Sketch O’The Week
December 24th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
This week’s sketch is a theme-park style study of Mary-Louise Parker of Showtime’s “Weeds”… another show I hear is good but that I don’t watch. My “theme park” style of drawing is spontaneous, loose and cartoony using a 3mm 4B lead in a lead holder, a blending stomp and a lot of arm movement. I’d make this into a park sample with a little work on the likeness but I’d have a tough time coming up with the “pot” gag that would get past the theme park police. READ MORE
December 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I did this warm up sketch yesterday and, since I am extremely busy with a few jobs that need wrapping up today it’s all I have time to post. The subject is actor Samuel L. Jackson. This was from a small picture out of an entertainment magazine that jumped out at me as a good representation of him. Often reference pictures just do not capture a subject in a way that really speaks to the viewer of the subject’s complete persona. This is especially true of certain “rubber faced” actors or ones who change their looks drasticlly from role to role. Jackson can look very… READ MORE
December 13th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
We bring this second installment of “Sketch Week” to a close with a long promised caricature of “The Office” star Steve Carell for my pal and fellow caricaturist Jim Batts in St. Louis. Jim asked me to take a crack at Carell some time ago but I never seemed to remember to look him up as a sketch subject until today. I’m not sure how well I captured him, because…. well, I have a confession to make. I have never seen one second of anything with Steve Carell in it. I’ve never seen “The Office” or any of his movies. That always puts the caricaturist… READ MORE
December 12th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Today’s sketch is of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” star Summer Glau. I had written a ways back that I liked the show and thought it was on the right track in the first season. There has been a bit of a sophmore slump, where the storylines seem to meander and are not connecting very well, but I think it has still got a lot of potential if the creators get more focused on a strong connecting storyline. Galu’s casting as the female “good” terminator was brilliant. She is perfect with the vacant stare but gives you just enough glimmer that there is something more… READ MORE
December 11th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
I finally got to go to the theater a few days ago and see “Quantum of Solace”, the new James Bond film starring today’s sketch subject Daniel Craig. I liked it. Not as good as “Casino Royale” but there wasn’t nearly as much story in “Quantum” as there was in “Casino”. Craig is the best Bond since Sean Connery, and the updating of the character is welcome. Hopefully future films will continue in the same spirit and not regress into the slapstick antics that plagued the later Roger Moore films. READ MORE
December 10th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Today’s sketch is of former wrestler Terry “Hulk” Hogan. Drawing this guy is like shooting fish in a barrel. READ MORE
December 9th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
If “Reality TV” has done anything (other than fill prime time with unwatchable drivel) it’s definitely responsible for making a whole lot of people famous that have no business being famous. Case in point, our sketch subject of today. This is more of a figure study of reality TV “star” Kim Kardashian, showing off her “assets”. READ MORE
December 8th, 2008 | Posted in Sketch O'The Week
Here we go again. It’s “Sketch Week”, where I will just shut up and draw a new sketch every day through Saturday, followed by our usual “Sunday Mailbag”. Today’s sketch is of one of the greatest guitarists in recording history, Carlos Santana. READ MORE
