Tag: portrait
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Let me hold your place
A few weeks ago I joined the budding art-focused social media site called Cara. I’ve enjoyed building up my presence there and finding some community among those fearsomely talented folks. Last weekend Magdalena Baltes proposed a friendly art exchange, paint her pet in exchange for one of her paintings of yours. Looking at her work,…
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Sleepy kitten
Hell yeah! This is a painting of Aftyn Rose, based on one of the most artistic of her Instagram photos. I have long wanted to do it, but hesitated due to confidence issues around the complicated lighting and shadows. But when I set out to work through my issues with painting brushes, a reference with…
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Make some noise for soft tummies
Welcome back to the amazing rosie_rosie_rosie in the pose (and sentiment) that brought her to my attention in the first place. To be clear, the title of this post came from her. What can I say about this wonderful figure? She’s obviously a gorgeous lady. But even more than that, my eye was drawn to…
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Denim dreams
Please welcome Reddit user rosie_rosie_rosie to the site! She is a beautiful young woman who was happy to aid my journey of learning by agreeing to be a subject here. This first work is a study in revelation, showing off her gorgeous figure behind a shroud of denim. I’d like to do more work with…
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Playful in green
This is a portrait of Aftyn Rose, based on a reference that is important to me in a way that made it hard to do justice. This is attempt number four. I have tried to come at this over a span of many months. Each time I try, my style is different, my intentions are…
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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,…
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Anna Chlumsky
I was watching Armondo Iannucci’s In The Loop, and one of the background players really jumped out at me. Anna Chlumsky held her own in a production all about blistering insults. She must have stood out to Iannucci as well because she got a pivotal role in his follow-up show Veep. She played Amy Bruckheimer,…
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Choi Min-sik
Another quick, sketch-free painting, this time of South Korean actor Choi Min-sik in his unforgettable role as Oh Dae-su in Oldboy. It’s a hard-edged movie that calls for a searing portrayal. I cannot think of another actor better suited to that degree of commitment than him. I first took note of him as the bad…
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Eugene Hutz
This is a quick shapes-only portrait of singer Eugene Hütz, Ukrainian frontman of “gypsy punk” band Gogol Bordello. The reference photo was taken from the same concert (and by the same photographer!) as the Regina Spektor shot I painted a few weeks ago. I’ve been following that band for ages — I just adore them!…
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Happy Friday (painted)
A portrait of Aftyn Rose, looking comfortable and beautiful on her deck. This time, the painting succeeded. As I noted on the previous attempt, I painted this version without the use of a sketch. No guidelines, no Loomis head or whatever, just shapes. The dark mass of hair goes about here. Wait, too much. Carve…
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Happy Friday
I decided I should add some Aftyn portraits to my current painting series. Like the last one, this painting was a failure. What you’re seeing above is the sketch I made before going to color. It’s a nice sketch, but the painting was never able to achieve a similar level of quality or likeness. It’s…
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In Bruges
Portrait of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, the leads from the wonderful In Bruges. As soon as I saw the movie, I fell in love with Martin McDonagh’s (the writer) sense of humor. It is dark, but with a weird love for the foibles of human behavior. This was intended to be the groundwork for…
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Bae Doo Na
Another painting in my recent celebrity portrait series, I present South Korean actor Bae Doo Na. Because my subjects are almost always people I admire, I would have expected to get around to her much earlier than this. I love Bae Doo Na’s work, and have been following her for many years. The first place…
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Dave Bautista
Another stylized portrait, this one of Dave Bautista as Sapper Morton in Blade Runner 2049. This is another attempt at the brush economy style, this time using a much more opinionated brush than I typically try to use. This one is called “Larapuna” in Procreate. It is not just textured in both shape and grain,…
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Jess Bush
Portrait of actor Jess Bush, who plays nurse Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. She counterpoints Ethan Peck, which is appropriate given the sexual tension the two share on the show. This is a continuation of my brush economy portrait series. In this one, I tried to channel in a bit of Marco Bucci’s…
