{"id":4899,"date":"2013-10-31T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T23:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2013-10-31T20:54:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:54:36","slug":"lou-reed-1942-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4899","title":{"rendered":"Lou Reed – 1942-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a drawing of Lou Reed I started the evening he died and just wrapped up this evening. Since his death, people far more eloquent and far more knowledgeable about music than I have written about Lou Reed’s significance and importance. I’ll just say this: I discovered the Velvet Underground when I was in high school in the 1980s and theirs is some of the only music I’ve never stopped listening to since then. Lou Reed’s made a lot of records over the years. Some were great. Some were… not so great. But he was never complacent and and never content to make a record he’d already made.<\/p>\n

The image is based on my two favorite post-Velvets Reed solo records: the pose and clothing are from a Transformer<\/em>-era \u00a0photo session and the color scheme is based on the blue hue featured on the record The Blue Mask<\/em>. It was sketched in pencil, then inked and colored in Manga Studio.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a drawing of Lou Reed I started the evening he died and just wrapped up this evening. Since his death, people far more eloquent and far more knowledgeable about music than I have written about Lou Reed’s significance and importance. I’ll just say this: I discovered the Velvet Underground when I was in high … <\/p>\n

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