Another quick little sketch from the audience at the recent gig at Elysium. It was a fab gig with the Jerry Williams Band, Goat Major and Mister Bison.

This Was Hard!

I was on a roll sketching at the recent gig at Elysium, but it doesn’t always work out. This one was really hard to do. The musician had a distinctive stance and that, coupled with the angle of his guitar, made this scribble difficult.

More Heavy Metal Legs

More heavy metal legs I scribbled at the Elysium gig Husb and I were at last weekend. Male metal fans seem to like wearing short trousers, so I get lots of practice drawing men’s legs with socks and trainers.

The Stance!

This guy at the recent gig at Elysium had a great stance, so I scribbled him. I was listening to the band “Goat Major” at the time and really getting into the “occult doom/stoner metal” groove as I scribbled away, it made my pen strokes much more intense, I think.

I’ve still got it!

When I’m scribbling away at a gig, there’s a lot of things to take into consideration that you don’t get when you’re drawing in a studio setting. For a start, the musicians and audience tend to be moving around a lot, which is a right pain to draw. Then there’s usually low lighting so the performers’ faces and often a lot of their bodies are obscured by darkness. And to top it off, I’m often itching to break away from sketching to do a bit of headbanging. I’ve still got it, y’know 😀

This was scribbled at a gig Husb and I went to at Elysium last night. It was bloomin’ fantastic. This guy is from Goat Major, an “occult doom / stoner metal” band.

Heavy Metal Legs

Just back from an awesome gig at Elysium…more on that tomorrow. It was heavy, mostly metal, and there are always plenty of heavy metal legs to scribble.

Re-Cluttering?!

A few years ago, before Covid, I was on a decluttering rampage and gave away these traditional Asian woodblocks because, to tell the truth, I never used them. Then the person I gave them to went on a decluttering rampage recently and asked if I wanted them back. I said “Oh go on then” because I think I might actually use them now. So what’s it called when you take your Decluttered stuff back? Re-Cluttering? Or maybe De-Decluttering?

Petrichor.

After weeks of dry sunshine the weather broke this evening with a spectacular thunderstorm and downpour. There’s a lovely cool and fresh feeling outside and I now have a chance to use the word “petrichor”, which is the smell of the ground immediately after a rainstorm. My garden smells of petrichor and it’s lovely.

A Free Bus Pass.

Now that I’m an Old Git I have a free bus pass, so I used it to go visiting today. I had a bit of time to kill on the return journey so I sat and sketched for a few minutes, I guess about 7 or 8, just enough time to work on some perspective and proportions, but not detail. That’s OK. Sketching is practice, you don’t have to turn out a masterpiece each time 😀

It was mostly other Old Gits on the bus until we reached the University and young students got on. Boomers and Zoomers. The ones in the middle were missing.

Sketchbook Archives: 34

Some of my output from November 2013, when I routinely pasted brown parcel paper into my sketchbooks, I liked the way that the random shapes interacted with the line drawings.