WIP for CS3K

This week's Caricaturama Showdown 3000's subject is the not-so-easy-to-capture Bill Murray (in my opinion, anyway). Bonus Gilda thrown in for good measure. She is missed...I loved them both on SNL in the 70's.

Digital....NOOGIES!

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. :-)

Caricaturama Showdown 3000-Nick Cave

Another guy with a crazy face for CS3K! I think he looks like the long-lost child of Ric Ocasek and Neil Young.

Digital speed-painting...took about an hour and a half.

February Toon Challenge on FB- Del Rubio Triplets

Toon Challenge is a fledgling group on FB looking for monthly entries on a theme, run by my friend Bob East (aka Beast)--February's theme was "Old West" so I contributed this quick doodle (quick because I cheated and drew old identical triplets---of course I only did one, and copy/pasted her!)
And okay, maybe they aren't strictly "Western" but they're wearing fringe! :-)

A third-birthday party

with a Princess theme...

Isn't that a gorgeous cake?

For a gorgeous little girl who wasn't shy at all, even though this this photo makes her seem so.

I drew all of her little friends and some of their parents...

...and her cousin who was the only brave boy present.

Happy birthday Imani!

BIG airbrush commission!

BIG because it was of sixteen college students, and BIG because it was forty inches tall by fifteen feet long!

  

My client wanted to do a special group caricature for his nephew and all his friends in his college residence hall. So, he emailed me photos of everyone to be included, and then actually brought me this huuuuuuge roll of paper to do it on. It took me about four-plus hours of steady work to produce this caricature mural that was to be hung in the corridor.

I did all the marker drawing first, from photos displayed on my monitor,  then rolled the paper to each new section as I worked my way along. After the marker work was done, I airbrushed three or four students at a time, one color at a time.

This is a composite photo of each section, as my client and I were fairly sure there would be no frontal vantage point from which to get a photo once it was hung!

He told me they loved it! :-) And thanks for sharing photos of it onsite!

The updated 15MGS blog banner...

Last summer, I provided a popular anti-Kate-Gosselin blog, 15 Minutes Gosselin Style, with a banner to visually express Kate and her ex-husband's Jon's joint exploitation of their eight children on reality television. Recently, she has been trying to hold on to her fame with several B-list talk show interviews showing her outrageous fake tan and bleach-blonde hair extensions, while having gone to court to secure the right to be the sole parent who decides whether said children are filmed or not ( after Jon attempted to have it stopped). And they are still being filmed, here in the US and as far afield as Australia and New Zealand recently. Jon has pretty much dropped out of the public spotlight, has a normal job, and is pursuing his legal issues with her in private.

So it was time for an updated banner!

Click here if you want to compare it to the old one.

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).

Caricaturama Showdown 3000-Brigitte Bardot

This week's challenge is French screen siren Brigitte Bardot, whom John Lennon worshipped as a young man...to the point that his first wife Cynthia revamped her hair color, hairstyle and clothing choices to emulate her for him.

Digital pen and ink, took about 2 1/2 hours.