Blue Walker 2

It's weird to develop the croquis form AFTER I do the finished figure, but I don't actually do a template when I draw—I just render and correct as necessary. So oddly, it took me longer to create the right form for this body AFTER I made teh finished sketch. Maybe it's because it's nude and I don't draw fashion proportions for nude bodies, so I'm constantly fighting with my urge to make it a sexy nude versus a fashion nude.

Footclap, Done

I finally tweaked all the things about his legs and waist and even head, little details no one but I would notice. So it's published now on insta.

Leather & Fur Demo

Today's model drawing class was about rendering leather and fur. I did a 10 minute demo but was not happy with having to rush two techniques...and I think I drew her hair too high. Ah well...

Although before class I thought I'd make a new demo piece for my samples PDF, but it went nowhere...

Half Nude Model 6

I am having trouble with the arms, and how they react to teh body. Lots of things are just not gelling for me here, except for the face. And then I thought, what if I just use the face in a more fashion illustration and crop it off here and concentrate on the body? Well, it works better, to a point: I still need to fix that anatomy, which isn't quite right yet but I'm not sure how to fix it.

Next of Nicholas

I figured I'd jump right into the next sketch, but that said, I'm not sure this pose is the right one. It's just the next best photo I took that has potential. ugh, the problem with drawing for someone else more than my own vision. I'm not even sure why I'm doing this...?

Well, let's unpack that. I suppose it's the hotness of the model and the curiosity of, well, he wanted to do something more erotic, let's take a look at that and see where this goes. And I used to draw a lot of hard(er)core gay imagery, so it might be a good time to investigate again and say it's the model's inspo (versus me just drawing erections out of my head, which I'm not really interested in). But I do find that this isn't my usual space, which is the softcore approach of, "what if Playboy was done with men instead of women" poses. Maybe that's why I'm pausing right now: I got the hardcore one out of the way, and now I feel like, it's done, I did it, and m not sure it's my space. But I think I committed to a triptych in my head so I need to do at least a couple more...

Nicholas's Erection

I had been working on this for a couple of days and really just got such a groove on that I finished it in record time I haven't committed to drawing really realistic penises in general, much less erect ones, but I went there with this one since the model requested we do a very erotic session. Well, he wasn't dripping like I portrayed him here, but he wanted erotic! I'm honestly channeling old sketches of mine from the 90s, but in my current style. I'm a bit conflicted because it feels less classy than my usual work, but at the same time, it's a great exercise in getting this kind of dark sexual energy out on to a canvas. Anyhow, he's watermarked to death until I release it with the rest of the planned series.

Blue Walker

I was playing with croquises and trying to develop additional techniques that might work well in Illustrator (for my students) and in the process, I started using a new palette knife brush, Palette Knife Gritty, and the outfit on this guy kept getting sharper and sharper.I really like how he turned out, but it does look like gouache more than my usual styles. This guy is a 10 head croquis only because I wanted to emphasize the long lean look of the 70s inspired outfit.

After Ruggiero

I follow a model named Ruggiero online and after going thoguh his feed and latest posts, I was inspired to do this quick line drawing. It's not a direct reference to any of his posts, just a feeling of his long arms and elegance.

Footclap 5

I do love a bit of a narrative. And this was taken from a random pose I shot of a model texting on his phone after a session.He wasn't actually naked but wearing a tee and underwear, so I extrapolated from the pose because I loved how he was sitting (the footclap being how his foot soles clap together) and then decided to toss the said tee and underwear into the drawing as well. Although I feel like it might feel less focused and more busy...

Nubia's Surprise Wig

My model drawing class's model came out of the dressing room with this gigantic squall of a wig, and after I regained my composure, I realized what fun it would be to draw (shades of Phoenix and Diana Ross!). I did a demo sketch with her and the wig, but while the class was working I did this portrait of her.

Menswear Poses 6

I needed a base fashion sketch to transform into an Illustrator sketch for a class today, and instead of drawing. new one, I just decided to pop up one of the old ones I never finished, and do a finish on him. Actually it's not too bad, but not necessarily something I'd proffer as a finished piece from me, but it's enough to digitize into vector format. So the left sketch is in Adoboe Photoshop, the middle is Photoshop but only the outline layer, and the right is a version completely redone and redrawn in vector format in Illustrator.

