Sketches

We are no fans of expensive supplies. Nothing more intimidating than fancy paper, paints, and pens. Hence, we try to keep it simple with the cheapest sketchbooks and pencils we can find; that way, we draw without the pressure to make it look good or achieve something. We got the current sketchbook for 2,29 euros, and it also works as a cutting mat. It smudges horribly, so we leave most of the construction lines on the drawings to avoid making a mess. The pencils are a bunch of leftover HB pieces that we shape right up to the very end. The truth is, this type of sketchbooks are more a decompression method late at night than anything else. Get a photo of a hot guy and construct around it. With time, we have become less interested in accurate representation and more interested in understanding form or pushing the shapes of the bodies. With so many gay artists sharing sketches online, it is quite hard to upload these without feeling they are the worst drawings ever. Then again, one of the most current comments we hear is that people barely know what we do… some have even said that they didn’t know we draw…..  

Some gooners

We try to draw daily, even a short set of quick poses. For us, drawing is like working out, more of a habit that is part of your life than an activity that requires a special moment. We wake up, work out, work, walk the dog, cook lunch, do the dishes, and draw. It is part of the routine, and just as your body misses movement when you have been still for a long time, we miss drawing when we have not done it for a while. In that sense, we are not particularly precious about our drawings, because there are tons of them. So it was a big surprise to realize that many people who have followed the project for years didn’t know that we draw… which is on us, we are currently working on our communication. Hence, we started publishing a selection of the sketches we’ve done during the week every Sunday at 3 pm on Instagram. We are going to start sharing them in the blog too, taking advantage of the fact that here we can go full naked