Come Hither 4

I decided to retool him to post for Throwback Thursday, mostly because he looks so dated (but I would totally date him).

Eric

Saw a model online and really liked his bone structure, so I asked his agent if I could draw him /get him to pose for me. He did and as I was shooting, a young black boy came up, looked at him and asked, is he your father? (referring to me). Sigh. I'm old.

Swirl

A quick sketch in light of the fact that i'm too inebriated (Thanks, Dead Rabbit!)

Black Friday '17.3—Merci, Rene Gruau

People kept telling me the inked drawings I made with this Badass Brush looked very Gruau, so i decided to make a direct homage (a la his Jules perfume ad drawings)(always thought those were super sexy).

Ruddy Faced Boy

I was heading uptown on the train to water my friends' plants when I noticed the profile of the young man sitting next to me. He must've been no more than 19, maybe 20. He was carrying a lot of gear —sports, perhaps?—in his bag, and I had to keep myself from staring because I liked how his cheekbone line went straight to his lip line from the angle of his profile. I said, I wish I could draw this right now, then I remembered I have the Procreate app in my iPhone. I seldom use i, and it was because the finger control makes it hard for fine details. But I had time to kill and while it's not perfect, it has a nice, naive quality to it. Plus I DID get that cheekbone line down!

Black friday '17.2

As often happens when I make a throwaway sketch, I find something interesting in my rendering that I want to preserve and build upon. So this guy's kinda interesting--French? Hipster? Retro?--face feels real to me. Maybe a mix of Robby Benson and Matt Dillon? I just need to find discover the rest of him.

Black Friday '17

Since I'm earning more now than I was last year, I seem especially susceptible to the sales! All I've done all day, it seems, is shop online! I'm not even sure I really want all this stuff I'm looking at. Ugh, the allure of FOMO... Anyhow, this modely-y looking guy comes because I've been loking at models in clothing all day.

The Finger 4

I tinkered again, juuuust on details, but wiht the side of his head, and I cleaned up the fingers and did better shading on his hand. For me, it makes a big difference in NOT seeing the errors on the piece.

The Finger 3

A few tweaks and a slightly enlarged canvas later...

Current Mood 11.13.16, part 6

Updated line work on this, because it's still my current mood. Ugh.

Doing 3 separate images in a triptych was good a tthe time, but I have differing levels of enthusiasm for each drawing, not to mention an apathy that creeps in and prevents me from working on it because, yes, my current mood often feels more hopeless than not...

The Finger 2

I decided that his face wasn't good enough on is own, but was definitely a good starting point maybe for fleshing out. I started playing with odd colors and pretty soon I was playing in a way I've never painted before. I kinda didn't want to continue because nothing was the way I would normally work. But it's was one of thse serendipitous drawing moments, at least for me. Kinda New Romantic/post 80s with 90s color clarity or so I imagine).

The Finger

After I finished his facial expression to my liking, the boy here just kinda looked pissed. Like he wanted to give me the finger. So I let him.

Phoenix 2017

At least, a rough sketch of her.

Awaiting Clothing (Editorial Croquis) 2

I was too lazy to draw anything new so I decided to flesh out (so to speak) my old sketch form a couple of days ago. I used to do that all the time when I would doodle on the calendar next o the telephone when I was growing up. Sketches would start one way and transform, evolving over time the longer I yakked on the phone. These sketches, revisited, are just like that, I think.

Inktober 16—Fashion-y Styling, Redux

I wasn't happy with the rendering of the shadows on this guy. Dunno if this is accurate anatomy and shading, but it's what I went with (without any references). Looks fine to me, but then again, ignorance is bliss!

Awaiting Clothing (Editorial Croquis)

I was reading a menswear fashion magazine online and thought I would do some fashion illustrations and style the outfits myself (as I'm often wont to do). However I was just drawing the boy as a croquis until I dress him, so this is he, emoting in some imaginary fashion shoot that he might be dressed for later.

MHL x 2

I often start the night's drawing by opening the file form the day before, and turning off layers and making news ones to work form. Tonight I turned off the ink layer but didn't turn off the color layer, so I looked at it and said, what if I was to fill in the ink lines based on the colors I laid down for the original sketch? What I get is a similar, but definitely distinct, figure.

MHL 2

I thought I'd add some legs and flesh out this form. He's a little more stylized/cartoonish than my usual fashion figures, but I like it.

MHL

I bought a new Margaret Howell MHL sweater and I wore it for the first time today and really enjoyed it, so I thought I'd sketch it.

INktober Leftover: To Coat or Not To Coat?

I had drawn this guy shortly after I did the very Gruau looking two guys walking. He was going to be a third in the series but I didn't feel he worked. So I reworked him a bit before posting on Instagram today.

Current Mood 11.10.16 part 8 (possibly done)

I started this drawing exactly a year ago, disheartened by the events of the US' elections, and dismayed a year later to find that much of what I feared has come true in many ways. While I've allowed myself to get distracted and have even felt better about some of the things in my life that weren't affected directly (at least to my blind eye) by the political climate, throughout the year I found myself thinking that the feelings in the drawing were still relevant. And a year later—perhaps finishing this first drawing finally—I'm sad to report that that's true.

Big Softie

I picked a brush at random—in this case the "Big Softie"—and just doodled. He started out more ethnic but I got the features wrong and he turned more generic white guy...

Gibson Gal

I needed a break form all the ink brushes, so I set out to do a quick watercolor wash sketch. First the broad stroke brush for the base, then detail brush and one of the so-called magic brushes (Although I think I actually meant to use a Wamazing one). Anyhow, it was a bit of playtime.

Hela Good Time 3

That costume is a lot of work, y'know! So much that I hid it behind her cape, which is an intrinsic part of her outfit, mind you. But I thought they couldn't have Cate Blanchet twirling around in a cape when she was fighting all those Asgardians—way too involved and not body conscious, I thought—but they did, and I didn't even notice how well they did so.

Hela Good Time 2

I started it, I will likely continue it since I barely started it. Details, details. But damn, that is not an easy costume. Granted, I'm making it up as I go along, but that's because I think I can do better than the designers who cam before. A lot of their style lines are pretty random, but not random enough! He he.

Hela Good Time

I watched Thor Ragnarok tonight and really enjoyed it. It was funny in a kind of Thor Annual kind of way, the way that some of the X-men annuals were madcap humor stories, and totally still within marvel canon. I've only drawn Hela once on this blog back in my 3rd year, I think (since I'm over 10 years with this now), but after Cate Blanchett's delicious hammy performance, I needed to revisit my favorite Thor character.

Trad

I was looking at Margaret Howell's website and was inspired to draw a classically British face/profile, except I'm not sure what a classically British face is. So count that as a fail? In any case, this is what I cam up with.

Croquis With Less Dorky Expression

...and yellow trunks. I'm toying with the idea of rendering him as a grown up Jonny Quest. I kind of want to do a n older Daddy Race Bannon, who was already Daddy material when I was growing up, but he was likely only in his 30s back then.

Croquis With Dorky Expression

'Nuff said!

Jughead

I was at the comic book store today and noticed how pretty much the entire Archie line has embraced the grittier, more realistic upgrade the show Riverdale made on its iconic characters. I forgot whether their Jughead had the typical look the older incarnation had, and I thought I'd try a contemporary update myself. Seen here in watercolor brush no 5.