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Most of my pieces were named after songs. This one was just pure fun!

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I added buildings because I wanted to spice up the background. I didn't need as much reference  or study for that. Pre-Covid I liked to go downtown and sketch buildings, so that sort of stuff is easier for me to come up with on the fly. I had a one point perspective on the buildings, but I did change the horizon line for the buildings further back because I liked this design better than if I followed the same point. I thought it gave more of an atmospheric perspective to things so the background would be further apart from the middle and foreground.

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With these studies I'm mostly taking note of facial features and form to more easily replicate and manipulate it on a blank page later.

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That’s fairly interesting! Note the blue coloration of the f-" Dr. Zoidberg 07/2020
I hope someone gets this reference...

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For this portrait I did a quick study of my friend, Rachel, who was kind enough to lend me photos to reference. I probably could've come up with an imaginary woman, but I was worried it might come across too generic. Drawing and looking at generic idealized people can get boring anyways. I wanted something a little more real and grounded.

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Here are older notes I've taken on composition. I might sound a little strange here, but from what I gathered, Alphonse Mucha played with a lot of spheres and oblong shapes and organized them in a way to place an emphasis on the subject, usually a woman. To me this created a sensuous and powerful piece. I picked up a lot of what I know about compositions from practice, studies, and reading stuff from Andrew Loomis and Walt Stanchfield.

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The clearer my ideas are the rougher and more loose my preliminary sketch is. I tend to receive a lot of compliments on how detailed my work can be, but to be frank I mostly just think in terms of simple shapes and silhouettes. I like to do these sketches on a tiny notebook, just to get a rough idea of how clearly it'll read and what effect this organization might have on a viewer.

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This is my own way of taking notes on someone's to get a sense of how a layout works. Here I'm looking for things like simple shapes and how they might influence my own feelings on that, but also the organization of those simple shapes and how they lead the eye and shape the composition.

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Early this month I was taking a closer look at Mucha's work and became entranced by the idea of the Art Nouveau Movement. This inspired me to play around with that sort of design layout sense in my own work.

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A friend had commissioned me to design a tattoo for her. Never thought about that sort of commitment, but when she told me what sort of idea she had, I couldn't say no.