Dec 27 2011

Portrait Night 12/27 (Margaret Thatcher)

As with last week’s #PortraitNight drawing, this one’s kinda lame. The holidays brouhaha is killing me, people! I promise: before I complete my year of weekly portraits, I’ll do at least one more that I can spend some time on and get a decent image from. In the meantime, here’s a quick Margaret Thatcher:

As a child of the 80s, my knowledge of Margaret Thatcher–and pretty much every polititan  from that period–was gained through listening to punk rock… YA HEAR THAT, ALEXANDER HAIG??!!!

If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.

 

Dec 26 2011

K is for Killmoulis

You can follow the other “k” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures.

Sorry about the cruddy cell phone pic, but I’m out of town for the holidays and scanner-less. I’ll update with a better image soon. Edit: now with decent scan. Also: original now for sale. From the Fiend Folio…

K is for Killmoulis

The original art for this is for sale here.

Dec 21 2011

Portrait Night 12/20 (Roy Harper)

I’m so busy with pre-Christmas stuff that I almost punted on this evening’s #PortraitNight drawing. Here, though, is a quick and sloppy drawing of Roy Harper. My apologies for the cruddy cell phone pics, but it’s far far too late to crank up the ol’ scanner. Edit – here’s a scanned image:

And here’s the original, from Shindig magazine:

Not the greatest… but, hey, what do you expect at midnight on a “school day”? I think it lost a little in the inking, actually. Here’s a blurry cell phone pic of the pencils:

If you’d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter.

Dec 19 2011

J is for Jaculi

You can follow the other “J” entries as people post them to Twitter this morning by following the #AlphaBeasts hashtag. View all previous AlphaBeasts entries at the AlphaBeasts Tumblr: http://alphabeasts.tumblr.com/. You can also find some submission guidelines there, as well as links to bestiaries and lists of creatures.

The pickings for “J” D&D creatures were surprisingly slim. There weren’t a whole lot of “J” creatures with illustrations to begin with and once the sentient creatures were eliminated (leaving only proper beasts) things were even more paltry. But, you win some/you lose some. From the Fiend Folio….

J is for Jaculi

The original art for this is for sale here.

Dec 15 2011

Come On Thunderchild – Live At The Tremont

Before attempting to make a living drawing stuff, I had another equally foolish, idealistic, and difficult-to-make-money-at pursuit: music. In the mid-90’s I was in a band called Come On Thunderchild, based near Charlotte, N.C. We spent a few years touring on and off, eventually got signed to an indie label, and made what I think still stands up as a pretty damn good record.

On thing that you’ll find out pretty quickly if you have an interest in pre-2000’s regional indie rock is that “everything” is for sure not “on the internet.” There’s a definite wall you hit around the year 2000 or so where information about regional music just kind of vanishes. A lot of independent weeklies weren’t online before then and neither were many of the other press outlets reviewing records at the time. I’ve discovered this the hard way, as I’ve recently (albeit slowly) been trying to digitally archive what music and video I can scrounge together from my band and a few other bands that we palled around with at the time.

Given all that, I was pretty excited to find out during some email back and forth with Charlotte videographer/director Jay Thomas that some footage of our CD release party might be still kicking around. Apparently, the tapes for this show turned up when Jay was moving and he was kind enough to get them together digitally and post the show on video. This was filmed on “The Casbah” stage of the Tremont Music Hall in Charlotte, NC in maybe ’96 or so. Please note: No blog comments regarding my attire will be responded to.