Tag: Music

Portrait Night 7/12 (Ian MacKaye)

Well, I did Henry Rollins last week, so it seemed natural for this week’s #PortraitNight subject to be Minor Threat front-man Ian MacKaye. Should I draw Glen Danzig next week? If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.

Portrait Night 7/5 (Henry Rollins)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Black Flag front-man and Professional Angry Guy Henry Rollins. I’ve actually been thinking a lot about ol’ Hank these days since I’m reading Our Band Could be Your Life. It’s easy to razz Rollins for is often over-the-top anger/bitterness, but he’s a pretty smart guy and some of the things he …

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Defending the Honorable Art of Cartooning on WBEZ’s Sound Opinions

Hey, I’m on this week’s Sound Opinions, defending the honorable art of cartooning! I love the podcast and listen every week, so it was really fun to have them pick my phoned-in comments to run on the air. Last week they made some offhand remark along the lines of “if your songs can’t make the …

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Portrait Night 6/21 (Dennis Wilson)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is The Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson. This is the second–and only slightly less terrible–of two finished sketches I did of him. I could probably get a decent likeness with another iteration or two, but there’s a point at which I’ve got to just draw the line time-wise for these sketchbook exercises.  My …

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Portrait Night 6/14 (Morrissey)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is mopey 90s alt-rocker Morrissey. I changed the color of the light-colored shirt in the reference photo. Everyone knows that Morrissey wears black on the outside because black is how he feels on the inside. If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section …

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