Philip Glass Caricature

 Digital caricature of the composer and pianist, Philip Glass.

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

Sean Penn Caricature Portrait

 

Sean Penn Caricature portrait
420mm x 297mm

Tools: acrylic and pen on 200gsm paper

Was nigh on impossible to get a decent shot of this; bad lighting, wrinkled paper (not using THAT stuff again)...but here we are.

Alphonse Mucha caricature

 An Alphonse Mucha mush-mash.

Acrylic, pencils, marker on paper—24cmx32cm

John Stuart Mill Caricature

 Digital caricature portrait of English philosopher, John Stuart Mill

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo + pen on paper

WB Yeats Caricature

 Caricature of the Irish poet, WB Yeats

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Blondie WIP

 

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

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

David Bowie Caricature Portrait

 

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

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

Pablo Picasso Caricature

 

Pablo!

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo

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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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

Diego Rivera Caricature

 

Mug-mangle of Mexican painter and muralist, Diego Rivera.

Tools: Pen & ink + Sketchbook Pro + Affinity Photo.

Norman Rockwell

A long overdue portrait of the great illustrator and artist, Norman Rockwell. Click on image for larger view.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Ps

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson in Sketchbook Pro & Photoshop

He's 'just your average horny little devil', apparently...

Inktober #4 Neil Young

Based on an old pencil sketch from years ago. Rusty never sleeps (again)
Tools: Uni Pin fine line pens, Pentel brush-pen, inks and brushes

More Mick...in progress

A crop of a painting I'm reworking of Mick Jagger; started - and put to one side - a while back. Always a slow process for me, or so it seems, but it's great to have a physical piece coming together. It's actually going to be a painting of a digital version that can be seen here. I'm interested to see how the two will compare side-by-side: it will be a first.

Underbite from the underworld...

Acrylic paint on A4 200gsm Goldline watercolour paper

Agh, but it's been a while. This has been my longest gap between posts, ever - but it's not through idleness, faithful visitor. Just very very busy with the day job - which tends to spill over into the 'evening job'...
I've managed to grab a bit of time here and there just for painting and drawing some fun stuff that doesn't involve too much brain power - which is how I like to relax. So it's another look-in for the undead!

I've been enjoying painting a lot recently. Digital is bloody marvellous but if the computer's not behaving then it becomes a hideous experience. I've got a lot of that at the moment, so I've mainly eschewed the virtual and found refuge in the actual - you just can't beat the real thing. When was the last time your paint brush gave you an error message or found that your tubes of paint had crashed? Exactly.

That being said, I should be on for a cool digital vector commission soon (which is rare) and if all goes to plan I'll post it here.

Anyway, back to this post's paint job: coupla progress shots here:

MCA

What's all this? Another of the great and the good has passed the mic for the last time. Sad to hear of Adam Yauch's premature departure. Painted the above to the soundtrack of Paul's Boutique, which along with Check Your Head are my fav' Beastie albums. Funky farewell, MCA...