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...