Personal Work

Some personal work. They started out as sketches done on drawpile. I enjoy that collaborative process of drawing. Seeing others draw while I draw. It helps me focus and gets me drawing different things. It's similar to streaming but I've always felt streaming as an activity is sort of lonely or a bit self centered (not in a bad way). What I mean is that streaming commands the attention of others which I have never been personally comfortable with because of low self esteem. Collaborative drawing encourages everyone to draw while looking over other's shoulders to see what others are drawing. It feels nice to be sharing in an activity rather than being the only one doing that activity. And if people want to just watch and not participate you're more than welcome on programs like drawpile.

Client Work

 I had the opportunity to illustrate a piece for Check-in at the Turnabout by Justin. You can read it here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12968194/8/Check-in-at-the-Turnabout or here https://archiveofourown.org/works/14922729/chapters/42816878

Some unrelated client work.

Cover for Leading Edge 73.

Virtual Plein Air #2

I've been doing virtual plein air via google maps daily recently. Here are some processes. I've been listening to Nathan Fowkes' schoolism course on composition while doing them. Hopefully my compositions will get better and I'll be able to make more interesting pictures. For all of these I have been focusing on the island of Santorini in Greece. Perhaps I should move on to another location but there are a lot of good places to draw there.

Portrait Practice #4

I've been trying to do one portrait a day while listening to Watts videos and also going over the Reilly Method which is neat. I like the rhythms it uses. Learning different methods of drawing the head I think is useful. I've looked at Proko's method (which is very Loomis+reilly based) and also Hampton's head. They're all very similar but seeing it explained by different people and different ways is slowly cementing the knowledge over the years in my brain.

 Above are from photos. Below is from imagination. I still have difficulties with proportion and getting through the lay in stage.

Heard of Nicolai Fechin through Watts videos and his work is very compelling.

Portraits Practice #3

I've been doing studies of asaro heads. They're like low poly heads. i think it's helping me to see the parts of the head where gradual transition of values is present versus the areas where it's a severe change in values. Reference.

 I also did a portrait study but I feel like I need to spend a bit more time on the lay in phase. I listened to some Jeff Watts videos while doing this.

1. Pictorial Composition. Nathan Fowkes

I will update this as I work more on the assignments.

Tasteful Nudes Contribution

Done for an exhibit at Light Grey Art Lab. Honored to take part in it. Other pieces can be found here.