ILX Art Gallery: Tregaskin Memorial Wing (do not read if you hate me)

Of course.

Let me look around my files for a second.

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tee hee hee

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OH GOD I AM SUCH A WHORE FOR THOM YORKE WHY AM I GOING TO DRAW HIM YET AGAIN?!?!?

(I think my favourite drawing I did of him is that one of him at 18, in the beret, it was called "if I should lose my faith in art" but I'm fucked if I know what happened to it. Actually I might look for that...)

Wow I really really love some of these. Nice work WCC.

http://i.imgur.com/HnWV4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/rIvDf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/88QmO.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zUo5z.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9SEiG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/sVthK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/aJRSf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8dbIS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hBXtZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/29Vxa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FugLG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tos4D.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5Jbnh.jpg (more Colin than Thom)

Oh sweet Jesus, so many Thoms!

(What on earth *is* he doing in that last one?)

I have no idea, to be honest.

1) masking his face so that he can sneak up on Colin unseen? (like that hedgehog hair isn't a dead giveaway)

2) Ed just told him "christ, you smell, mate" and he's trying to figure out if it's him or his clothes?

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Either way, jesus, Coz is hott.

He looks more like he's pretending to be some sort of shirt monster.

Bonus Jonathan - http://i.imgur.com/RgrSE.jpg

Sometimes I pull my t-shirt up like that to wipe sweat off my face.

Really enjoying this thread.

rrrrroooowwwwrrrrr it is the Yorkeian shirt monster! BEWARE!!!

I'm trying to figure out which one of those already looks the most like one of my drawings. Probably either the first one, or the one of him under Southwark (??) Bridge?

How is someone so completely weird looking and everything I find unattractive (short! balding!) so absolutely amazingly beautiful.

I'm going to go and get some wine and try to decide.

Aw, what a sweet Jonny! Since drawing him, I've decided he looks less like Alex James and more like Brian Cox, but honestly all three of them hatched from the same pod.

(oh dear this thread has abandonned any pretense of being about art and is just all about LUST now tee hee hee)

I think the degree to which he's balding is often overstated. He has had the same terrible hairline since he was 20. x-post

Do you think Cillian Murphy also hatched out of that pod?

I mean - http://i.imgur.com/PzGCn.jpg

Yes, Cillian Murphy was definitely in that there pod with them. He got that same weird jawline that Jonny did. HA HA HA HA HA x-post I agree.

And Thom's hairline comes and goes and always has (I mean, the worst it ever was, was the Karma Police video, but I suspect that was partially post hair extension damage, the way the hair is in clumps like that - and partially pretty much anyone's hair falls out after spending two years solid on tour) but there was that recent photo from the HUGE Magazine fashion shoot where he was leaning against a tree (Thom? A tree? Imagine that) and pushing his long hair out of his face, and you could see that yes, his hairline has actually run quite a lot further back than it used to be.

AND I STILL WANT TO LICK EVERY INCH OF IT.

What is wrong with me.

Now stop distracting me with pretty Radiohead boys, do you want a drawing of Thom or don't you?

:-P

;-)

Goddammit I still want to lick his bald patches. I don't care.

http://www.radiox.ru/pics/mag/2011-huge/2011-taro-mizutani-06.jpg

I don't know, this is from that same photo shoot and his hairline just looks the way it has for years and years. Anyway, with you on the licking.

And it is up to you whether you're distracted or not! x-post

Yes yes yes, but look how it has been styled! So that that careful landing strip of longer hair from his forehead is held in place with the sunglasses to cover the receded bits? He's very good at this, he has been doing it for a long time.

What I really REALLY want is that Pablo era photo of Thom, and Jonny bending down to rub noses, and they're both in profile? I found a scan of it on a Japanese website but they'd javascripted up the page so I couldn't d/l it and my god I NEED that.

It might actually be cuter and more homoerotic than Mark Gardener and Andy Bell sharing bubble-blowing.

screen capture! alt+prtscreen or whatever it is!

Yes, or ctrl+U to go to the source, search for .jpg. Pretty good chance you will find it.

http://i.imgur.com/Qm6VK.jpg - Here you go, WCC.

My screen caps aren't very good and when I tried to look at the source, there were like 500 jpegs on the page and all the text in Japanese and it was just impossible but...

YAY!!! thank you so much, Melissa. I knew if anyone would have that, you would.

Jesus, how hott is that. It doesn't hurt that Jonny looks so much like his brother in that picture. Wau.

(God, this is going to be so embarrassing if anyone in the future ever goes googling for my art looking for information about my technique and they get 300 posts of me going alskfjkljslkdfjsdj lsdfjlkjkljlskdjfsjfds over Thom Yorke's bald patch.)

believe me the more and more you draw faces (from real sources) means you will soon have no problem drawing your own made up faces.

Only because Melissa asked me to so nicely, you understand. Naught to do with me! ;-)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7195/6899658433_15e6c4ea46_o.jpg

1) his hair took FOREVER to draw. Freaking hours.

2) Nothing on his face is symmetrical. NOTHING. Not even his nostrils. It's not my fault, that's just the way his face was made.

lol his hair is amazing. It is alive! But oh my god, thank you. btw do you mind if I post the result of my eye color experiment on your Jonny drawing?

If you like!

