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Saturday 13 December 2014

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Wednesday 10 December 2014

Over at my other blog...

http://therustycooker.blogspot.co.uk/
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Russ Cook
Oxford, United Kingdom
I'm an illustrator, caricature artist, limner & scribbler.
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What yer clickin' on right now

  • Jean-Michel Basquiat
     Portrait of the neo-expressionist artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo
  • Vincent Gallo
      Caricature of Vincent Gallo. Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro.
  • Han Solo
    Hey-ho, let's go! As stated in the preamble, most of my finished work will appear within the galleries on my caricature site at http:/...
  • Noel Gallagher Caricature
      A face-mash of Oasis and High Flying Birds' singer song-writer and guitarist, Noel Gallagher. Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo.
  • WB Yeats Caricature
     Caricature of the Irish poet, WB Yeats Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo
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     Caricature of the abstract expressionist action painter, Willem de Kooning. Tools: Skecthbook Pro + Affinity Pro
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      Work in progress snap of Blondie's Debbie Harry and Chris Stein Tools: Sketchbook Pro
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
    Phew! Bit of a late upload - but I wanted to push through and get this finished. So here is the great and rather marvellous astro-physicis...
  • Alan Bennett
    Quick sketch of Alan Bennett as a change from all those footie fizzogs
  • Harry Patch - The Last Tommy
    Harry Patch, Britain's (briefly) oldest man and oldest surviving veteran of the great war, who died today aged 111.

Links to my other online galleries & sites:

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Interested Parties


Questions of Caricature Technique...

Hit these following links to read answers to specific questions that were sent to me as well as some general thoughts on how to approach caricature and drawing. They're not tutorials, as such, but musings on aspects of visual art that you may find interesting or helpful.

Technique Part 1 - 'how long on a sketch?' and 'what's the secret?'

Technique Part 2 - Some things are easy to draw while others are hard - why?

Technique Part 3 - Exaggeration? likeness? rendering eye-poppin' 3d realism!? Which is the most important?

Technique Part 4 - Drawing Hair

Tools Of The Trade Part 1 - Pencils: soft v hard

Musings on Caricature

Hit the following links for my general thoughts on the world of caricature and illustration.

Silk Purses & Sow's Ears - The trials of creating studio based commissions.

Noel Knows...

Noel Knows...
nowarrameen??????????

Find - That - Face! Use this box to hunt down past caricatures.

Baby! Everything is alright...

Baby! Everything is alright...

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Sartre Sez...
"Pencils are loaded pistols..."

The Rusty Cooker

The Rusty Cooker

Uh-Huh!

Uh-Huh!
...thangyervermuch

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan...

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan...
...designed and directed by his red right hand

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THE RUSTY COOKER

THE RUSTY COOKER

STAT COUNTER: For I to see and not for thee...



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Welcome!

Welcome to the blog. Check in fairly regularly and you should at least be able to see a quick pencil sketch, if not a painted canvas, appear often enough to make it worth your while.
You'll also be able to keep up to date on any illustration news that is worth imparting.


For a more comprehensive look at past caricature work then please visit my site at http://www.russcook.co.uk/ where you will find various galleries of heroes, rogues, thesp's, muso's and scribers. An alternative site which will cover all other illustration is soon to be started and details of it will be posted here when it is finished. In the meantime, examples of general illustration will appear on this blog alongside the more 'centre staged' caricature work.

Thanks for checking in and enjoy the visuals!

Regarding submitted comments:
Any comments or feedback you wish to make would be very welcome, but please note that only comments relative to individual posts, my blog or artwork in general will be accepted. Anything deemed off topic such as political rants and social commentary will not be posted.

As someone who shrinks from censorship I would actively encourage you to say what you want, how you want.

However! I would prefer to think that this blog is a place where anyone can come without having their finer sensibilities assaulted and roughed-up.
With that in mind, can I suggest that in a general atmosphere of (moderate) decorum that if you feel you have to express your comments and advice, praise or disgust in a more earthy form of anglo-saxon then you may well find your entry bowdlerised.
If you wish to remain unexpurgated then please email direct where I assure you I will not blush and will endeavour to reply. In kind.

- Thanks!

(All artwork is copyright Russ Cook 2009 - 2012. No reproduction in part or in whole is permitted without copyright holder's written consent.)

Points of Contact:

Web (Caricature): www.russcook.co.uk
Web (Signwork & Illustration): www.zapgraphics.co.uk/
Email: info@russcook.co.uk
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