{"id":5310,"date":"2014-12-15T17:55:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5310"},"modified":"2014-12-15T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T23:00:09","slug":"5310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=5310","title":{"rendered":"A Gallery of all my Aquarium Drunkard Musician\/Band Drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my\u00a0(many) trouble areas\u00a0art-wise is facial likenesses. If you follow my work you probably recall that in 2011 I set about trying to improve in this arena via a weekly “portrait night” drawing–you can see the end results in a gallery here<\/a>. After that concluded, though, I wanted to find a way to make myself draw facial likenesses on a regular basis, even if not as frequent as once a week.<\/p>\n

As you can tell by the subjects of the original portrait night project, I really enjoy drawing musicians–so it seemed natural to devise something music related. So, I reached out to the folks behind one of my favorite music blogs, Aquarium Drunkard<\/a>, and volunteered to do some illustrations for them. They have a regular feature called “The Lagniappe Sessions” in which bands\/musicians do covers of some of their favorite songs by other artists and I began doing illustrations for this feature in mid-2012. I’ve gotten too busy at the moment to continue doing it, but I wanted to post a gallery of my drawings here since I haven’t really been posting them anywhere else.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, if any artists\/illustrators\/cartoonists out there are interested in taking up the Lagniappe Sessions mantle, contact Aquarium Drunkard’s Justin Gage<\/a>. \u00a0It’s not a paying gig, but it’s sure great practice!<\/p>\n

As with any project of this sort, some turned out better than others. If I had to pick an absolute favorite, I’d probably go with Benjamin Booker. (Also: his self-titled record is fantastic and easily one of the best releases of 2014.)\u00a0Here they are.<\/p>\n\n\t\t