illustrating PJ lyrics

boxerorabag · May 2006

I started thinking about it...and there are actually a lot of pearl jam lyrics that just would make really incredible illustrations in the hands of some great atists/photographers like I have seen there are in here.

I thought maybe we could make a list of lyrics that lend themselves to illustration. Who knows...we get a good list...and enough people decide to do a drawing or two..could become quite an interesting collaboration.

Here are a couple of lyrics off the top of my head and I would appreciate any you have to offer:

"thoughts arrive like butterflies"

"she dreams in color, she dreams in red"

"big man stands behind and open door, says leave your lady on the cement floor"

boxerorabag · May 2006

please let me know if anybody knows of any websites of people who actually have done illustrations spefically about PJ lyrics.

boxerorabag · May 2006

I decided to go ahead and try illustrating the first line I could think of

"thoughts arrive like butterflies"

you can see it under PJ illustrations at
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blueplaidpolkadots/my_photos

more to come...

wolfbear · May 2006

That's cool. And you're right, lots of their lyrics would make great pictures. Hope you do some more.

kdpjam · May 2006

very awesome. thanks for sharing.

boxerorabag · May 2006

Just thought of some more drawable lyrics and don't want to forget them.

"all five horizons revolve around the sun"

and something really abstract for "spin the black circle"

boxerorabag · May 2006

Here is another drawing:

"she dreams in color she dreams in red"

under PJ illustrations at
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blueplaidpolkadots/my_photos

jamjam · June 2006

boxerorabag wrote:

Here is another drawing:

"she dreams in color she dreams in red"

under PJ illustrations at
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blueplaidpolkadots/my_photos

pretty cool!
kind of reminds me of me trying to get some sleep.

pacifier · June 2006

I looked through your stuff and I really liked clouds and the two pics after that, sunrise, wintersunrise, bluegrass and stormrollsin. good work.

mookie blaylock 10 · June 2006

nice work on the "thoughts arrive" illustration!

i also enjoy taking song lyrics and interpreting them...turning them into visual images of the songs and their meanings...

continue to post your work! i'm liking it

here's one i did based on "jeremy"...have another photo i have yet to get (been waiting for months!!! - based on "crazy mary")...and a few other sketches in the works...

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=149076

boxerorabag · June 2006

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

nice work on the "thoughts arrive" illustration!

i also enjoy taking song lyrics and interpreting them...turning them into visual images of the songs and their meanings...

continue to post your work! i'm liking it

here's one i did based on "jeremy"...have another photo i have yet to get (been waiting for months!!! - based on "crazy mary")...and a few other sketches in the works...

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=149076

I actually found your painting when I searched threads for lyrics and art. I love it. I love the colors and the paint strokes.

boxerorabag · June 2006

jamjam wrote:

pretty cool!
kind of reminds me of me trying to get some sleep.

you can't quite see because the pic isn't big enough, but she has one eye slit open..her hand is in the space for the second pillow because shes pretending to be just asleep as he looks her over, but she still wants him to be there.

boxerorabag · June 2006

Here is: "I will hold the candle till it burns up my arm"

under PJ lyrics at
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blueplaidpolkadots/my_photos

Jam-fan · June 2006

that is some impressive stuff, first time i've seen an artist's interpretation of lyrics. It'd be interesting to see if there are any other artists out there with drawings of the same lyrics/ songs, see what similarities/differences there are.

boxerorabag · June 2006

I agree it would be cool to see other artists do some stuff.

A computer based graphic would be really impressive for a lot of stuff and some oild that take awhile to do might be neat. I'm just whipping out pastels in a couple of hours.

What I really want to see is a comic book art black and white line drawing version of big man stands behind an open door with a large black outline and ligght streaming in showing a woman slumped on the floor and maybe a guy from the back in one corner that is being talked to.

Wouldn't it be cool if PJ put out a call to some really amazing artists and put together a graphic novel of select lyrics from their songbook. I'd love to buy something like that.

pacifier · June 2006

eggyoda has posted their work on here a number of times.... http://www.eggyoda.com/

Eggyoda makes pictures from lyrics, some are pj lyrics, some are from other bands. Have a look. it's pretty cool.

jamjam · June 2006

boxerorabag wrote:

you can't quite see because the pic isn't big enough, but she has one eye slit open..her hand is in the space for the second pillow because shes pretending to be just asleep as he looks her over, but she still wants him to be there.

yep, i totally get it.
You depict it really well imo.
i like the butterflies one a lot too.
Thanks for sharing, and keep 'em coming.

civ_eng_girl · June 2006

hey!
great job!! i like the "thoughts arrive like butterflies" and "hold the candle"... they're beautiful!

what did you use? looks like oil pastels?
if so, they're very good... i can never use oil pastels without making a big smudgy mess!

boxerorabag · June 2006

I use rembrandt chalk pastels and compressed charcoal on pastel paper.

civ_eng_girl · June 2006

boxerorabag wrote:

I use rembrandt chalk pastels and compressed charcoal on pastel paper.

wow! good for you!

i'd be covered in the stuff from head to toe!

boxerorabag · June 2006

civ_eng_girl wrote:

i'd be covered in the stuff from head to toe!

I usually am!

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