Caricature - Week 3

Here's my week 3 rendering of the famous Gary (he should be famous by now with so many people painting him)

I had a lot of fun seeing this image come to life.
I'm way to far behind though, I'm really glad we have two weeks for the next one.

I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with next!

Gary -- Caricature Lesson 3

Here's the Gary value painting for Caricature lesson 3 -- Jason did the actual caricature, and I did the painting. I think he's a little too dark overall, but this was a very good exercise. Looking forward to lesson 4, where we get to do value paintings of our own caricatures!

copyrights??

Hey Schoolism teachers- 

Could you share with all of us some info on copyrighting our art? 

Is it necessary (when is it?) , and how do you do it?

thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge!

jon

Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy

Finished this up tonight, just in time to make it a little gift at a free show that he is putting on in the headlands above SF. For those of you who do not know, Will Oldham is a sort of modern day Dylanesque western music singer song-writer. He's also been known to show up in Kanye West (stronger video with Zack Galifinakis) and R Kelly's "trapped in the closet" videos. A real character!

Any critiques would be welcome! I definitely question the background. (its a scanned piece of rough drawing paper, the textures great and the goal was to eliminate a computer generated looking background but does it work?)

AND- Im calling all of you from Jasons first class out -- (except patrick and dan...) 

Get to work and post!

Jon

Simon Cowell update

Here's a more finished sketch of Simon Cowell, I'm going to start painting tomorrow. Any comments are welcome.

Oprah

Been so busy with editorial cartooning, haven't made the time to work on caricature. Thought I'd better change that, so here's a rough rendering of Oprah. This will be full color when completed, hopefully by the end of the weekend. This ended up being an amalgamation of about three different references.

You'll notice I took Jason's lead (from his blog postings) to put a copyright notice on the image. More artists seem to be doing this, likely due to the pending Orphan Works Bill. Whether the threat is real or not, never hurts to slap a copyright on Internet stuff, I guess.

As always, critiques are welcome.

Mass Update

Digital Painting - Color Sketching




Caricature Week 1


Caricature Week 2


Things have been super busy for me, but the classes keep on rolling.
The color sketches are from Bobby's digital painting class and they lead into the final painting (which is due today, crap).

The other images are from weeks one and two of Jason's caricature course. I've got to say that Jason's course is awesome, but it is not for the weak and it will take up a lot of your time, so be prepared for long hours!

Great work everyone, I can't wait to see more!

Caricature: Week 1 Studies (Suzane & Chris)

Hi all,

I thought I'd go ahead and follow Brett and Dan's lead here. These are two of the bigger versions of the 5 citizens that we had to sketch thumbnails of. The main point was to do quick proportion and exaggeration studies. I think these two sketches of Suzane and Chris turned out pretty funny. I have a side view study of Chris that I'll probably finish up sometime later. Looking really GREAT so far everyone!

Simon Cowell sketch

Here's a quick 15 minute sketch for my next portfolio piece - Simon Cowell from Britain's Got Talent / American Idol. This was just going to be a quick thumbnail to test out exaggeration, but I liked where it was going so I stuck with it, and I think I'll use it as a starting point for the painting. Any comments are welcome.

Caricature course -- Lesson 2 assignment

Say hi to James, Brian and Nate. It's fun to visualize faces as having animal-like characteristics and pushing shapes with that in mind.

Caricature lesson 1

Here are some bits from my assignment for lesson 1 of Jason's caricature class. I recently got a 9x12 Wacom tablet and am finding it much easier to use than the old Graphire4 4x6 tablet, which had a drawing area of about the size of a photograph.

My final at last

I finally got around to finishing this, I made quite a lot of changes in the end, but pretty pleased with how it turned out. It's already been said a lot, but this course was amazing, and I've really enjoyed seeing everyone's progress. I'll look forward to seeing where we all take it from here.


(click to enlarge)

Ponderings about Life Drawing

For the first time tonight, I went to a life drawing session at a local performing arts center... and found it much different than what I am used to. Usually, I go to a coffee shop or mall and do quick little 1-2 minute sketches, and these I do as memory sketches (ala Silver), where I capture a moment in time in my head and then draw it and create a nice little character sketch. This is especially fun at the mall where there is a kids' playground in the middle and trying to draw the little kids running around... you never get more than a few seconds to get that 'snapshot' in your brain. And it is lots of fun!

