So it’s no big secret that I love David Usher. I mean, this blog is named after one of his songs. I did an animation based off another. I’ve been to five of his concerts. Thus, no big shock that when I decided I wanted to focus on portraiture and capturing likeness as part of my Interpretive thesis that he’d be my first victim. This is, in fact, the first of two pictures – I wasn’t planning such, but both sketches were approved, so why not? Done the lines for another, which’ll be up next week. For now, this.
The other one is more conceptual; this one’s pretty straightforward, based off three things. First, the lights and feeling of energy from the concerts. Second, the cool splattery “Strange Birds” image that showed up in the music videos from his last album (called, you guessed it, “Strange Birds”) and also on a bitchin’ shirt that I totally own and third, a photo that I took the very first time I saw him live. It was the night before my high school graduation. Don’t remember much of the graduation; boy do I remember that concert.
Hey, illustrating musicians for magazines is a staple of illustratordom. I might as well practice on somebody who makes me all kinds of happy.
