Nov 16 2011
I recently got three really fun commissions–all from the same person. What a great combo: a drawing from Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean, another from my previous book Midnight Sun, and a double superhero commission of Iron Man and Captain America. I asked folks on Twitter what the heck those disk-things are supposed to be on Iron Man’s costume and one person jokingly replied that they were flasks. As an avid reader of the “boozehound Tony Stark” 80s Iron Man, that makes total sense.
Nov 15 2011
Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is musician St. Vincent–AKA Annie Clark.
This image looks a bit different than my usual drawing style. If you’ve read any of my process posts you know that I usually build up my images by starting with a very light blue then going over the image in successive iterations of orange, red, regular graphite pencil, then finally ink–and then dropping everything but the ink out with Photoshop at a later stage. In this case, though, I got up to the red stage and was really liking how it looked at that point. So, I just dug in and wrapped up the drawing all with the red colored pencil.
I did some after-the-fact cleanup, manipulation, and coloring with Photoshop, but I’m not sure if I like the results any better than the plain old red version which I’ll post below.
The source image here is from an article/photo shoot with St. Vincent that was in the summer issue of the indie rock mag Under The Radar.
If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.
Nov 14 2011
You can follow the other “E” 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.
From the Fiend Folio…
E is for Ettercap
The original art for this is for sale here.
Nov 11 2011
Today is November 11th 2011, which as well all know is Nigel Tufnel Day, a day to celebrate music that should be played extra loud. Here’s how it’s done:
One of my favorite music podcasts, All Songs Considered, devoted their most recent show to a list of their picks for songs that should be played at 11. For my picks I went with obvious choices. No obscure indie bands or weird crate-digging finds–just solid, hard-hitting classics that that sound great cranked up. Here’s my own hastily-thrown-together-over-morning-coffee list (in no particular order):
1) Bring The Noise – Public Enemy
2) The Phoenix – The Cult
3) Blue Monday – New Order
4) Doing It To Death – James Brown
5) Since I’ve Been Loving You – Led Zeppelin
6) The Power Of Equality – Red Hot Chili Peppers
7) I Want To Take You Higher – Sly And The Family Stone
8) The Four Horsemen – Metallica
9) T.V. Eye – The Stooges
10) Children Of The Grave – Black Sabbath
11) Bad Reputation – Thin Lizzy
Nov 08 2011
I watched a couple of good BBC documentaries about influential DJ John Peel last weekend, so I thought he’d make a good #PortraitNight subject. For what it’s worth, the two documentaries were John Peel’s Record Box (about the small box of Peel’s odd favorite 45s discovered at his home after his death) and John Peel’s Turn That Racket Down (a general profile of him).
If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.
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