Workoutfit Doodle

Well, it's really a Super Heroine costume I'm trying to work out. I had a sheet full of Princess Projectra costume ideas, and this is a variation I thought of for one approach, but I didn't have any space on the sheet so I pulled the closest thing: the packaging of my new Tramontina non-stick skillet.Random!

Wednesday & other doodles

I'm not sure what made me pick up a sheet of paper and just draw on the empty spaces (as I used to do with everything ebfore the advent of digital drawing), but I started out with a Wednesday Addams profile and then some weird dress.

Rando

I was just doodling, and I did this guy's profile, but he wasn't handsome, so I decided to make him amiable without being model good looking. And then I drew him clutching a pillow while wearing sweats. is he at some therapy session? I dunno. Not sure I care either.

Mr.McLean, Done

Or at least, I hope it's done. Because every time I look at the sketch and compare it to the pic I took of John, I am tempted to tweak it again further. But John himself thinks it looks like him, so I'm gonna go with that. Plus the motto I should follow, "Done is better than perfect," applies.

White Shirt 2

This is a sketch from months back, when I was hoping to do a triptych of men's fashion poses and this was the lead one. I tweaked his eyebrows and some of the shading, as well as the background color, I am often wont to do. Always the perfectionist.

Neck Position

I'm a fan of the poses where people are sitting somewhat slumped on a chair or bench, and while their backs slope into a hunch, their chins are lifted up while their gaze looks down (at the camera). I draw this a lot already from my head, but I thought it would be nice to sketch from a photo, so that I can hopefully create the muscle memory.

Fall Winter Walker 3

Happy Thanksgiving! I was out all evening at my friend Erwin's house, so I didn't get to sketch much new today, so this retooled oldie will be today's entry. I adjusted the outfit because I realize the proportions are wrong, then I added a mid tone in purple even if it's a black suit—a highlight sheen, if you will.

Fashion Drawings 3 + Parcels

I decided to post these old fashion sketches so I tweaked and colored them a bit more to make them more presentable. Then I added the parcels sketch to it to make a better composition for IG.

Gym Guy Back Profile

The good thing about the gym is I get to see a lot of men and study their anatomy again. It's part being creepy, part artistic, although I AM really studying how their muscles move (I doubt they'd see it that way if they caught me looking). This one was a guy whose chin seemed to jut out as far as his forehead did from the back profile, something I assumed wasn't the case. So I tried drawing it. (see the pink linework). But then after Raf Simons announced his retirement of his eponymous line, Vogue posted an image with a similar view, so I decided to draw that both from memory and then from the pic, to solidify my understanding of it. Hopefully having practiced it will make it more fluid the next time I draw it, since it's such a good view.

Gym Guy On His Phone

There's a hot guy at my gym who was standing with his knee up on a bench between sets, looking at his phone, and I liked the pose a lot. I also imagined if his dick might peek oout of his shorts, although that didn't really happen in reality. But I wish it did!

Haidered

The colors behind this quick, one-line sketch are inspired by Haider's Fila collab.

Projecting Projectra

My sheet of hand-drawn Princess Projectra costume redesign ideas has been on my desk, staring me in the face over the past few days, and I was delighted to see Haider Ackerman's new Fila collab featured hooded looks similar to the ones I had designed for Jeckie. Always fun to be tapping into the same ether as designers I admire. These are some new sketches working out some of those ideas.

Leeeendaaaah!

Linda Simpson is an East Village drag queen who is a cohort from back in the 90s when I was an EV habitue. She asked me to do her birthday invitation in 1996, and since it was her birthday again, I posted it on her Facebook wall, but newly colored.

Naked Anime Man

 I'm currently loving the new season of anime after a couple of seasons not really watching anything, and Chainsaw Man is absolutely beautifully done, from the body language to the cinematography to the writing. So I got an image of a guy standing in an open space, and I thought to emulate the animation style, but then me being me, I got caught up in making the pose right. So, still working on variations of it, as you can see.

Egon-y

I discovered a new Instagram account where the owner takes lots of artful nudes of himself, and his poses are incredibly Egon Schiele-like, so I did a quick sketch trying to emulate his forms.

Mr. McLean 3

I have so many versions—I can't stop drawing this! This is the latest.

Mr.McLean 2

I kinda went full speed ahead with this drawing, getting a lot of ground on it. I guess I was just really clear on the vision (and his face. I love his face).

Men's Tableau

The Gym Hoodie guy from yesterday had such a nice feel, I wondered if I should do more in that style, so I decided to do a daddy-like guy with a mustache and pleated high rise trousers. I kinda like him—he reminds me of Mr.McLean.

Gym Hoodie

There was a guy at my gym wearing his hood on his hoodie up while he did his stretches, and I was intrigued by how the fabric draped on his head—it was such a simple drape that I wouldn't ever have thought would form that way. So I wanted to do a quick sketch of it, but of course I made him pantless (of course he wasn't that way at the gym—although THAT would be a fun gym).

Ernersto Peart Falcon

My model for the Bolero sketch gave me more than a few few good poses to follow up on, but I ended up experimenting a lot with the plain standing one. I really should work on his dancing poses as they were great.

Darrell 2 Times

While at the gym earlier today I got a couple of images in my mind for my online friend =Darrell, who is something of an exhibitionist and willing to pose for whatever. So these are two ideas that popped into my head, and rather clearly I must admit. They're not fully formed though (the hands on the blue one need work) but let me see where I can take them.

Jawlines

I saw a model with a very squarish jawline, which I don't usually draw on my men, who tend to be long and pointy. So I attempted to draw one from memory and imagination. I rather like it. Reminds me of a guy I met recently who has a very full jawline and small lips, maybe I'm channeling John without knowing it.

in Store 5

More croquis poses that are awaiting clothing and faces!

Peart Falcon

I ended up drawing more than just the one Bolero sketch of model Ernesto Peart Falcon, and this body shot turned into a nice semi-abstract.

Black Queen Femme Fatale Mode

 I suppose the title is quite redundant since she might always be in femme fatale mode. But I saw an ad for a Paul Dini style, old school bustier and gloves outfit and decided to give it a modern spin. The 'slit is really a zipper that goes all the way up to the top of the dress, so she can show off as much of her body as she wants. The right boot and panty are both studded. Couldn't decide if her wearing a panty underneath is the better idea, or if it was a whole half-tight over her entire left leg, that ended with a studded panty.

Bolero 2

I got my drawing of Ernesto Peart Falcon pretty developed finally, but I suspect I always knew it would be easy enough to do once I started in earnest. I like he it turned out, now I just need to finalize the finishes. And maybe tweak his face some more.

In Store 4

Laying out poses and placement without really knowing the clothing for most yet, although the middle guy might be in Junya from Atelier.

Walk In Pink 5

Lots of tweaking going on—a cheekbone here, a chin there. Actually, lots of work on the chin and jawline, both elements I'm still not 100% comfy in rendering. But that's okay, that's why we practice.

In Store 3

My friend Leonard Cadiente just posted several examples of Marbury Brown menswear fashion illos from old 1950s/60s GQ magazines on our fashion illo group on Facebook, and I've seen just a few of Marbury's work before and have loved his drafting style. My own is inspired by this classic illo style from that period, but I like to think I give it a modern spin.

Walk In Pink 4

 I really like the face I sketched the other day, and think I can improve on it=, but I'm having a hard time thinking the improvements are actually improving on the original. I always seem to lose something from the original so this might just be an intermediary trial...