Te hablo de el amor.
As a baby artist I fell in love with the work of Käthe Kollwitz. I want to explain why, but I’m not good at that.
Instead, watch this. It’s all there, all the reasons, from the subject to pursuit.
Art.
Speaking of woman who know the way….
https://youtube.com/shorts/-35CPL_mJ9k?si=haPsHsIjchJFgGoT
Salute Ms. Grae.
I’m juggling a lot of projects right now, but I’m still making time to train.
I’m not sure if I ever had any natural talent, but I do know how to work.
So I work.
I recorded a full timelapse process video of this drawing and will be posting it on my Patreon in April.
Here’s a few more drawings, for funsies.
Here’s a short preview of my life drawing/interview podcast Life Studied where we talk about Illustrators vs Artists.
You can see the entire 45+ minute episode for free here, but Patreon Patrons get it a week to 10 days early.
New episode dropping this coming Thursday!
I miss posting my goofy little dog stories. I have a few in the works but, like I said above, I’m juggling so much that writing those has fallen off a bit.
Having these 3 lunatics in the house is fun, but crazy. As I write this Magnus and Archie are chasing each other around the house over a toy, and Odie is pawing my elbow so I’ll pay attention to him instead of writing this. It’s a chaotic environment that makes it difficult to focus on anything but them.
Which is a problem since I work out of this house.
But every time I get frustrated I think about Rudy and Socrates, who I still miss immensely even after more than a year since they’ve passed.
These new maniacs driving me crazy makes me remember my old boys and how much I’d love for them to be here, tearing the house up, dragging me around the city, making me crazy.
I’d really love that again.
But things change and I’m lucky to have those boys in my life.
I love that too.
Hey, I guess I wrote a dog story after all :-)
Thanks, everyone.
Happy Easter*, if you celebrate that kind of thing.
Best,
Mike
*Out Easter isn’t till May, so we’ll be out tomorrow hunting for half-priced Easter goodies!