Creative Project #16: Song lyrics

Creative Project is a Facebook group set up by my friend Cathy as a way of getting people to communicate their ideas, sketches, and creative process out in the open. Each month a quote, theme or word is posted with the aim to create something in response, be it photography, drawings, sketches, videos, music... literally anything creative!

This month's theme was to produce a visual representation of a song lyric. After a bit of thinking, I decided to do something based on the lyrics to Björk's song Hyperballad...


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Portfolio Maybe

Here's my latest illustration of singers/bands that I like, bonkers Icelandic songstress Bjork, wearing the mental swan dress she wore to the Oscars in 2001. Shhhh! It's oh so quiet...

It's, oh, so quiet

I'm off to see Bjork tonight, which seems to garner one of two reactions from people:

"Ooooo! Really? That's so unfair! I want to go and see her!!"

or

"...Why?"

Anyway, I am really looking forward to it, so much so that it gave me an idea for some drawings based on her album covers, which are always interesting. This first one is from her debut solo album Debut, which is quite straightforward compared to some of her later album covers, so I recreated it using a 5B pencil and added a monotone colour scheme using layers in Photoshop...