Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: drawing, color pencil, art, figure, artist, purple, anime, vampire, woman, moonlight
After working on Alias, I continued to be inspired and immediately began looking for a new subject to draw. While drawing, I have discovered that I go through periods of months where I work on nothing and then suddently get a creative spark through either a subject, life, etc. Upon obtaining this feeling I begin immediately to work on two or three projects in a row.
After Alias, I wanted a new subject and found it in a Revlon ad. As a departure from the pink and green, I chose to create this picture out of blue and purple. The finish result to me comes directly out of an anime short. In all my drawings, I create them on black paper. The black surface forces me to cover and incorporate the entire paper. This infusion of color pencil on the entire black paper to me causes the drawing to emit a glow. The end result of this work has a type of vampiric anime look to it, which I love.
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: drawing, color pencil, art, figure, artist, purple, woman, model
Out of all the drawings I have done over the years on women, the one called “Inspiration” was the picture that started it all. Back in 2003, I was still looking for my first job out of college and began seeing someone for the first time. I still remember working on the drawing on the floor of my Aunt’s basement. Throughout this period, I had a lot of emotions going on because I was having a hard time finding a job and began dating for the first time. To this day, I feel like this is the drawing where I finally began to grow up. All through my art classes in college, I have always been told that I am missing something in my art. No one could ever tell me what it was but to me maybe it was life experience. I draw very technical but bringing emotions to my subject matter was never there. Dating and taking a year to find my first job back in 2003, made me grow up. Everywhere in this drawing has emotions interwoven into it. When you look at famous artist, most of them did not become famous until late in there life. For a lot of them, their best works are born from life hardship which is why everyone can relate to the beauty they express on canvas. And through the hardship and joy of 2003, I began my series of woman and the next stage in my art. Funny fact about this is that I never liked drawing faces and never did it until this work.
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: color pencil, drawings, art, female, orange, vanidades, woman
Back in September of last year, I was determining to find a new face to draw. I just completed She “Hulk” and decided to go to Target to find a magazine. Unless you take pictures yourself, the only way to find photographs to work from is through looking at high fashion magazines. Some of my best pictures come from couture fashion ads. Only those ads play on human face and close-ups. The back up is going through the make-up department in department stores and grabbing sample ads.
Now, I came across this picture will going the magazine racks and came across the cover of Vanidades. Vanidades is a Latin woman beauty fashion magazine. I at first did not recognize the cover girl because of the extreme close-up of her face but hopefully you can tell. I feel that this drawing was a great first step with the color orange that led me to my stronger piece Miami Sun.
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Filed under: Photography | Tags: deck, patio, Photography, Savannah, SCAD, vacation
For me my passion is drawing but all artist’s creativity tends to move them from one medium to another. For me, I photography is my side and I love it. Ever since I purchased my digital camera, it has been off to the races. As we speak, my Mac hard drive is slowly filling up with pictures but on this blog, I am only posting my favs.
In this photo, I took a shot of a patio overlooking a park on my vacation back in July to Savannah. My pal Jonathan arranged for me to stay at a historic house in downtown Savannah owned by SCAD. I love this picture especially the way the light comes onto the deck. This was a great vacation.
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: art, artist, color pencil, drawing, figure, music, pink, who knew, woman
After creating “Love”, I was trying to find a new subject to draw and I came across a lonely picture of pop star. In each drawing, I try to bring something new to the table and challenge myself within reason. For this project, the tatoo located on her middle left arm got me really excited. The elaborate design and making it work with the shading added a new challenge versus my ususal drawings.
By the way, in seeing this picture you probably are asking me why did I choose the color Pink to work with? Well, it was not my first choice. I originally started the drawing in white and black shading. The idea was to add touches of Pink into the picture but that failed miserably. It did not look right at all. If you do not believe me you can use one of those high tech micorscopes used in the Thomas Crown Affair to see the original design.
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: drawing, scot prudhomme, color pencil, art, flower, blue, yellow, red
Ok so years ago, I took a stab at drawing some flowers from a photo. Little did I know that this photo was famous since it is part of Harold Feinstein Flora series. You can be the judge if it comes close to the real work of art. The drawing differs from my other pieces of art. I ususally as you can see focus on figures but something about the composition of the flower interested me.
Size: 22 x 22 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: art, collage, color pencil, drawings
Over the past 10 years, I have from time to time created collages that embody the essence of a friend or love one. I am the type of artist that only does art with reason. I never start an artwork that does not have some sense of meaning behind it. For this drawing, I incorporated elements that represent the life of a friend of mine. The funny story behind this is that I originally started it 5 years ago and only found it recently. Most of the drawing stayed the same except for some updates here and there. If you know the person….you know what the updates is.
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Filed under: Pen & Ink | Tags: atlanta, drawing, house, martin luther king jr, pen and ink, scot prudhomme
Back in high school in Dunwoody, I took AP Art and one of my pieces I did for the class was a tribute on the civil rights movement. In the art piece, I had a drawing in it of Martin Luther King Jr.’s house as the focal point. Unfortanetly, I sent the entire piece titled “I Have a Dream” to a state design competition but they lost the drawing. Years later, I decided to recreate the orginal drawing. This art work is the only drawing I have ever redone again. I never redo drawings for some reason….not sure why. I am hoping to get back to drawing in pen and ink sometime soon.
Size: 11 x 14 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: color pencil, drawings, female, pink, woman, alias, green hair
After a year of not drawing, I came across a photograph of a certain not to be named actress promoting her tv show and became inspired. For me, drawing is something that happens only when I find the perfect subject matter to work from. This particular drawing only ended up taking me an entire week to complete and to this day is one of my favorite pieces of work. I usually do not love my works once I moved on to another focus but this is a rare one.
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: color pencil, drawings, figures, art, orange, woman
My artwork these days always focuses on color and with this medium I am always trying to expand my skill and palette. In this drawing, I found a picture of this girl in the local Atlanta magazine. I immediately became inspired and wanted to draw her. Instantly, I wanted to her to be in orange. Every since I drew my girl in green a.k.a She-Hulk, I have loved playing on color to accent the beauty of the human skin. Unlike my previous drawings, this is the first one to incorporate the neck and body. All my other works have only been close-ups of the subject faces. The combination of green in the sunglasses and hair to me causes the orange to pop and glow on the paper.
Size: 19.5 x 24.5 inches
