Sick

I hate being sick. I hate the helplessness with being unable to do anything with your body as it tries to heal. And I hate the restlessness and discomfort you have to endure.

After over 70 working hours last week from Sunday to Sunday, plus a longer week than I had anticipated this week (I thought I'd be done by Wednesday but my co workers asked if I could come in and pitch in), not to mention gong to Oyster Bay for my friend's birthday plus a long-standing dinner with my lawyer friend, and it was clearly too much for my body. Or I suspect it was one of the people coughing up a storm in teh train for Oyster Bay, who knows. Anyhow here I am, bedridden...

Er 2

I'm playing with different brushes while home sick with teh flu, and posting a lot of make up drawings since I was working so much all week and didn't get to.

Er

In Filipino gay slang, an Er is a male archetype of a worker, whether Painter, Laborer, Construction Worker, Plumber, etc. I thought this guy looked like some British blue collar worker.

Clark?

I thought this quick ink sketch using the Gouache Thick Detail brush looked like one of the actors who once played Superboy.

Cinnamon Bark 2

I realized I wasn't doing due diligence with fashion and gave her more modern eyebrows.

Cinnamon Bark

This was a total experimentation drawing and I discovered two new ways of drawing: the first is a slightly different way to render a nose from this angle, and the second being the wet blending of the gouache brushes I've been using recently. And I named her so because I thought the brown I chose resembled the color of cinnamon bark.

Rocker Croquis

I gave his guy rock and roll hair as I was defining his face, so even if the pose is more of a general croquis, he's a rocker in my mind. Which is always a valid fashion muse!

Sculpthair 3

Man I thought this would be a no brainer but I'm apparently incapable of drawing a male face lately! I'm going to blame the intense work week I had designing a holiday brochure for work. 70+ hours in one week, with no days off!  Ugggh. No wonder he ugly.

Hair Suite

A little play on hirsute, this was an Inktober sketch that got rough and gouached. I rather like the direction, but wonder if it's too raw to post?

Sculpthair 2

I'm so overworked with our holiday campaign at the office that I have barely any time or energy to draw. But this was a bit more detail from he previous sketch I started.

Sculpthair

I got an image of very sculpted locks in my head at work so I had to sketch it out.

After Paddy

There was a pose in Prefab Sprout's old Appetite video where the view form above catches lead singer Paddy MacAloon in a nice bit of foreshortening. I thought I'd draw that for practice.

Color Study 5

Trying to develop this technique more, but got waylaid by more inky styles...

Inktober—Black Pompadour

This is a makeup drawing that I did on Sunday morning for last night, inspired by a pic I saw on the NYTimes' website. I love the Afro-rockabilly look, moreso on her (than say, Janelle Monae) because she was fuller-figured and completely shaved otherwise.

Inktober—Pancakes

This relatively well-dressed, heavy-set man was hovering outside the door of the local McD, begging for pancakes. Uhh, no. I did commemorate the sighting with a sketch while I was on the subway. I'm trying to sketch more during the day. The face to his left was a guy sitting in front of me, but I couldn't do more with teh short time between the 3rd Ave stop and the Bedford stop on the L.

Inktober—Shirt n Skinz 3

While experimenting with my color layers, I distilled the sketch down to a monochromatic look that I think didn't take away form the contrast of the pose with the nudity, and it kinda worked better than my original idea of a floral shirt. So this is a version fo what I had originally planned.

Inktober 2 & 3

I was drawing people on the subway, but I combined Tuesday's and Wednesday's into one canvas.... not that the sketches are ny great shakes, but it's  the ink style I can manage on my iPhone.

Inktober—(Floral) Shirt n Skins 2

I've had this image in my head for the past few days, and while this drawing is close and has some lines I like, I'm not quite sure it's exactly what I imagined, which has remained pretty clear in my mind. I'll see if I just go with what I've rendered or try and really get what I imagined on the page.

Girl On The Train 2

Did more of her on my way to work this morning.

Inktober — (Floral) Shirt and Skins

I enjoyed Inktober so much last year because it brought ink styles to my repertoire in a big way. In fact, I think I've indulged in ink drawings all throughout the year since!