Witch, Tunnel of Love, etc.

Alright, well Lisette managed to get my ass out of the house on a Friday night (for once) to see some bands play at The Elevens. First up was Tunnel of Love, whose costumes I adore:

Followed by Witch, which (!) I'm informed involves J Mascis in some way. Perhaps on drums. Whatever he was up to on stage, this is what they sounded like:

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Happy Thanksgiving

My festive interpretation of the classic Thanksgiving Turkey Craft project we all know and love:

It's actually made by the same process of "tracing hands" as the traditional model, but in this case the instructions were read by an animator.

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I'm Not Dead Either!

Hooray! Rin & I are in fact still alive. But I have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen over here. However, looking over some old sketchbooks of mine recently, it turns out that I still can be found drawing at the bar, old school DnD, on occasion.

8.6.09. Local Burger.

9.22.09. Chris' Apartment (but bar-like, due to the jukebox).

10.6.09. Hugo's.

10.17.09. Hugo's again.

10. 29.09. The People's Pint.

(The People's Pint rules. Noho people, venture out there more often.

Damn fine establishment.)

Moral: It's still fun to draw in bars.

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A Portrait of Hugo's

I work in cycles. First it's black and white ink portraits, then it's color landscapes, and then... well, you can fill in the _____:

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The Vivian Girls

Drawn at their show at the Market Hotel on November 6th, in the dark (naturally):

I actually went to college with Katy (above) briefly, which is how I manage to keep running into her and the rest of The Vivian Girls whenever I hang out with Brian.

Cassie (below) also manages to remember who I am every time we meet, which is strange considering how many thousands of people they must be flung against every week:

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I'm not dead

Also: A picture of me sharing a sunny afternoon with a bear. Like ya do.


Kisses.
xo


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About 6 Weeks Ago

The music scene of Northampton was pretty wrapped up in the passing of Tim Young at the end of September. A very sad event, really, and I did some drawings at his memorial show. Never posted them though:

Well, I thought they should do something besides languish in my sketchbook. Nice guy; he'll be missed.

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Like an Old Timey Photograph

Man, this is like one big black and white image dump. See if I can space these out a bit better next week. Not much else to say here, I've just been drawing drawin' draw'n:

Yeah, that's about how one feels sometimes at the end of a night of Drinking and Drawing. Or so surveys suggest.

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Various things.

These are a few drawings from various points.

First off, two of the members of Little Teeth, they are awesome and from the coast opposite us.





A random fellow at the bar. Having a ponytail and a beard is a pretty sure way to get me to draw you, whether you are male or female.





A sketch of a relatively studious person, which can be found only at the Yellow Sofa.



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And one more.

A final image for the week of Halloween posting:

And that's that. Back to costume-free posting for me next week.

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Oh Man, Let the Halloweening Begin.

So Halloween has finally descended (and abated), and boy were there a lot of crazies to draw. Like this man, drumming at Sierra on the 29th:

And this couple at WWII on the 30th:

Although that last drawing is my interpretive representation of the subjects' inner cosplay goals, this next guy pretty much looked like a legit paranormal investigator (less the Busch):

Finally we have some of the Williams St. partiers contemplating what's to come next:

More of what comes next, next.

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It's Baseball Season, I Guess

Or so the television at Hugo's tells me:

Also, a rare treat: I actually scanned two facing pages! Incredible.

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Pencils and Inks

So at The Elevens the other night, Kyle and I were trying a little exercise. On this first drawing I did the pencils and he did the inks with his brush pen:

On the second drawing the roles reversed:

Conclusion? I have no idea what I'm doing. But that's hardly new information.

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A Little Teeth is Good for You

Newest DnD member Kyle got me out last night to see Little Teeth play at The Elevens. The funny thing is, I have no idea what they played. Is this a violin? Is it a horn? You be the judge:

Also, Sean Real is the most animated drummer I think I have ever seen:

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Beware: Zombies

So Zombie Pub Crawl Northampton 2k9 happened. Reports indicate that the only casualty was the coherency of the zombie's literary symbolism:

Um did Hello Kitty eat the zombie?

A union no honest hipster could resist:

Also, there was a strain of zombie hunters hanging out among the shambling dead. Or at least dudes dressed for some kind of a fight (mullet added for emphasis):

And Rin just had to come by and pretty up an otherwise consistent sketchbook with his portrait of my invisible zombie suit:

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While I haven't been to bars lately due to my work schedule, I have been drawing and self-reflecting. And upon reflection, it occurred to me that I don't know how anybody could ever have liked Thomas the Tank Engine.



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Narrative?

I mean, I guess this is a narrative? I don't know, I'm trying to make comics which express the innate character of animals:

And their wardrobes (click to read small text):

Or just, you know, looking like a jerk:

Somehow I feel like drawing animals in bars makes even less sense than what I normally do...

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Eating Vs. Drinking & More Changes.

As part of the new format changes over here at DnD, a lot of my work that really doesn't have a whole lot to do with our favorite activity here, Drinking, is going to exist in the future over at my other blog,

Eating & Drawing.

Head over there for such exciting posts as the continuation of The Grocery Project, & all my crazy narrative shit.

& of course, since Eating & Drawing is in essence a food blog, that's where you'll find of all the cooking imagery as well as further scenes from the DnDnE dinners.

All of my old posts will stay up here, as well as on Eating & Drawing for some narrative continuity, but the new stuff will be posted only there.

But don't worry, y'all.

I still like drinking as much as eating, & there will always be places where the two intersect, such as this.

So you'll be seeing me over here a few times a week as well, & I hope to see you visiting (&posting!) over at EnD.

& look for a few regular contributors to this blog who also happen to be excellent cooks to pop up there as well!

Thanks for reading & looking.

xoxo,

Liz.

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A Change of Pace at Drinking and Drawing

Hellows, all you readers of DnD!

(Yes, this is you.)

After a lot of discussion amongst our regular authors we have decided to begin altering the content of this collective art blog. Drinking and Drawing has gone through so many vacillations of content since its inception in early 2009 that we've found it hard to promote it to new readers.

To make things a little more open, both to new readers and new authors alike, we're going to start standardizing the schedule by which and the quantity of what we post. You'll still get the same flavor of insane / inane drawings you always have, but hopefully on a more regular schedule and with a greater focus on the drawings themselves.

Many of our regular contributors also have blogs of their own for you to read, such as Liz Diamond's Eating and Drawing, an epically illustrated food blog, and Rin Ascher's spectacular Supremacy Struggle. You should absolutely click those links.

We will also be easing off of the Facebook end of our community as there are a number of technical difficulties presented by administering blog content on FB which we aren't financially or practically prepared to overcome.

We hope you'll stay with us while our content shifts a bit and one day maybe even post something yourself...

Thanks,

The Drinking and Drawing Team

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Keep your eyes open

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