Ben's Hair Again

My favorite show right now is London Spy, and Ben Wishaw is a joy to watch. He's not necessarily classically handsome, but man, he's adorable and compelling. And he has the best hair! I drew him almost two years ago, based an impression of his google image results, and I wasn't far off from his look even if I didn't get a likeness. This isn't much of a likeness either, but I'm playing with a chunky oil finish and will refine it as I get my colors in.

He's got a long face kinda like Benedict Cumberbath. Maybe they should play brothers on something.

Ariel and his friend Heron

Ariel, Nicole and their friend Heron take a dramatic parting shot.

This might be the last one! I haven't done one in a looong time, but I dunno if this might continue...

Fishing For Fashion 21

Man, I keep trying with this... I think I'm just not sure what direction to take this portrait.

Crap, and I know it.

Sometimes I just don't want to draw.

Zara's Ecommerce

I'm not a fan of how Fast Fashion has affected both the fashion industry and the planet, but I have to admit that Zara does a great job of creating what they do, and how they present it. Their website has great editorial style shots of all the clothing, and I often find great poses to draw from. This is one such pose, an unfinished study done in advance of my Thanksgiving Day coma, which I predict I will have sooner than later.

Joe On My Mind

I've been watching Survivor mostly because of the hot guys. Current hottie is Joe, all hair and abs and easy swagger. This sketch doesn't look like him at all, but it was inspired by his look. Hey, I'm working form memory, so as a sketch it's okay. :)

New Zoot

Time for a new series, while it's still Fall...

Scribbly Nude

I'm distracting, and multitasking too much. So I can't draw too well while I have sixty gajillion tabs open that all need my reading, so I can redesign my site properly. ugh.

Color Profile

I sketched a new Facebook profile pic to go with the narrative triptych I did last week, to update me from all the red, white and blue that we did last week in solidarity with Paris. So I went with the soft, muted pastels that are popular in design right now.

Test strokes

Kyle posted a master list reference of strokes so I thought I'd try some more test drawings. This one uses the oil brushes a lot.

Dreamy

Whoops, a few minutes late to posting. I got into a troll situation on a Facebook group. I realize that FB is much worse than I thought because I was never in a public geek group before. Imagine my surprise getting some really random types unrelentingly trolling. Anyhow, I need to have a sorbet and drew Dream Girl Nura Nal (from the Legion).

Mask and the Thunderbear

My two friends; names just seemed to be begging for the comic book character treatments.

Thunderbear

I had a friend and his friend over for drinks last night, so I got too drunk and didn't watch the time and ended up missing my post window yesterday. My friend's friend's name translates to Thunderbear in English, which I think is awesome!  And since he's a built male model I figured he needed a superhero alter ego. Voila, ThunderBear!

Night Girl 2015

I joined a Legion of Super Heroes group (two of them, actually) on Facebook, so to introduce myself (as I was asked to do by the moderator who approved my membership) I uploaded some old sketchs from 2001. The resulting attention and discussion was pretty overwhelming, so I thought of finding other old Legion related sketches to post. I found my Night Girl 2010 post and decided that before I posted it, I would need to rework it a bit. So I did... not just a little bit but a lot of tweaking. Never satisfied with my own work, it seems.

Narrative 2

Continued with a third panel. The triptych turned out as I had planned. I kinda want to keep extending it.

Narrative

I had an idea to continue the 'Chunky Lines and Pastels" image from a few days ago, but adding more figures in an editorial way. My friend Lamont claims that fashion illustration is best when it has a narrative, something I'm not sure I usually add. Well, I'm definitely doing one here. Albeit with a very different style.

Whee! 2015

I colored and repainted an old sketch form 2008. I dunno if I improved her but she was fun to revisit.

Sweater

I wanted to draw something for Paris tonight, so I thought of a chic, French girl. Thinking of Paris in light of the horrible terrorist attacks from earlier today...

Chunky LInes And Pastels

Strangely enough, I was inspired by going through Zara's website. They have amazingly shot product pages, with each item modeled like an editorial. So I was a bit more inspired to add a narrative to a simple sketch. Actually, I was going to lay out a pose and composition to render more realistically later, but I had a really thick, basic brush on in Photoshop, and as I lay lines down, I was inspired to see how it might turn out. Kinda fun.

The colors are from the very trendy copper, grays, mint greens and dusty pinks so popular in home furnishings today. I'm inspired by the palette that Hawkins New York uses in their shop up in Hudson.

Manbunny

Need I say more?