Hi friends, this week I’ll be archiving The Society. I'm simplifying my life and fully focusing on my Coaching Program community. Right now they are thriving and deserve my full attention. My vision for this group was always bigger than image sharing. I wanted to build a collaborative community with me, other Pros, and members who wanted to break out of the social media paradigm of vanity, likes and follows. I wanted to create a community built on conversations and relationships, online and offline. To keep that vision alive would require many hours of teaching, support, and collaboration, and right now, I simply don’t have the time (or resources) to sustain it. I plan to have an oil painting focused community soon. That is the next stage in my evolution so I will dedicate my hours and labor to this new chapter in my life. If you are interested in that, please follow me on my new website (I will start writing beautiful articles there again) and join my free email list. That is where I will do my teaching and guiding for now. Thank you for being part of this. Skool is still in it's infancy, but I know it will become as mainstream as Facebook. As censorship of nude figurative art and beautiful realism as a whole continues to rise, the mass of artists like me will eventually migrate here. So thank you for being a pioneer with me. To those who resonate with me and align with my mission to build a sanctuary for beauty online I hope to meet you again. Much love and peace be with you until we meet again.❤️🤝

Skol Vikings! Fun expression to work through, but holy cow… I discovered how bad I need to work on hands 😬

Started as a critique turned into a quick lesson on designing hair shape. What part of the figure or face are you struggling with? What should I cover next?

As a kid I wanted to be a penciller for Marvel, specifically for comic series called X-Force. So here is a commission for 10 year old Mike. In the process I found that I struggle with realistic eyelashes. Anyone have tips?

I finally finished this commission I’ve been working on for 3 months lol. Thankfully, the person who wanted it didn’t rush me and gave me all the time to complete because this started so different than the finished product. I almost gave up a few times. I had to do multiple side studies of shading dark skin and even had to retake the reference photos after learning how to take better photos. What a journey that I’m excited to use what I’ve learned on my next project. How do you handle doing commissions when you’re uncomfortable? Is there a time when you finally hang in the towel? Or do you push through and continue to practice until you get the vision you’ve started with