Month: March 2024
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Star Trek: TNG
Here’s a whole mess of little portraits to augment my painting exercise! This is the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, apparently taken quite recently. Perhaps a piece of promotional material for that Picard show? A friend shared the reference image, with its wonderful high-contrast photography and marvelous facial expressions, and I knew I…
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Charcoal drawing of Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom from Nightcrawler. I’m not in love with this one. I’m still getting used to these new tools, and a combination of questionable likeness and smudged lines make this rougher than I’d like. But, whatever. I’m moving on.
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A good day at the park
I adopted Riley in the Fall of 2014 — nearly 10 years ago. He was my first dog. I have had a couple close friends recently tell me they believe we have multiple soul mates in life, and I believe them. He changed me forever. He is first in my heart. I will love him…
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Light and shadow
It’s been a long time since I drew someone from Reddit. This is Affectionate_Ad494, in a pose he titled Light and shadows. (What’s up with Reddit users with Something_Ad### name patterns?) I bumped into it one morning and was captivated by the play of contrasts and the way they highlighted his anatomy. I had a…
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Let’s go, Tycho!
The last month has been full of bad news for pets, both mine and that of my friends. The ongoing series of tragedies has been hard to receive. I decided to make this painting to celebrate the spirit of one of the dogs hard hit in this time. I present to you Tycho, AKA Tychopath,…
