The Most Precious Blood

Below you will see another Podcast Portrait, this time of The Most Precious Blood of Jesus. The medium is colored pencil on paper.

We started off with a blank piece of paper, a reference photo, and some pencils. From there it kept getting refined with pigment from a colored pencil and the guidance of my hand. As you see from the above photo I started with the skin and figure of Jesus on the cross.

Above here we have a more detailed view of the subject at hand. If you look close you can even see the sketches I had done prior to adding color.

Here is a close up.

Another close up.

And also another close up.

And from here on will be zoomed out showing the details as they progress. This one would have been fun to do a timelapse with.

Over half of the drawing is completed in this photo!

I was unsure of how the background would workout, but as we started I was happy with out it ended up.

And here we have it... the finalized drawing - zoomed out!

And a more direct photo...not so angled.

Hopefully you enjoyed viewing this piece of artwork done for the Feast of The Most Precious Blood of Jesus...and also reading my little excerpts on each image (those are always fun...I hope people actually laugh or smile, but they are not always intended to get a laugh - but usually...)

Until next time - which'll be next month (which'll is a contraction for which will)

Next month's drawing is projected to be a drawing for the Assumption of Mary.

The Annunciation...

 Pencil & Colored Pencil

I finished another drawing. I drew the Annunciation of Mary. Usually it is celebrated on the 25th of the third month, but since Easter and Holy Week were during that time it moved to the week after, which is the 8th of the 4th month.

Below are some progress photos. I chose to draw this one with graphite pencils and to make the subject pop out I used colored pencils.

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Another Drawing...

 Happy Birthday...

I just finished another drawing! An 18 x 24 pen and ink drawing of the church for a priest's birthday. Below are the progress photos. Enjoy... I started this back in July.

And below is the photo I took as my reference.

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Crucifixion

 A Little Late...

I drew another Podcast Portrait last month for lent. I chose the crucifixion of our Lord. Below are some progress photos.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

 February 14th 2023

Happy Valentine's Day yet again...it happens every year, doesn't it? Well anyway, last year at this time I wanted to have a Saint Valentine drawing done for the series, so I had started on it a few months or weeks before...can't remember exactly. But funny story, I only got his face drawn.

So this year I decided to finish it, he was actually still taped to my drawing desk (my dresser)  with a bunch of papers and what not piled on top of him. So I cleaned up, dusted the drawing off, and finished in the month of September of two thousand and twenty-three.

This is actually a unique drawing of him, not the typical image you see of Saint Valentine because I have combined a couple of references together. 

The first one being that of a computer generated image thought to be what he actually looked like. You can see that below. They took is skull and mapped it out using 3d imagery software to create an image of is actual face.

And the second reference I used was that of a statue of St Valentine to get his traditional looking vestments added in.

And here is the final drawing of saint Valentine.

Thank you for viewing my art! Happy feast of Saint Valentine!

Happy Blogirthday! It has been 4 Years...

 January 10th 2020...

...marks year 4 of this art blog! Can you believe it is still going. Although there has been less and less posts/art over the years (as you can see, art takes time to create) but I've actually been doing more drawings since I started the Podcast Portraits.

I've slowly been adding videos of various drawings depicting the time lapses to my YouTube Channel as well. It's been fun to step back and see the progress from start to finish of each of those.

And to finalize everything for this years celebration I decided to do a throwback of my first drawing for this blog - The Bible and Rosary Drawing. I recreated the scene, photographed it, and drew it.

Many continue to ask (actually not really) how I draw some of these pictures. I continue to answer, "With my hand of course! And a pencil."

Thank You for viewing!

My Last Drawing...of the Year!

 2023 Is Gone!

2023 is finally nearing an end, actually it has ended. By the time you read this we will be well into the new year of 2024. Well, one week into the first month. January 6th to be exact is when this came out. On the feast of Epiphany. Epiphany, meaning a manifestation of a divine or supernatural being. At this we are referring to the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi (Matthew 2:1–12)

This scene I drew is the Epiphany, when the three Magi arrived in Bethlehem and found Jesus by following the star. …And entering into the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and falling down they adored him; and opening their treasures, they offered him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

I time lapsed this drawing so you can follow the progress and the procedures I used in creating this picture. And maybe after viewing it, inspiration will flow from within you to maybe even create your own drawing!

- Here are a few progress photos I took while drawing.

Saint Joseph.

Mary and the child Jesus.

A bit of the background showing up.

There are two of the Magi.

Oh, there is the third Magi.

And the finished picture!

I hope you enjoyed following along on this Epiphany drawing, If you would like to see the time lapse, visit the link below for the YouTube video.

Epiphany Time Lapse Video

Who is your favorite Magi?