Thoughts on this blog's direction, plus some Duran Duran art.

I still want to illustrate/take a picture for every Thomas Dolby song, but I'm thinking I want to add other music related art to this blog. A staggering percentage of my art is inspired by the different artists that I listen to, and I feel like limiting this blog to Thomas Dolby art would feel a little stifling. Also, my musical obsessions have been running around like headless chickens lately, so I don't think I can really limit myself to one musician's work. Case in point? For the last two days I've listened to nothing but Howard Jones. Several years ago, when I was in college I had a miniature obsession concerning his music. I only own three of his albums now (I only had two back then), but he's one of my favorite artists.

Anyway.

In this post, I want to include some Duran Duran related art that I've made thus far. In subsequent posts, I'll include other music related art I've made. And I'll work on being a little more organized as far as recording which Thomas Dolby songs I've already made art for, and which songs I have yet to interpret. I might also take the liberty of listing every Duran Duran song, and every Howard Jones song, and any other artist I like enough to potentially give a shit about interpreting all their songs through my art.

OKAY, ENOUGH RAMBLING. I'm actually going to post shit now.

This is a drawing I did back in 2009, inspired by a song called "What Happens Tomorrow". I got the idea for this by randomly staring at some ivy that started to grow on one of our windows.
I very rarely use any medium aside from markers, so I'm sure it's refreshing to see something done in colored pencil, without the acid trippy rainbow of colors I normally use. I like this piece a lot, but as with a lot of my older art, I would like to try and make it better. For one I feel like the magenta could have faded better into the green.

Done in 2010, this is also different from my normal faire. It was done completely on the computer, using Paint Shop Pro 8. It was drawn using the pen tool, using the computer mouse, since I'm not fortunate enough to own a tablet. It was a lot more time consuming than it appears. As of right now I'm not seeing a whole lot I would be able to improve. I'd probably choose a little lighter shade of gold for the sun rays, but that's all I can think of.

This is a more recent piece, done earlier this year. In March, Duran Duran performed a a concert that was streamed live on youtube, and I watched it. I had a piece of paper in front of me and was doodling on it throughout the concert. This is one of the ideas I came up with. It was drawn on cardboard.

I would like to try doing this one over again, perhaps on regular sketchbook paper, or even on the computer.

This piece was described by my brother as "legit pop art", and I have to say... It's one of my favorite drawings that I've done, ever. I do wish the dot was a little more perfectly round, but I'm not going to nitpick. By the way, the design inside the dot? I have a tattoo of that symbol. The only difference is that mine doesn't have yellow on the inside. And of course, it's not inside a giant dot, but forget that. XD

I hope some day I get a chance to show this to the band, I like it so much. 

The last drawing I'll post for you today is this one:

This was done with a mixture of pastel crayons, crayola markers, and a couple metallic markers I got on sale at Wal-Mart a couple years ago. I was originally a little torked off because it smeared a little more than I had intended, but now I rather like the end result. I do wish I'd done the mouth a little better, and even though my people are never realistic, I can't seem to escape this pox where the peoples' heads are always too big, but oh well.