Nick Head 2

What's funny is I'm drawing the eyes underneath the mask, trying my best to make it look like him before I cover it all. I sort of believe it will inform how I apply the mask since the shadows and highlights will work with those, but I also think I'm just being obsessive.

Anime Color

I was pulling out old drawings to see what I could do tests with, and my "Scarfy Christmas" face became the right guinea pig for a color test. I'd been watching episodes of the second season of "Go, Loser Ranger" and noticing how they use a muted lavender shade for shadows. intrigued because of the possibilities for an Illustrator based drawing style—plus I always loved anime coloring— I did this test.

Illustratored Ladies

Nope, it's not a typo—I drew these gals completely in Illustrator, so they're "illustrator-ed" and I'm definitely developing a drawing technique for using it.

Nick Head

Another part of the series that I had to reshoot Nicholas for, and it's his face head on. He's got great features (ruggedly handsome, as my friend Rainer said when I sent him a link to Nick's website) and after having lunch with him today, I found out he's much more willing to do racier stuff, ao I'm pretty intrigued by the future possibilities. This is a qick rough though.

Fashion Faces 2

 

I manipulated the Lululookalike (or so I hope) a little so her chin was better positioned. and I changed up the guy's face too although I have no idea what his ethnicity could be now.

Fashion Faces

I was experimenting with fashion faces from imagination, and trying to channel some of my favorite new women's models like Lulu Tenney, but I'm still sorting things out. I also did a fashion figure with what I imagine can be a more Middle Eastern male face, but I really am just guessing. I should do portraits from photos first and learn the facial features.

Nicholas 04.13.25

Went up to my talented artist friend Francisco's apartment in the UWS (well, pretty much Harlem, really) to draw Nicholas again. I might be overloading on him but I'm still drawing Ernesto after 16 years so maybe not! Anyhow, we had a really good session  starting with some 5 minute quickies, and longer poses that lasted from 10 to 40 minutes because we could extend as needed.

Nicholas always has such a welcoming attitude and it just feels good to draw him because he's so enthusiastic too.

Blue Walker 4

I decided to give him hidden drama, i.e. a lot of tattoos, and pre-bleaching green hair.

3 Minute Duck (in Crocs)

It's been a while since I did a timed, silly drawing filler post!

Model Drawing Demo 04.10.25

I made a mistake when I went back in to reline teh sketch with a softer pencil...I drew in a hair on her jawline but it was really a badly drawn jawline. Ah well, such is life... it wasn't bad for a demo introducing them to fashion watercolors

Contort, Done

 ...and ready for Instagram! I thought it was gonna be a quick publish but typical me, I went in and repeatedly tweaked faces, shoulders, back, even peen.

Blue Walker 3

The irony that it's harder to flesh out the supposed croquis form over the finished/dressed form on the same structure—doesn't escape me. But I keep retooling the body and especially the hands, to make it look like a realistic pose without the clothing.

Mr.Pond

My nude model Nicholas' next pose of the series he posed for. I think my problem was he wasnt really bringing the poses as a model, so I had to direct him to get into good looking poses. That said, I found teh poses I made him do to be my typical poses I've drawn multiple times, so I'm not keen on redrawing them. So I put some clothes on on one of them and it looks much better.

Contort 3

Yup, developing this one further, as it might be next to post on Instagram, because it's an easy in.

Contort 2

I used the base body from the other day's drawing and completely retooled the arms. It's a more commonplace pose but I like how he seems to be, ahem, feeling himself.

Contort

Another doodle, but this time I contorted the arms to be in very posed positions. I think I should develop this further.

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.