It was the annual Swansea Fringe again this weekend and I immersed myself in Heavy Metal, Rock and Scribbling at a couple of Swansea’s heavier venues. Here’s my first drawing of the Fringe, at Hangar 18, of the singer Sarah from the Bangor-based Nu-Metal band Celavi. She wore this amazing stage outfit of black PVC and pink tulle and I interpreted her with a black Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen, size 0.5, and a pink Inktense block used with a water reservoir brush.
I love drawing at gigs, the music and atmosphere influence me. It’s dark mind, and I can barely see the paper as I draw, and I have to work fast, so it’s a bit of a surprise the next day when I get to see what I’ve scribbled in the daylight.
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