Superb lighting. There is a nice contrast between soft back ground (the player) and sharp foreground (the music instrument). As if he thinks about his love, the guitar.
Finally another musician? I recognise him in your work. Must be a lot younger than, or I miss his wrinkles. It's a little bit mysterious. Nice contrast with the guitar. That tool needs to be there... Nice job John...next, Mick Jagger?
I drew Mick from a photo in Rolling Stone magazine...the close-up detail is still posted...I'll never try another backlit, sweaty, silk, tuxedo shirt (with pencil) again! Thanks for your commenbt. I think the year was about 1990 for this pic of Keith...so, he was only about a hundred years old at the time!!!
Thank you very much nightingale 6.
BTW, your Matthew Bellamy paintings and the especially (in my opinion) the pen and ink of him on the stairs are totally outstanding and also cool!
Thank you very much I don't know what to say I'm really glad that you like my Matthew Bellamy paintings. And I really enjoyed drawing that marker pen picture of him, because you have to think carefully when you can't use eraser. It's really challenging.
If you mean that drawing I posted, thanks so much. If you mean little Robert Zimmerman (wasn't it?) out of Minnesota, I dunno about that! Well...wait a minute...he was very cool...and maybe you're a visionary and could tell he was gonna be a gazillionaire
LOL! I fell in love with Dylan when I was 17. And never stopped. I fell in love with the younger image of him. Blondoe On Blonde era .I have 40 vinyls by him. back then, I knew he had something. He was a poet, a visonary.
Well...I'm impressed. I think Al commented on an earlier portrait I did of Dylan saying, "The greatest poet." I saw him as a revolutionary. That's why I liked him.
this, for me, is what portrait work is all about....perfect composition, drama, style, light, its all here...simply breathtaking..even the focusing on the hand!..i love it
Well, hell, thanks a lot Shaun. I think it's a lot like your portrait of Liam Gallagher. Which is to say, it's more of a painting than a portrait per se. That's a time honored tradition from the medieval court painters to Goya to the present day. Not that I really think this compares to anything great but thank you kindly anyway. (It's a huge digital file...so maybe I'll blow it up to 30 x 40 and see if it sells)
ahhh yes, gotta love Goya, i love his darkness and the fact that it was so different to the neoclassical precise work before him....romanticism is a world apart for me......i love his nightmarish take on things....he's up ther in my top 5 painters of all time...can't wait to see more of your work. Keep it up...its very inspirational.
yep...Goya rolled right over a lot of conventions...an old instructor told me there were some who said his elongated look at the world was the result not of genius but of astigmatism!... probably just a little pack of critics
of course a pack of critics, your right. For me Goya will always be someone who balanced quite firmly on the 'genius bordering insanity' line. He was the fisrt artisit that made me 'sit up' and take notice of my schoolteacher when i studied art history, up until then i couldn't take another lecture on neoclassicism...!....i think i would have quit if it were not for Goya's work
nice to hear - I didn/t see the light at the end of the tunnel until Cezanne - but, yes, Goya was way ahead of time in his way - and that line between genius & insanity - always blurred isn't it
Cezanne just opened my eyes (and mind) beyond the way Eisner, Crumb and others could draw comics, the way Ingress, Degas, Durer, Delacroix, Da Vinci and others could draw and paint...to focus my own primitive appreciation of what Matisse, Monet, Roualt, Soutine and others were inventing -
school daze...groundwork for 1000 years as ad agency creative director - now, I just do a little of that + a rather lazy pursuit of art & illustration sales...and...I still like to write radio commercials - it's all good!
ahhh Eugene Delacroix,!!! now there your talking about one of the true greats as far as the art of drawing goes...i guess i just could not open up to the world of impressionist and post impressionist style enough when i was young....its always good that your in creative work tho!
Delacroix could sure paint some battles - and horses - and Sabine Women (?) anyhow...yeah...in many ways it was easy & fun "money for nothin', checks for free!"
u have a day job? - btw -u could probably have done it if u wanted , but... I colorized your gilmour picture just for a grin - hope you don't mind
he shure could your right..Yea i hae a day job but its in the world of fixing people!..i work in physiotherapy. I do commisions on some art here and there but paint mainly for the love of it.....i still draw mainly comic book ink work and love your take on the Brian Bolland style Joker you have done....i love lots of comic work but for me the greatest piece was of Simon Bisley...his take on Joe Pineapples was the best there has been...also loved Chris Warners work in the 90's on alien versus predator! I'd love to see the colorized gilmour u have done...of course i dont mind...is it somewhere on your profile? I cant find it...?
Physiotherapy is a noble field. Advertising practitioners are rated just above lawyers and just below garbage collectors. Thanks for the mention of Bisley. I had to look him up and see now that he's great! He makes Frazetti look like "Heidi's Little Tea Party." The colorized Gilmour is just a 15 minute hack job of your painting with Photoshop color balance. I'll stick it up in my gallery for a while...but wanted your OK first.
ahhh yes of course...i love the colourisation - its really taken a whole new look on it for me. Thanks for you look at it. And yes Simon Bisley really is a great artist - there is s piece of work he did on Joe Pineapples character - where he is standing with his foot up on some bodies staring down his rifle....it really is something else!! - this is a link to a small pic of it i found on the web...the original cover is very large and detailed..www.dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk/sjoe2.jpg
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