More Purple Shoe and Unexpected Sketch Results

Quck update. I finally got to start on the red ink background. One of the hardest parts of doing a piece like this is waiting to pump in a bunch of color on a broad area. When I was younger, I didn’t think so much about where I was putting down ink, but I’ve smeared enough lines and got graphite where I didn’t want it from being impatient that there’s now some rules how I do this. I’ll typically ink from the center and move out, erasing pencil marks as I go. The red is looking really, really good, and I’m looking forward to adding a couple of coats.

This kinda happened by accident tonight. I had some downtime on the road, and this was left over from a Gallery Girls model drawing workshop. I needed to do some inking exercises and had some fun with this. Tonight, I was tweaking curves in photoshop and the pencil sketch marks started turning white.

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More Purple Boot

Got some more progress on this last night and had a lot of fun with it. I’ve got a red metallic gel pen for the flames, and I think I’m going to use it for the straps. This one isn’t getting kinked up, but this is just a drawing as opposed to what I’m thinking of doing on canvas. Might go up on Etsy. We’ll see.

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Work in progress – Purple Boot

People will ask what is my studio like? Truth be told, I haven’t had a real “studio” in years. Yes, I had a drawing table set up at one point, but I didn’t use it a lot. When painting, I’ll paint in the garage or the living room, but when it comes to drawing, I do most of it on the couch. It just feels more natural.

But even then, I’d say so much of my work has been done at BDSM clubs, bars, or restaurants. Two things happen. One is, when out socially, I have to have a drawing pad or sketchbook. That’s what grounds me and keeps anxiety at bay. The other part is being out with the pad compels me to draw. Like, I’m here, I need to do something.

I think this started at the Xbiz show, just needing to draw something, and of course, I started with a shoe. Initially, I was just thinking black and white, but I keep getting overinspired. So I wanted to do African American skin tone for the foot, and was going to do shoe in pink. But something inside dared me to do the shoe in metallic purple.

And if you’re thinking, wow, you’re gonna fuck this up! You could be right. But I learned something a long time ago. It’s only paper and ink. If I fuck it up, I simply learn and move on. Matter of factly, I’m already thinking of how this is going to look on canvas instead. A lot of the design is solid. It’s just a matter of the colors. I’m just hoping I have enough metallic purple gel pen to not do an art supply run.

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