Sheerly Sophie

Last day before Spring break, and my Friday model drawing class is learning to do sheer fabrics and lace. Model Sophie was on today, which was good because I myself (as well as the class) seemed ready for Spring break already. Anyhow, these were teh demos I did. Can't say the facs are great, but I think I got the lesson across in rendering.

Courreges Beauty

I was looking online a few days ago, at a website that we at FIT have access to. And when I examined the latest pics from Nicolas di Felice's most recent Courreges show, I didn't realize wit would end up to be his last one. I started this sketch then, but touched it up a bit (even if it's intentionally raw and unpolished).

Colby, Done

I changed the background to my couch, and leaned into the side lighting a bit. I also did a lot of refinements on teh face and body, especially the abs. Although after publishing on Instagram i realized I should have cleaned up the arm on the right a bit more as the highlights are a bit too defined. Oh well!

Colby 5

So my issue now is, I don't know how to resolve the background. I know I need to have one, but the seat he was on and the actual situation wasn't as attractive a set up as I would like. So I'm trying to fake something in a looser fashion, but am not completely satisfied yet.

Colby 4

If I'm going to publish this on Instagram, I need to find a way to hide his dick just in case they get censor happy. With the bed idea I thought maybe some fabric, but I think I need to do a better job of it—this floating, angelica swathe isn't quite the scene.

Colby 3

I think the bed idea won't work especially if I'm doing such strong reflected lights on his left side. But I guess I'll finish the body rendering and see what works.

Colby 2

So he posed on a chair leaning against a wall, but this position looks like he's reclining on a bed, so i tried that. Not sure...

Colby

At one point I was reviewing old image files and found my series of photographs that I took of my former crush and occasional mode, who I'm calling "Colby" for his privacy. I found an old pose that I wanted to do, one that I had even asked Ernesto to pose for. But here it was, I had already asked for it and I'm apparently so repetitive in my ideas! Anyhow, I already have teh pose so now I can do the sketch. This is the initial rough.

Shine On, Nubia!

Today's lesson was rendering shine in garment fabrics, with stalwart model Nubia modelling. I always have fun with this lesson, as I think I make my best work with it, and I also start to draw more like myself when I demo. I realize I dumb things down a bit earlier in class, so that the students can imitate me, so I try to make it more easily imitated.

Formerly Red Croquises

I wanted to post these for Instagram as I was lacking any new work to post, so I changed some proportions and cleaned it up a bit, and changed the colors while I was at it. I posted it last night but saved this version after with even more slight adjustments.

Directions

A student wanted to drop off their homework instead of attending class, purporting that their grandmother died and I didn't let on but I know that grandparents mysteriously die again and again around midterms and finals. Anyhow, I gave them a rudimentary map of where my desk was in the office. I bet he doesn't actually submit.

Olive, now Violet Jared

This was from a post I made back in 2021, which I entitled "Olive" because of the olive background marks. But I recently rediscovered the face I drew and rather liked it, so I've retooled it to make for another composition. Jared was the name of the other model I was drawing at teh time, on the same file, and now it's his name too.

Hair Scarf, Done

I always liked the idea of tying your long hair around your neck like a neckerchief, and I found an old sketch I did in 2019 doing that. But it was never finalized, so I just opened up that 7 year old file and finished it up.

Dressing Room Refit

My friend Nicholas is a woodworker and I am doing some exhange deals with him, and I was thinking I could use more shelving in my dressing room area. This is a (very rough) sketch of my initial thoughts.

Stoner Hustle 4

I got a little further along with this, but haven't hit a stride yet where I feel, "yeah we're cooking now." But getting there!

Face Lessons

I was trying to demonstrate how to draw fingers in various views, including how to draw 3/4 faces. These were some visuals I out up on screen.

Nicholas Seated

I drew this back in January but just made adjustments today to include a chair I imagined, then saw a real life example of today, in an email! I love real world confirmation.

Roccoco Rocco 2

As a baseline sketch, I didn't love where the marks or linework was, but I did see a clear idea still in it, so I went in and did a NEW rough sketch to see if it can be realized further. Now his position feels oddly stylized and dynamic for such a static scene. I might have to add some birds and flying objects.

Roccoco Rocco

You know how your brain assimilates all the recent things you've been seeing, and may suddenly blurt out an idea to you in your head and you think, oh, that seems familiar yet I'm not sure how that came about? No? Just me? Anyhow, that. I had a sudden urge to draw a man with luxurious retro waves curled amid a mass of fabrics and textures and colors. This is just the start, we'll see if I even finish haha

Sample Submission

Sometimes I have to visually show my students what to do, so I posted this image about how I wanted them to submit their first 2 months worth of work to me.

Matt at Fransciso's

I had originally planned to visit my friend Philip for his birthday, but a change of plans left me free to join my friend Francisco at his place, to draw lithe model Matt. After t4 great 5 min warmups, we got into one pose that eventually because a long 1 hour pose (with breaks, of course) and I got to revisit an old colored pencil technique of mine.

Flatness 3

I was looking for older sketches to post on Instagram and found some old studies I never developed. I like this core-shadow chiaroscuro on solid flat shapes idea, an extension of what I did last year with my black model wearing a Valentino blouse, so I played with it to see where I could take it.

Dick Pic

A model of mine asked if I could draw his erection. I often eschew doing such things but the challenge was, how do I make this art? I'm kind of intrigued by the challenge.

