I like drawing for it's ability to give you quick gestural, lively results. A painting takes longer. You can make a painting with fast gestural strokes, but the chances of it getting muddy increase. I don't want to lose control. I just want to get loose with my drawings. It's for that reason that I use drawing primarily for temporally based artwork artwork requiring closely alligned exploration, small works and illustrations, and pure exploration.
WORDS AND TEXT
Sometimes the act of creation is the most important thing to an artist. This series of drawings was exactly that: Draw. Write. Don't think. Just do.
DRAWING 01
DRAWING 02
DRAWING 03
SMILE INSTALLATION
ARTCLVB DETROIT ART FAIR
My SMILE series was drawn using Copic and Prismacolor (alcohol-based) Markers.
For this series, I chose drawing as my method of depicting the emotion of happiness, markers for their colorful and quick results, and smiling people as the subject matter. The words in the background are inspired by the act of smiling.
DRAWING: SMILE 01
DRAWING: SMILE 02
DRAWING: SMILE 03
DRAWING: SMILE 04
DRAWING: SMILE 05
DRAWING: SMILE 06
DRAWING: SMILE 07
DRAWING: SMILE 08
DRAWING: SMILE 09
LARGE-SCALE PORTRAIT DRAWING
PORTRAIT SKETCHES
DRAWING: Sketch 01
DRAWING: Sketch 02
DRAWING: Sketch 03
DAILY SELF-PORTRAITS
RAPID GESTURAL PORTRAITS
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