Possibilities, Too

While on the exploratory tangent, I found a pic of a clothed fashion model, and I liked the pose and wanted to see what it would look like naked. And here it is, although I think I might need reference shots to get it more accurate.

Nicholas Redux

I went to the center to draw and meet up with Nicholas again, after we've not had a chance to meet up in over a month. It was a good session, I think the room and his poses were great, although I wish I was a little more on my game. I think I was a bit guarded. But I like the results anyhow.

John dlS

I got to meet and draw a new model today, John. We'd been chatting a bit on Instagram about him modelling, so this was a test of sorts. The funny thing is we connected more on a personal level, so we might make plans just to hang.

Possibilities

I've been sketching up a storm, trying to make something as my next IG post, but I realize the folly in tat because it's me not making art for my art, but me trying to create content. And it's a battle I realize I've lost more than a bit, even if the need for content has spurred my art a lot over the last 14 years. Anyhow, this guy is one of several different sketches I was working on, trying in one PSD file that I named possibilities...

Brushed Charcoal Test 2

It's kind of a good thing I decided to do this—it's allowing me to make my mistakes in the study as well as correct anything, before I commit to charcoal. Plus it's making me appreciate the smoothness necessary in the render to get that latex effect. SO now she has only one foot showing, and it needs to be further back behind her knee...

Brushed Charcoal Test

I'm doing something I' ve never done before:plan a ntural media sketch digitally. Basically I wanted to map out realistic shading and highlights in this leather/latex outfit, and do a study before I go in with actual charcoal. I hope I don't end up liking the digital part more when I'm done! But this is just the initial stab at it.

That Spread Again

I must watch/see too much homoerotic stuff but this pose is so typical in porn, as well as in fashion nowadays. I guess it's the promise of what's down there. Anyhow, I couldn't figure out the foreshortening so I tried adding shorts, which helped. I can see the mistakes now haha...gotta fix later.

Brush Test: Palette Knife Gritty

This one was fun to use, but not for the purpose I'm looking for

Brush Test: Old Stiff Brush

I've been jonesing to make a very darks heavy sketch lately, and my usual brushes have not been scratching that itch, so I've gone searching in my archives of Photoshop brushes for ones I might have overlooked. Today's is the Old Stiff brush, which has its merits, but might not be versatile enough for all strokes. Still, it worked for his hair.

Brushed Charcoal 2

I had let this gal sit untouched since I started her, in that weird, literally painful burst of creative energy I had earlier this year. But with my inspiration towards using darker/black brushstrokes in my recent sketches, I thought, well, why not just go back to actual charcoal? I didn't get very far, but I have all materials out on my desk so I hope I continue.

Dark & Dry Strokes 2

Yeah, I'm really liking this guy, but sadly, his profile makes me want to draw a side view body, and I've done that a bit too much lately. Holding a ball is a conceit to a narrative, but not sure I have that story within me ot finish it! Let's see...

Dark & Dry Strokes

I've been wanting to do a more charcoal-y/dry brush sketch as my next drawing, but I don't want to use the same old Ruffin brush so I tested quite a few others on this sample sketch. Although I rather like teh face that emerged so I plan on working with this one to hopefully finagle it into a piece.

Tulle Time 2

I pulled this sketch out of obscurity and hope it will find resolution soon. I retooled his face a bit and started cleaning up the overly long anatomy. I'm daunted by the tulle he was wearing so I've turned off that layer until I'm ready to tackle it.

Hair Tossed 3

He evolves again. This time he's shaggier, like the way many of my 18 year old students are wearing their hair. I often wonder if it's a deliberate style, or just a non-styled style? Anyhow, he's more naked than ever, this one.

Haitr Tossed 2

I wondered if this counted as a continuation of the previpus iteration of Hair Tossed, or as a completely new sketch since I started over? The inspo is still Jaclyn Smith's shot in the Charlie's Angel's intro, but the sketch is completely new. Also, the model's gotten even younger.

Happy Zoe Day! 2026

It's my niece's birthday so I made her a silly graphic for social media posting.

Zara-ed

I was window shopping on Zara, because they do have some of the best ecomm styling and models around. One model's hair had theses flyaway locks in the back so I wanted to capture that in a profile drawing.

Hair Tossed

Building on yesterday's inspo, I went further and just redrew the angle to get the hair movement I've been thinking of portraying. it's funny how the hair is the priority, and the body pose will have to work after I get the proper hair in! But this isn't right yet either.

Overhead Chair 2

I had a specific hair style in mind (Jaclyn Smith in the opening of Charlie's Angels, to be exact...but male) but damn if that overhead angle is difficult to figure out in the nude!

Overhead Chair

I looked out my window and saw a chair partially hidden by the corner of a building, and I got an idea for a nude male viewed from above, holding the chair amidst a setting of more chairs. I realize belatedly this was influenced by the cover of Everything But The Girl's Language of Life album cover. Amazing how you bring up old, tucked away personal references decades later.

Crouched On The Couch 2

I think I chose the word 'crouched' only because of the foreshorted aerial angle, but he's just sitting in. Anyhow, I realized the problem with trying to shoehorn a face into a pose would be more difficult than creating a head with the proper positioning on a pose. So I retooled here a bit. okay a lot. Oh, and there's a penis now.

Crouch On The Couch

I started with a doodle of a face with a particular stare, and the angle I was going for required a bit of aerial foreshortening, so I thought maybe his posture's crouched a bit on a couch, but I'm not sure I'm quite getting my visual here. Well, it's just a start.

Maize Face

She's a little more contemporary. It's the brows and the lips I'm trying to be more modern about—no lined lips, dewy skin, and thick brows. Still not 100% there tho. Those eyes could use some work.

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.