ketchup

30 portraits project is complete and I'll be posting more over the course of this week and next- here's one, for now...

tracing paper

drawing on tracing paper is putting me in a good place right now. There's so much variety in line i can get, and just knowing that whatever i draw can be easily torn off, taped down, traced, scanned, whatever...

I may or may not be doing final lifework on it in the future, though I'd like some heavier stuff than what I've got right now. Vellum is looking really attractive, especially after rifling through so many images by Sergio Martinez. Check out this Line and Colors post on him- it contains links to his 4 (Four) separate blogs: http://www.linesandcolors.com/2010/01/18/sergio-martinez/ He has an amazing technique of doing an incredible drawing on transparent vellum, and then using oil or wax crayons diluted with turpenoid on the backside for his color. The way the color ghosts through the paper creates moods and atmosphere like nothing else (in his hands, anyway). Definitely check out his stuff. 

I'm currently working on an illustration for an incredible short story titled "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. Read it if you've got the time: http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html

Just a couple pieces of life drawing for today.

drawlings

More drawings from the past week or so

Portraits

First couple portraits done for George Pratt's 30 heads in 30 days assignment. They must all be different media. The first is acrylic and gouache, and the second is watercolor, acrylic, and oil pastel.

more figure paintings

recent figure scrawls

starting out with gouache- it's pretty fun so far, and I like it more than acrylic, for some things. But I need real mileage with it to really see, so, plenty more to come.

small half hour acrylic self portraits

painting strictly from north light in figure class, afternoon light on the first and an extremely muted thunderstorm light on the second- really a challenge.

Some art, and I can't follow more than 300 people?

What gives? I have like a thousand more people I need to follow, blogspot. give them to me. gimme.

Also, the sophomore class at my school is beastly. I'm fucking scared guys. hold me

This is an in-progress detail shot of a large life-size portrait of my Uncle Ronny, who is a pilot. I don't have a decent picture of the finished work as it's currently hanging near the small airport in my town.