What's this, Effort?

[tealin]

I decided to put some actual effort into my sketchbook last night, as it had been far too long since such a thing was done. And because it didn't turn out half bad, I left them all BIG and everything, scanned at 75 dpi and not resized! So it's almost life-sized if you've got a 1024x768orwhatever monitor.

Page One - An attempt at caricature of a bus person from yesterday, another cat and another Blouse. But mostly: I had never been able to concieve how people could draw fan art of songs or bands, but The Decembersists have infected my brain. I just got Her Majesty the Decemberists* yesterday (to relieve pressure on poor Picaresque which was being played to death) and there's a song about a chimney sweep who is a bit of a rake, we discover. Anyway, even though I have only one way of drawing cads, I thought I'd doodle this guy up because usually chimney sweeps are adorable if emaciated young boys. And ... gee, does he look a little like that guy who bugs my sister so much? Gosh, that was completely unintentional. (Have I ruined that song for you now, Tula?) Anyway, when I get my life drawing pad back I have another one to scan, from the 'Mariner's Revenge Song.' Mwahahaha. No prizes for guessing who it is.

Page Two - FINALLY got a halfway decent drawing of a street in the Citadel (from Small Gods) ... there is a famous drawing or painting or something, I'm sure, with this composition, the street with the dome in the background, but ... yeah, oh well. And all this done with no reference at all! I need to look up, hmm, maybe Turkey or Spain or Morocco or Jerusalem (or all of them) and, y'know, actually do some work.
Oh yes, and Filler Cats. Hooray for Filler Cats.

*It should be called People With Their Pants Down because I swear every single song has a mention of de-panting or unpantedness in it. And that works for both British and American senses of the word 'pants.' The cover's nice, though.

Comments

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Mine is also "sort of" tom. He he.

What genre is the Decemberists?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Um ... welllll, iTunes calls them 'alternative' but that's such a broad category it almost doesn't mean anything. They're kind of ... if you took Simon and Garfunkel and put them in modern Seattle, added a bit more silliness and a dash of Coldplay, and shook it all up. Kind of. I don't know enough modern music to really say.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Even though they're from Portland, not Seattle. Just thought I should say.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

And also a bit of the Magnetic Fields, what I've heard of them. Probably more them than Coldplay, actually. Quite a lot, come to think of it. They use accordions. ;)

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

I think I need to check out their music sometime. I'm like the queen of downloading-music-on-my-friends'-computers-that-nobody-has-heard anyway. :) (Can't download on my own comp, you see. Dial up...)