July 2010

Look into my eyes, look into my eyes. •waves fingers• It is still July, it is still July.

Ok some much needed holidays were taken and a shuffle did happen at some point. July's song of choice ended up being More Than A Feeling by Boston.

Slice of all time classic fm rock there. The illustration inspired by it shall appear at some time this month - ok it is August after all.

One By One All Day – Gallusness

Quickie this month. Lyrics didn't inspire me all that much but the song title itself did. Thought it'd be nice to get back to some really clean minimal illustration this moth as well. Quite happy with the result considered about adding the lyrics or a song credit but then thought naaaaa less is more.

NEXT…

June 2010

The shuffle has just taken place and the song is…

One By One All Day by The Shins

Ok I'm not familiar with this one, off to listen to it and to check out the lyrics. Catch you at the months end, hopefully.

Twilight Of The Innocents – Gallusness

It's the month start(ish) and it's time to unveil this months solution(s) to the shuffle.

Last weekend I went to my regular Dr Sketchy's Glasgow anti-art school drawing class. It was a steampunk special this month and the models were (largely) resplendent in Victorian/futuristic costume – Well at least until the burlesque element of the afternoon kicked in. This setting and the models (two of which are a couple in real life) made me think that it seemed like a fitting way to answer this months title. Twilight of the Innocents is a suitably apocalyptic track and their own War of the Worlds routine seemed in a similar vibe. I chose to use white conte on black sugar paper to tie in with the twilight idea.

I've uploaded a few of my sketches from the day, nothing too finished or styled. At Dr. Sketchy's you draw to the length of a song, or series of songs. Shown are a mix of 2 songs and 3 songs sketches.

May 2010

Must remember when I commit to an IST shuffle it's handy to actually have your proper I-Tunes handy and available. Only fair to through it open to the world of chance and this months result has turned out to be…

Twilight Of The Innocents by Northern Irish Punk Poppers Ash.

Hmmm, ok. Off to check the lyrics. See you at the months end(ish).

Army Of Me - Gallusness

May the fourth be with you.

Topical puns aside we belatedly have an April entry. It's not big, it's not clever but it's a better effort than my first punt at the title. The lyrics didn't inspire me so much and then there was a distinct lack of other soldiers to make up more of an army. I'm thus a one man army, taking on the world or some unknown foe. Metaphor for life… who knows.

If there are positives to take it's nice to be back into the swing of IST. Hopefully a bit more drawing and possibly something a bit more meaningful will appear at the end of the month. Guess that will all depend on what the song title is though.

Shuffle to follow tomorrow.

April 2010

I-Tunes has been shuffled and the track for this month is…

Army Of Me by Björk

To aid creativity and possibly time all limitations are off. Time to go and check the lyrics. Catch you at the months end.