ok - after my end-of-art-drought scribble of grinspoon last week - here is the real deal - i guess 15 hours plus spent on this baby - grinspoon's looopy vocalist phil jamieson - although i dont think this picture comes even close to capturing his persona and spirit; he looks introspective and amost vunerable here; perhaps it matches the mood of the new cd - but this shots' always grabed my eye when ever i floated around their site - a beautiful display of light and shadows - but such a tiny reference photo to work with - i seriously considered writing to the site admin and asking for a decent copy to use - but i guess they would have thought i was a bit weird ... that would be something new

It never ceases to amaze me tho - these people on here that make thier portraits look like photographs - they must have soooo much patience - no matter how much i work on a something - i never seem to be able to capture that true likeness - passable yes, but never that photographic perfection. I get sick of it first. I guess it is the patience factor that ruins things - 1/2 a day or so is enough for me - even if it is put it down, pick it up, put it down progress. I just cant nail myself to something - anything for that matter - like i perhaps should be.

anyway, who know if he'll actually ever see this - if he does - philip, your hair is a complete pain in the arse to draw - but i'm reasonably happy with this - it's the first serious piece i've done in months, and it's opened the floodgates art wise - or at least their music has - go buy it aussie people ... g r i n s p o o n

now I just need to drag my arse to sydney and stay lucid enough to actually remember a gig ....

uhh ... original is 30b42 graphite on paper. this version has had a tiny tweak or two in corel photopaint.

and no more smelly rockstars for now - back to dragons and faeries for me .... wwhhheeeeee!!