Jack Sparrow

sketch of Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Caribbean. I think it looks like the reference photo, but I'm not sure if it looks like Johnny.

brad pitt sketch

Another 'progress report' of my drawing skills. a couple of pitts.

elf dwight

another sketch for christmas

Cousin Eddie

a holiday sketch

Sketches

I did a ton of sketches for this challenge, maybe more than any other. he has some very interesting features: hooded eyelids, really big 'sharp' eyebrows, a large, protruding forehead, a cleft chin, and maybe the most significant in my opinion, his mouth and teeth, which i really didn't utilize in my final approach. the sketch in the lower right is the one i went with. the one on the upper left i was thinking of incorporating a harry potter theme, the upper right juno(which could have been hilarious, had i been able to pull it off), and nothing in particular on the lower left.

Cee Lo Green

Cee Lo Green was the subject of this past week's caricature challenge. He's 1/2 of Gnarls Barkley, an R&B/Pop group, is maybe the best way to describe them.
I was intrigued by some of the photos I found. they do parodies of movies with their costumes, for photo shoots but also during performances. I don't know if that's normal for them or a result of an album entitled 'the Odd Couple'. Regardless i found them to be a lot of fun to draw and my mind went crazy with the endless possibilities of what parody i could capture them in. My initial brainstorming of this idea turned out about 15 different options. I sketched a couple but settled on an old school star trek them.




This one is an alternate version where i gave cee lo some Kirk hair. I really did get a kick out of looking at these guys. You should search google images for Gnarls Barkley.

2 dwights

a couple dwights. the one on the left is rainn wilson at some kind of press junket, the one on the right is a screen capture of dwight impersonating jim.
i did both of these at work today. the one on the left was a step forward in my development, in that i saw in my head what i wanted the end result to be. this is a rare thing for me, i'm not sure about other artists, but i was excited about it.
i was also trying to channel a great artist/caricaturist named dominic philibert. his caricature sketches are amazing. they seem fairly simple, but the likenesses are always spot on, and they seem to have a 'life' to them.