Tag: Portrait Night

Portrait Night 3/1 (Lætitia Sadier)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is the lovely Lætitia Sadier from the band Stereolab. Here’s my drawing of her and the image I used as a basis for it (from the latest issue of Signal to Noise magazine): If you’d like to request a subject for #PortraitNight, you can do so by leaving a comment here or …

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Portrait Night 2/22 (The Men of Fleetwood Mac)

I’m still on a music kick as far as my regular weekly portrait-drawing goes. For this past Tuesday’s #PortraitNight I did the guys in Fleetwood Mac. I would have liked to have done the whole band, but in the picture I was working from the males were in the foreground and the two women were …

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Portrait Night 2/15 (Tom Waits)

Continuing with my music-themed Tuesday Twitter #PortraitNight, here’s Tom Waits. This turned out OK, but not great. I have a history of mediocre attempts at drawings of Tom Waits. Here’s one I did at a convention for a Waits-themed sketchbook a while back. I like the diaper/”I don’t want to grow up” bit, but the …

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Portrait Night 2/07 (Nick Cave)

Well, I’m obviously slacking off on blog postings since the last thing I posted was also from my Twitter #PortraitNight.. but, here’s another one. This time, my subject is the young Nick Cave. I made a conscious decision last week not to choose a musician, but this week I’m back in music-land again: Here’s the …

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Portrait Night 2/1 (Babe Ruth)

Yep, another Tuesday portrait night has come and gone. Last night’s subject: Babe Ruth. I think the inking here is probably the best part of the drawing; the likeness itself isn’t very good. (I think the overall face shape is the main culprit–too gaunt/angular.) Someone on Twitter thought the red/blue color scheme was an Obama …

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