Bone Dry Brush

On a whim I tried out the Bone Dry Brush (the smaller one, since there are two, oddly enough) from Kyle Webster's Photoshop brushes and this one led to some interesting effects. The shading looks like imotation scratchboard. So I decide to explore a bit more.

Shadowman, Done

I actually plowed through this drawing very quickly. I suppose the main part of that speed comes from it being a more comic book style, which I'm less precious about. It also helps I had a really clear idea, since I had planned on doing this style a while back, just not on a vampire. Anyhow I'm pleased with how it turned out. here are teh two versions I posted on Instagram earlier this evening, in time for Halloween (and not on Halloween because then everyone would be busy with their celebrations). 

Another Mini Demo

So I held what we call an Office Hour meeting, and I wanted to address my student's fashion sketches and the idea of line quality and confidence in their strokes. And while doing so I did a quick digital sketch for him and thought, well, that isn't too bad. So I saved it to post for today's drawing.

Mini Class Demo 2

I hate my women's faces when I draw them by default, mostly because it's how I've evolved my older style through the years but also because I have not updated the features of my gals to the ones that are currently in fashion. I love a longer face and nose, but from what I can see nowadays, more compact features would suit a fashion model better. So I tweaked yesterday's quick sketch within an inch of its life, but now I'm raising questions about, what exactly IS my fashion illustration style at the end of 2026?

Mini Class Demo

One of my students this semester is an amazing digital designer, as well as a very conscientious student. I think he's so strong as a designer that I commented on how I'd love to see his sketches at the same level of competence. So I offered to give him some tips on sketching, and drew these sample sketches while I was explaining some thing he can do.

Shadowman

I got another idea in my head while doing the previous sketch, this time of a man in deep shadow, with highlights on the side showing only some of his features but emphasizing the fact that you'll see light glinting off his dick. I've had the idea for a while now but this particlar pose is inspired by an old sketch I did, as well as memories of the work of Ryan Sook in the Zatanna series he did yeeeeears ago. I feel like it's the spirit character Gwideon, but I haven't read that book in years so I'm curious what my brain is remember of him that that reference keeps popping in my head. 

Halloweenie 2

I'm getting him more into character, but having a hard time making him hot while keeping the head tilt and expression I'm seeing in my head. It's always such a problem trying to get the image out of your head on to a canvas. The mere act of drawing it starts to skew that vision, as the marks you put down are usually different, and they influence your next marks and pretty soon the image starts to evolve on its own away from your imagined vision. 

I put tattoos on his dick instead of drawing a costume, and I'm wondering if the IG bots will see that as clothing or as a decorated peen?

Halloweenie

I'm hoping to have a brand new drawing I can post on Instagram (without getting censored) for Halloween, and I'm inspired to do a sketch of a man in some costume or other. I'm thinking he might be  masked, or possibly demonic with glowing eyes, and maybe I can draw more on my comic book art background this time. This is the initial sketch idea.

ATDN, Done

I made it look more like my friend, who gamely posed for it via videochat the other night. Plus I added all that other stuff around it to make up for bleed, as well as keep the client's messy aesthetic.

One Line Penis

While finishing up the ATDB commission, I was chatting with an ex hookup online and I got the idea to ask him to send me a dick pic to draw into the background as a dildo. I did (see the next ATDB post) but I also did a quick sketch of his erection from another view he sent me, all as a drawing done in one line, without lifting the pen/stylus.

ATDB 3

Adding even more dirty details, per the client. He likes a messy man.

ATDB 2

More detail. It's actually easier to draw from a photo. All I need to do is sketch what I see, versus trying to figure out of a position requires more anatomical knowledge than I know.

ATDB

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Peace Again 2

I wanted to draw a more stylized dove that I saw in my mind. but I'm afraid it's looking like the old Twitter logo.