(I'll probably do a proper colour version of Thom tomorrow, but i thought you'd like to see him tonight.)

http://i.imgur.com/soeXl.png - lol subtlest of differences, I just wanted to see if I could get the color right. I have not your photoshop skillz, so eventually I just achieved this by literally cutting one of his eyes out of a close-up picture and putting it in a color layer. x-post

And thank you for posting it tonight! I thought for sure you had gone to sleep.

Wow OK, yeah, that really works. I think it's because the green catches the green of his jumper (I didn't have any colour blocking when I did his face.)

His hair in that drawing has a Studio Ghibli vibe –– like it would puff up to match his emotions (just saying probs bcz I saw ARRIETTY last night). Another good draw! When I used to draw pics of Yorke in the '90s I was really quite mean about his eye and he always looked like a dying baby bird.

OMG Abbbbs, I LOVE YOU because of those two images you have put in my mind:

1) Yorke's hair like actual hedgehog (or is it porcupine?) spikes that puff up and lay flat again depending on how ~defensive~ he is feeling

2) The second half of yr post just got me singing "She used to comi-i-cs... of Yorke in the Nii-iiine-ties... but gravity always wins."

and both of these are the best. thing. ever.

(One of those things I should totally not confess in public, but I'm going to take advantage of my newfound ~anonymity~ - one of the section editors at Plan B - he was another one of those small, perfect, beautiful boys with total hedgehog hair, I used to have *such* a massive crush on him, it wasn't even funny. But you could always tell when the magazine was getting close to print deadline by the state of his hair, at the beginning of the print cycle it would be perfect, but as deadline loomed, it would get more and more perpendicular until approaching vertical, so you knew not to bother him if he was in hedgehog mode. But aaawwww.)

"Taking the Darwinian naturalist's approach, in order to understand a creature's plumage, one must observe the natural habitat where it evolved..."

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6908910249_08ea3719b3_o.jpg

I mean, really.

I think I'm feeling that spikey right now. Like, feeling utterly incapable of communicating with other human beings without it turning into a total disaster, which makes my hedgehog spikes go all defensive. When what I really want is the intellectual equivalent of a hug, and to be told that it's all alright. Portraits of other people are always depictions of mine own mental states. I'm going for a walk in the Great North Wood until I feel better.

I didn't think there was any left? Or are you wandering the streets of Norwood? Can't seeing it being quite as soothing for yr inner hedgehog tbh.

No there totally is! There's bits of it still scattered in Biggin Wood and bits of Sydenham Forest. A Giant Brought Down By Weeds was drawn here! I'm sitting on a log in a patch of woods with Julianna Barwick in one ear and birdsong in the other and my inner hedgehog is rolling in a pile of dead oak leaves to diffuse spikeyness.

Sounds a lot better than sitting in a cubicle in Dartford, and all the blinds are closed so you can't even see *sky*, oh well. Glad you found birdsong and oak leaves.

Still on a Dreaming Spire tip, this is the stuff I did from the architectural walking tour that Cis was so lovely to host last month! Finally!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7179/6777880164_1e67922772_o.jpg

I wanted it to look proper fierce. ROWR. Keepin' all the knowledges in.

haha that is definitely the impression i get - fortresses. also my immediate thought was a political one, libraries and universities defending themselves against the current coalition attacks on them

I thought more fortresses to keep the Camerons and Cleggs of the world in, and the rest of us hoi polloi out. That they're not defending against cuts, they're retrenching for the old guard.

Could go either way, though! Ambiguity!

More Oxford!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6925340499_97d569896a_o.jpg

I am so rubbish at tourism type drawing, I haven't drawn one recognisable quad or cloister or college, but then I get all excited about "ooh, look at this amazing lamp post!"

I got very very lost in that particular passage once, if it's the one I think it is. The right-left, right-left angles turned into a labyrinth of back and forth. I should add that I was off my head perhaps.

The lamp posts are excellent tho, especially on foggy nights. For that reason and others, hard to define, but equally today with an MR James sort of vibe, I think that is one of my favourite locations in Oxford.

I wish I could tell you where it was! It was towards the end of the day and we were... on our way to the train station?

It's terrible. Although Oxford is, outside London, the city I've spent the most of amount of time in (because of family, relationships, gigs, whatever) in England, it's also the city I have the *least* amount of intuitive understanding of how it's all laid out.

Because of touring so much, you could drop me in the city centre of Cambridge or Manchester or Exeter and I could probably find my way to (whatever venue we played) fairly easily. But the only way I know how to navigate Oxford is basically, find a local and demand "please can you take me to X?"

This does not bode well tomorrow, but Grandpoint Genie has promised to meet us at the station and escort us to the right bus. Wittenham Lumps drawings will follow soon! I'm so unreasonably excited about the Wittenham Lumps, I know, but, you know... Paul Nash and all that.

I hate going to Paddington and getting on a train that is not going to Cornwall, it's so hard not to make a run for the Penzance train. But I can't afford to go to Cornwall without a job. ::cries::

I did not know about Paul Nash. They're excellent - oh wait, I saw the Ypres Salient at the British War museum, very memorable.

It may not be Cornwall, but it looks a fine place to go, particularly if you get those tattered scudding clouds we're getting and sudden moments of sunshine at the moment, should make it all look great.

Oh god I've just drawn something SO RONG I'm actually afraid to post it to ILX. I'm sure you can find it if you really want to look for it.

Melissa W, I think you'll be *very* interested in this one.

I'm going to go die of shame now.

Now I'm going to go and wash my mind out with soap and go and draw the Wittenham Lumps.