I had a largely unproductive week last week as far as getting things done, despite having things in the queue that needed doing. I have been able to make up for it quite a bit this week, below are the newest portraits I’ve done. There is one portrait that I feel needs more work. My [...]
Portrait special order: James Powell of Mars
More donations in! This one made me earn it, big time. I knew before I started this process that it would be common for commissions to come in that didn’t fit the cookie cutter $35 and $50 portraits. For more specific requests, I will work out with the person wanting the custom job, a custom [...]
Drawing Edward Cullen
Well my schedule was light earlier this week, but is about to pick up. In the meantime, I found what I thought was a really decent picture of Robert Pattinson and drew up Edward Cullen. UPDATE! I was able to make this a time lapse, that is generally much easier to watch than the entire [...]
The Kickoff Portrait
Last week I kicked things off extremely well, with two great donations, requiring one portrait be done. Probably not mind blowing by better known internet personalities I suppose, but considering I relaunched my site from scratch to kick off this project (This site had been a pretty useless pseudo-portfolio/blog for years now) I consider the [...]
Getting Drawn – You, Illustrated
As part of raising money and running the Tough Guy Race in January, I’m offering my artistic services for anyone who donates over $35. – 35$ or more gets you one head and shoulders portrait, with a simple background. – 50$ or more gets you two head and shoulder portraits, OR one full body portrait, [...]
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