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art, black&white, drawing, illustration, inspiration, lyrics, Mumford & Sons, music, Poland
This drawing was inspired by a song of one of my favourite bands, Mumford & Sons – I love them for the tunes, but mainly for the lyrics; they are so much deeper and evocative than in the “you left me, now I’m sad and it’s raining” or “shake your booty, baby” variety of music we get so often these days.
The song in question is “The Hopeless Wanderer” from the new album “Babel”. The chorus goes: Don’t hold a glass over the flame/Don’t let your heart grow cold/I will call you by name/I will share your road – and don’t you just love the first two lines?
There’ll be a few more drawings inspired by these boys, since they have a way of putting together very visual and striking (for me) images, so if you like this one, stay tuned!
(Incidentally: my friend has just informed me they’ll be playing a concert here in Warsaw in March! Hooray! This must be fate’s little treat for me for staying put in Poland, ha ha! I’m going to get the tickets tomorrow and let’s just hope they haven’t sold out yet! If they have, I will be very disgruntled indeed…)
good drawing! How long did this take you?
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Thanks! Hmm, how long – hard to say, I draw in fits, when I have time – altogether I think it would be an hour or two for the pencil sketch, once I figured out more or less what I wanted to draw, then probably about 4-5 hours to ink everything in (but really, don’t take my word for it – might have been much shorter, only drawn out in time, ha ha!). All these drawings are done in a small notebook, so they don’t take so long once I actually sit down to them. Thanks for commenting!
Do you mostly just use pen and pencil or do you use adobe illustrator too?
You have incredible skills though. keep it up!
xx
I think my settings only allow 3 comments in a thread (well, I don’t usually get more than that, ha ha!), so I’m answering here. For now I only use a pencil and an ink pen, sometimes coloured pencils or water colours. I’m really horribly rubbish at technology, so Adobe is absolutely beyond my reach, but I’ve seen fun things that can be done with Photoshop and am slowly preparing to take the plunge and try it. To be honest, though – I think nothing compared to good old hand drawing
Anyway, thanks heaps for the compliment, I really appreciate it – and I hope I’ll get better. I didn’t draw a lot for years and am only now coming back to it – and doing my best to find at least a few minutes a day for it, even for the price of getting enough sleep 
I mean NOT getting enough sleep, obviously
(hmm, it seems to be affecting me already… 
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I understand, technology can be annoying sometimes. It takes out the texture feeling out of drawings. However, keep it up! I look forward to seeing more of your work!
xx
Aye aye, ma’am!
I absolutely love mumford and sons too – they’re songs are so true and meaningful! This drawing is beautiful, captures the song well.
Thank you! And you’re right about them. Some music industry people say “oh, it’s just another fad for girls” – which only goes to prove how little they know and understand!
I think their music speaks straight to the soul. Thanks for commenting!