Tonight, I went to a regular kind of life drawing session and it was ... different, to say the least. The 2 minute poses were fine, I could draw from memory and get down the basic shape and gesture, and they came out smooth and fluid. But then we went to 10 and 20 minute poses and ... I don't know... they weren't as fun. Maybe because the poses weren't as natural, but it seems like my 2 minute memory sketches were a lot better in terms of their structure.

How about anyone else out there... how do you do you life drawing, if you do it at all? Do you prefer doing the quick memory sketches like at a coffee shop or mall, or do you prefer the studio atmosphere?

-- Brett

From Hell's Kitchen...

Well, bar crits, I'm calling this done for now. Great to hear feedback if anyone has them.

I don't know why I would want to paint such a puggish man - but doing so will always remind me to work and be passionate about the creative side of myself. Yes, it's only a show, but hey, it's a fun watch!

Oh and if you haven't jumped on board Jason's course, seriously think about it!! I wouldn't have dreamt to finsh such a piece to this quality and with this speed a few months ago!

Bobby Chiu - Weeks 5, 6 and 7

Long time since my last post. Got to say I am very impressed by the work posted meanwhile! Beautiful stuff guys!

Now my work, beginning from top to bottom.

1- week 7 - color sketching - to be continued later on. 

2- The forest version - not sure at all how this will evolve.

3 - week 6 - Hair brushes

4 -  week 5 - as I said I finished the drawing - the face - using Bobby's advices also.

Wip stuff

I'm reworking the whole piece...i've seen jason's macy and realized it can be much better...His work is always inspiring..i'll show you soon!

Schoolism on tour

When our instructors aren't chained to their desks putting out new work or critiquing ours, looks like they go on tour!

Had the pleasure of meeting Bobby Chiu and Stephen Silver yesterday at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, my first time at a comic convention. While I'm not a collector or reader of comics these days, I went in the hopes of being inspired since a lot of the booths were those belonging to artists. I definitely wasn't disappointed. Some very talented individuals there and I'll be returning next year.

Thanks to Bobby and Stephen for being so gracious with their time. Really was a pleasure to meet you both.

And continuing on...

Eeeeerr, this'll be a test, guess who? Anyway there was something missing in my life and I realised it was the weekly assignment from Jason. Gee I'll miss that course.

I think I'll take this one beyond sketch form.

Painting art blog

Hey team schoolism-

Along with practicing the art of caricature, and taking Jason Seiler's wonderful class, I also paint in a more contemporary fine art vein (you know, the kind that doesnt pay at all). Maybe some of you are into that as well? If so, check out my blog-

Http://MyLifeAsAWinner.blogspot.com

Thanks!

Jon Casey Clary

The Big Sleep!

I'm finishing a bunch of new paintings for my book which will be out in June! This is one that I'm currently working on, a parody from "The Big Sleep". I love Bogie as well as the look of his films, but mostly Bogart's expressions and physical appearance . . . this is still mostly a block in, a bit more work left before I'll call it finished.

Redo of old artwork

After a year of taking classes at schoolism and working on improving my art skills I thought it would be kind of fun to go back and recreate some of my art from just a year ago to see how much I have improved.

Final assignment :Takeshi Kitano

It's sad the course is over.Gonna miss jas0n's custom deadlines and crits and stuff.
Jason's help has been priceless.Learning from your crits , amazing.You guys are all talented and hope you do well.
regards.
asier.

It's been a pleasure!...


...working with you guys that is!
This is my final. If you're wondering why he's holding a toy gun, it's because I designed the image to fit an article about Donald being a big fan of his sons' show 24.
There's a few things I'd work on with more time - but I think it's an ok stopping point.
I've really been blown away by some of the final paintings - awesome work guys!

wine anyone?

Im a part of a non-profit arts collective holding a benefit dinner tom. night, at $75 a ticket! Should be fun, even though none of my friends can afford to come. We were asked to design a wine bottle, theres a raffle for them....

thanks will!

Just details left tomorrow. 

How does Jason do this AND raise kids?

If anyone has a suggestion on the color, it got too saturated from the overlays and multiplies, but if I just drop the sat. it looks like no good. I'll do some over-painting tom.

jon