Sunday, December 30, 2012

Portrait of Stasha and David

For Christmas I made a portrait of my daughter, Anastasia and her fiance David.



Stashi's face I knew pretty well because I use to draw her when she was young but David's features were new to me and I had to learn to draw his face.
I did some preliminary sketches to get a feel for their faces and to decide what I wanted.

Though I use to draw Stashi I had to become familiar with it as it is now, as a woman's face. Her beautiful big black eyes are the same but her chin has grown and her face has elongated. 
I want to show her relaxed butr with a slight Mona Lisa smile. I'm really happy with this sketch and wish the rest of them came out as good but as an artist I've learned to make my best effort and except what I get.


I'm not familiar with David's face at all so I need to study his features. I really love his big smile in the picture above where he proposes to Stashi so I try to capture that. It proves harder than I thought and the first sketch looks more like a caricature than a portrait. I wanted to capture his smiling eyes and excited smile but instead got a clownish caricature. Sorry David and Stash. This picture is not at all a comment on your good looks but just a terribly distorted drawing and testament to my lack of ability. But again, I work with what I get.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Reauski, sexy art NSFW

(I recommend listening to Bell and Sebastian's"Slow Graffiti" with this post)

 I met a model on line and did a few pictures of her inspired by her photos.




NSFW: Please be aware that this post has drawings of nudes.

Friday, August 10, 2012

I'm finally starting my blog!

After working on comics for a few years now, I finally decided to start my blog.

One reason I haven't' started it till now is that I've been working on writing comics. lets face it, notes and scripts aren't terribly interesting to read. The most entertaining thing I could do is to put my inspirations on here, movies, art and ideas that get my creative juices going, though if I did that it'd kind of be a jumbled mess like my mind is. And besides I already do this on Facebook.

But now I have a reason for starting this blog. In March someone asked to publish a comic idea I had. It's a comic I call the Minks.


 This is the first drawing I ever did of the Minks in 2008.