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Drawing the 2019 Grammys: The Women Were Inspiring

I love drawing awards shows, and have done the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, Tonys and BET Awards over the years.  Recently, I had a great time drawing the 2019 Grammys for CBS News, and you can see all the drawings and my commentary on Medium. They featured me on their home page! It was a particuarly good show, as women were featured in a major way, and many won big awards.

https://medium.com/s/story/drawing-the-2019-grammys-e36d94672e11

The 2017 Grammys: A Visual (and Musical) Treat

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It was a thrill to go to the Grammys this year with CBS News as their resident cartoonist. I was on the red carpet with the team, and drew people who stopped to talk to the CBS correspondent Vlad Duthiers.  The outfits were great, I couldn’t catch them all by any measure. The men in particular were using the opportunity to go wild with their outfits.  No chance to draw Adele or Beyonce, for while they “did” the red carpet, they whisked by so fast, I couldn’t even get a photo!  Grammys 2017 - 7
After the red carpet, we went to the Media room, where we watched the proceedings on large monitors with tons of other journalists hunched over computers. They gave us boxed dinners of sandwiches and cookies, and coffee of course. As for the show itself, the highlight for me was the Prince tributes and the Carpool Karaoke in a fake car with numerous celebs and James Corden (whom I find adorable).
Below are the drawings I did before and during it all and some are also in a slide show on CBSNews.com

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Grammys 2015

IMG_0306I love watching the Grammys, and I love drawing them even more. It’s a whacky night of strange outfits and performers for every taste.  I had gotten used to not seeing a lot of Prince, but lately, happily, he has been at many of these shows.   Annie Lennox killed it, she was the outstanding performance of the night.  And I love, love, love Stevie Wonder–there wasn’t enough of him.  Discovered some new performers and I was forced to remember some I did not want to remember. But all in all, it was a very entertaining night.  Including Kristen Wiig as a dancer! WHo knew?

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