Can you guess who this is? I really hope you can.

I often have trouble drawing men, they always come out too feminine in my opinion. So who better to use as a model then one of the butchest men alive? Sure, Sure the fact that I am going to see him live tomorrow night has something to do with the inspiration too.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day I drew St. Brigid? Well yeah, sorta, I mean who wants to draw some random old man… who also wants to draw some random woman? Well I chose the Saint my sister was named for, who is buried in the same place as St. Patrick and the third Irish Saint.

This reminds me of the show a classmate of mine did for our thesis, he made largish icons of the 12 Apostles and it was such a striking exhibit and stayed with me. Modern Icons, it makes me think I should start drawing more of the traditional religious themes and my own interpretation of those themes.

Just a close up, I know the mic is all off but I didn’t use a photo or anything to draw from. I just made it up

I did a painting today and am very pleased with it, but this like the last painting I have done I can’t show it yet. Hopefully I can show both next week, which will rock.

Also, I am looking into creating prints of some of my art after getting requests. I ordered some test Gicee prints and samples so hopefully I will have more news about that soon too.

Who knows where ideas come from, they just appear. I had fun with this, though I must admit my fingers are all covered in graphite. I didn’t smooth the lines because I was enjoying the texture they gave.

I was going for a thing, inspired by this video I played with the extreme shadows