From My Sketchbook

I was running through a folder of sketches and found this one that I drew of the Harry Potter gang.  Like an old photograph, it instantly took me back to when I drew this.  My daughter and I spent a beautiful day on the back porch drawing.

Yeah, I’m still around.

I know it’s been a while since my last post, but sitting around listening to Trump made me want to do a little sketch of him.  This was drawn on my Samsung phone with the Sketchbook Pro app.

 

Illustration Friday – Prehistoric

Illustration Friday – Wheel

Self Portrait

Portraits have always fascinated me, and intimidated me.  In my opinion they are the hardest form of art to create.

Caricature Sketch – Charlie Sheen

A quick sketch.

Illustration Friday – New

I haven’t been able to post in a while, but here is a “NEW” one for Illustration Friday to hopefully get things going in 2013!  I sketched this one on the ipad using Sketchbook Pro.

Meryl Streep Caricature Sketch

Today it’s all about the Queen of the cinema, Mrs. Meryl Streep.  She’s up for an Oscar for her role as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.  It’s another movie I have yet to see, but I’m blown away when I see screen shots from the movie and how she transforms into her character.  After seeing her in Julie and Julia, I now look at pictures of the real Julia Childs and think she’s the actress.  Meryl Streep is the real Julia.  It’s all so confusing.

For my next caricature, I’m going to tackle Gary Oldman.

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Glenn Close Caricature Sketch

Here’s a sketch of Oscar nominee Glenn Close.  She’s up for Actress in a Leading Role for her movie Albert Nobbs.  I haven’t seen the movie, but I know that with her, just like fellow nominee Meryl Streep, it’s a great performance.

Soon after starting the caricature of Mrs. Close, I found myself quickly emphasizing the mouth.  When she smiles it literally appears to go from ear to ear.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Since I already mentioned Meryl Streep, I guess I’ll sketch her for Monday’s caricature.

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Brad Pitt Caricature Sketch

I usually don’t like to draw my caricatures from a straight on view.  I like more of a 3/4 view where I can play with animating the character a little more.  With a straight on view, I feel like the drawing can get a little flat.  It can lose some of the great characteristics of the face like the way a nose is structured, or the contour of the head that is found in a 3/4 view.  There are exceptions though, and that was the case when I started drawing my sketch of Brad Pitt.  For Brad, it was all about the jawline and the eyes.  Oh yeah, and the long, scraggly hair style he’s sporting these days.

The reason I went with a straight on view this time was the shape that evolved when drawing the jawline.  Brad has a really strong jaw.  I know that I could show that in another view, but what I liked here was the way the hair helped to accentuate the shape.  Also, from this view I felt it was a great way to show off the half opened smile and the slightly raised left eyebrow that are often seen in his expressions.

Tomorrow’s Oscar contender is Glenn Close.

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