Jan
09
For some reason, I’m back on a musician-drawing kick in my sketchbook. Here’re two drawings I did recently. They were all originally brush pen or brush/India ink, then scanned and colored in Photoshop. The Everly Brothers Fleetwood Mac (well, some of them anyway: Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, and Lindsey Buckingham)
Jan
07
Here’s an illustration I did for the Aquarium Drunkard blog of the band Tashaki Miyaki. They’re a very cool band–they remind me a bit of maybe The Jesus and Mary Chain or Mazzy Star. I particularly dug the cover they there of Unsatisfied by The Replacements. The original art for this is for sale here.
Nov
19
A week or so ago I made my second appearance on the call-in segment of NPR’s music show/podcast Sound Opinions. You can find the show here. I’m at the very, very end of the show–around 59:30 minutes–talking about the influence of Winston-Salem’s own “5″ Royales on James Brown’s band The Famous Flames, who were discussed …
Nov
07
Here’s yet another illustration I did for the Aquarium Drunkard music blog’s Lagnappe Sessions–this time of the Swedish band The Amazing: You can check out The Amazing covering Tim Buckley and R.E.M. at the blog here. The original art for this is for sale here.
Oct
26
Here’s another illustration I did for the Aquarium Drunkard music blog’s Lagnappe Sessions–this time of the band Hacienda: You can check out what songs Hacienda chose to cover at the blog here. The original art for this is for sale here.
Oct
01
I try to keep my music-related ramblings to a minimum on this blog, but if you follow me on Twitter, you probably know that I’m a bit of a music-obsessive. I subscribe to a lot of music blogs, but one of my absolute favorites is Aquarium Drunkard, which you can find here. One of the …
Sep
26
So… a few weeks ago I decided to listen to The Cure’s entire discography start-to-finish, in chronological order. Here are a few random thoughts: I have no idea why I did this. Like a lot of folks my age, I had an “angsty teen” phase in the late 80s where I wore a lot of …
Sep
13
I’ve really been digging the new Bob Dylan record, Tempest (despite its dopey Bob Seger-esque album artwork) and it inspired me to do this drawing of the man himself: The original art for this is for sale here.
Jun
18
These AlphaBooks drawings are skewing far heavier toward fantasy and SF than my actual reading habits–I guess because they make more interesting subjects visually. Anyway, here’s this week’s “E” entry, from a series I read ages ago: E is for Elric – From Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock With my last few entries, I’ve written …
May
17
Here’s a commission I recently completed of English Jazz singer and writer George Melly. Likenesses are always a bit of a struggle for me, and this one was no exception. I’m pretty happy with the inking and toning of this piece, though for sure. It’s headed off to its new home in Cambridge soon! Here’re …
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