Pep Guardiola Caricature Portrait

 

Caricature portrait of the Man City soccer legend, Pep Guardiola.

Tools; Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Saul Leiter Caricature Portrait

 

Carricature portrait of the New York photographer and painter, Saul Leiter

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Marc Chagall Caricature Portrait

                                                  

Caricature portrait of the artist, Marc Chagall, whose circus was in the sky

Tools: Pen, ink and acrylic paint on Goldline 200gsm paper

Blondie WIP

 

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

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

Pelé - revisited

Created the main image of Pelé a while ago and uploaded with a different setting...which I never really liked, but couldn't come up with anything better at the time. Seeing as all eyes are on Brazil for the 2014 soccer world cup, I thought it would be a good time to revise it and reload it! I much prefer these colours.

ISCA Korea Competition Entries

 Yoo Jae Suk

Park Won Soon

Above are my two entries for this year's ISCA competition to be held in Seoul, South Korea. Bit of a fandango trying to get them uploaded - the website wouldn't let me upload initially - but I just managed it yesterday, which was the deadline. So, I'm afraid you're too late if you were thinking of having a crack yourself. Although there was an option to choose from among a hundred faces - some international stars, others South Korean luminaries - I thought I'd go for 'local' faces as it seemed more interesting to me. 'Was fun doing some research into the various subjects to see who would be good to caricature; not only image searching them, but also watching Youtube vids to get a feel for the character. Always intriguing to see how other countries interpret concepts such as reality shows and talk shows for television, and how humour is appreciated and in what style it's delivered. An education.

Next!

ISCAKorea Sneek-Peek.

Finished my two characters for the Korean ISCA caricature competition. Mr Park Won Soon went sweet as a nut while Mr Yoo Jae Suk fought me all the way - so it goes, ha, ha! I'll stick up their full images when the start date for uploading artwork has arrived. Next!

Solidarity With The South...

If you're an online caricature artist then you're probably aware of the following, but if not, you may wish to consider that the ISCAKorea are holding a caricature competition in Seoul this summer and anyone is welcome to enter. I don't usually enter these things but I will this time in a small gesture of solidarity with a peaceful country who have to live in the shadow of an actively belligerent neighbour. If you want to partake then you need to create two caricatures out of a choice of a 100 personalities and upload them to their site. Deadline is May 15th. There are cash prizes to be won, so check their website (link) for more details. Get morphin'!

Landscape

Created in Photoshop - reproduced on stretched canvas

I love all forms of 2d art/illustration and abstract art is no exception. I often manufacture abstract elements into whatever I'm working on even if the final effect's not immediately obvious. Shown above is a landscape (top) that I created recently along with a photo (below) showing a hanging reproduction.

I also like pushing horizon lines way up (or sometimes down) so that an expanded area of sky/earth is shown. I first noticed this approach a long time ago with the landscapes of Gustav Klimt - and it's influenced me ever since. His landscapes are almost totally abstract but are still obvious as to what they are depicting. Check out his 'Farmhouse with Birch Trees' or 'The Park' for examples of extreme horizons...

Alice Cooper

Alice executed in Sketchbook Pro + Photoshop

Frank 1

Drawing in Sketchbook Pro.

Magnus Carlsen

Norwegian chess champ, Magnus. A grandmaster at thirteen! - Blimey.

Paul Pope

The mighty Paul Pope of NYC: comic artist extraordinaire (amongst other things). If you like your comic art vivid, animated and loose, then check him out.

Just remembered - he's left handed, ha, ha!

Levon Helm

Twanged on 6music this evening to hear the great live version of 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' by The Band - not just a great version of this particlular song but a great live performance and recording of any song. On finishing, Gideon Coe remarked that it had been played as part of a tribute to The Band's singing drummer who'd died after a long battle with cancer, which I was unaware of. I'm a late convert to The Band and am still catching up, but this quick post is for Mr Helm. If you're interested in watching Levon & The Band performing the song live then click here (link good at time of post).

Coloured Judgement

Always worth doing the time painting Dredd...

Moebius

Another departure from the artworld: Monsieur Jean Giraud