kn27

  Artist/Tattooist/Designer/Concept artist/ Fake chef extraordinaire. Contact me for designs, consultations, and commissioned art. NYC based.   - wishlist-donation-#myart, #mywork, my IG

[kny111]

Ballerina sketches & burgers: Found this book at a local free library on broadway round my way and wanted to practice figure with this immediately. These are initial sketches of that, can’t wait to post more, it’s a really good reference book for artists in context of poses but also personally for my own practices with trying these poses at home to see if I can get into ballerina style dancing. Two days later, made this awesome double patty burger with a banana strawberry milkshake back home which came out so pro I had to savor every bite. Still surviving off government benefits and lower to no-income resources available to me. That burger? with EBT benefits. Damn near any food you see me post? I made it. Thank being poor I guess lol. The meals go off tho. Hope ya’ll keeping safe and in some form of healing mode in all this cause I know this pandemic messing with all of us. Hope ya’ll enjoying the photo journaling I’ve been on in the meantime. Peace peace. - Ken  1/26-28/2022

[kny111]

January 2022: Trash as Treasure

Macro and closeup shots of objects I’ve incorporated into my kitchen’s altar where I meditate. A lot of these I’ve picked up from things I seen thrown in the streets, broken glass that looked interesting, objects with materials I’m not used to seeing or feeling. Pieces of food we’re usually told to toss. Things I’ve reconsidered as treasure to me. Some are accessories of mine that I like to leave there for some time and wear it on special occasions. They also serve a good purpose for visual libraries. So if you’re into life drawing these are good reference shots!

[kny111]

January 2022: Tigers, stripes, fluid dynamics

I’ve always loved the way the tiger in and of itself, if you observe it on your own or in its natural habitat, unless it’s hunting for the necessity of food it’s always pretty calm. It exudes a calm that our bodies, due to past flight or fright mechanism ingrained, has been ingrained to fear.

Yet, the level of peace that it almost always seems to represent is something I sometimes relate with on a spiritual level. I’ve never drawn a lot of tigers, this might be the 2nd or 3rd attempt. But I wanted this try to be special and informative of what draws me to em so much.

Above are some photographs I took of a recent sketch inspired by this, the visual relations between their stripes, my own brown skinned stretch marks that came at a early age in an growth spur and how I’ve grown to love them. The way these shapes also present themselves in the fluid dynamics of cups of chocolate milk to the reflections in beaches and other bodies of water. For those interested, here are some facts about the Bengal tiger, which was the reference source of my drawings:

Most of the tigers avoid preying on humans.

According to a report, there are approximately 2,500 of Bengal tigers remaining in the wild.

They have excellent hearing and night vision.

They are solitary animals.

They have white spots on the back of their ears, called flashes. These flashes are used to show aggression.

They have very loud roar which can be heard up to two miles away.

A Bengal tiger can normally live up to 15-17 years.

From ChinaHighlights:

2022 is a year of the Tiger, starting from February 1st, 2022, and ending on January 21st, 2023. It is a Water Tiger year. The Tiger is known as the king of all beasts in China. The zodiac sign Tiger is a symbol of strength, exorcising evils, and braveness.

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Thanks for checking out the art and reading ya’ll! - Ken

[kny111]

Testing character design ideas for my comicbook referencing the beautiful Kelela.

[kny111]

Testing character design ideas for my comicbook referencing the beautiful Kelela.

[kny111]

same’o placing the onus on the people dealing with the symptoms of the systems. sam’o pretending nature aint already telling them what it is.

[clyde-anti]

skin color ref because some of yall non-black poc and whites keep fucking up as if yall don’t know there’s other shades of brown when u racebend for woke points or something 

(non-black artists please reblog)

[nebbie91]

Please reblog regardless of your race/ethnicity.

[inkandego]

heres a chart I made for myself showing diffrent undertones and how that affects the skin if anyone’s intrested

[vigaishere]

Use this to make a skin palette in your art program!

[queenofthefaces]

Also! This photography project by Angélica Dass has thousands of photos of people, with a Pantone color assigned to each! It’s very helpful as a resource !!

Humanae — Angélica Dass

Humanae — Angélica Dass

And some examples of the project!

[movedtocinnimani-deactivated202]

black history month is coming to a closeeee but i have something that’ll help you draw black characters in any month! if it was helpful then hey… here’s my kofi 😏

[kny111]

Some warm up sketches of fishes before I dive into mermaid may!

[kny111]

I’m having investment issues yall. There are so many things I feel like I’m pretty good at where I could work up to living off these trades had I not been constantly dealing with being poor & black. Anyways im having one of those moments now where I’m not sure if I should invest in tools that let me sell my artwork easier and more efficiently+sustainably? or instead place this investment (which is the 190$ I have from what folks on here have blessed me with - this is all I have to my name right now) on my computer IT career?

the industry is currently experiencing a lot changes due to diversity issues that have occurred even in google whom I’m taking my certification with right now, almost done with the 4th course each course having like 6 weeks of training - I got one course left after that. check out what Timnit Gebru, a black researcher who used to work there is saying in regards to what’s happening and you’ll understand my hesitancy. so what do ya’ll think? I’m no expert in what trades are most useful in a pandemic, so I’m wondering art investment? or career investment? when my aim is to be able to place an investment where I’m still going to make some sure returns from that.

[kny111]

[kn27art]

Help an unemployed artist dad this holiday or whenevs really, thanks. My cashapp: $kennygmz

[twixnmix]

Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Yutaka Sakano in Tokyo, 1983.

[kny111]

single to 2 person-use hover vehicle sketches

[volup2]

NEW ARTITORIAL UP! The Art of Mariana Sguilla Curator Jenna Bennett https://www.volup2.com/artitorials/2020/6/13/the-art-of-mariana-sguilla 

[kny111]

late night watercoloring (when I should be sleepin for work)

[kny111]

It was my momther Angela Davis birthday yesterday 1/26 but I only remembered today and wanted to do sketch of this part of the “Black Power Mixtape” when she goes “That’s why, when someone asks me about violence, I just, I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.”