by Bill Russell | Oct 3, 2018 | artists, journalism
Folsom Street Fair San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair. I tasked myself to step boldly into this crazy scene to draw the action and characters found there. Click on thumbnails below to view:...
by Bill Russell | Jul 30, 2018 | artists, journalism
Pre-Raphaelites I spent a Saturday afternoon in July drawing costumed Pre-Rafaelites, reenactors and cosplayers as they strolled through the Truth and Beauty show at the Legion of Honour as they admired paintings by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante...
by Bill Russell | May 15, 2018 | journalism, travel
A panoramic drawing of San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California. click to view full...
by Bill Russell | Dec 28, 2017 | journalism, travel
Hanalei is located on the north shore of Kauai. Bill Russell travelled there like an early 19th C. explorer and made these sketchbook drawings. He gave them an ephemeral quality with a kind of digital foxing. click thumbnails below to...
by Bill Russell | Sep 6, 2017 | artists, journalism, ProCreate
As an exercise for my Zero to Hero with iPad+ProCreate workshop with illustrator and teacher Rob Sketcherman, I drew at a local Whole Foods capturing people at work. click thumbnails below to...
by Bill Russell | Jul 21, 2017 | journalism
I like to test myself by drawing in challenging situations. These drawings were made at Berkeley Rep’s production of An Octoroon and were made from my vantage point, three rows back in a darkened theater using a brush pen in a small Moleskin...
