Stephen Is Innocent!

Er, well, he's not, but the law is an ass. Today's absurd news made me want to caricature the great man Stephen Fry again.

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson in Sketchbook Pro & Photoshop

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

Evelyn Waugh Revisited

I've recently been looking at some old work and noticed that in the past, when creating a digitally drawn caricature, I seemed to have used a lot more marks than I generally do now. Here's an old image from 2010 of Evelyn Waugh that shows a level of mark-making that I would now probably avoid; not because I don't like the look but that these days I'm liking trying to achieve the image I'm after with fewer (and more 'abstract') lines. Nothing's written in stone though and I'm sure this kind of approach will swing back round at some point...

Marcel Duchamp

Installation art; conceptual art; post-modern art; ready-mades: call it what you want, but I reckon it's all this guy's fault, gawd love him.

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Young Blixa

Decided that a face that good deserves a second run. Hörst du mich?

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Tools: Sketchbook Pro & Photoshop

Blixa Bargeld

Musician and performance artist, Blixa Bargeld; singer for einstürzende neubauten.

Tools: Sketchbook Pro & Photoshop

Jaco Pastorius 2

...and now with a bit of colour.

Jaco Pastorius

The bassist's bassist and musical outlier, Jaco Pastorius; showing off his bendy thumb.

Kellyanne Conway

For facts sake—here's Kellyanne Conway! Remember folks; alternative faces are never lies—and that's the truth!

Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Photoshop. Click on image for larger view.

Samuel L Jackson (as Jules Winnfield)

Watched Pulp Fiction again recently for the first time since it came out and realised what great characters for caricature Jules and Vince were. Then realised I had never drawn either; so here's Samuel L Jackson as Jules. John Travolta as Vince to follow...at some point.

Click on image for clearer view. Tools: Sketchbook Pro + Photoshop

Dave Grohl: in colour

Had good fun doing this, though it's not best served by the final artwork being scanned rather than photographed (need a new camera as I can't get the focus to work properly). Next painting!

Tools: Markers, acrylics and pencils on A4 paper.

John Hurt: Stage 1

I called this post 'Stage 1' as I'd like to develop it at some point to a more involved piece but at present I'm not sure which way to go. Maybe a black and white hatched drawing or a highly rendered colour version—not sure. Going to sit on it for now...

Tools: Sketchbook Pro

Adam Driver

I dunno why, but I just find things going in one ear and out the other inherently funny. Anyway, thought I'd kick off the new year with a face tug of Force Awakens' badass, Adam Driver. Not unusual for me to be one film behind the times...
Best wishes for 2017, everyone...

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon. Always on the reverse.

John Cooper Clarke in colour

...and now JCC in colour.

John Cooper Clarke

Pleased to have finally got round to drawing 'punk poet' John Cooper Clarke, The Bard of Salford, himself.

Edward Hopper

Think I've ruined an oil portrait I was working on, so tried to claw back something from the evening by sketching Edward Hopper. Agg, aaargh, boo-hoo.

Christopher Walken

Ah, one of the caricaturist's fav's.

Inktober #12 Paul Weller

 

Ace face, Paul Weller. Used special modernist ink.

Andrew Lincoln...

...as Walking Dead's Rick Grimes.

Inktober #10 Lance Henriksen...

...as Near Dark's Jesse Hooker. Pen and ink for version 1, version 2 coloured in Photoshop.

Inktober #9 Christopher Lee

Keeping Hallowe'en stupid.
A4 pen and ink drawing of Christopher Lee as Dracula—with a variant using a bit of mucking about in Photoshop

Inktober #8 Jim Morrison

"Come on, come on, come on, come on, now sketch me, babe!"...at least I think that's what he sang.

Inktober #7 Klaus Flouride

Dead Kennedys' bassist - in pen & ink on cartridge paper. Will see him do his stuff in two days' time. Funland at the O2, yeeehaaaw!

Inktober #5 Paul Simonon...

...of  The Clash.

Tools: Uni Pin fine line pens, brushes and inks on Goldline watercolour card.
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