White Fringe

The digitalium for today is a study of an elderly man.

New Building

A daily digitalium of the new Krause Center in Des Moines, opened this year, done as an architectural rendering.

Anglo Saxon

Today's digitalium is a sketch of the reconstructed face of a middle-aged Anglo Saxon whose skeletal remains were discovered in the 1980s. He seems to have died of dental disease.

Drowned

Today's digitalium is a digital painting "West of Miami, 2050," a speculation on the results of climate change in thirty years.

First Lady

This daily digitalium is a portrait drawing of one of the most famous women to be First Lady in American history, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Smirk

The digitalium today is a somewhat fanciful sketch of Vladimir Putin.

Fiddler

A daily digitalium study of Nero, the insane Roman emperor who allegedly played music while the city burned.

Stage Lighting

Today's digitalium is a drawing of a character actor named Norman Lloyd that I did to study the uplighting on his face. He is still acting and over 100.

Mayor Player

Daily digitalium: Rudy Giuliani, who has been much in the news recently.

Young Woman

The daily digitalium for today is a drawing of a young woman with full bangs.

ArtRage

Another head study for today's digitalium. This one is of an angry man shouting, done using ArtRage.

Old Master Study

Today's digitalium is a copy of a study by Raphael of Hercules and a centaur. His was in black chalk on toned paper.

Elijah

The daily digitalium today is in memory of a great American. Rest in peace Mr. Cummings. Thank you for your service.

Torso

The digitalium for today is a figure study of a woman's torso, done from a freeze frame of an instructional video.

Ulysses

The daily digitalium today is a drawing of the famous Irish author James Joyce.

Landscape Study

Digitalium of the day is a study for a painting, done using ArtRage and an iPad Pro. The emulation of graphite drawing is impressive.

Medici

This daily digitalium is another drawing after a well-known sculpture by Verrocchio, this one of Lorenzo the Magnificent, .

DaVinci's Teacher

Today's digitalium is a drawing of a terra cotta by Andrea del Verrocchio, a head of Jesus, sculpted in the 15th century.

Leonardo's Hand

The daily digitalium for the beginning of November is a hand study copied after an original by Leonardo in the late 15th century.

Beefcake

The digitalium for today is a figure study of a well-muscled male model.

Realization

This daily digitalium is a drawing of a sculpture by Augusta Savage, subsequently lost. The drawing is from a photo of the work, done at the time.

Pops

This daily digitalium is done in the chiaroscuro technique. Another jazz great, "Satch"--Louis Armstrong.

Trumpet Genius

Digitalium of the day is a digital pencil sketch of the great, deeply flawed jazz man, Chet Baker.

Digital Conte Sketch

Today the digitalium is a quick sketch using Sketchbook on a Wacom Cintiq tablet. This is digital conte crayon.

Young Girl

The digitalium of the day is a digital drawing after Thomas Couture. "Head of a Young Girl," done while learning ArtRage.

Perched

Today's digitalium is an ultra-quick sketch of a red-tailed hawk that swooped in and perched about six feet away. I sketched her using Surface Pro.

Back View

Digitalium of the day is a figure and drapery study.

Exhaustion

A study of the deep fatigue (mind body spirit) experienced by nurses who serve in Intensive Care Units. Today's digitalium.

Cooper

The digitalium of the day is a drawing of a Mini, a very popular car these days.

Arlo's Song

The digitaliium for today is a quick study of a figure on a bench. "Group W."

Tousled

The digitalium for today is a drawing in the chiaroscuro tradition, after a famous unfinished painting by da Vinci known as La Scapigliata, or the Girl with Disheveled Hair.

Newcomer

A daily digitalium showing the new Krause Center in Des Moines. The Renzo Piano-designed building is a spectacular addition to the cityscape.

Woebegone

A digitalium for today is this dark sketch of Garrison Keillor, the famous writer and radio personality, done not long after his retirement.

Roger

A sketch of Roger the Roo, who was famous in Australia, is today's digitalium. Roger was one the biggest of his kind.

Numbered Girl

Today's digitalium is a drawing of a girl who was murdered at Auschwitz during World War II. Her name was Czeslawa Kwoka. She was 14.

Activist

Today's digitalium is a drawing of the climate advocate, Greta Thunberg.

Big Mouth

This daily digitalium is another drawing of a Franz Messerschmidt bust. This one was named "The Yawner" posthumously.

Another Master Copy

A digitalium for today, a sketch copy of a terracotta bust by Leonardo's master, Verrocchio.

Dad

Today's digitalium is an image of fatherhood.

Head of a Woman

A study of a woman's head is the daily digitalium. Her hair was interesting to draw.

Torero

The digitalium of the day is a drawing of Sidney Franklin (1903-1976), a rare American matador in the Spanish bullring.

Afraid?

Today's digitalium is a value sketch of the great British author Virginia Woolf, "scribble hatched."

Jester

Digitalium of the day, a digital painting of a rather scary clown.

Snores in the Gallery

A daily digitalium for today is "In the Louvre," a magazine-style cartoon done using Sketchbook.

Scarred

Today's digitalium is a drawing of a severely difigured woman after she was attacked with acid thrown by a jilted suitor.

Fiddler

Today's digitalium is a quick chiaroscuro of Uncle Dave Macon, one of the very early stars of the famous country music radio show, The Grand Ole Opry.

Copying a Master

Copying various masters' works has led to digitalia quite often. Today's digitalium is a quick copy of a hand study by Michelangelo.

Noir

The daily digitalium is a composition and value study for a possible oil. It's based on a movie still.

Lakota Chief

The subject of today's digitalium is David Bald Eagle (1919-2016) a Lakota who led an adventurous and heroic life, eventually as chief of his tribe.

High Note

Digitalium of the day is a drawing of the British singer Yannis Philippakis, hitting a difficult note in concert.