Efterklang with Nancy Elizabeth

F**king brilliant gig. Unfortunately missed a lot of Nancy Elizabeth, but of what I did catch, and hear, and draw, she's top notch stuff and I'll be looking her up and catching her properly next time. Efterklang was one of the best decisions I've made this year. An affable, very talented, cohesive and inspiring outfit, with great audience interaction, the finale of which they clambered gracefully off the stage then ambled through the crowd who were already singing along, until they finally finished at the back of the venue - amazing. Perhaps it could have been a pied piper initiative, but I saw quite a few happy folks in the bar and in the street clasping their newly purchased Efterklang possessions. Lovely to have Tim the new trumpeter from Camera Obscura up on stage in a couple of cameos.

One drawing of Efterklang, and yes, another step-by-step mobile phone sketch of Nancy Elizabeth. I'm enjoying having the simplest one as my mobile phone wallpaper.

I tell y'all should grab yourself a phone that you can draw on - imagine all the cool live drawings you could do!!

Mobile Phone Drawings - Having a bit of fun with 'Me'

This was a bit of fun. Thought it was about time I gave my own 'coupon' a whirl.
The following were all drawn on my mobile phone, hence the rectangular composition.
I always hate colouring in my eyes. I feel they've got more emotion in the first and second drawing with no colour.
But there you go, step by step in an hour and a bit. Here's the results.

Unique Portfolios for Weddings

On the odd occasion I draw at weddings, and specifically keep them at a minimum so that I enjoy them more. I've been very lucky to draw at some pretty special weddings, everyone of them different.

I'm currently in the process of looking up different ways to present the drawings. Today I've been looking up hand made paper/card presentation folders and am so far not finding anything I like. As often happens when searching though, I come across very interesting sites and though they might not give me what I'm looking for, they are useful and inspiring in other ways.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/26/50-beautiful-and-creative-portfolio-designs/ This website is really nice, showcasing great online portfolios.

Not what I'm looking for, which is a beautiful and handmade folder in which to present the original drawings to the happy couple. Will probably end up making it myself as normal. But otherwise, I thought I'd share the link.

I'll add more links as I find them for Presentation folders/portfolios/binders/cases.
http://www.portfolios-and-art-cases.com/

Ten Years of ATP, Les Savy Fav and Drawing the Experience...

Is this a judgement or a joke? (Last picture)


Tim on 'keyboard'

Tim in 'repose'


The Drawing that Tim 'touched up'.

Tim in the crowd with the knocked yellow spotlight.

Drawing Les Savy Fav on my phone last night, got my phone hijacked by the main man Tim who proceeded to draw in his own 'savoury' details, then gave me a big bearded sweaty kiss - Took me ages to get his make up off!

After all that excitement decided to head through to Edinburgh for a top class party.

Mobile Phone Drawing, The Storyteller, Just goes to show...

Mags the Storyteller telling the story of Wolly Dod at Eid on the Drive @ The Tramway

I did a range of drawings at this festival which were supposed to be projected inside but due to some misunderstanding we weren't allowed. Ah well. Future projects.

I drew the above picture and was really quite enchanted with Mags, who is a really lovely storyteller, very engaging with all ages, and lovely to have her music (so important for the emotions and the imagination!). She also plays Indonesian Gamalan music, but I've yet to experience this.

I texted her the picture after her story, and now The Storytelling Centre Glasgow has commissioned me to paint this as a mural on their wall, which I'm really quite looking forward to - don't often get the chance to paint LARGE!

Which just proves my theory - keep on keeping on. You'll get there, most definitely.

Natasha Khan and BFL

One of my favourite songs.

(I could draw Natasha for hours. She certainly provides a magical performance.)

Tonight had a lot going against it. It involved a scatty artist for a start, who had AMAZINGLY forgotten her pencils and had to improvise with what she had, though did manage to hastily purchase a bog-standard HB from the newsagents across the road. I also lost my bottle - my lucky one that holds the grit. But it was found again. (Seriously, I do have a lucky bottle of water!) I also spilt another bottle of water. Luckily, it wasn't the kind of gig where you could hear a pin drop. Lastly, the position of where I was, meant the sound was distorted. Luckily though, most songs sounded great, and for any that perturbed me at the odd sounds I was getting, I remembered the songs from what I'd listened to while working on some pictures earlier today. I'm going to attach an old picture I drew of BFL 2 years ago, and new pictures from tonight. A bad workman blames his tools. I hope I can always adapt to what I have at the time.

And now for the oldie picture. Note the big one has been somewhat 'accentuated'.

Performing 'Trophy' amidst others.

Crayon Physics

I have met a new friend who is hugely into comics, art and graphic design. Now and again he throws me a bone of genius and inspiration. This is a link to one. Have you ever heard of Crayon Physics? Watch, and be hooked.

http://www.crayonphysics.com/

http://www.vimeo.com/2846240 for another very good example.