Rockin' Out on Monday

Pretty hilarious article I Illustrated for Richmond Magazine about how if you wait too late to show up to the Richmond Folk Festival, you may be the only one left partying. I had an awesome time working on this one. Played around with digital and traditional elements. Enjoy!

Digital Portrait

Still working with digital life drawing, this time a portrait. I haven't abandoned traditional drawing tools, I actually have some decent figure drawings I did the other night using Nu-Pastels and toned paper. However, I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy working-out my digital muscles. I've wanted to push this medium and make it a more solid addition to my repertoire, just as much as the traditional tools.

Another Attempt at Digital Figure Painting

Had a lot of fun working on this one at the Norfolk Drawing Group tonight. Enjoy and feel free to leave comments, critiques, rants, or wisdom.

Foray into Digital Figure Painting

Tonight was our painting session at my weekly figure drawing group. Even though I stayed up late last night priming canvases with every intention of doing a traditional oil painting... just before I left to go paint, I changed my mind and decided to grab my laptop and Wacom tablet. Low and behold, I actually had a blast. I tried approaching this as I would if it were a traditional oil painting by making and keeping my marks. I kept my edges in mind and tried to not render the details to death. I was keeping the wisdom of David Leffel in mind when making my marks. To have each stroke be a statement describing something and let it stay. I worked on only 1 or 2 layers and didn't undo anything. Hope you enjoy!

More figure drawings and a portrait

More figure drawings with NuPastels and a recent portrait.

Recent Figures

20 minute pose

10 minute pose

40 minute pose (two 20 minute poses)

20 minute pose

10 minute pose

20 minute pose

10 minute pose

3 hour pose

Here's some figure drawings and a 3 hour figure painting that I've done over the last couple of sessions here in Norfolk. The poses range from 10-40 minutes. Since I'm no longer in school it's been good to find a place where I can still get some figure studies done. The drawings were done with nu-pastel on toned paper (canson), and the painting is oil on canvas. Feel free to comment. Take care.

Synesthesia

Did this piece for my friend's in the band Synesthesia. They wanted some original art for their new merchandise/promotional materials. This one is mixed media: Graphite, Acrylic, Ink, and Digital.