Another trawl through the Thompson archives brought up these drawings from the Natural History Museum in Dublin. They date from about ten years ago now, which would put me in my second year of college.
I love natural history museums and make a point of visiting one whenever I travel to a major city. My favourite by far is the one in London. Museums in general over the last decade or so have started replacing exhibits of the animals themselves, skeletons and fossils and the like, with really annoying 'interactive displays' that look like half assed computer games circa 1989.
The Natural History Museum of Dublin on the other hand is almost a museum of a museum. It hasn't changed very much from the Victorian cabinet museum it started out as. Down the back they still have rows of dark-wood, glass-topped displays, with leather covers. Flip back a cover and you'll see rows of mounted insects, some really monstrous ones. I got such a kick out of that as a kid.
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I used to want to live in the Dublin Natural History Museum. It's where I always used to go to draw when I ditched classes in college. Best musty smell ever, I felt ridiculously comfortable sitting against those old cabinets drawing away. Used to hate leaving.
Here's hoping the re-open Dublin's one soon and haven't gutted it too mach in the 'upgrading' process.
On the plus side, we're going to london to see the English one either for Jackie's birthday or failing that our wedding anniversary.
Excited!
Delish sketches. :) I'll have to drop up again to the Museum someday.
Which college did you graduate from? (I've a tiny inclination that it was Ballyfermot - I went there too! XD )
Yup it was Ballyfermot alright. Although 'graduate' wouldn't be the most accurate way to describe my time there. I never intended to work in animation, I just thought the classical animation course would be good training for comics. So I left after second year as third year was basically just an opportunity to work on your own film.
Not before you'd managed to get some higher marks than me by actually avoiding doing the projects in question.
That old Thompson magic.
He speaks fluent latin, you know.
I knew it! XD
I'd dragged on the course for ages, but I really wanted to work in comics too. I'd done some comic-related projects during my time there. Not sure if I'd go back to Bally F though; I'd only managed to sit it out after being screwed over on a certain book I was illustrating. But anyhoo.
I'm still raving over your Dr. Doom sketch at the Ecletic Micks blog! :D
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