Balls Slip

I love a supposedly unintended view. It makes it feel like a subversive act...although how subversive it can be when the man is wearing black leather fetish gear is debatable.

I rather like this level of finish. I was drawing this as a possible addition to my fetish series based on my model Nicholas, but now I think it might be best left in this form.

Ray in Repose 9

I'm trying to finish this up and give it to Ray already! I think it might be too long in development for me to look at it objectively. But I'll hope to say, it's Done, versus, it's Perfect.

Brush Demo, Done!

I finally got the sketch AND the video demo done! Hopefully it all turns out okay when I film the final in-person demo for the college.

Anniversary Sketch Session

Last year when I introduced my friend Erwin to my new friend Francisco, they got along so well that Francisco invited him to draw with us at his place, and hire Nicholas again to pose. I'm always happy to draw him but my IG followers might be getting Nick fatigue. Regardless, I think I got some good sketches in, plus I went back to a larger format since I had drawn him just earlier in the week and it felt like I could try something different. The blue sketch in particular I'm happy with, as it almost looks like it could be a rather risque scene from a movie like, I dunno, Metropolis!

Brush Demo 3

I've been putting off this damn sketch for a while, haha. Now I've gotten a little bit more of an internal direction, I just need to record the demo.

Gauntlets

I'm still dreaming up ways to complete this leather/fetish series I started with my model Nicholas, and now it's turned into something that keeps expanding! I'm trying to fill in the spaces between pieces though, and coming up with my own poses. It's funny how I can already channel Nicholas without actually needing him to model. He's a character in my head already.

Brush Demo 2

I thought about demonstrating so many different things, but in the end I narrowed it down to using two specific brushes to get a lined effect. These were my trials about what brushes to demonstrate. I went with vine Charcoal and its variations.

Brush Demo

I've been asked by my school to do a demo video fora grant, and I've been putting it off as I plan the best way to approach it. In the end I thought about using an old demo sketch and just repurposing it as a basis for rendering holding lines. I do like the facial correction I've done here.

Naif Menswear Drawing Also

I thought Id try some more figures in the style I started the other day.

New Year, New Nick

My regular model Nicholas stopped by to pick up his Christmas present from me this evening (a print of one of our piece that we collaborated on), and he posed for a few drawings (the first live sketch session for the year for both of us) while we had Whiskey Amarettos. I really shouldn't drink and draw because it affects my concentration, but it was a fun evening just to just hang and catch up. I didn't get much of a likeness but I kinda liked the looseness of my second sketch. Nicholas really liked it so maybe we'll try more lifestyle-esque sketches like this in the future...

Naif Menswear Drawing

I've always liked a loose, more naive illustration style, even if it's not really me. But I can do it (or so I imagine) and so I thought I'd toy with some lines and see what came up.

Possible Poses 2026, 3

I still want to do one of the model leaning against the wall or the door jamb. For a live session, I think it would be interesting.

CaraBAOs, 2

I did a few more and yep, they look like poster images. Next concept!

CaraBAOs

I'm doing a logo for a client, based on a carabao, a Filipino water buffalo. I tried incorporating a naive, silhouette style drawing of a carabao, but I think they're too open to misinterpretation to go forward with,

Possible Poses 2026, 2

I did that from below and behind pose again, but in a more realistic style it has more sway with me. Wonder if I even need Nicholas to pose for this? Well, he does have a nice butt, it would work for him.

Potential Poses 2026

My model Nicholas is very enthusiastically asking when I would draw him next. I haven't even finished my previous drawings with him and he wants to do more—plus I have another model who posed for me whom I haven't even started! Anyhow, I thought I'd conceptualize some poses anyhow. I sleeping yet spread-eagled reclining pose seems appropriately provocative.

House of Thunder & Generosity

My German friend said his new Chinese name (he lives in Taiwan half the year) translated to House of Thunder & Generosity. So I drewthis as a proposal for his new name stamp icon.

Naive Butt

 

I'm kind of focused on a shot-from-below-and-behind angle lately. But in this naive style I'm not sure it's quite working.

New Year Starts: Young Woman 2026, Done

I like her but I had a hard time with the proportions. I think I was trying to draw my old comic book proportions, but theh fashion proportions are definitely getting in the way. I couldn't decide!

Musing on the Menswear Shows, Done

I had done variations on the Sacai outfit, but when I decided to post it on Facebook for our monthly Art of Fashion Illustration  First Friday, I made sure to get teh actual clothing details. And now he's done.

Year Starts: Young Woman, 2026

I had originally planned on doing a hot young man, and then I thought, he should be a hot black man. And then I thought, why should he be a man at all? So I started playing with two figures, but I think the woman is gonna be winning out.

Cros Arms 3

He's evolving and reminding me of model Garrett Neff, but only just. I'll see where this goes but I think he's my last post for 2025!

