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!

Subway Contraposto

I forgot about this drawing I did on the subway, and how I liked the form of the guy but needed to clean it up a bit. This is an initial stab after bringing it into Photoshop from my Procreate cellphone app.

Cropped and Lifted, 2

The I saw another photo from an email I get regularly (I forget which) showing a guy posed like this, and I liked the S curve action, plus it allowed for the short cropped tee left too. Options, options...

Cropped and Lifted

Troye Sivan's ads for the Gap showed him in a cropped tee that would lift and reveal his abs whenever he lifted his arms. I thought of capturing that in a sketch and this is the initial idea.

Desktop Sketch 3

I confess, I didn't really draw and photograph these bit by bit, but I just took teh shot of the 3 days I dres and removed the parts I knew I did that day, in retrospect. It still counts as my sketches for the day, just more calculatedly presented. I forgot to take shots by the day but this still works!

Desktop Sketch 2

It feels super natural to sketch and doodle with pencil and paper again, but I always felt like I wanted to hit Command Z, especially when I misrendered that back slope!

Desktop Sketch

I put a pink sheet of paper on my desk as a sort of desk blotter (an old school item for sure) and while waiting for something to load on my computer, I randomly started sketching on it with a pencil. Back in the day, I would talk for hours on the phone with my best friend in college, and whatever sheets of paper were nearby—the calendar next to the phone, a random note card, an abandoned magazine—would get doodled on.

Lulu-ish

I only recently discovered model Lulu Tenney and her beautifully odd facial features. I feel like her doll-like oddity is very modern and reminds me a lot of my friend Nuno Dacosta's drawings. So I am trying to channel her without actually copying her face.

Tuxedo Jacket Only, Done

I decided to get my friend Ernie, whom I recently noticed likes to wear thongs because they make his package look bigger even underneath his clothing, to quickly show me how it looks before and after. Anatomical accuracy was the excuse, lol. And it's true! While your balls may spread out, what happens with a thong is your shaft positions downward, which accentuates the length. In. way I needed a real person's usage to guide it, since many online pics of guys wearing them tend to emphasize a semi or more straining against the fabric.

Tuxedo Jacket Only 4

I adjusted both his body AND the canvas. I think it works better proportionally. Although I'm not sure I like his shoulders as is, it should be fine if I'm emphasizing them merely to hang the jacket. Frankly this looks like a mannequin pose, haha.

Tuxedo Jacket Only 3

So this is me adjusting his body. I realized I made him a bit long, but that's the fashion illustrator in me. Plus some men are long that way (I actually have a model, Craig D. in mind when I think that) but I'm not sure I want that for this drawing.

Tuxedo Jacket Only 2

even if his body is covered by the jacket, I still drew the full body underneath to give myself a sense of how I might or might not dress him. I always find that a thong can elongate the crotch if it's stretchy enough and the man is more turgid (clearly I've given this some thought and research!) but I wasn't sure how I wanted to present him, with or without thong.

Tuxedo Jacket Only

Well, not only. A jacket, and what I'm hoping will be a sheer, 70s style thong.

Happy Zoe Day!

It's my niece's birthday so I drew a quick cake and made a gif greeting.

Contemporary Hair

I've been drawing it for a while, but these tousled curl men's haircuts are kind of the main look right now in contemporary men's fashion, but I did notice how they tend to flair out in an inverted triangle the way they taper the backs (if you look from profile).

Soft Collar

I'm in one of my, "I'm not really inspired to draw" phases. So these doodles are just gonna have to do for now.

Hard Edged

I was experimenting with teh Guelph brush some more, for a harder edge style...and I don't like it. Well, the drawing. The style could be useful some other way.

Cat Lady Cats

 Was thinking how I could expand on the Cat Lady idea and draw more, but this is looking a little too 1950s De Patie Freleng.