Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: art, blue, color pencil, drawing, flower, green, purple, scot prudhomme
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a new floral color pencil drawing. Since launching the site, I have been surprised by the visitor feedback telling me how they love the flower drawing amongst my portfolio. These comments made me think that I should do some more of the series. For this work, I kept within the floral family and based the piece off another work from the Harold Feinstein series. I did, however, decide to flip the color in the piece and design it with cool colors. I chose cool for two reasons. The first being the color adds drama to the flower and the second because the piece became a Christmas present to my folks. My parents have wanted something by me for quite a while. Currently, my mother has all my high school drawings on exhibit in her house. Since allot of my work is faces, I thought she might like a piece of the floral series more than seeing a woman on her wall.
Size: 22 x 22 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: art, collage, color pencil, design, drawing, pencil art, red, scot prudhomme, visual arts
Right before I graduated from college, I worked on this particular collage for my best friend, K. To this day, five years later, I still feel that this piece is one of my best collages I have ever made. Every part of it screams her from the M&M to Alucard. I still remember asking her way back what her favorite color was. I always ask this question to the person I am drawing because I use their favorite color as a main backdrop color in the work. Her answer was so K. She said and I quote BLACK. Of course I did not want black as the color since the paper is black so I eventually got her to tell me her second favorite, Red. The rest is history.
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: african american, art, artist, black, color pencil, design, drawing, figure, guy, pencil art, people, realism, scot prudhomme, visual arts
Over the last month, I have been working on this new drawing. I can say that this piece is something different for me. From looking at my past work, you can see that this particular drawing focuses on something new which is a guy. I have always drawn figures of women over the years but never men. Something about this photgraph made me want to create the work you now see. This work also incorporates another new thing. I drew him unlike my past pieces in realistic tones and shades. Hope you like. Maybe this will start me working on a new creative path.
Size: 17.5 x 25.5 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: african american, art, artist, color pencil, design, drawing, figure, green, hulk, she hulk, visual arts, woman
As part of my earliest works, She “Hulk,” has become one of my favorites. I can honestly say that I did not come up with her name but I find it to be fitting. It is not every day you see a girl the color of green unless you are watching something out of Star Trek. Something about the drawing three years later still gets me excited. Maybe it is the glow of the green face or the big hoop earrings. I remember working on this drawing and experimenting with color. To this day, this is the quickest work that I completed from start to finish.
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: art, artist, color pencil, drawing, figure, purple, scot prudhomme, tomb raider, woman
With all my artwork, this is the first and only drawing specifically created for a person. All my other works have been solely for me. When I created her back in 2004, I’ve just completed Moonlight, which shows in the continued use of blue shades in the drawing. I found the construction of the eyes to be a challenge in the work since they represent the most prominent features on the face.
Size: 22 x 30 inches
Filed under: Color Pencil Drawings | Tags: drawing, color pencil, art, collage, luck, cards, gambling, money, luck of the draw, poker, creative, design
Back in 2000, I was trying to gain entrance into the Graphic Design program at UGA. I have always wanted to do art as a career but knew to choose something that could make me money at the same time. So as a compromise, I thought becoming a graphic designer would be the perfect solution. Every year at UGA, the program has an entrance test since the classes were so small. I decided to create a collage for the exam. During the week long test, assignments are given out. One of the drawings they ask to be completed was creating a picture that conveyed the message “Luck of the Draw.” Unfortanely, I did not know that they did not allow color drawings until I completed the piece. Thus, I did not get into the program and explains how I got into Advertising.
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
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: 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
