#drawing
somes folks involved in theatre in canada. images from the cbc’s theatre section.
i’ve grown quite accustomed to drawing with ballpoint and on this particular day i forgot the one i favoured at the time. i wasn’t really feeling the drawings that day but it’s probably good to use more of the shitload of marking sticks i seem to have amassed. i even went back to graphite and charcoal but i’m too lazy to scan those at the moment. also, they’re not very good, ha ha.
well i guess i’m late on the gravy train of depicting america’s latest president. i’m not really one to follow politics too closely but i do appreciate that he has made some changes rather quickly. on one hand i feel sorry for the guy coming into such a horrendous situation but his historical administration really only has one direction to go and that’s up. i guess bush can be thanked for that one, huh? no, i don’t know all the issues before you go blasting me. here’s to a political figure that actually has me interested for once. barack obama in moleskine, 10 x 9″
i love that these birds can hover but i didn’t realise that they can also fly backwards. i had seen so many images of them mowin’ down on nectar but i never thought to secondarily observe their predatory nature. having the highest metabolism of just about all animals, they typically eat more than their weight in food daily. definitely one of my favourite birds. ballpoint pen in moleskine, 9×10″.
10.04.2009:
illustration friday‘s theme this week is fleeting and while i have thinking about starting from scratch with one of their themes (which i have yet to do) this one came to mind for a few reasons.
st vincent has an album coming out soon and i think i’m looking forward to it (i try not to do this because the albums invariably end up failing to deliver). the strangers sounds pretty solid though so hopefully that’s a sign of things to come. regardless, her voice is pretty amazing. a great bit about her first album, marry me, is that its name supposedly stems from arrested development. annie clark in moleskine, 8×10″
actually, the word she used was sate but hey. she tactfully asked for a portrait but i thought i’d subject her to my wacky placement choices. sucka! actually, i hope she likes this, ha ha. i picked from a few facebook photos and am assuming her drummer boy better half was the image capturing apparatus. ballpoint pen, 10 x 9″, in moleskine.
i’ve been checking out andrew carver’s
blog for a while and he has a tonne of photos of various bands which i sometimes use as references for my ‘band life drawings.’ even though these are from stills i like to think of them as life drawings considering that a lot of these musicians strike some similar poses whether they like to think so or not. there’s so much going on at these shows that these
frozen moments in time are pretty interesting to see, at least to me. bison b.c., critical convictions, and barn burner via the national capital rock blog, in moleskine.
my gymbag & mittens and a photo by
gary steer. ballpoint pen in moleskine.
so
metric‘s next album is making it’s way out there and i think i really like it – possibly my favourite so far. i’ve been checking their site and have come to appreciate the process exposure for what seems to be their first single (help, i’m alive). i remember being unsure if i’d like even this song after hearing the, er, soft, skeleton of its origins. having heard the couple of versions in between and the finished product, i’m pleasantly surprised especially considering that i haven’t been overly happy with the albums that i’ve been anticipating. original photos by
carrie musgrave. metric in moleskine.
i’m not much for reality tv but i find ramsay’s show pretty entertaining. some of the people they choose are brilliant for the show but absolute dolts in the kitchen. a culinary instructor who never went to culinary school? he’s right, she is a damn thief!! hahaha. amazingly and ironically, the vast majority of the images i searched for had him smiling and being a nice guy. gordon ramsay in moleskine.
