Looking Over 2

I went further and made him a more masculine African American man, versus a more fashion black model. Although not sure where the sketch will go after this.

Looking Over

...his shoulder, to be exact. I thought I tended to prefer this pose myself, but then as I was studying the other illustrations of other professors in the FIT Fashion Art office, I noticed a LOT of other artists prefer this same pose, too! Mostly for the side-eye drama, I assume.

Bad Demo

So I was supposed to teach my kids how to render prints on garments, from an 8 minute model sketch. Needless to say it's a bit  of a lot to do esp. if you chose two garments with too many patterns! Argh. I was not happy with my demo. Fortunately my other sketches that day went better,

Noodly 3

I thought I could go into this old sketch and pick up where I left off, but again, this face I created isn't necessarily an improvement. I am just batting a thousand here, aren't I?

Sihouetted Towel Boy 4

Sometimes progress isn't improvement. I tried to clean up/improve my towel boy's face but I don't think this new face is an improvement. Oh well, back to the (almost literal) drawing board.

Under The Influence of Oleta, 5

I thought of finally getting him published on Instagram, because I always liked this drawing but never knew how to finish it. So I figure, give him a few more scrolls to make it seem more finished, and at least upload this version as is for now.

Ladyface 2

I left it at that level yesterday where I knew I would have to retool it, so this is the first, conscious rework of yesterday's face. A short, pert nose to feel younger...

Ladyface

I thought I'd draw a woman's face instead of my usual guys, but I'm not quite sure this is a feminine enough start.

Minim

I usually start a sketch with a gestural swash of line, to map out parts of the figure that I will them use as guiding marks to make other marks. Usually those initial guiding marks get retooled or erased as I refine the sketch. Here I decided just to use them as the final marks and make a minimal nude. "Minim" is a word I never knew existed until I started doing the NY Times Spelling Bee game, so I thought it would make a nice title for this piece.

Phantom Girl 2024 3

I always wondered why Cockrum didn't put consistent cutouts in Phantom Girl's outfit that he designed, and why he went both into rectangular cuts as well as circular cuts. So I tried just circular and it looks like a Yayoi Kusama motif. It's not a bad idea but not sure how to resolve it just yet. Although I love the idea that the circle cutout is largest at her neckline AS her neckline, while radiating outward into smaller cutouts. Although I'm not sure I like the bell bottom/flared foot with this, it does make things look too Gumby in my opinion.

Sihouetted Towel Boy 3

I'm going to try and post him full frontal on Instagram, despite the recent rash of censorship lately that finally included one of my own posts.So this is me retrofitting him to show peen.

Backside Tanline, Done

My goal was to get this ready for posting on Instagram, and I finally got it to a level I was happy with today. I wasn't sure if it was right, but considering it's naked without showing peen, it's perfect. Here's hoping the insta-censors don't find even that offensive!

Missed Demo

I was supposed to give my students a demo on undersketching with a looser hand last Tuesday, but we had to cancel because of the snow day. So this is my trying my hand at it but digitally, just for practice.

Phantom Girl 2024 2

I think maybe her face needs to look less human, but I need to figure out how to make this outfit more alien. I thought changing her sleeve holes into floating wormhole panels, maybe some sort of visualization of her phasing powers, where parts of her are constantly phasing between the Earth and her home dimension, if I properly recall how her powers were explained.

Phantom Girl 2024

I thought of making the Legion of Super Heroes' Phantom Girl's 70s bell bottoms into a more au courant cone leg like a mech anime character. I think it could be a fun variation for her now-classic 70s outfit by Dave Cocktum.

Backside Tanline 3

The balance was off a bit so I redrew much of the torso, and rounded ou his butt. I am not a butt man, so it takes me a bit to draw a hot butt. I think this is hotter...? Also tried giving him some hair color but maybe shouldn't use the same color as his tanline...

Backside Tanline 2

I ended up having to cancel my class for today. FIT canceled in person classes but my model couldn't work from her phone and my screen sharing function on my Mac was not working no matter how much I tried before class. So I canceled. So have a new tanline.

Patterns On A Figure

The next lesson for my model drawing class is rendering patterns on a figure. I went in today to prep for tomorrow's class and I found some dresses in the FIT Fashion Closet, which has a ton of old garments, so I was hunting for proper prints, although the dresses leave something to be desired. Or is it just my imagination. Granted I didn't draw them from a model, just from the garments hanging from a hanger. I still think they look terrible. Well, my sketches look terrible.

Backside Tanline

I decided to try and do a butt shot this time, with a tanline. I think tanlines are hot, but maybe because they hark back to the 70s when it implied nudity (versus the 2020s, where full nudity is such a non issue lol).

Ben Cohen

Fellow life drawing artist, Ben, modeled for us at The Center today, and I woke up early in the morning to see him. I'm glad I did not necessarily because of Ben, but because drawing him I realized how rusty I've become, and how much I need to practice drawing live again. Clothed OR Unclothed!

Fashion Fingerpainting

I did a sketch of one of our models in class last week, on my Pocket Procreate app, and I forgot about it and decided to open it up today and make adjustments a bit, and post it. It's not the best drawing but always good to document the stuff I do, good and bad.

Sketchy Guy 2

Just a few more details on this one, cleaning up his  features a bit. Not that I intend to use him for anything but just making improvements for no reason.

Sihouetted Towel Boy 2

I keep trying to finish this up for Instagram posting but I'm feeling uninspired to be honest. Plus I can't figure out the elbows.

Stripes On A Model

Today's class was all about rendering stripes on a model, which should give them a sense of both awareness of the body underneath and how the stripes lay on a figure, as well as how they map on a garment, as well as how perspective can be seen on various limbs and such, because of how the stripes map on the body.

Oversized 2

I wasn't keen on some of the facial details on my gal yesterday, so I cleaned up her lips and chin area. A little better now.

Sketchy Guy

I thought I'd practice my fashion illustration sketchy style for the background of the girl I did yesterday, and he turned into a mixed race model. Not mad at it but not necessarily sure where to go from here.

Oversized

Between school and a possible freelance gig looming, I think I need to make sure I have a female, version of my ink style established. I never thought about it but I've tried a few things over the past months. This is a croquis done in my pseudo-50s digital ink style and I think it's kind of a good direction...

Silhouetted 3

Still trying to save this one only because I have it open on my desktop...but it's not going too well. Might have to scrap teh face and really start over on it.

Overhead View

I got sick of all those thirsty boys and decided to just draw a model, lol. But from overhead! I've drawn this angle before but haven't finished a sketch yet, so maybe this one will be the charm...