Photo Outline Drawing: Uncle Lucius

I’m still reeling from Tuesday night’s concert of Uncle Lucius so today’s post is on that same topic. I’ve been listening to the two CD’s I have of the band, but sadly, the live album I have of theirs keeps skipping and is all scratchy sounding. I need to look into getting the disc cleaned, because it seems like I’ve listened to it so much that it’s breaking down! I’ll keep it of course though; that’s the disc I got the band to sign!

Anyways, below is another one of my “photo outline drawings.” This time it’s done of the band’s photo that they’ve got plastered to the band’s web site. I switched things up a little bit with this piece. I decided to opt out of doing faces, and mainly just keep the body outlines. I also actually had some fun drawing in the speakers and such behind them. The drawing I did didn’t initially include the background, but I like the added visual rhythm that it contributes to the composition. I think the drawing is pretty successful because you can tell who each band member is, even with minimal representation.

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Outline Drawings Part 3

In leu of the typical blog entry, today I am opting for something a little different. Lately, I have noticed that this blog of mine doesn’t have enough about the visual arts in it. I need to change that. I am an artist, after all.

In the past, I have done a few of what I like to call, “Photo Outline Drawings.” Today, I have a few new ones for your viewing pleasures. My new favorite person in the world has been musician and cutie, Mayer Hawthorne:

So today I have given him the high honor of being the subject of my latest and greatest artwork. First we have the original photograph that I worked from:

And next up we have the two Outline Drawings I did based on the photograph:

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This is my artwork. Please do not use without my expressed written permission.

Outline Drawings Part 2

I have made a number of these Photo Outline Drawings since my last post about starting them. Let’s see if you can figure out what celebrity this one is of!

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Photo Outline Drawings

So my latest artsy thrill, has been doing what I call, Photo Outline Drawings. To put it simply enough, I take a photo of someone (so far I have only doing pictures of males) and put the photo in Photoshop. I make a new layer and simply, trace the image in the new layer. I’ve been using one color, and a fairly small brush size. The end result is pretty nifty looking. It’s fun and doesn’t take much time either. The main challenge I have been encountering is to actually make the drawing look like the person. It’s a pretty simple and minimalistic drawing, so the lines have to have enough character to properly represent the individual. Below is an example of one drawing I did of President Obama. I also experimented with some shading in another version below…

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This is my artwork. Please do not use without my expressed written permission.

DJ King Art Gallery

In yesterday’s post, I let the world know about my new favorite guy on the Washington Capitals, DJ King. Sure, most of you may not understand my appreciation for the team’s understated underdog, but that’s ok. I’m here to spread some DJ King awareness to my fellow Caps fans. So today’s post is showcasing some fan art I took way too long to create today. I don’t claim perfection, but it does (thankfully) resemble this great man. So enjoy today’s mini art gallery for DJ King!

R.I.P. Dear Friend

 

Sean

 

Drunk Dreaming

I always seem to have strange and very memorable dreams after a night of drinking, and last night was no exception. It seems like each time I experience this phenomenon, the dreams just get weirder and weirder. I suppose when my imagination meets alcohol, the two run wild. It’s not a surprising product of the means, but what my mind does come up with is pretty out of the ordinary. Take last night’s dream:

I dreamt I was in San Francisco with my brother and we were kidnapped by a mob of Hipsters. We got separated and I was taken to a rocky beach on the Pacific. One of the Hipster girls told me she wanted to give me a tour of the city and that we were going to start at the shore. I was excited about the beach and went over and put my foot in the water. I noticed a huge group of dolphins right in the surf, sticking up, like they wanted food or something. They were being very vocal, despite the fact that it looked like the only way they could fit in the extremely shallow water was if they were chopped in half. When I pulled my foot out of the water, it had painful cuts all over it. My Hipster companion informed me of these small, furry, gopher-like creatures that hide in the sand and then gnaw away your skin like leeches or something. I was disappointed that she had not informed me of this beforehand. While I was left to tend to my wounds, my brother and I were reunited with the rest of my family. We were then taken to some sort of fire-circus act that was in town. My friend, Walker was apparently starring in the show. I spotted him atop a tall unicycle juggling object on fire. When I called out to him, he was delighted and surprised to see me.

That’s about where the dream ended. I have no idea how my imagination came to make all this up. The only thing I do know, is that yesterday I watched the trailer for the movie, “Dolphin Tale” which is most likely why I was thinking about amputated dolphins. None the less, it was extremely odd…