Sunday's Sketch of Joe Satriani

The technical and scientific sounds from one of the best, if not the best modern day guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani are inspiring. Joe is certainly not of this earth as most fans will tell you. His music has emotion, feeling and power. The greatest thing about an instrumental is that the listener can have their own interpretation of the song. You can put yourself in a place where you once were when relating to a song composed and played by Satriani.

Born in Long Island New York and a teacher and mentor of the Steve Vai, Joe has created a new sound that was influenced by the great bands of the early 70′s. His music is passionate and yet non-intrusive, though that’s my interpretation of it. The first album released was in 1986 “Not Of This Earth” and featured one of my favorite tunes “Rubina”. This song really touches you deep that only Joe Satriani can play so well.

Joe Satriani is an influence and a genius to many guitar players. Joe formed G3 which featured Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen and others. The greatest guitar players of the modern era. If you were fortunate to be part of it, you would know what a great display of genius and technical composition this tour had.

Joe Satriani has released over 20 CD’s since 1986, and the CD that really put Joe on the map in my opinion was “Flying in a Blue Dream”. Though there’s been so many great releases such as Live in San Francisco which has all of Joe’s greatest compositions.

Using an HB pencil for most of the drawing to bring out the distinct lines in Joe’s intense features, blending the darker corners of his face, and then adding lines with the HB brings out the detail a bit more.  I chose to put charcoal ebony for his shirt, making the other features around it pop out.