5 Minute Sketching

Gallipoli is the fifth studio album by indie folk band Beirut. It was released on February 1, 2019 by 4AD. The album is named after the Italian town where the title track was written.

In this DVD, Cecil takes the initial idea sketches created from the first volume of this series, “Ideation Sketching” and paints them digitally using Adobe Photoshop. From ten-minute building shading to coloring a vista layout for a futuristic city, Cecil will use basic painting layer techniques to put down value, color and lighting into multiple scenes.

Gilgamesh's 1975 eponymous debut portrays a fine group that emerged during the waning days of Britain's Canterbury scene. The album by keyboardist Alan Gowen's quartet - also featuring guitarist Phil Lee, bassist Jeff Clyne, and drummer Mike Travis in this incarnation - was issued by Virgin Records' budget-line Caroline imprint. By the mid-'70s, Virgin's support for bands of this ilk was approaching its end, with punk and new wave soon ruling the day. Arriving late in the game, Gowen and company sounded most similar to Canterbury supergroup Hatfield and the North, and in fact Hatfields keyboardist Dave Stewart co-produced the album. Gilgamesh had clearly mastered the Hatfields' suites'n'segues approach to Canterbury-style complexity while sidestepping blatant imitation - for the most part…