Professionalism

Thanks "August Rush" for contacting me to work together, setting up a shoot, reading my multiple requests for a confirmation and never responding, in effect canceling our shoot together. That's awesomely professional. I look forward to seeing your cell phone photos for years to come.

I'm done shooting with models I've never met.

Also, I'm taking a break form shoots until June to get back to the paintin'

I hope to work on something tomorrow, I'll let you know

A groove

I haven't posted much here about my recent struggles with drawing, until I retro-post, you can see them at: My Live Journal

Here's the most recent post, with the good news that I'm liking my drawings again.

Short version:
So, here's one of the drawings I did yesterday.



Long version:
Drew again last night and had fun. There's a place, a state of mind that I sometimes get to, where I am having fun and for lack of a better phrase am "fucking around." Playing around? Not really sure how to describe it or what to call it, but it's when (first instinct was to say 'where' - future topic) I start embellishing on the photo. I throw some scribbles in, I use abstract marks to represent something realistic and the same idea/image is communicated to the viewer despite the fact that the thing I'm trying to represent and the mark look completely different yet convey the same thing. That's when I'm having fun. That's the result of it. Not so much the goal, because when I try to do it, it doesn't happen. When I don't try to do it, it does happen. And it's not so much working on "not trying to do it" as it is just being in the moment, being in the idea of what the image says, not reproducing an image.

I'm going to let that sink in (for me) and come back to this topic later. And make a note to discuss why reproducing the image isn't very interesting, but representing it is. Another note, so I don't forget what the hell I'm trying to say, is that photographs are a better tool for reproduction, but drawings/paintings, etc are my choice for representation. The result (and guess I'm writing about it now instead of later) is that I can convey what I see when I look at the photograph/subject-in-real-life with the drawing. You look at a photograph and see something, maybe it's what I see, but you look at the painting and if I've done my job, you have a better chance to see what I see. Or more accurately, you start to feel some of what I feel and you see what that feeling evokes in your mind based on your experiences, personality, and aspirations (past, present, future).

Or something like that.

Hey, and the absence of comments means this is interesting or this is boring. I'm gong to keep posting about these thought processes, but I am curious to know if they're interesting.

More Current Events

Continuing the current events series, here's Hillary:

Current Events?

So I had a couple of beers last night and I don't drink and draw, so here's a sketch I did back in january when I was on a current events kick. I did sketches of Barak and Hillary and Bubs from the Wire.
In other news, my replacement ink for my brushpen arrived yesterday, along with a bunch of sketchbooks and 10 pieces of illustration board. I have about 5 already with sketches on them ready to become paintings.

Enjoy your history:

New model

This is the first sketch I've done of a model I worked with a couple of months back. I don't have a great handle on the nuances of what's most interesting about her, but hey, I said I'd put these up everyday whether they're perfect or not, so here it is. I do like the sketch, although I'm not sure how clear the pose is.


Also, I'm going to try and find time today or tomorrow to post about the thinking behind the sketches. I had a really interesting train of though yesterday while walking and I completely lost it. It may or may not have been related to how I'm using the sketches now, but I figure if I start writing it'll come out.

Also, my super special brush pen is running out of ink. Refills are on the way, will they get here in time? Should I go back to using a sharpee? Should I go way back and use a ball point? I haven't done pencil in a while, maybe I'll do a week of the same sketch with different media. What do you say?

Week 2

Hey, so I posted this very early this morning, but didn't have time today to let you know it was up:



It's from an experimental set with Joy, she brought the ideas for make up and wardrobe.

Two fer on the Week Anniversary

Here's Sunday's sketch which went up late:

Stoya

Here's one for Monday:

Lilah

If I have time, I'll edit this post to add some comments about them. Two different styles, each could indicate a style for a series of paintings. I've got to find some time ...
A quick word about the first one. On the left of this sketch
there's an image from the same proposed series.
And this one is from a shoot with Stoya,
but didn't fit in like I wanted, so we reshot and came up with the on I posted on Sunday.

Day 6: Ivy

I always like when march arrives because Spring happens then and that means it’s getting warmer out.

My thumb’s at about 85% and I have a new sketch.

Here’s my friend, Ivy. I did another version of this back in July, still working on it.