Apr 05 2011
Yikes! I’ve gone a whole week between #PortraitNight posts without a real, written blog post. Oh well, blame my daughter’s preschool being out last week for spring break. Tonight’s subject is rock-and-rollist Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. I dig pretty much all the early Pretenders records, but I’m partial to the first two records with …
Mar 01 2011
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 …
Feb 28 2011
I have really good luck with commissions. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a commission that involved drawing something that I didn’t really like. Most recently, I got a commission to do a pinup of the great Mike Allred/Peter Milligan superhero team, X-Statix. The book started in the early 2000s (initially as X-Force) and it …
Feb 25 2011
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 …
Feb 16 2011
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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