Nov
17
Here’s a (second) recent drawing of Lou Reed, this one taken from the picture accompanying his obituary in TIME magazine. I hadn’t really intended to do anything with this one, but it turned out alright and I had some time to fool with it last week. Process: sketched in pencil, inked and colored in Manga …
Nov
17
I just colored a quick drawing I did in my sketchbook last week of John Lennon. I think the photo I was looking at was from last month’s MOJO Magazine review of the new box set. Process: Drawn in pencil, inked with Pentel brush pen, colored in Photoshop.
Oct
31
Here’s a drawing of Lou Reed I started the evening he died and just wrapped up this evening. Since his death, people far more eloquent and far more knowledgeable about music than I have written about Lou Reed’s significance and importance. I’ll just say this: I discovered the Velvet Underground when I was in high …
Jun
17
I drew Black Sabbath. I was mainly just looking for an excuse to play with coloring in Manga Studio. I’m only on EX4, but I hear there’s some pretty serious coloring features coming to EX5 later this summer. I’d really like to get Adobe products entirely out of my workflow, given their odious new pricing …
Jun
03
Come one, come all! This Saturday at Heroes Con 2013, Craig Fischer and I will be putting on one of our annual “mega-panels.” In this case, it’s a mega music panel, featuring a live band; panel discussion with Peter Bagge, Ed Piskor, and the guys behind the upcoming graphic novel, The Fifth Beatle; and music/comics presentations …
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.
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