Music is one of the greatest forms of magic in the universe. What else can bring people together from all kinds of backgrounds, all kinds of belief systems, and get them to tune into a single moment? OK, the recent total eclipse, did that. But not much else can. Just like during that surreal moment when day turned to night and even the animals were quiet, music has the incredible power to overcome the things that push us apart. A great live concert photo captures a faction of a second of that energy when a musician loses themselves in the bliss of creating magic in the moment through their music.
I love the challenge of taking one of those photos and adding my own flair to it. I don't want to just make a cool picture of the artist, I want you to remember that feeling of how great music can make you feel. Then I add lists of songs or lyrics in the background. I do that so that once someone gets past that initial thought of that musician playing live, they can be reminded of the songs or words that have really touched them at some point in their lives. Even more, I want people to find songs or lyrics in the back of my drawings that they're not familiar with. I want them to go look up those songs, and explore the work of that musician, that purveyor of magic moments, even more.
That's why I love doing drawings of musicians. My Sharpie drawing of Prince above will be at my show at Earshot Music in Winston-Salem, (NC) which opens this coming Saturday, November 4th, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Come by and check it out if you're local. Check out my work on this blog or Facebook if you're not. I'd be stoked to do a drawing of your favorite musician... as long as they don't suck. Ultimately, I want to take my own photos to draw my Sharpie pictures of.
In the course of doing this Prince tribute drawing, I dove into his music, and discovered tons of stuff I'd never heard before. This clip below is one of my favorites now. Just let the guitar do the talking for you...
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