24 year-old Illustrator

Clients: Childish Gambino, Angry Birds,
Game Informer, Tomb Raider, EMI Records,
MSNBC, Warner Music, FX Network and more.
jessitel asked:
Have you ever met anyone and instantly found that you wanted to paint them?

All the time, however I don’t act on it often.

In my experience, most people in the world who have never taken a life-drawing class, assume that sex is somehow tangled into finding someone aesthetically interesting enough to draw/paint. I’ve had instances where it came off as a line/flirtation on my end to my embarrassment, instances where I have drawn someone and other people assume I’m sleeping with her, and instances at the end of a drawing session where the model was confused when I told her she can put her clothes back on because she thought it was a date.

I firmly believe that if a single life drawing course was mandated for every individual, the global view on our bodies would completely shift… plus it would save me from more awkwardness in the future.

Notes

  1. havendasilva said: Dittoooo… •_•
  2. thetinkertoyboy said: lol, this is kind of adorable. But I agree entirely, the focus on the nude as a purely sexual being can be exciting at times, but it’s so heavily ingrained that it makes being nude without sex seem alien, which is just kind of awkward.
  3. ginnymcqueen said: Hahaha, perv. *sarcasm*