Saturday, 18 October 2025

Boris Pasternak Caricature Portrait

 

Boris Pasternak Caricature Portrait

Boris Pasternak Caricature Portrait on artist's table

Progress images of Boris Pasternak Caricature Portrait

Caricature portrait of the author and poet, Boris Pasternak

Tools: Marker and acrylic paint on Goldline 200gsm paper






Saturday, 13 September 2025

Sergio Leone Caricature Portrait

 




Fistful of Sergio 📣🎬🧨

Tools: Marker, acrylic, spaghetti.

24cm x 32cm Goldline Studio pad

Sunday, 17 August 2025

PIer Paolo Pasolini Caricature Portrait

 





Caricature portrait of the film director, poet, and actor (among other things), Pier Paolo Pasolini—an amazing life, a terrible d💀ath. Swipe for progress shots.

Acrylic and pen on Goldline Studio Pad
32cm x 24cm

Thursday, 17 July 2025

Monday, 24 February 2025

John Stuart Mill Caricature


 Digital caricature portrait of English philosopher, John Stuart Mill


Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo + pen on paper

Saturday, 22 February 2025

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

Sunday, 5 May 2024

Saturday, 6 April 2024

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Digital caricature portrait of the neo-expressionist artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat

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


Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Friday, 29 March 2024

Saturday, 23 March 2024

Faris Badwan Portrait

Faris Badwan Caricature portrait

Work in progress of caricature portrait of Faris Badwan

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


Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Sunday, 10 March 2024

Stevie Wonder Caricature

 

Digital caricature portrait of singer and musician, Stevie Wonder.

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

Saturday, 10 February 2024

Man Ray Caricature

 

Digital caricature portrait of photographer and artist, Man Ray Created by Russ Cook in Sketchbook Pro and Affinity Photo

Caricature of photographer and artist, Man Ray

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Ayn Rand Caricature

Digital caricature portrait of author, Ayn Rand. Created by Russ Cook in Sketchbook Pro and Affinity Photo

 Caricature of Ayn Rand

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Tim Burton Caricature

 

Digital caricature portrait of artist and film maker, Tim Burton. Created by Russ Cook using Sketchbook Pro and Affinity Photo.

Caricature of film maker and artist, Tim Burton.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Jackson Pollock Caricature

 

Digital caricature portrait of artist, Jackson Pollock. Created by Russ Cook using Sketchbook Pro and Affinity Photo.

Caricature of artist, Jackson Pollock.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Shane MacGowan Caricature

Digital caricature portrait of Anglo-Irish band, The Pogues' lead singer and songwriter, Shane MacGowan , by Russ Cook

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

 
Digital portrait/caricature of the author, Martin Amis by Russ Cook

'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

Monday, 6 November 2023

PJ O'Rourke Caricature

Digital caricature/portrait of the late journalist and writer, P.J. O'Rourke by Russ Cook

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

Wednesday, 5 April 2023

Henry Miller Caricature



Digital caricature portrait of the writer, Henry Miller, created by Russ Cook

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

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Sunday, 5 February 2023

Pablo Picasso Caricature

 

Digital Caricature portrait of the artist, Pablo Picasso, by Russ Cook
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