Mahatma Gandhi colour

I've been working at this a lot today,finally came up with a colour scheme.

Mahatma Gandhi

I did a preliminary sketch for this on holiday in India, and gave it to the tour guide who showed an interest in what I was doing. I was worried that I might have offended their national sensitivities, but he thought it was hilarious and showed it to all his friends during the holiday!

I now have a problem that I can't seem to find a colour photo of Gandhi, so I'll have to try and improvise.

Brandon Roy Value Study

I decided to do a black and white value study of my earlier sketch. Still not where I would like it to be as far as values and definition but it's coming along okay. Made a lot of adjustments from the original sketch to get a better likeness. Any advice on rendering teeth would be much appreciated.

A sketch of a friend of mine

The One

I wanted to post here at least once, so here it is. Think of it as an early Inauguration piece rather than a late Election Day piece. I also want to thank Jason Seiler for making caricatures fun for me again and offer a belated congrats on The Nosey Awards!

Brett

Did this a while ago as a follow up to a similar sketch of Jemaine. I do like drawing on cardboard.

wonderboy

I just called,
to say...
I'm still drawing. :)

B Roy

Here is a sketch I recently did of Basketball player Brandon Roy. Started with pencil finished in Photoshop.

Jason Seiler wins the Gold Nosey Award!

Guest of Honor Award for Outstanding Work. Awarded by Ismael Roldan
2nd Place Outstanding Digital Technique

1st Place Caricature of the year!
4th Place Caricature of the year
8th Place Caricature of the year

1st Place for Most Outstanding Portfolio
1st Place for Best Studio Caricature

And finally the big Sha-Bang . . .

He won the 2008 17th Annual International Competition. Gold Nosey Award
Caricaturist of the Year Competition. This puts Jason in the Master Caricaturist category.

Congratulations Jason! err.. I mean Master Seiler :)

Obama Sketch...

Thought I'd join in with the Obama drawing trend!

Drawing is a weird thing - I spent ages trying to nail a likeness the other day & couldn't get it how I wanted, and got a basic likeness really quickly today...

Obama

I did this illustration for my school's newspaper. I painted this the night of the election... talk about waiting till the last minute haha.

Barack Obama Final

One of the hardest things I have to do as an editorial cartoonist is predict the outcome of elections. Newspapers need their cartoons today to publish tomorrow. Since it is widely believed that Obama will win, this was my gamble for my editorial cartoon today. But whether he wins or not, I had fun painting it.

Pat and Ian

This is Pat and Ian. Pat is a master yarn spinner who has been kind enough to teach my girlfriend how to spin. Ian is a farmer from way back in the day who has been kind enough to do fix it jobs on my girlfriends spinning wheel whenever it has been needed. These two are directly responsible for me being up to my eyeballs in fleece. So as a thank you I sketched these. they're a little on the soft side but these are traditional farming people who aren't expecting this so I wasn't about to try and push the features. Just kept it nice and cartoony. I do need to buy some different colour pencils though. Blue is the new Red according to Wall E.

Barack Obama finished

Just finished this in time for the election!

I'm travelling to India next week so I'll look out for some Fakirs to draw.

BB King!

He's got the blues you know...

barack obama contd.

I've just spent the morning doing a greyscale picture -need to lie down now for a bit!

Barack Obama

I have been guilty of slipping back into my old painting habits, so I revisited the course videos which (thanks to Schoolism) are still viewable and realised how much I had forgotten or not taken in properly first time around. I'm setting myself a project to do following Jason's techniques more closely than I had before. I've done several caricatures with preliminary thumbnails and worked up into final sketches. I thought I'd post this one as being quite topical right now!

Dave Canfield revisited . . .

I had so much fun with my quick sketch of Dave that I decided to take it to the next level and push it a bit further. While painting I noticed areas that needed more attention, issues with the muscles and skull structure. This isn't the final, I will be adding more of the shoulders as well as his hands.

Dave is a movie critic here in Chicago, he's a huge fan of horror films, so I thought it appropriate to add some blood and stitches to make it a bit more fun. The final will most likely have some veins and other fun stuff added to the mix! Dave's a fun crazy guy, it's a lot of fun painting him!

Post Schoolism!

Here's a few paintings I've done since finishing Jason's class...

I started the class in January and was new to digital painting at the time. It's awesome to really make leaps and bounds with your artwork and see others do the same.

What's really cool is everyone seems to be pushing their own styles and approaches but using the principles learnt in the class - I'm really looking forward to seeing more posts on this blog!!!

Robert Mugabe's new office

Here's another one for Halloween. I think this guy should win the Nobel prize for insanity!