Aoife Rhatigan's whimsical animations have a crayon-esque fuzziness and watercolour smears

"Aoife Rhatigan is an Irish artist from Kilkenny and a recent alumni from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA in Animation and Motion Design. As well as doing an internship as an animation content creator for clothing company Goodies Sportive in Porto, Portugal, Aoife makes work that reflects her life - a process of chaotically and organically "hurtling towards an end product"."

""I use Procreate Dreams for my animations, even though it is quite limited, I find the immediacy and intuitiveness really appealing," says Aoife. "Other than that I work almost 100 per cent traditionally, usually pencil, watercolor, oil paint and pastels. Usually I just draw and draw and make and make until something good comes out." Aoife's illustrations centre the human body, animals and her fascination with limbs, as well as her fondness for "little beings" -"

Aoife Rhatigan is an Irish artist from Kilkenny who graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BA in Animation and Motion Design. She completed an internship in Porto as an animation content creator for Goodies Sportive. Her creative process is chaotic and organic, often described as hurtling towards an end product. She focuses on storytelling through animation and illustration, capturing epiphanies with crayon-like fuzziness and watercolor smears. Aoife uses Procreate Dreams alongside primarily traditional media—pencil, watercolor, oil paint, and pastels—and repeatedly draws until a successful image emerges. Her work centers on the human body, animals, limbs, "little beings", and surreal, whimsical scenes inspired by 1970s Soviet animation, Ryan Larkin, and puppet television shows.

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