Musings on and examples from various creative and constructive projects.
2 Oct 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
I'm hoping to use the Inktober prompts again this year to re-establish a daily drawing habit. The first two prompts this year are 'crystal' and 'suit'. You can see I didn't start off too ambitious. I did try to show them being translucent by showing...
16 Sep 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Every once in a while I find an image on the internet and think "that would be fun to draw" and I save it to my photos on my phone. I try to make a record of where I found the image, so I can credit the photographer or at least acknowledge the refere...
9 Sep 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
I spent more or less the entire month of August traveling. First I went tubing with friends down a river in Western Massachusetts, then a 10 day trip bicycling around the north coast of Iceland, which was AMAZING and like riding a bike on Mars, but w...
12 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Tonight I found a very cool reference photo on the MaleFormDrawing instagram page. I really liked the framing of the door, which I think adds an intimacy, like you're looking in on his life as he listens to someone or watches something going on outsi...
5 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
This evening, I drew a guy stretching out on a cushiony chair: For a change, I decided not to ignore the chair. I tried to show the way the cushion deforms and wrinkles under his weight. I really want to link to the reference photo, but I can't find...
29 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Tonight I drew this very handsome man holding up his hand in "Stop!" position, from a reference photo of this model. Here's my sketch: At first, the shading on his face was VERY prominent, looked like warpaint rather than shadows, so I went over it...
22 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
This evening I went to the Male Form Drawing Insta for a reference photo again. I have had really good luck with them. This photo had interesting shading and I thought the angle of his head would be a very cool challenge. In the photo he's crawling a...
20 Jul 2021 1 minute read 1 comment DoctorPlatypus
I need to get used to the idea that I am going to have extreme emotional responses after drawing certain subjects. Today I drew my dear friends, Ian and his late husband Josh, and the picture of Josh came out a little more Joshly than the picture of...
15 Jul 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Last evening I drew a couple friends celebrating in the swimming pool, and I am very happy with how it came out: I also tried to capture this photo of Chris Hemworth surfing through a tubular wave, which didn't come out quite as well: It seems like...
11 Jul 2021 1 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
Today I got up early to join a British life drawing Zoom hosted by the 2B or Not 2B Collective, featuring model Bryant. Bryant is a dancer, and a bit of a contortionist, so today's poses were twisty and complex, with lots of interaction between hands...
