Tag: Portrait Night

Portrait Night 7/19 (The Minutemen)

It’s a “three-fer” for tonight’s #PortraitNight : D. Boone, George Hurley, and Mike Watt–better know as The Minutemen. You don’t see young wanna-be punks wandering around in Minutemen shirts, but as much as I love The Misfits, Black Flag, etc. I think The Minutemen were the best band of that era–and one of the best …

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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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Portrait Night 6/28 (Ambrose Burnside)

Tonight’s #PortraitNight subject is Union Army general Ambrose Burnside. If I get flack for being from the South and drawing a Union officer, I’ll edit with Photoshop and add “stink lines.” 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 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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