Greencoat

This is another old sketch on my Ipad (done in Procreate) that I never resolved, but I redid the face a bit tonight and added more skin tone.

IpadGal In Ruffle Top 2

I redid her pants and a bit of her face. My friend Renaldo, who is also a fashion illustrator, complimented me, saying, "That face is just sitting!" I assume that's good haha.

Seated in Green

This is a sketch I did in my Ipad but never posted, so here she is with a bit of detail added. I brought my iPad to Yardley, PA where I was visiting my friend Lamont and staying at his house. We really didn't have much chance to draw because we were hanging out so much, but I did get a bit here and there on these old sketches.

Arms Up, Done

I did a bit of fine tuning as well as color overlays, and I think this is ready for publication on IG.

Arms Up

This came together very quickly after the gym. I decided I need to publish a new sketch and the easiest way to make one was to go into my photo archives and just render one. And this shot of Ernesto turned out better than I anticipated!

Ladycrotch

I thought to myself, can I do teh provocative female drawings I used to do as a child, but with my current sensibilities and skills? I don't like my women's faces, they haven't progressed as much as my men have, so I like the layout but need to clean up the details. Esp those hands, which I just did as for positioning only...

Other Boy 4

I like how sketch developed but I'm not sure I want this to remain this way. It feels...like it doesn't have any real direction, but maybe I can add something to it later.

Double Edge Brush Nude 3

I'm letting go more and just experimenting, and I think it's working better. Still not there yet but now he looks younger and more current (I made his nose bigger—strange how that helps define model faces today, versus the long, sharper noses of the 80s that I grew up with).

Ipad Gal in Ruffle Top

Many of these drawings are from earlier days, because I tend to draw and sketch a lot without publishing. I have been up in Hudson these past couple of days, so while I brought my iPad, I didn't really sketch anything because I was hanging out with my friends. But this is a sketch I've been working on for the past couple of days, and while I didn't touch her on my upstate trip, I'm counting her as a 'created ahead of time' drawing worth posting. 

She's not done, though. I'm hating the pose. That left arm might need to be adjusted.

Other Boy 3

It's almost nostalgic having to use the Badass Ink Brush again, to match the line quality of this drawing I originally started in the beginning of 2020. It makes me sketch in a way that maybe I no longer want to sketch. This is me adjusting the facial features, although I feel like I'm eliminating everything that makes the face feel interesting (even if it's all imagined and therefore should be mutable).

Other Boy 2

While looking for an older image I wanted to reference, I stumbled upon this old, unfinished duo. I kept and resolved the clothed guy pon the left, but the nude guy had potential Although his face ooks more classic than current, I want to find a way to finalize this and him.

Double Edge Brush Nude 2

I have this idea to do a thick, luscious dark application of this brush on his face, while leaving the rest a solid color. But it's not coming together for this face, I seem to be locked into Kleckner's facial proportions (even as I work to move it away) which isn't unattractive, but I feel like I need a more modern face.

Double Edge Brush Nude

This Double Edge brush has a very airbrushed feeling to its top end, and I'm inspired to go old school deco poster on it, but have yet to find my way.  Here it's just applied more like a thick, lifeless line with a neither here nor there quality. But I do want to do a sharp graphic treatment... and he's reminding me of Mark Kleckner's pose in his Playgirl cover, although I haven't thought of that in ages!

Ray In Repose 8

I was supposed to meet Ray and give him the final reveal, but as usual, our schedules kept getting us further and further delayed. So it gave me time to rework his hairline, which I realized needed reworking.But now I fear it's overworked...

More Ruffle Top

This time experimenting with the Double Edge Brush to see if that can be interesting. It looks great as a wide, charcoal swath in the skirt, like it was blended in with both marker and a wet brush. I'm imagining Mia Carpenter vibes, just in teh application. But the rest of it is definitely NOT Mia-ish!

Happy Zoe Day 2025

It's my niece's birthday so I made a gif to greet her (she's based in Japan).

High Contrast LIne

I want to do some minimalist reclining art with a thicker line, but this is not working for me. I guess I still want to do the double edge brush and its thick marks, but have to figure it out still.

Double Edge Brush Guy 3

I decided I should do a version of him naked. Not sure it works with that fashion face.

Double Edge Brush Guy 2

Continuing to play wiht the Double Edge Brush in Photoshop, now my guy is an office worker.

Double Edge Brush Guy

I was experimenting with this previously never-used brush, and I liked its solid coverage. I thought it would lend itself to a more marker-like solid line, so I experimented with it with this face.

Fashion Figures

Have any of you used The Internet Archive? It's a great place for finding old books, among other things, scanned in and made available for perpetuity. I decided to research fashion illustrators, and ended up discovering some old fashion illustration books I would never buy, but always wanted to look into. As a result, I was inspired to do some croquises.

Ruffle Top 3

More explorations, but these other ones feel more dated. Well, that's what sketching is for!

Ruffle Top 2

Got into a bit of a design groove trying to imagine how this top is constructed, as I have a specific idea of how it should lay on the bodice to cover the wearer's bust, but I can't see it specifically as a pattern just yet.

Ruffle Top

I think I got a bit excited and am designing a few more. I feel like I'm trying to channel things I see on line/tv/etc but have to see if I can start riffing on my own. I can definitely see my influences here (including a distant memory of a fave Bill Blass design when Peter S om took over) so I'm trying to see just how I can evolve this as originally as possible.

Walker Croquis 3

I was thinking of a layered peplume top with tailored pants, sort of influenced by Schiaparelli and Ashlyn, and I rather like this look. Might have to do a more refined drawing of it. 

Walker Croquis 2

I was telling my friend Renaldo that I lost my desire to draw women's fashion sometime after social media started to take over, as I love the idea of garments but not necessarily the drama and hype of the fashion industry. Still, I'm a fashion instructor now so I need to find my joy in it somehow.

Walker Croquis

I was thinking about my upcoming classes and how I might do an updated digital drawing technique that they might be able to use, so i started drawing a figure. Some days I really don't want to draw much but I do anyhow just to fulfill my quota of a drawing a day, so voila.

Shopingbag Shadows

While on the train, a passenger came on holding a shopping back that was in my field of vision. I got intrigued by how the folds cast shadows, so I pulled out my phone to draw in Procreate Pocket.

Nicholas in August

Despite having just seem him the other day, I got up to the UWS to draw with my friend Francisco, who was having Nicholas model again. I got a good drawing of him in, even if it isn't teh most flattering rendition of his face, but I do feel like I'm getting a good sense of how to use my white charcoal.

Submit

Still on the fetish tangent. I was at the working out and some guy was wearing a tshirt printed with a woman in a latex fetish mask, and while on the triceps machine I got the idea of a guy all masked up, but in a totally submissive position, but clearly aroused by it. I'm gonna ask Nick to model for the drawing.

Dick Pic

I've been editing photos of my model Nicholas and I spent a lot of time looking at how his dick hangs, mostly because he's a shower, but also because I'm planning on designing some hypothetical penis-wear in the vein (pun intended) of all this fetish garb I've been designing.