Maize Face

Yeah another attempt t a sketch, this time on the train back to NY (it was a short but good stay) but with the delays and my dying iPhone battery, this is all I got.

Flyaway Hair 2

I brought him into Photoshop hoping to flesh him out thoroughly, but now I'm wondering if I'm losing the immediacy of the initial marks by doing so?

Purple Face

I'm on the train a lot! This time, on my way to Hudson, for the first time this year. It's with a bit of trpidation that I go, because I can't afford to spend money right now while I'm salary-less during teh summer break. Oh sure I have saving sbut I don't spend needlessly nowadays. But I do need to see my friend Greg since it's been ages since we had a proper hang. Anyhow, this is barely. sketch, as I don't really care much for drawing a lot on Procreate Pocket!

Flyaway Hair

Despite being another Procreate Pocket drawing on the train, I was able to get some good light linework in this one, which is really difficult when You realize I'm painting with my fingers and can not see the point of contact with the phone! He's still pretty rough though.

Eye On The Train

This was a sketch I did while taking the subway, hence the roughness. I'ts hard to get good detail with this app, so I tried a larger scale but alas, it's still too rough

Antique Glaze 2

I realize I'm painting an old way, including old school looks and makeup.I need to update ugh!

Antique Glaze

I tried out the Antique Glaze brush and the resulting marks had a Mia Carpenter (an 80s fashion illustrator of the West Coast school) feel to them, so I went with it. Although I'm curious to see how I can make itmy own.

Stand Tall

So this is what it looks like for me when a doodle just works. I wanted to do a nude, from behind and above, just like Rene Gruau sometimes draws. Except naked. And inspired by my friend Ernesto (those traps and neck are very him) He got done in about a day without any stress.

Ralph

Ralph C is a visiting figure model from Florida who was staying at my friend Francisco's place this past week. As a thank you to his host, he volunteered to pose for Francisco, who invited me to draw Ralph with him. I was very inspired and got some of the best drawings I've done in a life drawing session this year.

Doodle Face 2

I thought adding a body would help, although not before I went a completely different direction and tried to adapt an Italian model's features into this face. 

I don't consider it copying since the model's photo was from a completely different angle, and I was just trying to get his features and proportions into this guy's set up. But I dunno, it's just not working for me.

Doodle Face

I've been trying to make the Wet Charcoal brush happen for me. I like how it does a heavy, ink-like stroke but trying to use it for finer lines doesn't work as well for me. Maybe that's why creating this face was such a struggle, other than the fact that it felt like more of the same.Why do I feel like I've been stuck in my own style lately? This face was yet again, another typical 'me' face, and it didn't feel like I was breaking any new ground. He's perfectly fine, just not novel enough to warrant finishing, I guess. I'm showing all the separate versions of him that I did, trying fuller lips and various noses types, but I don't know who this guy is yet. Granted, I'm trying to draw him from imagination so I'm letting the marks do the talking, but I guess that's why he's a doodle—it's just marks leading the way, hopefully into a more realized piece.

Pink Peen

I hate that Instagram has gotten so censor-y lately, even if they allowed nudes like mine, nowadays it feels like we've gone back to an even more homophobic moment, led by their AI. I'm testing the waters more again with my posts but I feel censored, drawing what I think would fly versus what I want to draw, where the drawing takes me...like focusing on this guy's dick, lol.

Heavy Ink, Done

A few face tweaks a few anatomical cleanups, and he's ready for instagram. Although I do find him a bit bland, but thats the face (and hair and styling) that emerged and sometimes that's what the drawing wants to be.

Heavy Ink 2

This drawing feels a bit previous, as it harks back to my older style (the brush is leading the way) and I kinda did this bland white boy—handsome, and kinda mainstream for my tastes. But that's what the lines lead to and I leaned into it a bit with the body hair. Let's see where this goes.

Restore 3

Yup, not really feeling him as a nude. Something needs to change and I don't know what...

Restore 2

Trying to develop this face more to my linking, so I changed the eyes up considerably. But I don't particularly like his 'look' in general, at least not for a nude. Maybe if I just use him in a fashion sketch but I'm not motivated that way with this drawing (so far).

Scott H

This is one of the few people I'm friendly with at the gym, Scott, who I've looked at a lot because I like his profile. sadly, I wasn't able to get a really good likeness of him but I figured I needed to post this on here for posterity's sake.

Heavy Ink

I have it in my my to revisit my old inking techniques, as drawings to post on Instagram. So I've been experimenting with the Wet Charcoal brush which I'm growing to like, but it does take some getting used to. This guy is kind of a retread of some former poses so while I like his face, I might have to change the body more.

Menswear Croquis Spring Summer 2027

I thought I'd take the time to really learn Procreate so that i could be as well versed in the shortcuts and techniques using it as I am in Photoshop, but in the end I sent toe file to Photoshop and continued finishing it there. I started the figure in Procreate though, but I don't know enough about it to feel confident in my explorations there yet. Or maybe I'm just lazy and resort to what I know best.

Random Inspo Sketch 7

I went searching through my archives for one thing, and found a slew of forgotten other things. I revived this particular sketch because I thought the face was very sensitively rendered, something I have had a harder time with lately. I did a few things to clean up his crotch area, wondering about showing full frontAl or not for IG.