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Attack of nostalgia... with Busted

 I was working on a project called "Life of a digital artist". Literally fell asleep to it. Woke up in the middle of the night and decided to save it for the next day.

Sun rose and my day began. Wait, let me rephrase. Sun rose and hours passed. Then I woke up. It's a new day and an old project. I was envisioning the drawing I was going to do for the day. Was planning various details and ways to approach the outcome I was intending. 

It was almost 12pm and I still hadn't started on the remaining work from the previous night. I was working on making Logos and posting them on my dribble and behance. Created Fiverr and Upwork as well to sell products online. I will talk more about it later. I was having coffee and finishing all these tasks while listening to music on YouTube.
I had to clean my room after I was done with logos. I was cleaning and organizing hoarded stuff. I had to go through heaps of items stored for years. If that was not enough for the nostalgia ninjas to sneak into my room, here comes their force.

 I started playing the songs of the band called Busted. They ruled my 2000s. Sent me back to the time. This band got split as one of the members, Charlie, left. Listening to the song brought back to those better times. 

They reunited again and released two albums. I started playing one of them which was released in 2019. It's called "Half Way There". The songs are literally made dedicated to the 90s, 2000s, being absent for the last 10 years and coming back etc.

"I wanna hear about the last ten years, so much has happened since you disappeared. If I still could, then I still would..", "So many things to talk about, Our different lives how they turned out"

Then there are songs saying, "What happened to your band? What are your future plans? I'm like your biggest fan. Where'd you go, I've been lost without you, it's crazy. Time moves slow, I ain't seen you on the TV lately. I walk through the neighbourhood where I used to live. But the only thing that people ask me is. What happened to your band?" 

and "I miss the days of after school at Roller City, Now all we've got is a parking lot, it's such a pity. And used to pray we'd meet one day Kelly Kapowski. God, I miss the nineties. I'll always miss the nineties"

All of the songs are so good. James, Charlie sounds as good as always. And I admired Matt's funk raspy energetic lunatic character voice so much and good to see it still hasn't changed after all the years. 

And when the song called "It happens" started playing I was in a deep mystical phase stage whatever you can call. As I finished the cleaning it was evening. I was playing the songs in the loops as I was showering next. 


I was so deep into the ocean made of nostalgia, it struck me to draw something that dedicates to the 90s or early 2000s. Wow, yes. I wanted to draw a radio as I was imagining the radio playing Busted. 

                    

I felt so good drawing this, bopping to the music, drinking milkshakes. Life seemed good. 
Illustration+Music+Imagination creates magic.
             
                

               


I added these textures to give it a more retro vibe .


I liked the way it was going. Although it seemed empty. I decided to add a drawing sheet and crayons along with a half Pokeball. Pokemon was such a huge deal those times. 



I didn't keep the paper blank like that. Added a personal drawing there along with my name "Dex".
I will leave the blog here. It was such a great day. As I was done with the drawing, I was singling fluently the song. Guess I had listened the song for 50 times by then.
"After 11 years of space we start to gravitate. Back to each other, you can call it karma, call it fate.
And now we're back out on the road, the album's almost good to go. And if you're ever feeling low, you know, you know that, It happens
It happens,
So today is gonna be your day, No matter what gets in your way, 'Cause things turn out alright if you believe they might. Today is gonna be the day"

The final product is here: Check here



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