Flaming ArtistThis drawing was executed in Photoshop about a year ago. I had already done the sketch when I read a Facebook post by Dale Lazarov touting the erotic allure of older (60+) men. I thought the sketch could be easily adapted to one of my interest: white body hair on dark skinned men; a variation on the “silver fox” archetype.
This is yet another drawing of the Hulk, this time executed in Photoshop.
This is a work in progress. I started it when I got my first computer in 2000 and set to learning Photoshop. V2 is the current iteration, done last night (September 2, 2016)
I conjecture that I did this in the early ’00’s, after I got my first computer, and took my first Photoshop class.
Now HERE is Tony Soprano, if
not James Gandolfini. Here I am attempting a specific likeness of a specific
character, not merely drawing one of my “clones of desire” (a concept
articulated by the brilliant philosopher Dale Lazarof, writer of “Sticky” and “Manly”).http://prismcomics.org/profile.php?id=1496
It also puts on display my
continuing struggles with Photoshop. Basically I did a fake pen and ink
drawing. The only benefit I derived from using the program instead of pen and
ink on paper was the endless ability to re-size and re-do. Nothing to sneeze at
for sure (the lack thereof an ongoing frustration with the real thing) but
there’s more to the program than that. Hell, I’ve taken a couple of classes in
the damn thing. I just can’t make myself practice using the program
consistently enough to get adept in it.
This
drawing is not intended as an affront to Gandolfini or his mourning friends and
family. I like to think he would have approved, based on the scene in
“Sopranos” where his seated character displayed a hard-on through his pants
when contemplating his psychiatrist.
Today (October 25th; this posting has been
scheduled in advance), I another stab at the drawing I posted yesterday, drawn
back on July 7th. My implement is my Cintiq tablet using the
Photoshop program. I guess it’s an improvement, drawing –wise, but my Photoshop
technique is strictly playing chopsticks.
So I’m revisiting
yesterday’s drawing, trying to correct the “mistake” therein. I traced the
drawing scan in Photoshop, then scanned in a blank page of the American Express
Date Book to use as a BG, for the sake of consistency.
I find it weird, drawing in
Photoshop. I spend 8+ hours a day at my job (storyboarding on “Bob’ Burgers”)
drawing in the ToonBoom Storyboard Pro 4.1 program, which is vector based. Line remain “live”; I
can click on a line and resize it or distort it, or simply delete it. I don’t know if this is possible with Photoshop
(I’m pretty inexperienced in it), so I find using it somewhat frustrating.
