Nicholas Can't

I think it's such muscle memory for him to say the most bullshit thing possible at all times, yet I see a yearning in his eyes in times like this to believe he's just a normal dude having a normal conversation about normal things

NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Spending my Remembrance Day listening to Tchaikovsky and drawing this: my Grandfather circa 1943, I think. He was more handsome in photographs than my best efforts can emulate. It's a real "thought th...

Appropriately remembering my Grandfather on Remembrance Day through drawing.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Well it feels like just yesterday I posted about how I was in a draw slump and I was gonna start doing better but let me tell you something: it wasn't just yesterday. No, in fact it was about four mon...

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Drawing was my life, then it wasn't anymore. Today it is my life again.

U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'

U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'
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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Just keeping up appearances with this: a scraggly draw of my young adult sister trying on a pair of sunglasses she is not prescribed for. As each sporadic post I make seems to indicate, I've been in a...

Trying to find my zest for drawing. It was around here somewhere I swear it.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform It's Canada day, so I thought I should do something about it. Now that I've done it? Maybe I should've done something else. If I had a rocket launcher I would take aim at this: a quite shabby attempt ...

Bruce Cockburn sings "if a tree falls in the forest. does anybody hear?" Well if I draw Bruce Cockburn, can anybody tell?

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Watching Bruce Cockburn concerts and setting incredibly brave hair goals:

Got some cds also. Remember CDs? One Canadian here.

Some Canada day shopping today. No Canadians here sorry

NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform For those of you who celebrate Bandcamp Friday I give you this an pen drawing of musician Hachiku whose album "The Joys of Being Pure at Heart" is one of my favourites of the year so far. It's a very...

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Seeing Nine Inch Nails making the festival rounds and realizing I am still feeling salty from when I paid for a physical media package from them covered in soot
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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform If there's one thing about me it's that I'm a habitual quitter. Another thing about me is that I never quit. I'm on what is hopefully the tail end of a drawing slump. Last time I was communicating on ...

If this is what getting it together looks like maybe I'm better off apart.

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Nothing to see here. I'm just posting a public plea to myself to get my act together. Hopefully I see this.

NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Wash, rinse, and have a look at this: a marker drawing of a scene from the 1971 Warren Beatty film Shampoo wherein he plays a raging sexaholic narcissist who quite frankly doesn't know how good he has...

I put the poo in shampoo. That’s right it was me. I did that.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Been too long since the last draw but I'm dragging myself off the bench with this: an ink drawing of Gigi Goode from Ru Paul's Drag Race.

Fashion, turn to the left. Fashion, turn to the right. I drew a drag racer today.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform AITA for spending my 19th birthday at my childhood home even though my father's spirit warned me not to 2 years ago in a seance that killed my best friend? If you answered yes then I don't recommend ...

I draw young women to look about 50. What are you gonna do about it?

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform L'il Bow Wow once said: if you ain't outta control, you ain't in control. This sage poetry has lived inside me for like 20 years now and it's something that I have to tell myself to believe I'm doing ...

I only had 20 minutes ok?

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Mind your Ps and Qs in the presence of this: a crabby looking young entrepreneur with beady little eyes and a deceptively yoked neck. Sure, this persnickety little POS might not be your boss, but he's...

What a sunuvabitch this one is.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform It's Christmas for Tinsel Town and I got the Oscar fever. On Cinema at the Cinema's 12th annual Oscar special is about to hit the internet airwaves and I would be remiss not to celebrate pre-emptively...

My heart is pounding through my chest. Either it's a coincidence or I got the Oscar fever. I'm gonna pour me some popcorn and get on board for the 12th annual On Cinema At The Cinema Oscar Special. Hope no one dies.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Swinging in the 60s with this: a theoretical drawing of Jane Birkin with a hunchback looking like she just climbed out of a chimney. It's hard work but it's honest work.

Well the damage has been done. I finished drawing Jane Birkin today. You'll just have to take my word for it.

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Yeah she’s pretty but what if I draw her to look like a total psycho? Stay tuned I guess.

NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Semi-Blind Contour Drawing from American Pop (1981) Using markers My hands are permanently puckered from this: a shaky-handed semi-blind contour drawing of Pete from my favorite Ralph Bakshi film "Am...

Celebrating the birthday of Ralph Bakshi's beautiful 1981 film "American Pop" by rushing out a grade 3 quality drawing of it.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Things from Pinterest No. 1 Using markers Betraying my brand with this: A pretty respectable drawing of a random pull from my Pinterest page. Some of the crosshatching is a little nasty and her righ...

I'm currently weighing an internal request for permission to enjoy this thing I drew today. I'll report the results of these deliberations in 5-7 business days.

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No that’s a great suggestion, I should give that a try

NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Judee Sill Portrait Using markers Felt tip marker sketch is mostly out of wack and I am surely who to blame with this: a rotten signpost quality portrait of the legendary singer/songwriter Judee Sill...

As I sit here in the grit and grim any spark of hope I had left has gone after this attempt at drawing legendary singer/songwriter Judee Sill.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Still Life With soft pastels Rationalizing my disappointment with this: a blotchy still life drawing that I started in class then took home to finish. Things got lost in translation. I know the objec...

Well this went about how I thought it would. At least I can say I got something right.

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NicholasCantDraw (@nicholascantdraw) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Self Portrait Attempt No. 2 Soft pastels Continuing to defame myself with this: a second go at a self portrait at the behest of my drawing instructor. I got a little in my head once I was working o...

Every day I work hard not to be the monster that I see when I draw myself.

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Okay well I got an easel now. Let’s find out if verticality will aid in my cause???