Oct 25 2011
I had fun with tonight’s #PortraitNight. The subject is Iggy Pop, one of my favorite musicians, but instead of one of my usual headshot images, I decided to recreate the back cover of Iggy’s third (and underrated in my opinion) solo album, New Values. I’ve been listening to that record a lot these days ’cause …
Oct 11 2011
I did a caricature/likeness of Hank Sr. a while back for my old mini-comic, American Music A-Z. I’ll have to dig it out and look at it for comparison’s sake. This isn’t a great likeness, but hopefully it’s an improvement: If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the …
Oct 04 2011
Last week I finished up my Our Band Could Be Your Life-themed drawings, but right in the midst of that I received a portrait request that I had to shelve until now. Thematically, it fits in pretty well, though: David Yow of The Jesus Lizard. I may be misremembering–it was a while back–but I believe …
Sep 27 2011
My final Our Band Could Be Your Life-themed #PortraitNight drawing is Heather Lewis of Beat Happening. I have to admit, I kind of dragged my feat on this one because I’m not a huge Beat Happening fan. In the imaginary world where I’m the king of everything, I’d decree that the final chapter of Our …
Sep 20 2011
Whad’ya know?… Another “penultimate” drawing. This time, it’s my second-to-last Our Band Could Be Your Life-themed #PortraitNight drawing: Clint Conley, bassist for Boston post-punk (?) band Mission of Burma. I love love love Mission of Burma and as a former bass player, I had to go with Conley for this drawing. Did you know he …
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