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Sketch O’The Week

Sketch o’the Week- Channing Tatum

February 13th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Still under the gun today so my Sketch o’the Week is a very quick study of a guy who desperately needs a real name, Channing Tatum. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week

February 6th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Better late than never today, even if I am doing another of my shameless plugs for the Limited Artist’s Edition of my book, complete with a caricature of YOU (or the person of your choice) drawn by me in a signed, numbered, limited-to-120-editions copy. To make it up to you, I will make this into a little lesson. Below is the main reference pic I used to draw Jayce here, and below that are the observations I made about his face, with corresponding mark-ups on the photo. Overall head shape: Long. Need to elongate head and the correspondingly narrow face. Narrow bridge of nose,… READ MORE

Video Sketch o’the Week- Morena Baccarin

January 30th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

Here’s another stab at this video sketch thing, this time of Homeland‘s Morena Baccarin, actual drawing time 20 minutes. This time I did a lot more gray scale painting, obviously. Maybe next time I’ll do some color: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJaH7PP4PM[/youtube] A few observations about Morena- she’s obviously a very beautiful woman, but she has plenty of things to exaggerate. Her eyes are very arresting, but they are slightly mismatched… one is flatter shaped than the other, and her pupil/iris is more covered up on that side. She has a wide face with very prominent cheekbones, and a wide nose bridge but a sharp and narrow end… READ MORE

Video Sketch o’the Week- Claire Danes

January 23rd, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

And now for something completely different… Reader Daniel Singley wrote me a week or so ago to ask if I was ever going to do a digital video “Sketch o’the Week” like I promised I would back in 2008. Well, here it is, with mixed results (actual drawing time 18 minutes): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGwVbRPnTk[/youtube] So, there you have it, a video record of a caricature of Homeland star Claire Danes, finished result way up above. I included the reference pics I used in the video as well. I am not overly fond of drawing on the computer screen. Even though I have a Cintiq, there is still… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Damian Lewis

January 16th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I started watching Homeland recently. It’s getting a lot of critical acclaim and it seemed like a show both The Lovely Anna and I could watch together . . . a rare thing since she like crap shows like Glee, Smash and Once Upon a Time whereas I like really awesome shows like Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. Anyway, we are almost through the first season of Homeland and I thought I’d do some caricatures of some of the stars of the show, starting with Damian Lewis. Is it just me or does he look like Steve McQueen? Might be just me. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Psy

January 9th, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I find it very interesting that Psy and neither Tweedle Dee nor Tweedle Dum have ever been seen together at the same time… Coincidence? You be the judge. My thoughts on Psy? As my boy, Number One Son Thomas, so astutely put it after seeing him on the “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” telecast: “Psy needs to go away now.” Well said, son. Well said. READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week

January 2nd, 2013 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

I wasn’t planning on posting any more of these caricatures done for the Limited Artist’s Edition of my book, but then I received several emails from people who said they really liked seeing the caricature AND the references I worked from. They thought it was a useful learning tool. So, I will occasionally throw one of these up as a SotW. This one is of Yougeshwar “BJ” Ramkissoon Jr., aged 13, and a budding caricaturist/cartoonist. Incidentally, I am officially at the halfway point of my 120 limited copies of this offer. If you have an interest in this one-of-a-kind, never to be repeated offer,… READ MORE

Sketch o’the Week- Sherlock!

December 26th, 2012 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week

As frequent readers of this blog probably know by now, I am a bit of a Sherlockian…which is to say I am a devoted fan of, and somewhat of an amateur expert on, the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories featuring the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes. I’m not talking about the vast multitudes of ancillary stories, books, films and pastiches that have been done with the character . . . I know next to nothing about that stuff. I’m talking about the original 56 short stories and four novels by Conan Doyle, from which all the rest of it sprung. A purist, in other words. Oh,… READ MORE