Hello fans, check out my art hero, Mel Odom @a13mel.odom “Blind Tongue” exhibition at 111 Reade Street 3/F, New York until Oct 28. A new exhibition at @davidlewisgallery firmly establishes the New York portraitist’s place in the pantheon of those genius harnessed languages of visual persuasion yet swelled beyond the bounds of commercial prompts. Mel Odom is a famous illustrator who worked for “Playboy”, “GQ” and “Time” magazines in 1980’s. I met Mel via Robert W. Richards back in 2009, I love his art of decadent dramatics and I’m a huge fan since college!

Hello fans, I had a successful workshop at @salmagundiclub in New York this week, thank you ALL who attended but the treasure I am bringing home is the greatest memory of new friendship with @seanopry55 Sean is ranked the fifth on the top 10 models of all time, previously named the world’s highest-paid male model by Forbes. Sean gave me his first time drawing portrait at my portrait drawing workshop. The greatest honor is mine! That was Sean-O first art lesson, first time drawing from live model and he completed the drawing in 4hours. I think he earned 💯 as first timer, what u guys think? 🤔 Keep it up, @seanopry55 💯

🇲🇽 17x14" vine charcoal drawing on paper, and my next international expressive portrait drawing workshop at @clasespinturacondesa in Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽 on NOV30-DEC03, 2023 📮[email protected] OR whatsAPP +52 55 4092 2975 to register. Gracias 💐🙇💐

Drawing demonstration by @oliversin #fineart #drawing #charcoaldrawing #portraitdrawing

中秋節快樂 Behind every successful piece, there’s a lot of unsuccessful pieces! I was commissioned to draw a portrait drawing of Danny Chan which is featured on the cover of @artandpiecehk , issue 19 as part of their special tribute to the 30th anniversary of his death. Indeed, this is the hardest project ever which I worked on so I drew three different drawings for the editor, @kamshingmode to pick. Guess what, the editor picked the most successful one, out of 3 as the cover drawing. The master failed more times than the beginner has even tried. An amateur feels s/he is good enough; a professional knows s/he is never good enough. The secret of success is constancy to purpose, only with persistence and a bit of humility! Change your attitude, kindly give your clients more options than what they asked for.

Hello fans, what a great honor to be interviewed by @jeff_hein_art for his YouTube channel @theundrapedartist, google search: undraped oliver sin if u want to watch this interview. Jeff asked me why drawing is so important to you, oliver? As an artist who has been teaching professionally at @academy_of_art since 2001, I believe that success as an artist is all about craft and voice, it takes years of consistent practice to truly hone your craft and develop your voice. So if you are constantly changing mediums or styles, that’s a sign that you are lacking focus as an artist. Professional artists understand that a jack of all trades is a master of none, so instead they focus on mastering their chosen medium before experimenting in other fields. Now you might say well what about all those successful actors that are also musicians, and the painters that also write novels? There are exceptions to every rule; however, can JLo acts or Tom Cruise sings?! Drawing is basic fundamental, learn how to walk before u start running! But if u haven’t mastered drawing yet, you are best off sticking with one thing until you consider yourself a professional at it. Please comment below after u watched the interview, I posted a link as “highlight” under my bio, thank you for your time.

🇲🇽 17x14" vine charcoal drawing of Bob on paper, and my next international expressive portrait drawing workshop at @clasespinturacondesa in Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽 on NOV30-DEC03, 2023 📮[email protected] OR whatsAPP +52 55 4092 2975 to register. Gracias 💐🙇💐

Two of my portraits were commissioned and featured on the covers of @time as part of their "100 Women of the Year" project, March 2020 issue and u could order this cover at: https://timecoverstore.com/featured/virginia-woolf-1929-time.html

Portrait drawing of #DannyChan #陳百強 was commissioned and featured on the cover of @artandpiecehk , issue 19 as part of their special tribute to the 30th anniversary of his death. The hard copy magazines are on sale tomorrow, Sept 25 in Hong Kong and you could purchase your copy via @artandpiecehk website. Happy 3 years Anniversary to @artandpiecehk and thank you @kamshingmode 金成兄 for the priceless opportunity. 為紀念陳百強逝世30週年 <美紙>雜誌特別邀請小弟畫了一張封面 實體書將會在9月25號香港各大報攤出售 限量版欲購從速 並且恭祝<美紙>成書三年，恭喜! Order your copy at: https://artandpiece.com/product/issue-19

🇲🇽 17x14" vine charcoal drawing of Dave on paper, and my next international expressive portrait drawing workshop at @clasespinturacondesa in Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽 on NOV30-DEC03, 2023 📮[email protected] OR whatsAPP +52 55 4092 2975 to register. Gracias 💐🙇💐

17x14” vine charcoal drawing of @michaelshaneneal . I will teach my “first” portrait drawing workshop in New York City exclusively at @salmagundiclub on Oct 2-6 and I wonder do I have any fans in the Big Apple #newyork ?? 🍎 . https://salmagundi.org/expressive-portrait-drawing-workshop-from-live-models/

A priceless gift from @huihanliuartstudio during our trip to Loire Valley, France and I will treasure this quick sketch of me by @huihanliuartstudio for the rest of my life, merci beaucoup! 🙏🙇🙏 pic was taken by @nizhu2017 and thank U, Ni 😘