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.
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Cool pic, good stuff.- I’m with the red pre-photoshop colouring in version.
For a perfect combination of late 80’s glossy rock/pop wonderful-ness – before the power ballad became a bad thing and the visual and vocal beauty of St. Vincent check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rOjkSho0A
from Becks’ record club thingy. They tackle and win with Never Tear Us Apart.
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@James – Thanks! I’m partial to the pre-Photoshop version as well, but it was fun to play around with the image a bit. Thanks for the link to that Cover. What a great version of that tune. As much as I love early stuff like The Swing and Shabooh Shoobah, that’s probably the best song they ever wrote–it’s got a wonderful Motown-ish feel to it.
Well, to destroy any credibility I may have had I think that Kick really is almost the perfect late 80’s album. Together with, deep breath, gulp, here goes; Hysteria by Def Leppard.
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@James – I should go back and listen to Kick. I’ve not heard it in years. I honestly don’t know if I’ve heard that Def Leopard record all the way through–and if I have it’d have been back in the 80s.