Sketch for a BIG painting

Unashamedly inspired by (in no particular order) Kruger, Phil Hale and Jason Seiler. I hope I can make a decent fist of painting something roughly along these lines for real (as it were) :)

Billie Joe Armstrong

Sketch in preparation for a big acrylic painting which I want to start soon - which could be a lot of fun! This is of course the front man of Green Day - The Greatest Band In The World ;)

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Another great actor with a fun face to paint :)

David Tennant - finshed painting

Really pleased with how this turned out!

David Tennant

A quick sketch of the outgoing Dr.Who - 45 mins or so in Photoshop.

Congrats Jenson and Brawn GP!

(Prints available on my website www.caricatureclub.co.uk)

Some random sketches

Here's a few random quick sketches, done for fun and practice: Jeremy Paxman, Hitler, Caesar and Shakespeare. I know, very random :)

Tim Minchin

Saw Tim's live show 'Ready For This' the other night in Reading, it was fantastic. Here's a quick sketched idea for a caricature.

Zooey Deschanel

Quick sketch, probably an hour and a bit. I'll probably finish this off properly as I like the shapes, shapes is why I chose this pose (from a reference photo). Pretty girl :)

Sad news

Very sad to hear this morning of the death of Ismael Roldan. I'm a big fan of his work, an amazing talent. My thoughts go out to his family.

Tom Richmond has posted a recent interview: http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/2009/09/15/ismael-roldan-r-i-p/

Tim Roth

Always liked this actor. Watched a few episodes of Lie to Me yesterday which were good fun, inspired a quick sketch.

Another doodle redux

Another doodle idea of Anthony Hopkins that might end up being an acrylic painting, or maybe not!

Tweeting...

Ok, I've signed up to Twitter even though I have no clue what to do with it! I'm @CaricatureClub if you want to 'follow' me whatever that means :)

The Gadget Show

Love this show, and thought the presenters would make a good portfolio piece. Got the idea pretty quickly but it took ages to get the reference and paint! I think it works OK.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

The alien faced pop warbler. Just for fun.

U2 final painting

The idea here is to illustrate the massive change in image U2 went through between the Joshua Tree/Rattle and Hum stage, and the Achtung Baby/Zoo TV stage that followed. I remember vividly when The Fly single came out and this all-new U2 appeared, it was seismic - and I loved it.

I still might change some things with this, I wanted to have all four band members in the car, but it didn't work, and there are a few other things I might adjust. Pleased with Bono, and I love the Trabby :)

U2 The Joshua Tree

This is actually only part of a piece I'm doing on U2, there will be a whole other bit to it which I hope will be really cool. For now though this is my version of that classic album cover photo. Fun to do, can't wait to have the rest done to show!

James Cameron

Watched a (really poor) documentary on this guy last night, which inspired the sketch. He's a genius director who's made some of my favourite films. Looking forward to Avatar, his new film out later this year. The sketch took about an hour and a half or so.

Another doodle

Want to do a traditional painting of this character, mucking about with ideas...

Bruce Willis

Painted this with my normal Wacom tablet but plugged into a laptop, which I thought would be horrible but actually worked quite well. There are some odd things about it and I'll probably spend sometime fixing it, but I'm pleased with the likeness I got as I always found him tough to get right.

A doodle

Trying something new just for a break... just doodlin' without taking the pen off the paper (or tablet rather) very much. Then I put a bit of tone behind. Fun, not sure if it works or not...!

Quick sketch - Javier Bardem

Watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona yesterday, good film. This guy is great in it.

Another gift caricature portrait

The car in this one was a bit tricky, but it's a nice motor! This chap is a proud owner of a Trident Iceni, a pretty rare car I think.

Gift caricature portrait

Here's a new gift caricature portrait I've just done for a hairdresser:



Turned out well I think, put more detail into it than normal. Should have another one to post in a day or two also which is coming on well.

Jenson Button finished-ish

Back from hols, back to work (if you can call it that) - finished the Button piece but I might add a background sometime. Great to be back painting again but I miss the beach... :)

Jenson Button

Work in progress - off on hols to Cornwall for a week tomorrow so I probably won't get to finish it until I get back. Looking forward to getting out of the house at last!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Another piece for the illustration portfolio.

Schoolism final assignment - Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes

Well this is my final piece for Jason Seiler's caricature course. I chose to do RDJ as Sherlock Holmes because I thought it would be a good portfolio piece for the future as the film isn't out until Xmas, and because RDJ is very difficult to caricature I think. I am really pleased with the final painting, I think it's as good as I can do right now. Below are some of the reference and sketches I did along the way:



I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jason for his fantastic feedback and support!

Megan Fox - finished painting

This was fun! Enjoyed getting the eyes and hair looking sharp. Also I put a very faint texture over the top in Photoshop to smooth it out a bit.