Cutouts Series 6

I thought of a kind of Greek vase style drawing but this closeup looks like it's copying another artist, so I'll leave this as an experiment.

Cutouts Series 5

I spent a little time refining that penis, lol

Cutouts Series 4

Experimenting now, but wondering if doing multi colors like this apes someone else's artwork more than it should?

Cutouts Series 3

I thought I'd do some push and pull with scales and views and do some kissers.

Cutouts Series 2

I didn't like the pink guy's body, I wanted more of a stocky muscle daddy so I redrew him, even the parts that wouldn't be seen. Well, I wonder sometimes if you can call it drawing since it feels like carving, as I use the lasso tool in Photoshop, to make these shapes.

Cutouts Series

This whole current (and currently waning) style of drawing that is reminiscent of Mattise's cutouts has mad very simple popular art ubiquitous when a store wants to look "millennial". One such nail salon near me on my street (in the former nutrition store manned by my friend and one time model Scott) Has a very simple framed piece with a pink, snake-like shape in the center. I always wanted to try my hand at that style because it would be too easy, and I never had an idea of how. This popped into my head and quickly on to my digital canvas, and I think it's too easy not to do a series.

Stand and Look Hot 3

I'm not actually sure how to make this guy look more interesting.

Stand and Look Hot 2

  

You know, he looks more Ltin American to me now...

Stand and Look Hot

Basically that's the theme of all my homoerotic drawings lately, but I try to change things up. I'm gonna try and make him Asian.

Paper Dolling 3

I was trying to make newer outfits for this model I distribute to teh kids to map patterns on to in class. She's a Demo Girl, but I feel like I should name her.

New Croquis 2

Trying to refine the pose but not sure if I'm just repeating the old pose I have in my head...

Walker 3/4

I love walking poses because you have a dynamic showing of both the body as well as an emphasis on pants/legs. I usually do a side view but this is another favorite angle, and I always struggle to get it right because the arms swing in opposition to their opposite leg.

These drawings were actually done after the fact, retroactively. My computer was having shut-down issues wouldn't start up and I had to go the entire weekend with it in the shop. Yesterday when I was working on the croquis, I had a few more realized versions that got lost without getting backed up so starting from here until Monday are all retro-fitted sketches.

New Croquis

I've been wanting to develop a newer croquis style for myself, as I feel like I'm just reacting to everyone else and the school, but not really doing my own art like when I've got more time. I thought maybe something with more movement, but I realize, hah, I've done this exact same pose before, and almost a decade ago...

Standalone, Rescaled

I published my sketch as it was yesterday, but after seeing it in Instagram's layout I resized and jiggered the head and feet—I have a tendency to draw big feet, I dunno why...although I have to fight to not make my hands too small, haha. They're errrry subtle changes but something I needed to do for my own perfectionist peace of mind. Too bad I can't change it on Insta without losing the previous post.

Standalone 4

I decided to just do the kind of guy I normally do instead of trying someone new—so in the vein of Kiko Henriques, or some hot guy with cirly hair. I thought I did the body well, but I have my doubts about his feet—are they a bit too big?

Standalone 3

This new brush is inspiring a new way to draw, but I haven't gotten my bearings with it yet. It does a color variation thing that i wasn't expecting, and I have yet to find my way with that technique. Like, I'm not loving this man's face since I'm doing a heavy shadow technique because of this brush, so I need to test it out more...

Paper Dolling 2

I decided to add a oversized suit for the students to install patterns in. The exercise is to use Photoshop and create perfectly repeating patterns that tile seamlessly, then apply them to a garment. They have to make sure they try and approximate the direction of the fabric grain, as well as warp the print when  folds happen.

Paper Dolling (formerly Plaid Tidings)

I work with this croquis a lot with my students, as I give them the full file and allow them to work with it. For this class, I changed the shape of the garment a little and added a new top from last year's Vivienne Westwood-inspired one because I wasn't feeling the bustier as much.

Mini Mod 2

I was reading my friend fashion illustration legend Steven Stipleman's 4th edition of his Fashion Illustration book, and noticed he was advocating 10 headed croquis. I suddenly wondered if Id been drawing them wrong all this time at 9 heads. So I drew a comparison. I think I like 9 heads better for now.

Test Sketches 5

I didn't have anything ready to pose on IG and the last one was super late as wes, so I decided to trot out this sketch and present it as is. Well, with tweaks to his hand on our right, as well as his dick

Mini Mod

I thought I would try and channel Lulu Tenney and draw a modern face on a retro-Mod fashion, but I haven't even bothered with the body or clothing.

Standalone 2

Just adding more details. This kind of drawing is fun for me—no poses to worry about, just simply drawing in the details

Standalone

I just wanted to draw a nude standing, a very basic pose, but I thought maybe the framing in an open space would make it more interesting.

Strider 2

I refined the face a bit more without the background, and it's much better but I'm still not convinced I like it as is.

That Neck

There's a guy at my gym that I have a crush on. I've spoken with him all of twice, and he's kind of unfriendly to me, or at least he might have resting bich face. That said, he's friendly with the other gym goers, maybe it'sjust me. Anyhow, he has the nicely proportions, all long and lean, yet he appears just a hair shorter than me. I think it's because he has such an extended neck and lean body...

