Southern Gothic

We had artist/musician Mather Louth (Heathen Apostles, check out her band on youtube, very cool) posing a few weeks back with a great multi-layered costume that was hard to capture even at an hour per drawing! Thanks Mather, great job.

War and Peace

A couple from the last few weeks, Laura Napoli starred as our peaceful Renaissance gal, and last Wednesday was Catherine Weiss as a dangerous wilding warrior. Thanks ladies!

Anime Swordplay

We had a great new model last night, Kat Thavornkant. She makes her own amazing cosplay costumes complete with all the bells and whistles. And swords. And cat ears. ( I can't remember what the character name is for this costume, but it looked great!) Thanks Kat!

Songstress

The lovely Aryiel Hartman was our lounge/jazz singer last week, lots of black on black with sparkles and feather boa. It was Aryiel's first time here, hope to have her back soon, thanks Aryiel!

Black Canary Strikes Back

The name Black Canary doesn't sound particularly dangerous,but this bird is kicking ass and taking names! (Why do action heroes take names anyway?..) Rachel Bailit was here Wednesday night and did a heroic job. Thanks Rachel! ( I don't know why the seated pose looks so much like Scarlett Johansson, but I'll take it!)

Annie Oakley Rides Again

Marissa Gomez was back with her awesome Annie Oakley character last week. Bullseye! She also brought a CD of her new album, Marissa Gomez and the Ghosts of Echo Park, a collection of great jazz tunes you should definitely check out. Thanks Marissa!

Dangerous and Demure

Some sketches from the last few weeks. On the demure side, the lovely Debra Haden doing a Bob McGinnis paperback cover. At the dangerous end, 3 sketches of Daniella Traub as Mrs. Peel complete with pistol, and the mysterious Larva as a film Noir assassin. Thanks for the fine posing!

Aliens, Sinbad and the Queen of Evil

We've had some great variety in models and themes in the last few weeks. Keith Klanderrud did a great Sinbad the sailor, Xine Zanillo was super as a colonial marine from Aliens, and Taryn Piana was evil incarnate, or something to that effect. Great costume so theme didn't matter! Thanks to all our great models.

Moulin Rouge 2

The wonderful Sara Streeter returns as a can-can dancer, bringing old Paris to life. At least as I imagine it, haven't been there. I was fairly happy with all the sketches last night (for a change) and only had to do some minor photoshop changes (oops, is that leg a little long?..) Thanks Sara, magnifique!

Eavesdropper

Wow, here's one I thought I had posted a couple years ago, but I guess not. The original 2012 workshop sketch is the lovely Sara Streeter as a French maid. I decided to create an illustration story about a maid working for the french resistance in occupied WW2 Paris. She's listening in at the radio room door, but watch out for the Gestapo coming up the stairs! Will she escape?.... Anyway, my buddy Bob Kato used this in his Drawing Club book (an honor!) and I meant to post it here too, so here it be.

Mother Of Dragons

We had a great new (to us) model for last night, Catherine Weiss, taking on the Mother of Dragons character from Game of Thrones. She's so tall I had problems fitting her on the page! Thanks Catherine.