John Stuart Mill Caricature

 Digital caricature portrait of English philosopher, John Stuart Mill

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo + pen on paper

David Bowie line versions

Double David: clean line versions of two David Bowie sketches; one recent, one old.

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Tools: sketchbook Pro

WB Yeats Caricature

 Caricature of the Irish poet, WB Yeats

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Work In Progress: Duff McKagan

 

Work in progress shot of Gn'R bassist, Duff McKagan

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

Blondie WIP

 

Work in progress snap of Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

Jean-Michel Basquiat

 Portrait of the neo-expressionist artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

David Bowie Caricature Portrait

 

Bowieeeee—just a beer light to guide him...

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Saul Bellow Caricature Portrait

 Urbane word Titan: Saul Bellow

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

Faris Badwan Portrait

 Caricature portrait of The Horrors' lead singer, Faris Badwan.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Stevie Wonder Caricature

 

Stevie!
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Talk about faffing and futzing. At some point it has to be "Enough! PRINT IT!"
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Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Dave Gahan Caricature

 

Depeche Dave

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Man Ray Caricature

 

Caricature of photographer and artist, Man Ray

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Ayn Rand Caricature

 Caricature of Ayn Rand

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Tim Burton Caricature

 

Caricature of film maker and artist, Tim Burton.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Jackson Pollock Caricature

 

Caricature of artist, Jackson Pollock.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Shane MacGowan Caricature

No more waltzing matilda—RIP, Shane MacGowan.
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Tools: Sketcbook Pro + Affinity Photo
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Back in '86—fresh-faced, relatively innocent and toward the beginning of my gig-going career—I was parentally taxied, along with my even more fresh-faced younger brother, to the Reading Hexagon to see (with slight trepidation, if I'm being honest about it) anarchic Irish folk-punk band, The Pogues, who were busting onto the music scene and were already notorious. As younger bro, @steviec7T has a better recollection of the event, the following words are stolen from his insta-post: "...Just a mad, mad night, but brilliant nonetheless. The band came on, the first chord was struck. Half the band started playing one song, the other half another, and Shane - swigging from a whiskey bottle with no label - started to sing something else altogether. Three bars in everyone stopped, cursed each other and then launched into The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn - the place went wild!..."
As was customary within the mayhem of a Pogues' crowd, the beat was accompanied by the bashing of a beer tray over one's own (or neighbour's) head. Back then, mass performance-capture by smart-phones was a thing of the distant future—which was just as well as it would have seriously hampered all that self-administered head-banging. Sláinte! indeed.

Martin Amis Caricature

 

'Little Keith'

Caricature of the late author, Martin Amis. Still find it hard to believe he won't be picking up his pen again.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

PJ O'Rourke Caricature

The magnificent face of the late satirist and journalist, PJ O'Rourke. A fine head of hair to the last (full stop).

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Henry Miller Caricature

 The air-conditioned face-frag: a caricature of the writer, Henry Miller

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Pablo Picasso Caricature

 

Pablo!

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Rodrigo Amarante Caricature

Caricature of musician, Rodrigo Amarante. Love it when I tumble down a musical rabbit hole that leads to a brilliant new discovery: The Strokes➡Little Joy➡Rodrigo Amarante➡Los Hermanos!

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

Tom Verlaine Caricature

 

A mug-mash of the highly influential Television's recently departed Tom Verlaine.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Brendan Gleeson Caricature

A face-frag caricature of the actor, Brendan Gleeson.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

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Angelo Badalamenti Caricature

Caricature of composer, Angelo Badalamenti; another big-hitter departure from the world of music.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo.

Caravaggio Caricature

 

Caravaggio! This crazy Italian's art swiftly became a favourite study in my schoolboy art history lessons: all those marvellous eye-popping canvases lighting his subjects as though a spotlight had been flicked on in a pitch dark room. He also confirmed in my mind that painters weren't necessarily wilting petals who baulked at real work and drooped under a light rain shower. When not mixing paints he was mixing it with the locals and took things too far having to split Milan because of a murder charge. It would seem as much paper was given over to his rap sheet as was for his preparatory sketches—you wouldn't want to stiff him over a commission. As he didn't post many selfies I referenced his painted portraits, checked out actors who have played him on film but mainly took a whole bunch of liberties to come up with something I really hope he looked like.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo