This weekend I got another chance to break out the pencils and do some drawing while Corrie had lunch with the girls.
I’ve wanted to draw a Snoop Doggy Dogg portrait for a while, but hadn’t really found the right source image – I wanted a ‘Doggystyle’ era image, rather than a more recent picture, so was stoked when I came across this particular photo.
Have a butchers at the image below and let me what you reckon (click to enlarge)
Happy New Year everyone – I trust you all had a great Festive break. We had a quiet one here – a couple of weeks of family time with Corrie and Marley and very little else, aside from a couple of DJ gigs (Section 8 on Christmas Eve and support for Redman & Method Man on New Years Day) and linking with my old mate Graeme Sinden (big up to you and the Missus – safe journey home) while he toured Australia.
Considering we really didn’t do anything, I still struggled to find time to draw, so this weekend, while Corrie and Marley were out for the day, I finally found some time to do some much needed sketching. It’s mad hot out here right now (sorry my UK peoples), so closing the blinds and bunging the air con on while I flexed my pencils was a good look.
I’ve been a fan of Mos Def for the longest – from the old Urban Thermo Dynamics to guest spots on De La, Bush Babies and Tribe joints, not to mention his own 12”s on Rawkus – so I thought I’d rock a portrait of the man himself.
Check it out below and let me know what you reckon (click image to enlarge)
I trust all’s well with everyone. Life here has been hectic to say the least. My Daughter, Marley Marl, has grown so much since I last posted, and we’re now attending regular swimming lessons which are keeping our weekends busy. My day job has been flat-out too, with mad amounts of overtime, and I’ve had a few DJ gigs lately, so finding anytime to draw, or even blog, has been hard work.
Fortunately, this weekend I finally managed to find a few spare hours to dedicate to some more drawing. With both Marley and my Wife, Corrie, enjoying an afternoon nap, I sharpened my pencils and flexed this Big L (RIP) sketch.
Check it out below and let me know what you reckon.Cheers,
It's a collection of Mid 90s Remixes, B-Sides and Promo only tracks all mixed together that was distributed through Boombox Distribution and received pretty decent reviews in Hip Hop Connection Magazine and Blues & Soul Magazine.
Here's the review it got in Undercover Magazine:
What's real? I'll tell you what's real. This mix CD is real. You know the shit is real, you can't front, kid. Composed entirely of unadulterated, purest mid-90s lost classics, rare joint, remixes and underexposed b-sides, this mix is ineluctably destined to be one of your stalwart favourites, should you ever be so lucky to get hold of one. Percee P dropping a verse for the intro is real. Brand Nubian providing a drop at Dedbeat before that is even realer. Large Professor is definitely real, and so are Diamond D, Lord Finesse, and OC. Once you're at a level of realness as uncontestably real as that, it's only things like the Pharoahe Monch verse from Bring It On or Show and AG on the Next Level remix from Premier that can possibly make things any realer. Though admittedly a forgotten Raekwon, Nas and Havoc cipher or some rare BIG action could real things up even further, and Common Sense with his Ice Cube diss could hardly make things much faker. Once you're talking about a level of reality as undeniably real as this, you will of course be a connoisseur of realness au fait with the finest in real: Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Alkaholiks, Redman, Craig Mack and Kool G Rap. Possessing such refined taste, you have probably languished for many years, thinking that a mix of such post-platonic realness could never be attained or manifest as other than a fantasy in our flawed world. But you have been misled. Realer than granite, death, or the love you have for your mother, this CD is so real that it will probabky remain playable when the planet eventually falls into the sun.
As promised, I managed to squeeze a couple of hours of drawing in over the weekend while Corrie was out and Marley slept. I threw on Dave Chappelle’s Block Party DVD and got to work on this Busta Rhymes portrait.
Check it out below (click image to see larger version) and let me know what you think.
