Not sure what this is.

Started with a pencil sketch.

Nadya

oil portrait

Another Friday night, another portrait

Wordmarks, anyone?

Variations on a wordmark for
Ars Communica, a technical writers' association. 

I created them in iDraw on an iPad. 
Illustrator on a computer would have been faster. I find easier to use a mouse and arrow keys for minute changes than my fingers or even a Jot stylus, and I missed being able  to create multiple copies of a shape along a path. But other than that, it's pretty good. Portable,  inexpensive, and easy to learn.  

I haven't done this sort of thing in years.

Friday night long pose, bit of clean up today

Not that it's cleaner, in fact I muddied it up a bit.

Me, Oil.

Mostly, trying to match skin tones in the mirror.

April 5 long pose