Showing posts with label Digital Drawings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Drawings. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 July 2010

Owls, 2nd Hand Marching Band, Sarah Banjo, and RM Hubbert

Yep, as I'm writing this at 2.51am there is an owl hooting in the street outside - brilliant! Hope it eats the slugs and snails that have been massacring my basil and sunflowers. Wee bawbags.

Anyway, asides from that.

Been experimenting with my iPod touch and I think I'm finally managing to make friends with it, though blow me if the rubber bit on the end of my special stylus isn't wearing out and producing burning smells! I have to say, the NOKIA appears much more dependable so far, simpler, although I have just recently purchased 6 new stylus since I've lost 4 already. It's just so easy to lose that darned stylus when you whip your phone out your back pocket/handbag/shirt pocket etc. I wonder how long 6 will last me. :)

Anyway. Just going to upload the iPod drawings I did tonight, plus a few more showing my progression from total rubbish, to getting used to it.

Great night tonight at the 13th note. Second Hand Marching Band, Sarah Banjo (freshly heard and much enjoyed), and RM Hubbert. Class line-up, finished off nicely with Peter, the band leader, leading everyone to sing a chorus at the back of the room, and those that had been notified/seen his posting about writing a verse (see my post below) stood very tentatively around a microphone with their 15 seconds of fame or complete humiliation thrust upon them in friendly manner. I felt the latter.

Nah, not totally. I'm pretty sure my singing was sh**e, as my voice has been locked away in a cupboard for 3 years and I've been shouting through the keyhole all day, hence tonight I was warbling away quite unlike the nightingale I fancied. It's all in the words of the verse right? Ha.

Intense though. Felt like a baptism of fire, but luckily everyone was freakin' nervous so I didn't feel quite so bad. Apparently all the verse writers/singers will get a cd through the post of their efforts. I'm looking forward to experiencing that! ;)

Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Mobile Phone Drawings


First Ever Mobile Phone Drawing - Tool navigation!
23rd August 2009


2nd Ever Mobile Phone Drawing
Man holding coat in protective case at bus stop.
24th August 2009

3rd Mobile Phone drawing
Women walking past in the rain
27th August 2009


4th Mobile Phone Drawing
After the Mill Birthday, Oran Mor, Glasgow
(View of Oran Mor and Great Western Road at night in the rain)
27th August 2009


5th Mobile Phone Drawing
Older bohemian lady at bus stop
29th August 2009


6th Mobile Phone Drawing
Warm Up Drawing on Bus to Edinburgh to draw the Mill Birthday, Cab Voltaire, Edinburgh
03rd September 2009


7th Mobile Phone Drawing
OK Social Club - first gig drawing!
03rd September 2009


8th Mobile Phone Drawing
The Ads (Now 'Aerials Up')
03rd September 2009


9th Mobile Phone Drawing
Come in Tokyo (Drummer left the band the night of this gig)
03rd September 2009


10th Mobile Phone Drawing
Ziggy, lead singer/guitarist of art collective/experimental music group 'Found'
03rd September 2009


11th Mobile Phone Drawing
Pardesi Heroes warmup drawing/projector tester
9th September 2009


12th Mobile Phone Drawing
Boy with Scotland flagged pool cue case, day Holland beat Scotland 1-0
Before I 'traditionally' drew Okkervil River at the Oran Mor
9th September 2009


13th Mobile Phone Drawing
Waiting for the bus, Argyle St, after 'traditionally' drawing Dumb Instrument and Lewis Irvine
12th September 2009


14th Mobile Phone Drawing
Drawing two old geezers having a chat on the No. 75, around 12.15am after drawing Dumb Instrument and Lewis Irvine (great gig by the way!)
12th September 2009


This is my latest experiment - drawing from life on my snazzy new specifically acquired mobile phone. Bear in mind, all these drawings were done on the touch screen of my phone which is roughly the size of an average business card, with a stylus. You can see my first initial experiments, people at bus stops, on buses, trains and some drawings from the birthday gig at the Mill in Edinburgh with Found(Who will be playing my expo opening on Wednesday 14th October), The Ads(Now 'Aerials Up'), Come in Tokyo (Drummer left the band that night), and OK Social Club(my first ever mobile gig drawing!).

A lot of potential!! Next Monday I'm going to try out drawing and projecting images (from my mobile phone!!) during Eid on the Drive, a huge celebration at the Tramway, Glasgow for the end of Ramadan, a project also tied in with the Pardesi Heroes project I'm working on for Basharat Khan.