Jan 17 2012
Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is by request. I received a comment to my earlier drawing of Chrissy Hynde requesting a drawing of the amazing Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott. Reference-wise, I wound up sort of combining the photo below with another one (that I for some reason can’t re-locate online) of him with a collared shirt and blond hair. Anyway, here’s James Honeyman-Scott:
Jan 16 2012
I started off not really liking this creature design, but looking at it now, I think this is one of the best AlpahBeast drawings I’ve done.
N is for Neo-Otyugh
The original art for this is for sale here.
You can follow the other “N” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures.
Jan 10 2012
Well, this was kind of an accidental #PortraitNight. I’d selected a picture of Newt Gingrich from the most recent TIME Magazine to draw, but before settling down to drawing I decided to put on a record. Near the top of the stack was Pete Townshend ‘s Empty Glass–and after putting it on I wound up doodling a pic of Townshend instead of Newt. This drawing really is more a doodle than a finished drawing, but I feel like I’ve been laboring these portrait drawings more than I should. Anyhoo… here it is:
And here’s the back cover of the LP I was drawing from:
If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.
Jan 09 2012
None of the “M” D&D creatures I saw really jumped out at me this week, so I decided I’d select the most abjectly ridiculous creature I could find instead. While I settled on the Morkoth from the original Monster Manual, the Mongrelman from the Fiend Folio was a close runner-up. Mongrelman is one of those dopey “mash up” creatures that has one limb from a different creature:
Throughout the AlphaBeasts project, I vowed not to redesign any of the creatures, but if I’d allowed my self to modify the Mongrelman and give him a celery stalk arm and Patrick Duffy for a leg, like Scuzzlebutt, I’d have drawn the Mongrelman instead. Anyway, I settled on the Morkoth. I’m clearly not the only person to find this creature design pretty silly.
M is for Morkoth
The original art for this is for sale here.
For reference, here’s the original Morkoth from the Monster Manual:
You can follow the other “M” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures.
Jan 04 2012
Update: I’m still not really happy with this one, but given that my next portrait is due tomorrow, I went ahead and wrapped this one up. So, here you go: Chris and Rich Robinson, (Original post below.)
So, once again “real life” is interfering with my #PortraitNight project/ritual, but since I’m an hour late at this point, I’ll just post what I’ve got. I started a drawing of Chris and Rich Robinson (of the Black Crowes) but haven’t had time to really finish it. The Black Crowes are a band that–in my opinion–gets unfairly disparaged as being “derivative.” Are they derivative? Well, maybe so.. but in 1990 when Shake Your Money Maker came out, I was more than enthused to hear something on the air like “Hard To Handle,” their Faces-esque cover of that Marvin Gaye tune. If my alternative are the non-“derivative” tunes of 1990, I’ll sure as heck take the Crowes:
http://top40-charts.com/features/YearEnd/yearend1990.php
Their records became more and more interesting as they progressed, culminating with their 1994 record Amorica, which is solidly one of my top ten albums of the 90s.
PortraitNight, however, I’m not that pleased with. I like my drawing of Chris, but not at all of Rich. I may revisit this for next #PortraitNight (is that “legal”?) but for now, here’s what I’ve got in my sketchbook:
…and here’s the photo I was looking at:
More soon!
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