Howard Stern

Shock Jock Howard.

David Lynch

I've sketched the great film maker and painter a few times but I'm gonna try to make time at some point to create a great full-colour, full weird-out portrait - as befitting his unique work. His hair deserves a separate painting all for itself...

Miles Davis

Sketched in Photoshop with Cintiq...

Wild Thing

 Maurice Sendak

Creator of 'Where The Wild Things Are' and another exiting artist...

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...

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...

old blog header 2009

Back in the day when I started up this blog, the above image was my header. Doesn't do justice to the baby blues that the owner normally peered through, but they're still the coolest...Original image - acrylic paint on canvas board

Colour me Dredd

Just a wee sketch of my favourite fascist law man.

Double Balotelli

Bobby Womack cracks up

Here's a quick-ish colour sketch of Bobby Womack to help keep this blog alive. No particular reason other than I liked the reference image.

Moebius

Another departure from the artworld: Monsieur Jean Giraud

Ralph McQuarrie

Here's my tribute to the great Mr McQuarrie, the Star Wars concept artist and illustrator extraordinaire who's died recently. I loved his paintings; especially the perspective-heavy scenes showing xwings and TIE fighters dukin' it out in the death star trench. I remember copying them at the time when they were reproduced in the Star Wars comics and mags - 35 years on and they're still lodged in my brain for 'go to' reference.

Web Site Update

Just updated the digi-pencil section of my caricature site with some recent work.
Looking to add a whole new page for digitally painted caricatures but that requires a more fundamental tooling of the site, so I'll look at that when I can can next muster the will.

Oooooh...

I wouldn't set too much store by this, ha, ha, ha! It's veeeeeery late and, often as not, the last thing I can find myself doing is mucking around in photoshop, trying different fx and whatnot. So this is just one addled example involving some illo's that normally look quite different to this. I love photoshop.

James Nachtwey

The highly decorated world famous war photographer.

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov - Photoshop CS2

Chaz

Charles Dickens - Photoshop CS2

I'm a bit slow out of the blocks with this one - in regard to all the Dickens anniversary stuff - but I started it and ... forgot it! - anyway, here's my effort.

Alastair Cook

Willow-waving, leather-lofting, opening thwacksman (and sometime column-scribbler),  Mr Cook.
Heeeeyyy - good name!

Steve Bruce

Another member of the expanding footie manager gallery, although he's currently 'between clubs' I believe.

Albert Camus

A great face which derserves a longer treatment - but for now, only time for a relatively quick one.

Mark Lanegan

You too could have a voice like him if you chewed nails and smoked sandpaper. Mr Lanegan: nice and loose.

Bryan Ferry

Gary Busey

Wanted to try and keep the great energy that Gary Busey has in his face - so I kept it loose and rough without too much erasing of wayward lines, etc. Good fun when they come out right.

Grievous Gram

Gram Parsons