Strider

Had an idea about doing a guy in a high ink contrast sketch, walking across the panel and showing off his hairy crotch. Well, as usual my idea and my sketch are two different things...

Thin Scarf, Done

I decided to try a new posting time on Instagram: noon. And I thought this would be a good time to pose a non-penis drawing. Although considering both might result in lowered likes, I dunno if it's good to do those two options at the same time. Anyhow, I tweaked and retouched this guy, which I liked a while back, but never could figure when and where to pose on IG.

Ernesto Arms, Stretched 4

This is getting somewhere, I think. I've abandoned the original reference pic and am just drawing on my own now.

Ernesto Arms, Stretched 3

I went to another layer I made, reducing teh shape into bare lines again, but adding the more finished head. Hmm, can't decide...

Ernesto Arms, Stretched 2

I decided to revisit this sketch in hopes of posting it, but I'm not sure I'm getting the right look for it. I definitely feel like the rc of his torso could be improved...

Another Watercolor Boy

Playing around with the brush some more, trying to find how I handled it before. It's been so long, I'm a bit rusty with it!

Watercolor Boy

I just wanted a break from my Ruffin brush and so I thought I'd try a soft watercolor brush.

Shine!

It was my and my friend's birthday today, and we have this thing where we constantly greet each other with, "Happy Birthday, You Bitch!" and I drew in the simple animation on this newly published pic of him from back in the 90s (wearing head to toe Helmut Lang vinyl!), which I am totally going to say counts as a drawing post because I'm lazy and it's my birthday so there.

Sweater Reveal, Done

I've been remiss in posting on Instagram for 2 weeks now (I try to pose once a week) so I went hunting for a sketch that felt ready to pose without much work. Fortunately this sweater one is now better to post since we've had cooler weather in the last few weeks, although today it's been summery again. So I thought I'd write copy emphasizing how wishy-washy the weather is and whether or not you wear the sweater, or take it off...lol rationalization.

Croquis Repair

I did a very quick sketch on paper and photoscanned it in as a thing to work on in class, to teach them how to do scan repair, but sadly I never got to it.

Stretched Out 2

I'm wondering if the arm pose is too closed, so I tried with him arms up, hands behind his head. Then I sent the sketch to a friend to ask him to model it for me. The black version is an older, less detailed version of the one I published for yesterday...Anyhow, any excuse to get someone naked...

Stretched Out

I had another idea (I have more ideas that I come up with than I finish, sadly) of a guy wearing penny loafers and is otherwise naked.

Angled 4

Leaving the head alone and tending to his body to make sure anatomy and attitude are aligned with the vision. This can be a dangerous part of the process too, as I find I can often not like how a sketch evolves, and I end up abandoning it.

Angled 3

Now he looks more refined, except as I develop both his face and body, he looks less like a fashion model and more like some rando naked guy. But that tends to happen sometimes when I try to make them feel more realistic, and I draw in features that might be less familiar to me. With that arm on his hip, he also looks kinda short...

Angled 2

So this is the body, and now I realize Ive drawn versions of this same pose before, albeit not from this angle.

Angled

I often visualize a pose with a specific attitude and angle, and then I try to actually draw it. Problems arise when those sketches start to developa visual of their own different from the one in my head, and working on them makes me lean more to the marks on the page than getting out teh image in my head. This one starts with a tilted head and an expression. Don't mind the green hair, just playing...

Siting Sidelines

I saw a pic of a guy naked on Instagram, but the way he was sitting abd shot from the side revealed no penis, so I thought it was a good pose to try and emulate. This is a first draft, per usual, when I start something new.

Cropped and Lifted 5

It's kinda weird for me to be developing 2 views of the same pose separately, when maybe I should just do the crop and add the legs later, or perhaps finish the full body and just crop it. But they seem to be developing differently based on the view.

Cropped and Lifted 4

And the closer crop. I have the pose so clearly in my head but so far the marks are not up to par! Looking at this as I post, he might need to rotate his head one way, while the body goes rotating the other.

Cropped and Lifted 3

Trying to get the correct level of ease into this pose, but since I'm doing it from my head it's not coming quickly enough. Can't decide whether it's best as a full view or a 3/4 crop.

Bent, Done

I had started this drawing a couple of months back and it was nearly done back then, but I decided to get a reference from Ernesto when he came to visit this past summer. Fortunately it's such minimal detail it was just a matter of doing it, so I was able to finish it for posting to Instagram.

Desktop Sketch 5

Still haven't figured it out so more sketch studies on my desktop.

Desktop Sketch 4

I've been imagining what my own collection would look like if I did the same project I'm making my students do. Since I have a rather complicated idea in my head, I just started testing it out on my desktop blotter sheet that still hasn't left my desk.

Yoni, Quickly

I follow this online nude model account for artist's model Yoni Baker, and he offered a free, lifedrawing session to test out his new camera system. I replied, but didn't realize he was testing it at 12 midnight in NYC (he's based in LA I think), so I barely got anything sketched, especially since I've been so tired from the first week of school!