Photopea Test Drawing

I was trying desperately to save an Instagam reel from Photoshop but Photoshop not only kept stalling, it crashed so much in 8 hours I could not get anything to save. I ultimate found a way to alter teh document by using an external Photoshop app clone called Photopea, to open and save a copy of my corrupt file and get it running so I could edit it. Anyhow, afterwards, I decided to try and see if I could use Photopea the same way I do Photoshop, so I did a test drawing. Not too may fonts on it, but for a free online program, not bad.

3 Minute Feesh

I wasn't going to call it a fish with those heels! I think it's some feeshy thing in drag. A 3 minute masterpiece!

3 Minute Duck 2026

He's a sly-looking thing! I've just been so busy with school and work and prepping my freelance that I needed to just pop a sketch out for the sake of fulfilling my blog post duties.

Hoping Dog

I thought of a really cool, maybe a bit syrupy image for Hope, but I think if I do a cool illustration style, it could work. This was just a rough, but I'm thinking it should be more of a Matisse cutout vibe.

Peace Again

It's time once again for me to create a new non denominational Holiday card for my clients, and I was given the theme of "Hope". Now how to make it a non Christmassy kind of Hope...as well as not evoke Obama? I started with peace again and drew some laurel leaves and doves. The usual. How I use them should be more interesting... I hope. I started by turning it into a repeat pattern.

ATDB Rough 3

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Nicholas Cross Redux 2

One of my challenges for this is to find an interesting design for restraints. Otherwise, it's just him on a cross, which is fine, but what makes it interesting beyond the obvious?

ATDB Rough 2

Trying out alternative layouts. It's kind of fun to be doing a very p0rny layout.

Backhand Pose 3

This is getting a litle better, although I really wish I had a model who could be active like this, but also this lean and gangly...

Backhand Pose 2

I needed it to feel more gnarly and Schiele, but I can't decide on the head position.  I wish I had a mode who was this dynamic who could pose for me...

Backhand Pose

I saw a pic of a model posed standing posed in a studio but with one of his hands behind his back, which made a really nice dynamic shape with his jacket and it inspired a dynamic, somewhat Egon Schiele like extension in the pose. I like the energy, need to build it properly but this is a start...

ATDB rough

I am chatting with the creator of a modern day p*rn zine to do an illustration for them. This is the rough I sent to him after we chatted about a direction, old school situational pron illo that it is.

**Update: I received my first ever warning about community guidelines for this post, and I wonder if it's because of a keyword versus the illustration? Regardless, I updated both. Funnily enough, I was wondering about whether or not Blogger was suitable for this kind of content when I spoke with the zine guy, and suddenly I get this warning after posting stuff here since 2007!

Sample Croquis 2026

I took my sample file and sent it to my students to use as a test, but I get tired of my drawings after a while so I tinker with them. This one is an attempt to think of how I would apply makeup in 2026, but really, I was on autopilot and didn't think of anything really current. Her upturned nose looks too old school to me... although she looks a bit like Kaia Gerber...maybe I should make her eyes bigger.

Also Haider's Tom Ford 3

Normally versions of a post are variations of the sketch, but in this sketch series, I'm redrawing basically everything to get the pose, anatomy and angle right. This ons is starting to feel better, but then again, who knows.

Also Haider's Tom Ford 2

I'm trying very hard to get the crop in my head on to the canvas, as I'm trying to include both his side eye looking back, as well as his juicy buttcheeks. And methinks the straight on view isn't working  but I think maybe the angle needs to be more from below...

Also Haider's Tom Ford

Yesterday's quick sketch was just something to get my inspired druthers out. But now that I look at it, I wish I had drawn it better. Ah well. I do have an idea for the other look in camel and pink that Haider showed, so hopefully this will feel more like the stuff I intend to put out.

Haider's Tom Ford

Haider Ackerman showed yet another tour de force collection for Tom Ford, and I was so inspired by it that I had to sketch something from it immediately. I don't love this sketch, but enh, it was a quickie.