The Blog
Self Portrait
I Play With Crayons
Hello friends, please forgive my quick sabbatical. My 4 best friends came into town and reunited in the first time in a while. We have all been friends since i was in 2nd grade, so needless to say, i was out and about. Posted some pictures from it up on my Image Diary. The picture i posted is a goofy self portrait i did with a little Crayon set. It was really fun drawing and coloring with crayons. Wow, there are so many fun things to do when you are a little kid; coloring, playing tag, playgrounds, Hide and Go Seek, the hot lava game. i’m been really wanting to play those games lately. i need to find a group to play it with… and probably need to find a good forest for it, too.
Fashion Collections
Look Book B Side
Hey all, how was your weekend and Christmas? Mine was great. :) Today’s picture is the drawing i did for the Academy of Art Lookbook last year. This was one that ended up not being used. Hope you like it.
Portrait
The Cherry Blossom Girl + Pandora
Merry Christmas Eve!! Wow! i can’t believe it’s here! I’m going to spend the first part of it cleaning my destroyed studio. Right now, i’m typing surrounded by multiple empty coffee cups, drawing references, candy, inks, colored pencils. You name it…. i need to clean.
Well, i finished up my first magazine cover yesterday. i’m really excited for you all to see it! it’s for a February issue of the magazine, so of course the cover theme is my favorite art subject matter, “Love”, but instead of doing something ultra lovey dovey, i decided to shoot for a feeling a little more abstract and harder to capture on paper… i wanted to capture the feeling of “Intimacy”. i wanted the viewer to look at the picture and feel first of all that they were the only person in the world that mattered to the cover girl, and second, that you had known her your whole life.. whether or not i accomplished that remains to be seen. haha
Now, for the main subject matter of the post. (sorry about the rambling; i slept in and now feel wired. hah) The drawing today is a sketch i did of two great French [intlink id=”3829″ type=”page”]bloggers[/intlink] Alix of Cherry Blossom Girl, and Louise of Miss Pandora. Alix’s blog is named after one of my favorite Air Songs, and i’ve been meaning to draw her for a while now. They did a photoshoot called “Les Nymphes” which you know with a title like that you can’t go wrong, but there was a picture of both Alix and Louise i had to draw.Tried something a little different out on the sketch. Hope you like it. Merry Eve of Christmas!
Portrait
My Mom Made Me Do It
Ok, so, i know this is the 3rd Taylor Swift drawing i’ve posted on here, but this one comes with a story. When my mom saw the drawings i had already posted of her, she said to me, “Oh Danny, you know what? I have the perfect picture of Taylor Swift for you to draw.” i turned to her with a puzzled yet amused look on my face and said, ” Oh yea?” Taking my prompting she responded, ” Yes! When I was at Starbucks today, I saw her new album cover and it’s perfect for you to draw. I mean, in the picture she’s got ‘Your Hair’. You know what I mean, like the hair you draw. You should draw it.” haha. Yes, so this was Saturday that she said this to me. So i always “Honor my Father and my Mother” and thus this post was born. :) On another note, I was contacted by Schnati from the great German blog Les Mads. and she said they wanted to do a interview with me. So it’s up today on their site. Click Here for the Les Mads Interview.
Blogger Portrait Series Models
Coco Rocha
Well friends, i guess i can technically say good morning cause it just turned over to today! Finished up another picture from the blogger portrait series. This one is of Model Coco Rocha, she just started up a blog, so i thought this would be a fun picture to do for it. i hope you like it. To see more from the Blogger Portrait Series Click Here
Clouds
Cloudy Mornings
I work up this morning and i couldn’t help resist taking pictures of the sky.
Volume 2
Castel Glasses
Hey Friends. how was your day? Well, i’m exhausted. Been painting for the last 9 and a half hours straight without a break. i can’t wait to show you all it. The picture today is one i did for Sophie Ward originally for Paper Castle Press. Sophie had me add some Castles on the glasses. :) hah Hope you like it.
Portrait
Merry Monday
Merry Almost Christmas! It’s perfect weather; it’s cold and rainy. I’m under a blanket getting prepared for the day, and contemplating making some hot chocolate. Got a busy week. Got to do a few portraits and a magazine cover. Plus, need to go Christmas shopping… need Santa to send some elf assistance…. oh well. The picture today is from this Project i’m working on. i hope you like it. It’s of Taylor Swift. Which you all could help m; i’m trying to get a hold of her for this Project I’m working on… if you could or have any ideas, let me know. or Taylor, if you stumble on to this page email me ;) hahah Have a great day to you all! P.S. i posted a couple pictures in My Image Diary :)
Envelopes
The Envelopes to the Girls
Wow! I just had a blast from the past. i was digging through my hard drive and stumbled on two theses two pictures. They are of the drawings i mailed over a year ago to IMG Models for Lily Cole and Gemma Ward. I had custom made the envelopes and drew those two pictures on the inside flaps. i don’t know. i thought it would be a fun thing to post, considering everything that has happened since then. Just think, if i hadn’t shipped those envelopes, i might not have become friends with my good friend Sophie Ward Wow! It’s always so trippy looking back and seeing how events start little chain reactions. Well, hope you all are having a great Friday!