Illustration Friday - Shades

I wasn't planning to do another portrait of Tom Waits but then I saw this poster for Record Store Day http://www.recordstoreday.com/CustomPage/1304 - you need to scroll down a bit to see the poster - and then I saw the Illustration Friday topic so I really had no choice, this is a quick sketch with 2 shades of blue marker on an old piece of glossy paper I had lying around

Illustration Friday - Intention

Perhaps the greatest example of good intentions going horribly wrong was Prohibition in the US in the 1920's. It led to violence and the establishment of organized crime on a huge scale. I'm just catching up on season 2 of the excellent - though excessively violent - HBO series Boardwalk Empire starring the great actor Steve Buscemi

I wasn't entirely happy with the ink version of this so I went at it with some markers, I like this version a little better

Illustration Friday - Capable

I was a little disappointed in the albums Tom Waits released after Mule Variations but his latest, Bad As Me, shows he is still capable of writing great songs and creating highly original music

this is based on a screen capture from Youtube, way back in 1977 on a German TV show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByomIJf5n9w&feature=bf_next&list=PL85A189277660E47F&lf=mh_lolz&shuffle=789862

Illustration Friday - Fluid

Very high on my list of favourite fluids

Illustration Friday - Popularity

I cannot comprehend the popularity of Dancing With The Stars. Who needs to see a bunch of obscure - at least to me - so-called celebrities embarrass themselves doing something they are not good at? There are so many excellent ballroom and performance dancers out there who almost no-one ever goes to see yet millions watch this nonsense. But maybe I'm just still annoyed that Lil Kim was eliminated so quickly the season she was on

Illustration Friday - Suspense

The great film director Alfred Hitchcock was oftem referred to as the master of suspense. I used to love his anthology series on TV when I was a kid

Illustration Friday - Forward

Bill suddenly realized that he had forwarded THAT e-mail to the president of the company