The jeans and the vest are pretty good here. However i've managed to cock it up, by giving Freddy a 'special' face and a gammy shoulder. Sporting a good tuck though.

If you don't make eye contact, he'll leave you alone... Wrong eyes.

Here Freddy appears as if he's having a good old listen to what your saying. The pencil has worked well in this pic, as its made the shading easier, emphasising Freddys lovely cheek bones.

"...you think the vowels are E..I..E..I..O." Freddy rocks the saturday night, stand up comedy scene at a truck stop in Ohio.

Fab Five Freddy. This is pretty good in my opinion, compared to my usual standards. I think the tash/lip pout is looking real, and the cheekbones are well emphasised. Head might be a bit big.

Feral Freddy with his wandering eye. Oh dear. Who knew Freddy had relatives in Burnley?

Hm. This hasn't worked. Im having trouble with his mouth and teeth and eyes.

Steady Freddy. Here Freddy is at one of his 80s stadium gigs, working the crowd, characteristicly using his microphone as a prop. Instead F.M look like an ugly, short limbed man, playing snooker with a broken cue.

 

Here Freddy is a dangerous thug, plotting some no good dirty deed, or figuring out away of framing a younger, aspiring criminal he's taken under his wing. No good at all. He might be Freddys imaginary evil cousin, who doesn't really look that much like Freddy, but why should he? they're just cousins after all.

Freddy Mercury if he ever plumped out a bit. Still going for the smart 'Its a Kind Of Magic' style. His chest is quite big, he looks like a muscular fat person. Again he seems pretty happy. I don't really think this looks much like Freddy mercury, but I do like how he's sat. He has his face to an angle to show his best side.

This picture depicts a fictitional time when Freddy sat down to have his portrait done with Slash. Freddy is in the 'Its a kind of Magic' time style wise. He's looking pretty relaxed, but serious about the music. He's put his hands in a 'together' pose, to show that he's contemplative. Slash not giving anything away really, but they both seem happy enough.

This is the first picture of Freddy in a setting, he's at Wembley and everyones punching their fists in the air to we will rock you. I haven't really managed to capture any of the electricity of the live aid experience or Freddy's prowess. He kind of looks like someone' cooeying' to a friend across a crowded room. Still no face.

In this picture done minutes after the previous doodle, ive concentrated on the world famous Wembley pose. For some reason i've drawn one of them shitty drawing dummies, like i needed it to work out this pose before moving onto the final draft. This is one of the most pretentious doodles in the world, but it took me a step further into my Freddy drawing hobby as it is today. Not bold enough to move onto the face yet.

This was my initial doodle of Freddy Mercury. As you can see i've made a really weak arse attempt to break his iconic image into its main iconic properties. I'm not sure why i started doodling this in the first place- but it did start me on my journey, so its included. They do get slightly better, he gets eyes and everything soon.

I've recently got back into drawing after many years of not drawing, doing 'conceptual' art courses, being lazy and avoiding drawing because I wasn't really any good at it. But i'm at a time now where i can draw for fun, and im picking up the pencil again with still slightly lazy gusto!
My favourite thing to draw is portraits, but in particular Freddy Mercury. Probably because he's so iconic, his poses and physical originality means that even when i really mess up the drawing, there's still a vague similarity to the subject. Sometimes the pictures are so bobbins, they capture other aspects of Freddy Mercurys personality that the regular fans, Freddys close friends and family, and even Freddy himself, hadn't previously been aware of; his thuggish side, the time when he got fat (he never got fat) and what he'd have looked like if he was a stand up comedian clutching a mic in a shit American comdey club, rather than triumphantly holding the stage at Wembley. These pics are varying degrees of rubbish- some being outrageously bad, however i'd like to state that none of these pictures are meant to be insulting to the late, great Freddy, and I'm drawing as a fan and definately not taking the piss. The pictures are meant to look just like him, however the pics take a life of there own through my uncanny ability to not be able to draw his portrait, despite the number of times i try.

Years ago I met a plasterer who was doing up a kitchen in the house i lived in at the time, he only did pictures of Rocky and Teddy Bears- When i asked him why he always chose the same subjects, he said that when you find something you enjoy drawing you might as well keep at it. I also saw a film once, i forget the name, but in it the man had amnesia, and he forgot everything! But a box of Ritz Crackers gave him a vague memory of the time before, and he just kept drawing the same box of crackers over and over, different styles, different materials. It was mint! Every one in the home where he was recovering was like 'whats he doing?'. He didn't know, and i've forgot if the film was fictional or not. Presumably he got his memory back at the end- it doesn't matter, its not really that relavent to what im trying to tell you, so ill crack on.