So as you can see everyone here at draw loves to bring up sketchbooks, doodles and above all music. Why the common theme? why do we cite music and art as going hand in hand through the whole process(stay tuned; you'll soon find out!) until then I wanted to do a little artist spotlight on a person I personally look up to, and someone who really got me into art as a teenager. Most people know him as Brandon Boyd; lead singer of the band Incubus, but what a lot of people don't know is that Brandon is also an illustrator, and a really good one at that.

As I was a kid in high school I looked up to Brandon, from the art he drew, to the way he sung, to the lyrics he wrote; I ate it all up. Every chance I could get to see the band, every dvd,c.d.,book and piece of art that I could get my hands on; I would. He has a very distinct style and it's something I tried to copy a million times. I would copy his every clothing style, his every drawing, all in an attempt to be as good an artist as he was. I mean I was young, and it seems silly now but at the time he was a person to look up to. He was even one of the main reasons I ever even wanted to get tattoos on my forearm.

As I got older I still followed where he was in the art community, I still love every album Incubus has ever come out with and in the last few years Brandon Boyd has released his sketchbooks for people to buy. He's come out with two volumes and each one of them has shown a lot more personal side of the singer/artist.

I find sketchbooks to be fascinating, they are little personal books that tell the stories of who ever owns them. For the non-artist they're called diaries, in the art community we call em' sketchbooks, but regardless they can be the most personal, intimate things a person can own.

Here are a few pages of Brandon Boyd's sketchbook/diary. If you guys get a chance go to http://www.brandonboydbooks.com/ and pick up one of his sketch books, they're really good. Until then...keep listening to great music open your sketchbooks and

DRAW.

(all photos taken from www.brandonboydbooks.com)