets, or any other form of social appreciation would be awesome!

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Netflix Competition Prizes

As you may remember, my Frank Underwood painting won first prize in the "Netflix Down Under" art contest. Today, my prizes arrived, an Xbox One and a Wacom Intuos 5 Pro!! All I need to do is figure out what the hell you do with an Xbox one!

This on the same day as I sold my house! It's been a good day!

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iScot Magazine cover

I painted the cover for this month's iScot Magazine which is on the shelves now! I was asked to paint Andy Murray as a knight in the form of Sir Andrew Moray (1336) replacing the sword with his tennis racquet. This was a really cool job to work on and I look forward to working again with the magazine again soon.

Prints are available HERE

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The Football Pink

I was asked to illustrate the cover and interior illustrations for this month's issue of The Football Pink, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of World Cup Itaila 90.

For someone of my age, Italia 90 was the golden age of football to illustrating the likes of Toto Schillaci, Lothar Matthaus, Roger Milla and Gazza, was a dream job. In the magazine, we added some old school graphics to each of the illustrations which added a cool touch. It was also fun to do different style illustrations for each player.

Fingers crossed I will have the opportunity to work on this brilliant magazine again in the future.

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Game of Thrones - Season 5 Poster

I'm struggling to contain my excitement for the new season of Game of Thrones so I thought I'd find a form of release in illustrating a poster for it!

This was loads of fun to do! It's always fun doing your dream job, even when you haven't been asked!

You can see a close up detail in my previous post.

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Game of Thrones Poster teaser

Anyone else getting excited for Game of Thrones season 5??

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Frank Underwood - Where Did It All Go Wrong?

My entry for the #NetflixDownUnder contest ran by Draw With Jazza over on youtube.
The idea was to create an illustration based on an original Netflix character, with an Australian twist!

So I imagined Frank Underwood's (Kevin Spacey) career had taken a nosedive and he was living in Australia, eating Vegemite out the jar.

This was my entry and a little .gif showing my process. 

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Happy Paddy's Day!!

What’s the craic!!

Thanks to everyone for the support, likes and reblogs of my Sherlock and Doctor Who illustrations! So much appreciated!!

How many of you will be enjoying the festivities of St Patricks Day? One of the items on my bucket list is to celebrate Paddy’s Day in New York!

Meanwhile, I’ll make do with a pint of the black stuff!!

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Sherlock - The Reichenbach Fall

Ever since watching the last episode of the first season of Sherlock, I wanted to paint him. It was one of the best episodes of television I have seen in a long time. This is my little mini tribute to that show..

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Doctor Who - the 10th Doctor

Some new work to show... Doctor Who - The 10th (and best IMO) Doctor.

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Works in progress...

A couple of things I'm working on at the moment...

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Empire Magazine Whiplash Steelbook Cover

Empire Magazine are running a competition to design the front cover of Zavvi's UK steelbook for the fantastic film Whiplash. I didn't have much time in between client work, but this was my entry.

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Back Cover

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David Bowie Portrait

So......after tearing my ankle ligaments this week, I've had more down time than I expected! On the plus side, it gave me more time to finish this Bowie painting! Hope you all like!

PRINTS ARE AVAILABLE HERE!!

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David Bowie portrait process

Been so busy with client work recently, that I've not had much time to do personal work. But whilst waiting for some feedback, I started working on a David Bowie portrait.

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Interview on Anglonerd.com!!

It's been so hectic with work recently that I forgot to post this interview I did a while back with Anglonerd.com who were interested in the series of portraits I did based on The Office (UK). Here is the link to the interview, but you should also check out the rest of the site for all things pop culture!
Link: Kevin McGivern Interview

And thanks to the guys at Anglonerd.com

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Some light relief - Elsa from Disney's Frozen

Ever took on a job you wish you had said no to?! I am in the middle of one just now so I needed some light relief. I have been putting it off for months but my niece is (still!) totally hooked on Disney's Frozen so I thought I'd paint Elsa.
Just when you thought you heard the last of it....altogether......"Let it gooooooo, let it gooooooo...."

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Jimi Hendrix Portrait

I've been doing a lot of caricature and character illustration client work recently so in my down time, i have been working on this portrait of legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Continuing with my efforts to keep loose brush strokes, not undo, and not zooming in, I'm slowly creeping towards a look I am happy with.

I hope everyone's 2015 has started off well and let's see what this year brings!

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