Miranda Kerr Sketch.

Here is a sketch I did for the monthly jam over at the Drawing Board of Model Miranda Kerr. There are several changes that I can already see I will make when I go to paint this but anyway here it is:

I am also working on sketches of Lady Gaga, Alan Rickman (Professor Snape) and a better Jon Stewart. All of these will eventually be painted. I have also been working on a painting of Putin and Trump.

Been a bit...

It has been awhile since I have updated this blog, sorry about that. I have been rather busy. I recently completed doing caricatures of my daughters entire Brownie Troop. The troop leaders originally wanted simple pencil drawings but I decided to go with higher quality digital ones instead. This has led to a potential private art lesson gig, so that is great.

I am getting ready to relaunch my website and start a second one for the pets. First I need to get monitor calibrating equipment which I hope to do soon. More on that as things develop.

Here are some of the things I have been drawing:

Here is a sketch I did of the great Mel Brooks for his birthday thread in the ISCA forum.

Here I turned the sketch into a fully rendered caricature painting. You can see all the changes I made between the two.

This one of me and the one below of my brother Scott were both taken from a larger piece I did for my father featuring his three kids.

Evie

Sorry for my lack of recent posts. I made some adjustments to the Randy Travis in my previous post and updated that post to include them. Nothing major just adjusted the ear and made the background all the same color, I had noticed there were some off spots in it.

Above is a caricature of Evie painted in photoshop. Still working out some printing issues but otherwise I am very happy with it. I enjoyed working on all the fur.

In other news I have tendinitis in my right wrist so I have been using my left hand more. This brings me to the below image. There is a thread on the ISCA forum for speedpaintings digital caricatures done in under an hour. Reading through this thread inspired me to attempt one myself........left handed. This is the result. It is Brian Baumgartner who plays Kevin on The Office (the American version). While I am no way completely happy with it, for my left hand I am rather pleased. I intend to do more of these in the near future. I am probably going to take this one to completion eventually as well, but maybe not.

Hopefully soon my wrist will be better so I can get back to working on homework for Seiler's class and the other things I have going on.

Randy done.

This is the finished Randy Travis. I am getting ready to do an update to my website, I will let you know when that happens. My wrist is starting to feel better but not quite back to full strength yet.

Feeling Randy.

Hello again folks. Been rather busy with various projects. Still not done with the next assignment for the class. I was unhappy with the direction it was going so reworked it. My wrist is starting to bother me a bit so I am reluctantly taking a bit of a break from drawing or at least trying to.

Above is a Randy Travis that I am almost finished with. I watch American Idol and as soon as I watched him on the show I knew I wanted to draw him. What an interesting face. I may or may not color this. We shall see.

Some sketches and a decision.

Here are a few sketches I have done recently in Sketchbook Pro:


I drew Dolly for the March contest over at e-caricatures. I may or may not do a more finished version.

Jon has such a fascinating face. I have drawn it a dozen times and none of them I am completely satisfied with. This probably comes closest to where I want it to be. One day I hope to do a finished colored version of him.

I drew Coulter because I love her long neck. Every time I see her I feel compelled to start drawing her but haven't until now. This one I will turn into a finished colored painting eventually (digital painting that is). Will make a great companion piece for my O'Reilly.

I think I have mentioned in previous posts that I wanted to take a couple courses at Schoolism.com I want to take Character Design with Stephen Silver and A Caricature class by Jason Seiler. Unfortunately I can't afford both. I had decided to take Silver's course this year and Seiler's another year, but re-thinking it I have decided to take them both after all. However instead of taking the full course I will take the self-taught versions. While I have no doubt that the full version is well worth every penny, at present it is more economical for me to take the self-taught versions and take both. I will post progress updates as soon as I begin either of them (hopefully within the week if I am correct in thinking I can start them as soon as I pay being that they are self-taught).

I am almost done working on a dog caricature and will soon begin working on a colored pencil portrait for another client. Haven't done one of those in a bit, I look forward to it. I am also starting preliminary work for a special personal project I want to have completed by April. More on that later.

