Self Portraits

I did the one on the left about a year ago and the one on the right was a warm up sketch from yesterday. While one is caricature and the other one's not, you can still see the anatomy now that wasn't there before.

Just a quick sketch...

.... and not for class, just for fun. It cheered me up a lot.

Lesson 7 - Final project part 1: Dio

As part of our final project, this week we are doing sketches of a celebrity who will be put into a scenario next week and ultimately painted. So my celebrity is legendary heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio. He's a skinny creepy old guy now, in his 60s, but still performing, and I daresay he's a still got the lungs for it!

So here are some of the thumbnails I have been scribbling out.

When he performs the Black Sabbath "Heaven and Hell", there's one part where he's lit from below with an evil red light, and the bottom right thumb is kind in that direction. Of course, the full body picture for the final scenario will have him doing his famous horns sign with his hands.

Father's Day Private Commission

Client hired me to do this one for her husband for Father's Day, a gift from her and her three boys, professionally matted and framed for his office. Wanted it to kind of look like a portrait, rather than an action shot, all part of the joke. Client was very happy as was the recipient. In fact, the recipient called me up to tell me how much he liked it, and asked me to drop off some business cards at his office next time I was in the area. He has a lot of clients that will see it, figures there will be a lot of interest, and he wanted to be able to tell people who did the work.

It's been hanging in his office for a week. Sure enough, I got my first referral inquiry from it yesterday afternoon. Never underestimate the power of word of mouth. And of course, always be nice to your clients.

Assignment 6: Dave B, Bannon & Bill sketches

I should have pushed these a lot more, but I went almost more portrait-like instead. Bill had some pretty AWESOME glasses(bifocals?), so I thought I'd exaggerate those a little bit. Value painting has really been helping to speed up my sketching.

It's great to see artwork still coming in from previous classes!

Simon Cowell final

Here's my final painting of Simon Cowell, which I started AGES ago! Click for a closer look. This was lots of fun to paint, but I'm glad to be finished.

Obama quick sketch

After taking Jason's first class on caricatures I have become used to checking up on student work. I'm always amazed by how good the work looks, even in the first few classes.
Keeping up with some sketches and stuff myself- an obama I did last night.
Jon

Assignment 6

A lot of drawing - I think I like painting better :-)
I think I missed the chance to exaggerate more while I was thinking about skulls and all that fun hatching detail.

Well, off to start thinking about that final!

Bill

Here's my sketch of Bill. I'm going to do my skulls tomorrow and turn it in. I also fixed a couple of the things on Bannon to make the likeness a little better.

I bought and downloaded some Photoshop brushes from Portland Studios last night. I haven't had a chance to experiment with them much but the guy that uses them does some really awesome work with them. Here's the link if anyone wants to take a look.

http://www.portlandstudios.com/tools/

Bannon sketch, no skull yet

I would say it turned out more haunting than cute and haunting...

Bill

Dave B

Bannon

Dave B sketch, no skull yet

Al Gore warm up sketch!

I'm trying to learn how to use Painter X . . . I've never used it before and I'm finding it a new beast if you will. A lot for me to figure out. I started this sketch off in Painter, first using a color pencil, and then blocking in with various oil and acrylic brushes. It wasn't quite looking the way I wanted, so I took it into PS and finished it off . . . just a sketch, or study . . . all in all took me about an hour and a half.

skulls

I thought this would be easy after the last assignment, but the skull is quite hard to draw in 3D

I've muddled through this one somehow.

assignment 6 skull sketches

Hey,

This is what I have so far... not too happy with likeness, but I like the overall sketch. It was great to get back to some sketching! Its sad that we're getting so close to the end :( I still need to do bannon, but so far I've been struggling with him and will probably only get him done last minute...

Everybody's stuff is looking really awesome, its great to be a part of such a talented group!

Assignment 6

Here's my take on these guys, I don't have my skulls included in this post, but you guys can check them out in the video crit later... the older man was fun to draw...

exagerate or die

This guy has a face that looks like a JRR Tolkien character, he should be soooo easy to exagerate. Im going to draw this over and over and over till I get it.

Lesson 6 -- Bill thumbs

Here is some of the stuff I am doing with Bill. This is a fun assignment! I'm having a good time with these guys.

Bill

Bannon sketches

something quick

Here's my thumbnails of Dave B. I'm blocking out this weekend to really get some work done. I'll keep posting as I continue. Your initials are looking good.

Dave and Bannon thumbnails

This week's assignment is focusing on the skull underlying the head... now that I am focusing on the skull, I am actually finding the caricaturing to be flowing easier from the pencil... err... tablet pen. I have a great reference, too... a have a life size skull candle holder that sits on top of my computer. It's perfect because I can pick up ol' Yorick and view him from all angles!

So here are some experimenting thumbnails of Dave and Bannon. I am still working on Bill.