Chamone!

Michael Jackson R.I.P. (1958–2009)
He may have been a bit loopy, but he made some damn good music!

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...

"O Portfolio, Portfolio! Wherefore art thou Portfolio?"

Okay, so I'm back to my original idea for this series of drawings, illustrations of singers and bands that I like (as opposed to just drawing female singers that I fancy!). Here is Thom Yorke from Radiohead, acting rather nervous while wearing a homemade robot costume... what a "Paranoid Android" he is... *groan!*



Incidentally, if anyone has a spare day ticket for this year's Reading Festival on the Sunday, then let me know. Radiohead are headlining and I really want to go...

"I have no portfolio/And I only show where there's free alcohol"

My mini portfolio project to draw illustrations of some of my favourite singers and bands has somehow started to turn into drawing female singers that I fancy!

Here is my latest drawing of Lovefoxxx, the lead singer from Brazilian indie-electro band, CSS – Cansei de Ser Sexy.

As you can see, she really does love foxes. Although the fox doesn't seem too happy about it...

All we hear is Portfolio Ga Ga...

It's a funny time at the moment! This is the last week of my MA course before hanging our work for the Final Show and submitting all my work from the year. I've got my work printed and framed ready to hang, and have sorted out my portfolio (to an extent). I need to sort out my sketchbooks and drawings from the year, and am also working on a few last minute pieces to add to my portfolio.

I was thinking of something Jonny Hannah said to us when he came in to give a talk earlier in the year, about how it is good to incorporate your personal interests into your illustration work, so I thought I'd do a series of comic portraits of some of my favourite bands and singers, as I really enjoy music, going to gigs, and listening to my iPod when I'm doing my work.

Here's the first one, of my future wife Natasha Khan, Bat For Lashes, complete with cricket bat and batman t-shirt...