Robbie Shakespeare Caricature

 

A pictorial In Memoriam to the late great bass player and producer, Robbie Shakespeare. Lending his talents to such a wide range of songwriters, his could very well be the one name that features the most in the credits of my record collection. RIP.

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Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Mike Nesmith Caricature

Farewell and RIP to the woolly-chapeau’d, mutton-chopped Monkee, Mike Nesmith. Went a bit OTT with that fringe!

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Broken Wacom Cintiq 21ux Stylus? Maybe This Will Help

Just wanted to make a post here that may be relevant to somebody and get them out of a hole.

Recently, my Wacom Cintiq stylus (itself a replacement for my broken original) started to ‘miss’ certain operations on the screen before getting steadily worse until it was finally just a useless stick of plastic. It seemed obvious straight away that it wasn’t a digital problem, i.e.; changed settings, etc., as the problem was one of decline rather than going from working to suddenly not. The problem must’ve been analogue and within the stylus itself.

As anyone who’s replaced a stylus knows they’re not cheap—my stylus model coming in at £100–so it was with a sinking feeling that I had to consider buying a third one. Of course, I would also have to ‘down-tools’ and not do any more work till a new one was delivered.

So, feeling I had little to lose, I started to see if I could strip the thing down and spot an obvious problem. By this point I didn’t care about voiding some manufacturer’s warranty by taking it apart; there seemed little likelihood I would be posting it off to be repaired.

The upshot is that I did discover an obvious problem: a connection failure where a wire had completely come away from a soldered connection. With some frustratingly fiddly soldering I managed to reconnect the wire. I did have to do this more than once due to re-breaking the connection while trying to re-assemble the parts, but finally managed to complete it and have a working stylus once more. So far it’s been trouble-free for about three weeks.

So, if you’re experiencing similar issues and don’t mind running the risk of doing some surgery (there’s always a risk of breaking a healthy connection or damaging the board through heavy handling) then it may save you money, time and heartache. However, the process I used to fix my problem was for an older Wacom Cintiq 21UX: what other models are like I have no idea.

Therefore if you swipe the images you will see I’ve tried to lay out and show the problem I had so you could attempt the same fix.

Good luck!

Noel Gallagher Caricature

 

A face-mash of Oasis and High Flying Birds' singer song-writer and guitarist, Noel Gallagher.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo.

HR Giger Caricature

 

Should have found a way to get this in for Hallowe’en—caricature of the surrealist(?) artist, HR Giger. I wonder what his Christmas cards were like. Swipe for lines.

Stephen King Caricature

 

Caricature of the master of the macabre, Stephen King. Have to say this was a real grind and didn’t come easily. A bit over-ambitious and got quite bogged down in it, but finally managed to mangle it into something viewable. It’s given me nightmares, heh, heh!

Anthony Perkins (as Norman Bates) Caricature

 

Some face foolery of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates: ‘Tis the season…

Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Jean-Jacques Burnel Caricature

Boogie! Caricature of Stranglers’ bass boss, Jean-Jacques Burnel.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

 

Ian Dury Caricature

 

Partial to your abracadabra: head Blockhead, Ian Dury. Having fun with these greyscales…

#iandury #ianduryandtheblockheads #kilburnandthehighroads #whatawaste #spasticusautisticus #newbootsandpanties 

Tools: Sketchbook Pro.

Caricature of John F Kennedy

 

Caricature of sixties US President, JFK, John F Kennedy. Tried to give it a bit of a Super 8 type feel. Always love doing versions of the stars and stripes.

Caricature Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Ice-T Caricature

 

Rapper and actor, Ice-T.

Lucian Freud Caricature

 

Caricature of the great British artist, Lucian Freud.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Don McCullin Caricature

 

Caricature of the landscape, portrait and war photographer, Don McCullin, one of my favourite artists.

Tools: traditional ink augmented with coloured pixels.

Willem de Kooning Caricature

 Caricature of the abstract expressionist action painter, Willem de Kooning.

Tools: Skecthbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Aphex Twin Caricature

 

Caricature of  Aphex Twin, AKA, Richard D James.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Syd Barrett Caricature

 

Syd.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Tom Hardy Caricature

 

Tom Hardy.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Vincent Gallo

 

Caricature of Vincent Gallo.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro.

Patti Smith caricature

 

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Andy Warhol Caricature

 

Andy Warhol

Tools; Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Sylvain Sylvain caricature

 RIP New York Dolls', Sylvain Sylvain.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro

Bill Sienkiewicz Caricature

 Artist Greats: a caricature of the incomparable master of media, Bill Sienkiewicz.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Pro