While watching Jack's Big Music Show with my kids this morning. I got inspired to draw the violin duo Nuttin But Stringz. I watched a bunch of videos on YouTube and did some gesture drawings and chose two that flowed nicely together and put them together via photoshop. Eventually I will work this sketch up to a finished drawing (of course I have had that plan for other pieces such as Dueling Wonkas which have yet to be completed).

Hello Again

Here are those Office sketches I meant to post previously. Been too busy. I just got Sketchbook Pro and have been learning how to use it. I shall post some results soon. I also got 'Facial Expressions babies to Teens by Mark Simon for Christmas from my wonderful wife, Lisa. I shall be putting it to good use.

The Office and Other Things.....

I have done a few more sketches from that wonderful show The Office. Right now I am posting B.J. Novak or the temp. I don't have the other couple scanned in yet.

Over the last couple days I have been reading through every one of Jason Seiler's blog posts as well as every one of Joe Bluhm's. Both of whose books I hope to receive for Christmas this year. I am hoping to be able to take Seiler's Schoolism course sometime next year and should be joining the NCN shortly. Currently reading Stephen Silver's blog. I am still in 05 so have a bit of catching up to do. I have learned a lot by reading through these artists blogs and they are leading me to other blogs. Overall well worth the reads.

James Hetfield

This first sketch is my first attempt at sketching Metallica's James Hetfield. Obviously it didn't work out all that well. The second sketch is with the head redrawn and photoshopped onto the original sketches body. This is a study for a larger Metallica digital painting. I am going through WACOM withdrawal right now because I need replacement parts for my stylus. Probably will be another week or more until it arrives. There are some more pieces I might get to posting later.

SJP Sketch

While watching the Sex and the City movie with my wife last night, I couldn't resist sketching Sarah Jessica Parker. Finished it up this morning. I think it came out well but there are parts I think could be better. I am still in the process of reorganizing this blog so bear with me.

I think the problem I have been having with my WACOM is the nib on the stylus I think it needs to be changed but I don't remember where I have my spares. Frustrating. I hope I can find them so I don't need to purchase more. Eventually I need to get a new stylus anyway since the side switch popped off of mine and one of my kids lost it.

Finally

Figured out why the images that I have uploaded into blogger came out looking screwed up color-wise, I have them all saved as CMYK for printing and didn't switch to RGB for uploading to the web. Now I am going to go through all my posts and edit them so they take up less space so I can use a different layout and still have the images fully visible. Bear with me it might take a while. In the mean time here is a Kid Rock I drew for the November monthly contest over at E Caricatures























Here is my entry for the December contest:

This is my entry for the monthly drawing jam over at the caricature forum at The Drawing Board :

Obama troubles and other randomness

I redid the Obama caricature that I am working on for my promotional mailer.




I also added the mole to the previous version which somehow I forgot.


Still not completely happy with it.
I want to make sure that I am before adding it to the mailer layout, which I still have to complete.

Last night I was watching CSI:NY and couldn't help but think that Gary Sinisi would be an awesome subject so I started one of him this morning. I meant to only do a quick sketch but ended up working on it for awhile. Still working on my speed with them.

Papa Bear.

My latest completed piece. I have a few more that I have in mind to do starting with a Kid Rock for the November contest at E-Caricatures. I also want to finish the Dueling Wonkas, that one has been plaguing me for awhile.

I have been practicing doing live digital ones on my daughters but so far not much success. I think part of the problem is my computer layout isn't set up so I can see the screen and my subject at the same time. Something I need to work on.

Corbin in color

Not entirely sure if it is finished yet. Might need some tweaking.

Anyway I have been looking for a market for these. I am thinking about doing them as gifts for people. Perhaps look into the print market like magazines and what not. Not entirely sure yet. If anyone has ideas, let me know. Also taking suggestions for future subjects.

Jerry Seinfeld

I colored one that I had done previously in pencil. Been busy with other things lately so haven't had a chance to update this blog much. I hope to re-organize the layout soon but I don't know if I will ever actually do it.

Jon Lovitz....Now in Color!!!

Chef Gordon Ramsay

I have been working on this version of Chef Ramsay for the last week or so. Let me know what you think.

Jon Lovitz

Josh Blue