Hey! yes, more tribal dancers! People might recognize yesterday’s Hand of Kali back as a Medusa. What can I say; I have some obsessions…it’s my sketchbook, they’re going to show up now and then!

I like drawing on trace, so I thought, hey I’ll probably like drawing on vellum even more…I have to say: it is a sensual experience! So smooth and buttery - the graphite just glides on - you can smudge a bit with a finger, and lift back to bare surface with the kneaded eraser…a totally awesome drawing surface! Wasted on draftsmen and cartographers! Plus you can use the translucence and draw on both sides when working out compositions…

My tablet’s been down for a while (vista nastyness!) - finally re-setup with XP again. Ah, the love hate realtionship with digital! Anyway, this is another (third? fourth?) try testing out custom brushes in photoshop. I think I like what’s happening here (click image to enlarge)  - kind of got a ragged, streaky flat brush going - seems to feel more painterly to me.

(photo ref: deathkitten9000, hands of kali)

I was out of town for the last official sketchcrawl so I had to go do a nightcrawl to make up for it! I went up to the Civic Center on Van Ness - to sketch the uplights on the buildings. Tonight is the SF Pride opening - so it’s all done up in rainbow colors. I guess the party is in full swing. (both ways)…

Arg! it’s been sooooo long - over a week with no drawing!!! Going back home is great and all that, friends family and seeing the rockies again - but now I’ve got to flake the rust off :)

Here’s a quick one from a flickr self-portraitist: (photo here)

out for a week - hopefully will return with some doodles…depending on how much waiting in airports goes on…

my first job as a ‘party artist’…. fun- but they take all the drawings home with them!

…’finished’ sketch from the second half of Audra’s Odessa’s latest pose….

We had a wicked drawing session tonight - my sketches are my usual bla bla bla, but maybe I’ll get to post the other guy’s stuff later - they all rocked it tonight, and of course so did Odessa!

This is something I’ve wanted to get around to for a while now - I happened to be downtown for dinner tonight, so on the way back I did a couple of night drawings on Market Street. I’ve always like the lighting there - I’d love to set up and plein air sometime - anyone want to do a 9 to midnight PA outing!?! - we’ll see how that goes someday…nobody accosted me, and I didn’t get questioned by the cops - so, we’ll see - maybe there’ll be more of these late night drawings…

This is basically right out side my door…I feel guilty whenever I go by here and don’t stop for a sketch :)

These three are walking northeast under the bridge looking for good painting spots - i think I like the last one - standing in the middle of the train tracks…

Here’s a few more of our fast becoming favorite model; Quetzal….(sorry about the title, that’s just the way my mind works)…I really wish I’d brought my paints, as I’d have loved to have done this pose with the full effect of the lava rock and silver necklace…Laurel (my wife) was working all afternoon to get the jewelery ready for the sitting!

Quetzal came back for her second three hour pose…much happier with how this one turned out vs. last week. The more times I draw a model, the better I get with their likeness, which I suppose only makes sense. I was also being more conscious about working larger to smaller, and getting the silhouette right before beginning to render in lights…

Progress steps for the curious…

a little practice ink drawing with brushes….

so,,,have the head cold from hell today; eyes burning, sinuses thudding, wet cough, the whole bit…but I managed to make something out of our weekly three hour pose anyway…was quite a change of pace from yesterday’s frenetic marathon!  - plus we had an excellent model; super solid posing - if anyone’s around here’s looking for that kind of thing, I give her a 9.5 in the sitting still event!

My third Bay Area Model’s Guild Drawing Marathon…whew! this is the upper half of the stack I brought home :) what a great event! - I love it! Thank’s BAMG! — I’ve been saying lately: “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing obsessive compulsively”…

He’s at it again - wandering the streets drawing compulsively…

Tonight’s Dr Sketchy’s model Lulu LeStab!…I hear her full act is something to do with razors and blood play….so here’s some of my bloody minded watercolors…