Footclap 4

I'm now hunting around for an image to publish on IG, from my catalog of unfinished business. And this guy from February is a perfect candidate but even this sketch feels somehow unfinished after I tweaked it a bit. So I'm tweaking his anatomy some more but I feel like his ass is unusually wide here...

Half Nude Model 5

It might not look it but I compressed all my proportions a bit on this guy. When I want to draw someone looking like a male model, i extend all their limbs and lengths to be long and lean like male models actually are. But I sometimes get lost in the exaggeration and have to pull back afterwards. This is one of those times.

Hoodie & Treasure Trail 5 (and Done, I think)

While hunting for old drawings to pose on Instagram, I came upon this oold one from Feb of 2022. Hard to believe it's over 3 years old now and I forgot all about it. But if there's anything my constant doodling is good for, it's letting old discards gain new life when you look upon them with fresh eyes...not eyes weary from trying to make it work. I think this guy's finished and good enough as is.

Half Nude Model 4

I finally got a lip I like! It's a bit fuller and rounded on the bottom, not my usual waspy thin lips. He's looking better, now I just need to finalize everything.

Half Nude Model 3

I guess this is the one I'm developing to post. I never know which pieces I'll develop—I just draw and draw different ideas and poses, until I get the momentum to finish one. This one is gaining momentum, plus I like how the face turned out.

Nubia Model Drawing

I don't actually do a portrait of Nubia, my new model for my model drawing class. But she does inspire the demo sketches I do, on the blackboard as well as on paper.

Proportions 3

I wanted to do an updated sketch demo on sequins rendering for my class on Thursday, so I repurposed my fashion sketch from the other day into a sequin textured one.

Nicholas In Leather 6

I did a quick sketch prep for Nicholas to post on his Instagram.

Half Nude Model 2

His face was bugging the heck out of me. and I still can't figure out how to render his mouth. But this is pretty good, although t be honest, I wanted to do aless waspy thin lip and a more full modern Insta model lol

Proportions 2

I have a problem with the way I draw women nowadays—I tend to hark to my older strong female archetypes, maybe from my comic book days, but those aren't the type in fashion nowadays. It would behoove me to draw a sweet, girlish face. So this is what I try, in my current style.

Nicholas In Leather 5

A little more detail on his stock restraint. I like making up gear like this, not sure why. Might be the practice of creating robots and spaceships from way back when...

Nicholas In Leather 4

Concentrating on his mask this time, although I'm not sure I like the design of his mask. Maybe I'll just make a new one.

Proportions

The current look right now for men and women includes wider legged pants (but not super wide like previously) starting from a more fitted pant's top, with a mid0though oversized jacket/coat over it.

AJ Poses 4

I had a reclining page inspired by fave model Martin Boyle's shoot for Male Model Scene. A reclining spread-eagled man is always a fun draw, hehe

Nicholas in Leather 3

Sorry, this is a slow development, as I'm so busy that I am only sketching between school work, and its the same drawing that I leave open in Photoshop. But I'm slowly getting a feel for the series, which is part of the problem: it's not one drawing but a series of them, so I think thinking of multiple pieces is making me procrastinate.

Nicholas In Leather 2

I decided maybe a fun yoke would be both bondage-y and creative. as I was thinking carabaos in the field.

Nicholas in Leather

The first of his photos for me to draw, I'm at a loss about this pose which I like, but I'm still not sure how to fully realize. I'm thinking I might draw his red, paddled ass into this.

Half Nude Model

I was thinking of another model-half-dressed kind of pose, and ended up with drawing half done as well haha

After Jamie

I saw a pose by Jamie Dornan from a magazine shoot, and while clothed, I thought it would be fun to extrapolate his body underneath as a nude. This is the initial rough, I'll work out teh details later.

TJ at Mark Beard's

Mark Beard is the artist who created all those beautiful homoerotic murals at Abercrombie & Fitch back in the day, and after years of thinking of going, I finally attended one of his drawing salons at his loft in midtown. I got to draw the beautiful TJ, whom I wanted to draw weeks ago at another Saturday drawing group that I missed because I overslept. With 3 3 minute poses and 2 40 minute poses, he was a lot of fun to draw, mostly because I found his face really interesting and handsome. These were the two long poses.

