ISCA forum's February challenge winner...

...was my digital caricature of Sarah Palin!

Moderator Klaas Opdebeeck posted the results on the ISCA forum yesterday: 

February Challenge: The results!

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Hey! Although there weren't a lot of submissions this month, I still want to congratulate everyone who did participate!!
For this month I asked Jason Seiler to choose the winner, so here is his top three, which comes together with some honest feedback.

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1. Emily Anthony. I think Emily had the strongest likeness . . . . she also captured "character" which is equally important. 2. Glenn Ferguson. 3. Euan Mactavish.

Congratulations to all 3 and especially to Emily Anthony!!! 

There were some completely phenomenal entries, so I was very surprised and honored.  The judge was Jason Seiler, illustrator, teacher for Schoolism, and past ISCA Golden Nosey winner. Thank you, Klaas and Jason, and congrats to Glenn and Euan as well! The winner receives an caricature oil painting by Klaas, so I will have to send him some current photos of me soon. :-)

Sarah and the Neanderthals...final version

Finished my digital of Sarah and her favorite polysyllabic word lately.

Hey, Neanderthals are people too!

Sarah and the Neanderthals...part 2

I'm still working on Sarah and her friend for the ISCA February challenge:

This is about half done, I'm going for a watercolor look (it's digital).

Sarah and the Neanderthals

She's been using this big word alot lately...

This is the first rough for the February ISCA challenge.

Happy birthday, Sarah Palin (bleh)

She's today's ISCA birthday celebrity. I'm not a fan...but she sure is a good caricature target!

Update: Decided to add some color.....

Trying my hand at political cartooning---the Republican ticket

These were drawn in a somewhat new method for me...I did rough sketches directly from the TV screen (no photo references!) as John McCain and Sarah Palin gave their speeches at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota this week. Then I inked and colored with markers, scanned into Photoshop and added more color and the background. Thanks to cartoonist Pete Emslie for suggesting this way on the NCN forum.