Curly-Haired Quickface

I gave yesterday's sketch a mop of curls. And some weird purple coloring.

Quickface

Just a doodle I randomly started drawing before I left it to sit in Photosop on my desktop...until tomorrow maybe...

Nubia Does Layers

I had a second model drawing class do the layering lesson I taught with model Sophie last week, and this week I had Nubia in the same garments. I cant say I like this drawing better, and I really need to step up my model drawing demos. The second drawing I did while the class was drawing too, I think was better.

Knightstand

My friend Nicholas designs kink furniture, and he showed me a pic of his latest table which I think wondered, how does it work? And does it work well too as regular furniture? So I did a diagram of a cocktail table he sent me. I dubbed it the Knightstand, since it's for Nicholas Knight furniture,

Suit Walk

Studio Nicholson sent an email about a model-turned-gallerist from Japan who wore their SN suits. I liked the pose of her walking shot so I took note of it, then drew it from memory with a different (imagined Filipina) model.

Stoner Hustle 3

Been working on getting AJ's handsome profile just right.

Layered Sophie

Today's class was all about how to sketch layers in an outfit, and it didn't really get off the ground as we ended up having to evacuate because of a fire drill. Oh well, such is life.

Topiary

I was explaining some old ideas to my friend Nicholas, and I decided to sketch it ou on a sheet while doing so. This was for a decorative topiary.

Brushed Charcoal

I actually started this sketch a few weeks back, but I left it as I went ahead and did more web and branding design work in the past few weeks. But I picked it up again and did a few more details. It's the first 'piece' I've attempted to do on paper in years! Normally I think of paper for life drawing or for artwork I've done as gifts (as I have done recently for the past two Christmases). I'm especially excited about this one because I decided o use a brush for teh charcoal instead of a stump, and it's kind of a fun technique that I have never tried before in all my decades! Bot a lot done but so far so good...

Stoner Hustle 2

Started to draw in AJ's pose in more detail. Once I get past starting, it's usually easy enough to do. Starting is the worst of it. A blank canvas filled with expectations is the most daunting thing sometimes.

Penelope Pinup

I was thinking that instead of using photos of people, maybe drawing cartoon pinups in a retro style might be a good way to demonstrate my friend Nicholas' sex furniture, and keep it classier with a bit of cheeky fun.

Random Face

She was just a doodle that evolved, and I liked my line quality here (Ruffin brush, as usual). Not sure why but I imagine she looks British or European.

Leather-ette 2

Just added some colors to it, but still not sure where the sketch is going...

Nubia on Kraft Paper Demo

PLACEHOLDER< Image to come! I forgot to photograph the sheet at school, but will upload soon.

Nubia had to rush through this but we did get some good sketches in for the students. Today's lesson for this class was the same one for Tuesday's demo with the peer evaluation I had, where I chose the toned paper exercise since it's nice and showy (as my fellow professor advised). This one worked out okay, but this class is generally more low energy. And what do you expect? It's a Friday morning at 9. I have difficulty wanting to be there! 

Here it is. This was a bad demo sketch —I got the technique across but the figure leaves much to be desired!

  

Leather-ette

There's a lot of leather and kink in fashion again lately, but I wonder if I'm looking at things now through a new lens. Anyhow, I wanted to do a drawing in an ink style, and do a fashion leather outfit. But I got waylaid by doing the face right and then just wanting to stop there.

Virus on a Stick

I had an idea for a topiary, and I broached the idea to Nicholas when he came to visit and go over his site. This was the sketch I drew with him here and it seems to be evolving into some anal play stuff that looks like some sort of virus on a stick lol

Nubia's Difficult Zebra Dress

We were tackling prints today and I didn't really get to preview the dress my model brought for class. It looked really cute but as I was demo-ing it for the class, I realized, this thing is really difficult to draw! And if I was having trouble with it, then  how were the kids going to feel about it? Anyhow, this is the demo sketch, 

Brushed Charcoal

I did something unthinkable: I actually picked up a sheet of paper at home, and started a new piece in actual charcoal. And not a demo or something for school, but an idea I came up with that I wanted to explore, which a new technique I've never done before, which is using charcoal with a brush. 

Ever since I started exploring more kink ideas again through my model and friend Nicholas, I feel like having him as a focus has made me revisit these themes that were always so strong in my drawings, but I could never pinpoint where they came from or why. 

Anyhow, I started it a few weeks ago but never bothered to publish it at that beginning stage, but here's a current status. It's such a rarity for me to create original new work on paper lately, when it's not a life drawing session. I hope I can make it happen, versus all the old pieces that never made it past the sketch stage.

Silhou

I had a second to just start sketching, and then I stopped after these strokes.

The Recline of Gay Civilization

Sorry, such a dramatic title. But I've noticed that these poses are pretty common nowadays as people put crotches front and center in social media, OF and Porn, but also in Fashion, which always had more than a whiff of sex to it. But I thought of these as potential new sketches.

More Model Drawing

I did some more demos for my second model drawing class of the week, but forgot to photograph it for here. Placeholder!

Okay, here they are, some time later: 

Pantsless Asian Guy

I wanted to do a nude post but I was too lazy to draw the whole body, so I thought, can I just do a jacket? Then while drawing him, I figured I should make him look like one of teh hot Korean guys on Singles Inferno. I thought it turned out well, so off to Instagram it goes!

Stoner Hustle Too

And re: yesterday's post, this is a raunchier pose I'm working on at the same time.