Day five subject is Mother Theresa. I was sketching this one out when I was struck by the likeness of what I was drawing to some kind of Jack Kirby character, like Darkseid. I then had to draw her in the style of a Jack Kirby, dynamic hero. There is […]
Caricatures
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The day 4 subject of the month-long challenge to do a specific caricature each day during January, has been rendered thusly by me via digital app Procreate on my iPad Pro, using the Apple Pencil in lieu of real world materials. I’m trying to ramp up the exaggeration on these […]
Day three of the 2019 edition of “Caricature Resolution” has civil rights pioneer, Rosa Parks, as the subject:
For the second year in a row, the local alt-weekly for Asheville, Mountain Xpress, has put out a “humor” issue that features many parodic and satirical articles and features, in addition to the normal, serious ones that appear otherwise. For the second year in a row, I was asked to […]
Day two of the monthlong drawing challenge for caricaturists: “Caricature Resolution 2019”, and the subject is the late Diana, princess (not to be confused with Diana Prince, the secret identity of Diana, princess of the Amazons, but she may show up later this month, I haven’t looked over the whole […]
My other daily drawing challenge for the year, in addition to “Drawlloween” in the month of October, is January’s more specific caricature-only challenge, Caricature Resolution. It’s a great way to get in daily caricature practice by using the provided list of subjects. Last year’s list was a theme of celebrities […]
These family caricatures were done a few weeks ago, but can be safely shown now that they have been given as gifts. Preliminary sketches as well as inks with and without gray tones are shown. Some members are in both families, so they appear twice.
The holiday season brings in more commissions for me to draw caricatures as gifts for relatives, co-workers, friends, (or enemies, depending on how mean you want the caricature to be). With no chance of spoiling the surprise (since the recipients have now been given their gift caricatures) here I am […]
Today’s new weekly issue of the Asheville, NC Mountain Xpress alt-weekly paper shows my commissioned cover illustration of all three Buncombe County sheriff candidates vying for the job. If the signs confuse you, know that they are based on the verbiage on the actual signs displayed by the candidates. Actual […]
The Asheville Renaissance Hotel was host to the NCLGISA 2018 Fall Training Symposium and I was one of two caricature artists that drew several of the attendees. These are the photos I had a chance to take while there: