Another Sketchbook entry

Starting to write my journal entries right over my drawings... don't know why I didn't think of this before Ha Ha.

Creativity Stampede!!

This is a cultural robot figure I made out of sturdy board and acrylic paint. The design and color scheme was inspired directly from African cultural fabrics and sculptures.

Dimensions:
Height: Approximately 5 inches
Width: 2 3/4 inches
Depth: 2 1/2 inches

You can purchase this figure here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/105667113/culturobot

Thanks for supporting artists!

Live your making

Drawing on the train is one of my favorite workout routines. In this photo I was drawing the girl next to me in the red coat. It was her birthday week and her mom (the lady in the back filming with her phone) saw me drawing and wanted to commission me for a portrait of her daughter done on-site. You know me, I accepted. There was a crowd of people standing around as they had heard the conversation and wanted to see me action.

The ride was bumpy, the noise was loud but I did my best and produced a classic for her to take home and frame.

I remember the days when use to struggle to Make A Living, now I LIVE MY MAKING and day by day life just gets sweeter. Things are unfolding all of the time. New stuff to learn, places to travel, people to meet. Now I'm done writing my first book on drawing (which will be downloadable on by August 20th) and my creativity is soaring!

New work in May

Loving my new self-made leather cover sketchbook.

New Drawing Video

Sexy Lady

When I drew this I was thinking of people who are beautiful yet the spiritually blind may see them as ugly. She was a girl who everybody teased and said she was ugly all of her life, but her self-esteem stayed intact. 

Sexy Lady

11x14
Pencil on Archival paper
Dawood Sekhem 2012

This is a good drawing buddy of mine. I drew her as she drew me, we've been doing this for the past couple weeks. I caught her "On the down stroke" (when she looks down at her drawing). This is the first portrait drawing I've done this year with color (I think- if you find another dated this year let me know:). I broke out my tubes of gouache for this one and used them like watercolors, hardly any opaque layers. 

Drawing Buddy
12x9
Ballpoint on paper

Aesthetic Pathways

On the train under water somewhere between San Francisco and Oakland I saw this woman working on her smart phone. My drawing book was already out and I had just finished warming up drawing a few other people. I liked the shape of her hair and saw it as a challenge, so I took it on. 

One of the greatest thrills with drawing on the train or bus is not only the challenge of recording what I see amongst the bumps of the ride, for me it's the meditative state in which I go when trapped between knowing I may only have a few seconds more before my subject moves drastically and staying calm enough in rhythm to sensually rub the paper with an imitate delicacy like that of touches exchanged by lovers. This produces countless subtle nuances of energy (SNE) in every single line, creating life in the line. These subtle nuances of energy (SNE) work together with each other forming an aesthetic network similar to the neuro pathways of our brain.

So, it's not enough to simply aim to draw what I see, I try to invest my 

essentia into every measurement of every mark birthed on the paper.

Lady deep into her smartphone
Done in about 10 - 15 mins

9x12

Ballpoint pen on paper

Dawood 2012