I like to draw quickly from reference photos. Photos help because it turns off the narrative. Speed helps because it prevents thoughts and voices from the other room from getting traction. Anyway, here’s around 500 reference photos for images scraped from online where some description, or alt text, or automatic image tagging, resulted in their return.
Adoptable Dogs reference Photos
Abandoned Dogs Reference Photos
Adoptable Cats Reference Photos
Files have been deduplicated and then numbered.
Surprisingly little is new these days on the coronavirus front, the same process repeats itself on different stages. All that seems to change is who is talking about it in the national media. So let’s draw them.
So I sold the last of a bunch of prints I had hanging. I forgot they were out there. They were in Texas? I guess I was in Texas at some point. Well, the check cleared and I’m out of that stupid mental health conserveteeship so I bought some stuff. I got a fancy pochade box I gotta write about some time, and a whole stack of canvas panels and a set of basic acrylics tubes from Winsor & Newton.
I like drawing faces (they quiet the voices which, yeah, is weird) so I figured a book on portraits with acrylics would be good. Nope, I’m not in that place yet. I think I need to just be simple and boring and see a face, sketch it rough, slap on the paint. So I’m going to do that for a while I think.
I like acrylics though I think, might really like them. They cover, they’re opaque, and they hide the tremors like I can hardly believe it. Mess it up? There is a thick physical thing I can wipe off of cover up. The exercises in the book so far aren’t for me, review that book if I get to that place but acrylics for now and no sleeping ’cause the only thing louder than lights is labyrinths.
Uncredited Work 