Nicholas In Bondage 4

Another draft from the photos I took last Sunday.

Homework Instructions

I did a quick sketch of how my students should manage the one homework I gave them for croquis drawing.

Nicholas In Bondage 3

I took some of the stills form my shoot with Nicholas and started doing preliminary sketches. These are going to be so sexually explicit (for me) that I'm not sure how I feel. I mean, I'm excited but it's a like back in the days of the Leslie Lohman Drawing salon, where it got really racy right away.

Nicholas In Bondage 2

Nicholas is coming to my apartment to pose for the sketches I have planned, and while waiting i drew another possibility, this time using my Raf Simons gloves as a possible outfit. Although I'm not sure I even need him to pose for this, as I could finish this as is...

Nude To Go 2

I feel like there's a finished piece in here waiting to come forth, but I'm just fiddling with it and not sure where it's headed. Oh well, we shall see...

Faculty Session

The FIT Fashion Art Department faculty sometimes hold drawing sessions with models, and this was apparently the first one since the pandemic! It's my first one and I was being very experimental, going from charcoal to pastel, before finally ending up with my favorite medium for lifedrawing, colored pencil. We were drawing a marathon, nonstop it seemed for over two hours, since we had two models and each model would rest while the other posed, which meant we artists were drawing continuously! These were two of the sets I drew: the first set is a pair of pastels where I was trying to be all late 80s fashion drawing student, a la some of my professor peers. It's not really my style, but I was evoking Steven Stipleman and maybe even KPB. PLus, aside from one recent demo in class last week, I haven't used pastels in DECADES, much less in a fashion Illustration context! My hands were so dirty, thank goodness there was a sink in the classroom.

The last one felt more like me, a gray colored pencil drawing of the last look.

Collage At College

Today I gave a lesson on collage for our class, and I drew a croquis and applied cut paper to it, but I forgot to photograph it to upload here. Will add it as soon as I get back to school tomorrow.

Edit: added, but it's not my fave I like the sketch I had underneath better on its own. Not really a collage guy...

Cropped Up Top

I love a pooh bear moment and making it anonymous feels like a fresh take on it, since I do a pooh bear moment fairly often.

Nude To Go

I'm trying to get my next Instagram post done but I just have no energy to devote to a sketch right now—I'm just sooo distracted by the political chaos in this country right now. Plus I'm busy with school and a sudden shitload of social commitments. But I always try to start something to "break the ice" so to speak. It's easier to go in and edit something than to start. So I start with minimal marks and see if I'll continue it from there

AJ Poses 3

I'm trying to get away from mys standard men's faces with this one, going for a fuller lip. But I'm not sure I'm getting teh feature mix right, so I wondered if painting it more fully would make it sem where i was headed, versus just a line drawing.

AJ Poses 2

More ideas for StonerHustler's possible drawing sesh.

AJ Poses

I thought I would just do a plain standing pose for my next insta post, and this was an interesting start but I'm not sure where it's going yet. But I thought of it for a guy I've been chatting with on Insta, StonerHustle,

The More You Know

When I was prepping my slideshow presentation for yesterday's demo, I went back into my Hugo Boss work to look for layered outfits to show my class. This was one of them and I noticed how stiff I was in the way I drew the pose—no verve, no life. Granted it was at a time when the runway shows were pretty much stiff and lifeless, but in hindsight I wish I gave her more swish. So I adjusted this a bit. It's better, but not good enough yet, and there's no need now since the slideshow was for yesterday.

Peer Demo

Every semester your fellow professors review one of your classes to see if you're up to snuff. I've had good to okay reviews before, but today's was outstanding! My peer reviewer was the eminent Professor Stipleman, and he was quite effusive with his approval right after my demo. This was the drawing I did to demonstrate the quick gestural techniques I wanted my students to use when drawing layered garments (in 8 minutes). It's not even that great a sketch but I guess I was confident enough in the demo to be convincing and it showed the layering that I was espousing.

Men's Flats Template 2

And a sample barrel leg trouser flat for the menswear kids (really almost identical to my womenswear demo, but at least in menswear proportions).