Sketch O’The Week
February 9th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Our SotW subject this week is actor Adrien Brody… that nose is something else, but he has a lot of other features to work with: the long, angular face; the sad, baggy eyes; the thick, expressive eyebrows; the mop of unruly hair; the thin mouth. I watched the movie “Splice” in which Brody stars the other day. I found it very disturbing and not recommended IMO. Just weird in a sick and twisted way, but not the entertaining kind of sick and twisted… more the squirming and averting your eyes sick and twisted. READ MORE
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Didn’t get the “Sketch o’the Week” posted until 7:20 pm… it’s been one of those weeks. I try to avoid doing caricatures of reality TV show actors stars people, mainly because IMO 99.9% of them don’t deserve a moment of fame. Almost all of them have only one skill to boast of, and that is the ability to somehow get in front of a camera. Unfortunately it seems the publications I usually go to get references for pop culture subjects do not agree, and page after page are filled with pictures of reality “stars”. This week I gave in and did a caricature of Khloe… READ MORE
January 26th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is a quickie of “Aerosmith” frontman and new judge on television’s “American Idol”, Steven Tyler. READ MORE
January 19th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is of actor Sean Penn. This was done from a relatively small picture in an entertainment magazine. I liked the turned head angle and odd, mid-sentence expression. READ MORE
January 12th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This guy is all over the news and internet. Ted Williams (not the late baseball legend) was homeless and destitute until a video on YouTube of him doing his radio announcer voice for a handout caught fire, and now he’s famous. The world loves a redemption story, but it’s more likely this will end badly… addiction and self-destructive behavior is not something you are able to cast away no matter how much good fortune suddenly comes your way. In fact, it’s usually the slow crawl back from “hitting bottom” that ends up sticking and the sudden miraculous break ends up getting squandered. He says he’s… READ MORE
January 5th, 2011 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We kick off 2011 with a small warm-up study of Javier Bardem from his role in “No Country for Old Men”. Done with a 005 Pigma Micron pen with a couple of touches from a Kuretake brush-like marker. I was always fascinated how the hairstyle, slumping shoulders and stiff posture Bardem assumed for this character made his neck look gigantically thick. READ MORE
December 29th, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
The Lovely Anna and I went to see “True Grit” this past weekend. I loved it… she was ambivalent. Must be a guy flick. Jeff Bridges was fantastic and the trademark razor sharp dialogue of the Cohen Brother’s films was very prevalent. Sketch done with a Uni-ball Vision Micro-tip ball point pen… not much of a caricature but and interesting face to draw. READ MORE
December 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s SOTW is “Today Show” weatherman Al Roker. After the Sunday Mailbag question on what I used for my weekly sketches I decided to try some new things just for fun. This was drawn with a Pigma Micron marker/pen with a few touches from a Pitt brush pen added. READ MORE
