As is often described in my diary comics, on Monday nights me and my friends Dylan and Anida get together for Sketch Club, which sometimes is us drawing and painting, and sometimes is just us watching television and talking. Last night was a productive night for making stuff, although we also managed to squeeze a lot of talking in there too. It’s nice to start the week out that way, hanging with friends. On the other hand, it usually leads to a bleary Tuesday morning (like right now).

I’ve been trying to get better at drawing women, I’m pretty bad at it. So Anida has been loaning me her fashion magazines, and I’ll pick interesting photos in them (almost always ads for stuff) and do brush sketches. It’s a pretty fascinating process because unlike everything else I do, there’s very little control, no pencilling, and I’m trying to use the brush less as a mark maker and more as a DARK-maker, does that make sense? So it’s been educational on a lot of fronts. The one above is one I did last night that didn’t look too bad. That hand is pretty mangled, but there are some good lines in there.

Ha! But this one got away from me. Models are pretty crazily long in these things though, good gravy.

Anida worked on the underlayers of a painting that will almost certainly be awesome. When the conversation turned to women with two vaginas (as it always inevitably does), she asserted testily that she thought “I could handle it. I could own having two vaginas.”

It was Dylan who brought up the double-vag thing, while he was painting this thing of me sketching. He always makes me look so good, I love it. I’ve talked about Dylan’s photographs and paintings plenty of times before, but just in case you haven’t seen them you should go check out his Flickr. My man is uber.

This is one I did earlier in the week. While I totally mangled this poor girl–is her neck broken?–she really was this skinny, the whole time I was drawing it I just wanted to feed her. Won’t someone feed these poor malnourished models? New York must be a wasteland, they have no food there. Please help New York!