Figure Drawing Archive

DELIGHT! Artwork by Pierr Morgan

Promethea is another comic series that might suit your mood this time of year.

Your soul is a butterfly!

New artwork for the first episode in a series on Jesus and his time in the Garden of Gethsemane.

The image above is inspired by the Star tarot card, which often shows a woman pouring water into water and onto the land.

Thanks, little buddies!

Summoning the demon.

The rest is silence.

Run free and wild Scoutie, I love you forever!

Fly free, little blue boy Louie. I love you forever!

Dreams can be pretty important. Maybe not always, but they certainly can be.

Kingly kings!

In Michelangelo‘s “Creation of Man” the figure of God and the Heavenly Host actually form the shape of a human brain.

A quiet silhouette across the night sky.

I know that I hung on that windy tree.

Green flowering vine

WHOOSH!

Bird/horse/human hybrid escaping the forest and dancing through modern city streets.

Athena throws her demons down!

.. and sometimes, as I roamed, it seemed like the green was watching and aware of me too.

I finished reading a comic series a few weeks ago, called The Hero, that has quickly become one of my very favorites.

It's hard living through an apocalypse.

The evening/morning star, our planet Venus, has kept me good company on many mountain strolls.

The myth of Heracles, a.k.a. Hercules, is one of the first stories I remember reading as a little kid.

Be a good boy! I love you forever.

The Thoth deck is mindbogglingly beautiful!

Gentle hand gesture give wild predator hugs.

Empty Streets, Mannequins, and Tasty Biscuits

I have a very strong interest in oracles and omens and I think if we can keep our eyes open, we’ll realize they are everywhere.

With this artwork, I am interested in tracking the movement of the woman's arm geometry through time as they follow a bird's flight.

Athena is recognized as the goddess of civilization, wisdom, arts & craft, inspiration & creativity, strategy, skill, strength, & justice.

Uncle Samsara

'Nother new Athena

Tall trees reach into the sky, branches creating new eye shapes for the moon to peek through with each step. These moon eyes became hypnotic, watching the moon watch me.

This is a dream image.

I just can’t get enough of Picasso's artwork, and it is time to revisit those Vollard Suite prints.

I think I've finally finished this new artwork, called "Between the Trees". See the evolution of the idea.

A #dream image that has stuck with me for years and pressed itself into my imagination.

Fly free, Buddy. I love you forever!

It started a few months ago last spring with a pair of coyote I'd sometimes run into. I'd spot them up the hills. By the river.

I like to watch documentaries while I draw sometimes.

There is something special about our feathered pals.

The Wolf was an end and a beginning.

Branches and bark on his face and skin, leaves as his hair, with flowers and foliage growing out of his mouth.

I’ve got Marc Chagall on my brain again.

Today I just wanted to look at some of Franz Marc‘s paintings.

I’d travel down to the ghost town Cisco to do some weekend work in the surrounding area and earn a little extra cash.

There is another Presidential debate tonight…

When I was a kid the Uncanny X-Men were my thing.

It's a strange but interesting world!

Alchemy is an old science, a forerunner of chemistry.

There are many systems of magick (gratuitous “k” included) that I find very interesting.

One of my favorite comics, Locke & Key.

Catching up with the comic series Prophet.

Gotta love Charles Burns!

One of my favorite paintings is Paul Gauguin‘s “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”.

All about Marc Chagall!

I stumbled upon this picture the other day and I can’t get it out of my mind.

This last week I came across the drawing above by artist Georgio de Chirico called the Mathematician.

The Exquisite Corpse is a game invented by the Surrealists

If the world is supposed to end sometime today, I at least want to see some of Wassily Kandinsky‘s artwork again before we all blow up…

Searching for and studying reproductions of Utagawa Kuniyoshi‘s woodblock prints has become something of an obsession.

I wanted to post Yoshitoshi's “Underwater Fight” because I really like this picture!

I love this picture so much!

I did read the first collection of a new series called Manifest Destiny.

One thing I like to do while I draw though is have a documentary playing.

Off to see Groot and Company later today. Trees are such good buddies!

I was probably first introduced to The Celestials way back in Thor 300.

I’m kind of on a Minotaur kick.

I’ve been looking at Albrecht Dürer’s engravings a lot this week.

This post is dedicated to Finn and Jake!

Love, The B.P.R.D

Marvel Comics is doing some very cool stuff in all of their books, and all of those books tie into their newest event, Secret Wars.

I’ve been looking at a lot of old religious artwork lately, and have been enjoying the work of Jan van Eyck especially.

Lost Treasures of Tibet

The picture of the day today is “The Raft of the Medusa” by Théodore Géricault.

Thinking about Picasso‘s image “Woman with a Crow”

It seems like a great day to look at artwork by Fernand Leger.

I’ve recently discovered a comic book that has revived my interest again, called Baltimore.

Today I’m posting some of Georgia O’Keefe‘s cityscapes.

Pieter Bruegel‘s painting “Hunters in the Snow”

Today I am looking at the work of Niki de Saint-Phalle.

Comictober!

I meant to talk about The White Lama…

Remember?

(I feel old today…)

The poem “in Just-” has wedged itself into my imagination.

A person’s life purpose

I was probably in Junior High or something when I first heard about skinwalkers.

I probably first read The Hobbit when I was about nine years old.

“I will stamp my name upon men’s minds forever!”

I like to spend time wandering through bookstores, just to see what I can find.

I really enjoy the work of Jackson Pollock.

It occurs to me that I haven’t posted any Robert Motherwell

I’ve always really liked this self-portrait by Albrecht Dürer. Let's all look at it again

I’ve been visiting with the work of Czech painter, František Kupka.

This week, I’ve found myself going back and visiting with the work of Jasper Johns. Specifically, “The Four Seasons” series.

I like to look at these sort-a township city-scape type paintings.

Jackson Pollock’s painting “Guardians of the Secret”