IndieVISUAL Day 13: Famous Blue Raincoat

Listening to Jonathan Coulton today - I find myself swooning the most over his ballads which aren't funny at all. I came to one called "Famous Blue Raincoat" and looked it up on his blog (I didn't even know who Leonard Cohen was, but I love this cover). I can't blame him for being obsessed with it; it's a good song. Since I'm a little pressed for time today, I took a break to do a quick sketch of a blue raincoat.

This is almost turning into an illustrated music blog. Maybe sometime this week something exciting will happen and I'll have something else to journal about.

IndieVISUAL Day 12: The events transpired thus so.

Pretty self-explanatory. I spent way more time on this than I meant to. Also, these are the vintage valentines we found. They belonged to an elderly man that used to live in the rental house in Nich's parents backyard.

Day 11: We are shy.

Cole Porter, Tom Waits, an Earthbound reference, Civ 4, and butter cookies are featured in today's entry.

Day 10: The Fifth Element, SWEDED

I'm not at home today, so this crappy cell phone pic will have to do until tomorrow.

[Scanned and updated!]

Have you seen all the viewer submitted sweded movies on the Be Kind, Rewind website? Some of them are brilliant. I'm sad I didn't visit it sooner. I am trying to talk Nich into helping me make a sweded version of The Fifth Element. His sister Mariah is already on board to play the Diva.

HOW FREAKIN' RAD WOULD THIS BE???!?!??

Here's an article about the fan-sweded movies, and a list of the top 10 (though some of them are no longer available).

This website has all of the sweded films. We've got to do this! I'm so pumped, I can't stand it!!!

If you haven't watched Be Kind, Rewind, you're missing out. Go rent it, download it, or watch it online ASAP.

Day 9: Happiness is a warm marker?

Was listening to a ton of Beatles today - did some mediocre illustrations while listening. I didn't get to draw a fourth panel as I planned, or to color the third - I have to go into work. I may add to it tomorrow.

Does anyone else think of the blue guitar player painting by Picasso when they hear While My Guitar Gently Weeps? Or is that just me?

IndieVISUAL Day 8: Short and sweet

I only had 30 mins of drawing time today, so I didn't get to fill the whole page. I was thinking about my Mom today.

It just occurred to me that I wrote about her in past tense, which is weird. She's not dead, in case it gave you that impression - I was just remembering stuff from when I was little.

I think I'll go full color tomorrow and really spend some time on drawing.

IndieVISUAL Day 7: Can't quit my day job

Drew this while at work - I decided to go ahead and upload it before I go to Fedex. See you tomorrow!