Lou Reed

Lou Reed

Lou Reed commission

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash. Ink, pen, charcoal, and white acrylic paint on tinted drawing paper.

Click on the Microphone to see all the music illustrations.

Bat for Lashes

Bat for Lashes

Ink on bristol paper with digital color.

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Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

Acrylics on paper. 

Now,Now

Now, Now

Colored Pencil on Paper.

A new one for my "Microphone" series of music illustrations.

Here's the video for their awesome song, "Thread".

Debbie Harry

Ink and digital color

Gram Parsons

Acrylic on paper

Neko Case

Ink and digital color

Joy Division

ink and copy machine

PJ Harvey

Inks and digital color

David Byrne

Drawn with a set of .005 Micron Pens.

I came up with the idea for this illustration a few years ago while reading Byrne's Blog and he said he rides his bike to Arcade Fire shows (or something like that.) Later on, I discovered his book "The Bicycle Diaries", a diary of sorts containing observation and thoughts on cycling, culture, cities, urban development, etc.

Rihanna

Ink and digital

Snoop Dogg

Scratchboard and digital.

P!NK

here's another one of those musician illustrations for that stupid series I'm doing. I did this 6 months ago and just tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it. Honestly, seriously, I'm not a Pink fan. I just had an idea for an illustration, that's all, and went with it. I was going to do Lady Gaga, but at the time, everyone was doing Lady Gaga art all across the universe and it was a bit overkill, so I went with another pop star. Like Morrisey, I don't listen to her music. I like that one song she did with that one woman from Four Non Blondes and that one other song they played on the radio that one time.
Anyway, next time I do........DAVID BYRNE.

Morrissey

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Now In Technicolor.

Heads Will Roll

Robert Smith

Acrylic on watercolor paper

Louise Wener

My newest MICROPHONE portrait is Louise Wener from the band Sleeper. Wait... Who from the What Now? Sleeper. It was a band. I'm fascinated by bands that show up and make a splash for 4 years, then just disappear from the collective human consciousness forever. I checked, and Louise Wener is now a mom, writes novels and plays poker. I think that's cool.

Primarily, I did this to investigate if Manga Studio Debut will be appropriate for the production of The New York Four 2. Hence, all the dots. I think Manga Studio will suffice.

All these musician portraits are for pure experimentation. I still have to do Terry Hall, Snoop Dogg, Tricky, M.I.A, Siouxsie Sioux, Robert Smith and David Byrne and maybe Johnny Cash. Any requests ?!?

Some Sleeper videos to help turn back the clock
InBetweener
Delicious
Nice Guy Eddie
What Do I Do Now?

David Bowie

Kim Deal

Kim Deal, originally uploaded by funrama.