As if I couldn’t get enough sketching at the Swansea Fringe the other weekend, I went back the following Friday to the Fringe after-party for some more rock and scribbling. Here’s local band False Hope For The Savage. They’re cool!
Sometimes when I’m sketching, I’m not happy with the result I get with the materials I’m using. That happened with the singer of Zed Motel, a band at Crowleys Rock Bar during Swansea Fringe the other weekend. I liked the effect of the Inktense blocks that I used with a reservoir brush, but they were too chunky to get any of her facial features. It’s hard to get a likeness anyway, between movement and the intrusion of the microphone, but there’s slightly more detail with a ballpoint pen into a smaller sketchbook.
Here’s another sketch from the recent Swansea Fringe, where I cwtched into a corner of Crowleys Rock Bar and drew musicians for 3 nights. It’s not easy sketching bands, there are lots of people on stage and they tend to move around a lot. I have to make a decision who and what to draw and there are different reasons for the choices I make. When I saw The Rock Foxes straight away I thought “I gotta draw her boots!” And so I did. 😀 You can see the comment I wrote on the sketch …. “punk in a red frock“. Brilliant band.
It’s been just over a week now since my three-night stint as a Swansea Fringe sketcher. It was a great idea and seemed to go down well with the bands. I’m well happy, I did 30 sketches, a lot of work in a relatively short time. And loads of really good practice too. Drawing and listening to rock and metal – living my best life! Here are two musicians from a cracking local band, Swanhill. I loved their set. Check them out here.
It’s #StandingStoneSunday again on social media and here’s one in a hedge in Carmarthenshire. You can read more about its intriguing captivity here. I drew it on my adventures with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and filmmaker Melvyn Williams a few years back, in the days before the Covid lockdown. All the megaliths on our travels are connected to the tale, Y Twrch Trwyth (The Boar Hunt) in The Mabinogion, the Welsh book of myth and legend.
Here are another couple of sketches from Crowleys Rock Bar during Swansea Fringe last weekend. The singer of Teal Flood is on the left, and on the right a musician from bi-lingual band The Night School. These are very quick drawings so it’s not always possible to get an accurate likeness and I’m sure the singer would have preferred me to have drawn a smaller mouth 😀 But sometimes that’s just how a sketch turns out.
The guitarist from The Night School wore a really cool Annibyniaeth (Independence) T shirt from here….
My three-night stint as a Swansea Fringe artist yielded 30 sketches …. and a lot of aches! I was hunched over my sketchbooks for about 4 hours each evening and my body wasn’t too happy. But I LOVED it. Drawing and listening to rock and metal – like I’d died and gone to rock heaven! Here are two sketches of “Heavy On The Ride”. They’re fab … listen to them here ….
I spent three evenings in rock heaven over the weekend, sketching musicians at Crowley’s Rock Bar for Swansea Fringe. It’s good discipline because you have to be quick to catch performers who, mostly, move around a lot. Although bass players are generally quite still, coolly delivering a killer bass line with hardly a flicker of movement. I adore bass players. Anyway, enough of that! Here are a couple of scribbles from “Ria Plays” set. They’re fab, go and have a listen here.
I’m shattered and aching! I spent the past 3 evenings in Crowley’s Rock Bar sketching performers at Swansea Fringe 2022 – 30 drawings in all, a lot of work. Drawing drummers is a bit mad – they move so fast and so hard. The way the stage is laid out, most of the drummers were almost out of sight at the back, but these two bands put them at the front. On the left, Altered Myths and on the right, Mines. Follow the links to find out more, they’re both awesome ….
Just back from seeing a whole lot of bands. I’m one of the Swansea Fringe official sketchers and here’s one from last night at Crowley’s Rock Bar, a really talented rock duo called Rainyday Rainbows. Awesome. Now it’s time for bed …..
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