The only progress lately on the skeleton mannequins is that I had 15 boxes of each gender created, and I found a temporary solution for the inside padding. When I have a little extra money I will have more skeleton parts made, assemble them, and then attempt to sell a few. I have been teaching […]
Category: Drawing
I started another painting a couple days ago. I wanted to do one that wouldn’t be so time-consuming, and also I wanted to try a different technique this time. So I’m taking a break from the Tattoo Girls painting and using a pose from the photo shoot I did with Valarie a few weeks ago. […]
SOME COMPLETIONS
I do dumb things sometimes. Yesterday I decided the painting was dry enough to varnish. I was almost correct. I started at the top and began painting on the Gamvar varnish. All was going well until I got to the very bottom. I swiped the brush right over my signature and my name came right […]
LONG TIME NO BLOG
Well it’s been a rough week. End of the school year always seems to get people on edge. Relationship troubles, kids/teacher troubles, political troubles, blah blah blah. Anyway that’s why I’ve been absent from the blog. The art stuff kind of grinded to a complete stop. But today I got to do a short photo […]
Model Mayhem is turning out to be a bust. I thought I had a male model secured for a photo shoot, but after sending all the pertinent details a few days ago, I have still not heard back for a confirmation. So with a deadline approaching for a pencil portrait, commissioned once again by my […]
STUDYING ANATOMY
I did some figure drawing practice today. It’s interesting how I’ll get into a flow and think I’m doing such an amazing job with a drawing, and then I’ll put the sketch over the top of the photo to see how similar they are, and usually I’m not even close. After that I look at […]
GESTURE DRAWING
As a self-employed individual, one probably shouldn’t complain about having too much work….right? My other job as a tattoo artist is where my primary income stems from. And business is good. So why the sad face, Cody? Because I want to draw. I want to paint. I want to practice. I want to study. And […]
NEW DRAWING PROGRESS
Today I worked on a new 14″ x 17″ pencil drawing of a young Native American dancer from Canada. I actually started it yesterday, continuing with the theme of the previous three drawings. I started with all the darkest black areas using a charcoal pencil, and once those were done I switched to my graphite […]
FIRST CLIENT
I had shared my three World Culture pencil portraits on Facebook over the last couple weeks, and after doing so I got a message from a woman I had grown up and gone to school with. She wanted to give an 8×10 child portrait to a close friend as a belated birthday present, and she […]
PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
I found an old 14×17 Canson drawing pad in a cupboard one day. I decided to skip out on my sketchbook for the evening and attempt a larger-scale drawing. Up until then I had been drawing hunched over with my sketchbook flat. With this larger drawing pad, I needed to set it upright. I immediately […]