Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
4 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
This time I was working on figure drawing from a photo, I am pretty sure, of a super-buff James Roday (who is now also using his original surname, Rodriguez), who played one of the lead roles on the TV show "Psych." My first try, the head seemed WAY...
1 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
A number of things were bugging me about the picture I drew of the man on a rope swing, most prominent among them that the background was Not Up To Speed. I spent a few minutes making the trees and greenery in the background look a bit more deliberat...
30 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I took the figure drawing workshop "Re-drawing Masculinities" again today. It's once a month - very welcoming, creative, fun, and great practice! Here are a couple of my 15-minute sketches: You can find the workshop on Facebook and Instagram. I am s...
22 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Toward my ongoing goal of adding a bit of action, a bit of story to my drawings rather than exclusively do exercises and anatomical studies of shoulders or feet or hands or lips etc, today I drew this dude swinging on a rope swing over a stone ledge...
19 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
In college, I had this idea that I would write a series of poems inspired by imaginary tarot cards with suits like "serpents" and "fire" etc rather than rods, cups, coins, swords. I only really ever wrote one of those, and I'm not sure where to find...
16 Nov 2020 1 minute read 4 comments DoctorPlatypus
I have been practicing elements, and doing careful studies of specific body parts and slavishly copying photos, etc, and it is probably time for me to start thinking more about combining those elements into images with a little more story. With that...
12 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Last post I had drawn a man sleeping on top of a yellow duvet, and I was not entirely satisfied with the way the fabric looked. Or, more specifically, I was not able to capture all of the wrinkles and folding in the duvet as well as I hoped, and in m...
10 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
No hands in this piece, because I am a little sick of them. Just some relaxation and a cozy quilt. I need to work more on how to draw fabric. When I was in college, my artist friends SWORE by fabric, because it was apparently so easy to draw, and th...
5 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Continuing with my study of hands, today I tried to draw two hands entwined. I expected the main challenge would be getting it so it was clear which fingers belonged to which man's hand, but I think that worked out all right. I think possibly the ext...
4 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
In response to my recent hand studies, a friend questioned my dedication to the geek cause. "What? Why didn't you do Live Long and Prosper?" he said. Here you go, pal:
