there are so many little details in this piece. it feels like i definitely started with the sketchcard that is most on difficult mode. hopefully i can finish it before i’m out of a place to stay on tuesday when i will probably go to the shelter… if i can get a bed. we’ll see. it’s all a maybe.

yesterday’s work on painting the rose sketchcard. i made more progress with the petals today but forgot to snap a picture of it before heading out the door while i still had natural light 😣 so i will post that tomorrow, maybe side by side with the further progress i make on it then.

aww. thank you! 😄💖

thank you! 😊

too many awesome poses to choose from. that is reason enough to keep drawing 😌✏️

a more recent page of charcoal figure studies from @trueref.bsky.social photo packs! I ended up jumping around through a few different photo sets from Alaina, Assian & Marissa Vivid Lights and Sapphire and will definitely be drawing more from those 🤩

a page of ovoid mannequin studies from last month that i’m just now getting around to posting as it took my brain awhile to write up some alt text. i really enjoyed working on these. mannequinizing helps to see the form three-dimensionally.

photo reference for the poses is from @trueref.bsky.social

I’m really glad this project finally went to print in 2018. It took almost a decade because of funding but it was a fun book, paid well and Phil was a joy to work with. It was a good job. I am still grateful that I was brought on board for it and given time to produce at my best.

Process pics for the final cover with pencils, the underpainting and color flats along with a panel from the comic that I’d penciled several years before in my early twenties that I used for reference to remember what the character looked like. Took almost a decade for this project to see print.

Last night’s adventure back into the world of watercolor and gouache painting. It’s been way too long since my last gouache piece, three years at this point, so much of this feels like a relearning process. I only got the initial washes in with watercolor but I’m gonna delve deeper into it tonight.

I need to look up the first gouache painting I ever did for a side by side comparison one of these days as I was struggling a lot more with the medium on that one. I definitely improved by leaps and bounds over the course of my time intensively studying with the Watts Atelier online program.

New sketch card that I just wrapped up the pencils for tonight! This one is getting prepped for gouache painting immediately. Turns out drawing flowers, particularly roses, is a lot more challenging than drawing portraits 😮‍💨 although to be fair I did go a bit overboard with the detail...

The graphite artist copies were drawn from the painted works of J.C. Leyendecker, William Bouguereau and Nikolai Fechin.

The Asaro head was developed by John Asaro to help artists learn the planes of the head and to take the guesswork out of shading. It can be found here: planesofthehead.com

Today I purchased a discounted set of gouache paints for $28 that were decently reviewed online, a small drawing board that was also on sale for $10 and painters tape so I can get to work on this project along with 3 replacement charcoal pencils for a commissioned piece. Excited to try these out!