Hey sourpuss! Don’t start the New Year off down in the dumps! New Years Eve/Day is a great time for optimism. There is something magical about turning the page and starting a shiny new year, where anything seems possible. Here’s hoping you find health, happiness and prosperity in 2007! READ MORE
The cranial-endowed Reese Witherspoon: READ MORE
I said these may occasionally crop up! Winona Ryder from the vastly underrated Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Despite several very bad acting performances (can you say Keanu Reeves?) this 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film is a pretty good telling of Stoker’s tale. Gary Oldman makes a creepy and tragic Dracula, and Anthony Hopkins is terrific as Van Helsing. READ MORE
Yesterday afternoon I was paging through magazines trying to find a face or figure that was interesting to draw in my sketchbook for the Sketch O’the Day when I realized something… I was spending quite a bit of time paging through magazines and trying to find things to draw for the Sketch O’the Day. Meanwhile I have three deadline jobs on the board. The Sketch O’the Day feature was a little too ambitious and time consuming. By the time I found a decent picture that I had an interest in drawing, drew it, scanned it, formatted it and uploaded it I as spending an hour… READ MORE
Entourage star Debi Mazar: Of course Ms. Mazar will always be “Spice” from Batman Forever to me! Oh, wait, I hated that movie. Nevermind. READ MORE
A cartoon figure study of a tennis player: This was out of my head with no reference, although it’s based on an older, more realistic study from another sketchbook of mine and I don’t remember if there was reference involved with that one. Trying to use a challenging angle or perspective using just your imagination is a good exercise to help develop your feel for that kind of thing. READ MORE
A very quick study of toothy Brit actor Hugh Grant: READ MORE
No caricature of anyone in particular here… just goofing around: READ MORE
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