Year End: Old Man 2025, Done

I worked through this quickly and posted it on Instagram tonight. I eventually made him a younger guy but still with gray hair and beard. I think it's an okay drawing overall, with his muscle dad bod. But not an ideal yet for sure...

Year End: Old Man 2025

I decided I wanted to do the classic Old Man as the year ending, Young Baby as the New Year coming drawing, but with a sexy Daddy type for teh exiting year. Even if I think 2025 kinda sucked in so many ways, it still had some positives for me. I've not drawn an older gentleman before where I have to determine my ideal for that look, so I'm spending an inordinate amount of time on how he looks...

Cross Arms 2

I refined his face and he's reminding me a bit of 70s actor Parker Stevenson. It's funny, my process-it's a little bit like carving through my linework and feels like it's revealing a sketch that was there all along, I just need to find it.

Cross Arms

I was posing in front of the mirror in the shower, and wondering if this could be a good pose for a new drawing. It's a bit like the Tug series I posted that ultimately got deleted by Instagram, but maybe if I make it less revealing it would still work.

Naif Face

So I went full on Cocteau homage here, haha. Although it feels like a costume I'm putting on.

Naive Recliner

I was inspired by online posts from some people I follow, whose drafstmanship is much less intense than mine, and sometimes I just want to be able to draw like Jean Cocteau, lol

Pantsoff Quickie

I wasn't motivated to draw on Christmas eve, in fact I'm a bit overwhelmed since I'm still not fully out of my cold. So this is a quick sketch with no actual reference pics.

Life, Still

I'm embarking on a new series of still life drawings and paintings, hoping to get at least 60 done this year. This has been in the planning stages for a while, and I imagined how they would look but I don't really draw still life much so it was fun and challenging to see what I would come up with on the fly. This was also created as a gift for my friend, of the knife he gave me as a gift a few years back. He really put so much thought into it, which I appreciated. I have never wanted a knife, but this item is one of my fave things because Philip gave it to me with such intention. I intend to do still life work based on my favorite and most significant things in my apartment.

Year End Walker 2

I always have Rene Gruau at the back of my head, and apparently it shows to viewers on Instgram. This is an ode to his Dior menswear drawings with naked men walking . I did thing with the Smooth Drag brush over the Ruffin brush, trying to see if there's a new technique to adopt here...

Yeahr End Walker

Now I'm trying the Slidr brush which has a unique effect by shifting between background and foreground colors the hard you bear down on your stylus.

Runway Walker

I thought about doing a simple walking croquis, just because. But for some reason when I wanted to do a contemporary black model face, I couldn't muster one I found believable, so she's blank for now.

Nicholas Spitting, Done

I'm quite happy with how this turned out—it's dark and edgy, but it shows nothing from a sexual POV, but it's all in the act and power of suggestion.

Nicholas Spitting 3

I've started to change the head shape more, as it wasn't quite Nicholas' head, and I could tell it didn't feel like him as such. Once upon a time I thought, oh, as long as you get teh facial features right it would work, but even ears make such a big difference, and the overall proportion of his head was originally just my default, but now it's closer to my reference photo.

Soft Face 3

Because I have my new work-only IG page, I can now post more of my women's stuff without fear of non-like reprisal from my followers. They do ignore the posts if there isn't any peen!

Nicholas Spitting 2

I've gotten a good flow with this, it actually excites me to draw this, both by the fact that I am enjoying just copying the photo I took, but also because there's an energy I find in this concept.

Contraposto Croquis 6

I went back to the original (well, version 6,587 of her) face and tried to make her more high end looking, as she was looking very old school college girl.

Contraposto Croquis 5

I tried doing some head variants, but while I start out doing black women, I end up significantly drawing the wrong facial features (I'm doing all this from imagination) and they ended up at times looking Filipino, or in this case I believe, Latina. (And every uneve, but I'm so worn out by the facial wranglings I haven't the wherewithal to deal)

Nicholas Spitting

I'm finally starting this sketch from the reference photo I took nearly a year ago...! But I'm barely in the mood to draw, have been fighting a bad cold replete with debilitating headaches!

Studies for the kids

When I help out my students figure out their designs so they can transform them into flats, I often take a sheet of paper and draw it so they can see how such a garment can be rendered. I don'tfind it cheating because I show them a rough version they then have to renderd digitally, so the technique will still be theirs.

Tug, Done

I did so many versions but this is the one I decided to pot on Instagram

Tug, 4

That face, I realize is too long. And ugly.

Tug 3

Now trying to suss out his face.

Tug 2

I thought I needed to draw the entire body as the anatomy was feeling off, so this is a study for that lol

Tug

I had an idea for an Instagram post of a guy doing. a tug on his underawear. Typical, except I wanted his skin to stand out from a black background. So this is the study.

Nick Leaning

Not sure why I'm thinking of this pose for my model Nicholas, but it is pretty clear in my mind so I might as well try yo draw it...