Saint Michael...

Shall we say another stab... 

I've finished Saint Michael...again! This time in color. This was a lot of fun to draw, lots of colors and shading. Your eye really gets to move around with this piece.

I decided to replace the first Saint Michael drawing in the Saints A - Z series with this one. Those can be found here: Click this Link! I now have 14 done! And am continuously working to finish the series. FYI - Saint Philomena is on deck to be drawn and then most likely, Saint Peter to polish off the P's.

As I looked back on the videos I took, yes I forgot to mention, this is also a time-lapse piece! 12 hours of videos. That really surprised me. I didn't think it was that long...but I drew a little bit at a time...I guess it all adds up. Little by little!

Progress Photos

Guess What?

Yes, you'll have to watch the time-lapse to see the final drawing. That's how I get you...

Time Lapse Video

You can also watch it here: Saint Michael Video - YouTube

Thanks for viewing the Saint Michael Post. Hopefully you watched the video and saw the final drawing. Until the next drawing...

The Assumption, plus...

 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

It's the middle of August and the final drawing of the Podcast Portraits is finally here! This month is another colored pencil drawing, this time of Mary and her Assumption into heaven.

You are probably wondering what the plus means...well...Should I tell you? Yes, yes...you'll see it anyway. It just means that in addition to this post there is also, finally another time lapse video.

I know many people have asked...okay just one, when the next time lapse will be. So here you have it.

Here is the final drawing. It is a nine by twelve colored pencil drawing. And since there is a video to go along with it, I've eliminated the need to scroll for progress photos. It's just a video. Watch it here or go to the YouTube channel to view. Enjoy.

Thank you for viewing today's art work of the Assumption.

 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.

Thank you for viewing! Have a Great Day!

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!