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When some times all you have are photographs of photographs.

And you graduate college and no longer listen to REM

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The nameless ghouls and the donuts. Ghesties can figure out who’s who.

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Still learning and progressing. I'll consider the picture "properly" finished when it works when the reference photo layer is invisible/deleted.

I'm falling back on my oil painting experience and don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

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Getting somewhere for a moment and then I wasn’t. Got to remember to do smaller sections on different layers

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I fucking did it!

Thomas Bangalter in the Sketchbook app on an iPad Air with an Apple pencil

I initially traced a reference photo to try and get the forms right, and I still feel like the glasses are off, then I worked the different parts in layers incase something happened. Combination of pencil and paintbrush tools at different strengths and the smudge tool.

I worked it like I'd work a water soluble graphite picture so analog art skills definitely carry over to digital.

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Learning to draw digitally with the free *Sketchbook app on my iPad Air. I had the app and a pencil with my previous iPad 6th gen but wasn’t making much progress. Part of it was probably the glass top and the iPad just being old. So if you’re looking for a tablet for art do your research for which ones have a better screen for the purpose.

I am tracing a pic I snapped of the reference print. This is so I can concentrate on what the medium or tools do instead of getting the forms correct. This is a piece for learning and making art not for sale.

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Memes, Far Side cartoon, a few Photoshop Phriday posts from Something Awful, and a post card for Mr Rodgers to ponder over

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Prismacolor premiere on black paper, page torn from a black sketch book intended to be a record of what worked and what didn't. Broke so many tips before deciding it wasn't worth trying to finish, probably too much bloom going on as well.

I'm guessing the book was damaged or got wet in a move and I tore out what pages I could save. Still a good idea to have a record of which pencils work better on black paper than others.

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Partially done and finished water soluble graphite sketch.

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Basic sketch and the finished piece in water soluble graphite.

It's possible the sketch is not the same piece as the water one as I can't tell if it was done on water color paper because the first picture is from the mid 2000s and was taken with a potato.

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black and white pencils on toned tan paper

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judges your unfinished sketch in Scottish

raw image not white balanced

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Gee, I sure hope young me doesn't decide to get in to drawing.

Because I'd hate to prove all those teachers who told me to stop drawing in class wrong

Then I'd want to keep practicing

And maybe get good or something

But that's just cringe and reeks of effort and not caring if other people know I have hobbies and interests and shit

Seriously, if you're more concerned with how you appear to strangers on the internet and think you'll be glad you'll never enjoy something that you might look back and cringe congratulations on being boring.

And I don't mean in the Pet Shop Boys sense either.

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Raw image without white balance

White balanced and closer to the actual tones, there's a light layer of lavender undertones.

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Well, the drawing of Thomas was vibing until I went with the German pencils. I traced the drawing by taping the paper to the computer screen and the glasses still look fucked up. I'm going to project it next time.

That's a Lyra skin tone, a nice pencil, it just wasn't in the cards

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Occasional it's been awhile since I've posted something pic. Here's an abandoned chalk pastel of Alex Winter as Marco in The Lost Boys. No reason it didn't get finished aside from burn out.

Also the one batch of chalks I was using before 2021 got pulverized in the move so he probably just got put away for safe keeping and forgotten about until I photographed him recently.

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Because woodcuts came up elsewhere...

This was done with two pieces in like 1994, the center is a reduction print. The outside is a lovely piece of what I think is flooring pine, will always recommend because it's soft and has lovely grain patterns. I had to work around the two knots so the cover of U2's Joshua Tree album came to mind. It's a sizable 12"x18" piece.

something something Help us move meant help yourself to my wood cuts, etching plates, finished canvases, and larger prints something something This one survived because it was hidden in a portfolio something something