{"id":5083,"date":"2014-04-14T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T13:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2014-04-13T11:39:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:39:51","slug":"alphabands-m-is-for-marvin-gaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5083","title":{"rendered":"Alphabands &#8211; M is for Marvin Gaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M is for Marvin Gaye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marvin-gaye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5084\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=5084\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marvin-gaye.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,938\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"marvin gaye\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marvin-gaye-300x281.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marvin-gaye.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5084\" alt=\"marvin gaye\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marvin-gaye.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marvin-gaye.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2014\/04\/marvin-gaye-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>If you don&#8217;t agree that <em>What&#8217;s Going On<\/em> is one of the ten greatest records of all time, I&#8217;m afraid we can no longer be friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I started then scrapped a drawing of Matthew Sweet for this week&#8217;s &#8220;M&#8221; entry, but I&#8217;m much happier with how this turned out. It&#8217;s obviously not in the style I&#8217;ve been using for most of these entries, but I was really wanting to play around with some of illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/frenden.myshopify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Frenden&#8217;s new Manga Studio brushes<\/a>. The line art here is some sort of charcoal brush from his new dry brush set and the sepia textures are from his watercolor set.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p>AlphaBands is a weekly online collaborative project in which illustrators and cartoonists draw a band or musician for one letter of the alphabet each week for 26 weeks. See the art and find out more at the AlphaBands tumblr:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alphabands.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/alphabands.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M is for Marvin Gaye If you don&#8217;t agree that What&#8217;s Going On is one of the ten greatest records of all time, I&#8217;m afraid we can no longer be friends. I started then scrapped a drawing of Matthew Sweet for this week&#8217;s &#8220;M&#8221; entry, but I&#8217;m much happier with how this turned out. 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