Quick black and white caricature of Agatha Christie for a competition on Wittygraphy. Added a filter effect at the end to age the picture and give it that sepia look.

Tom Waits caricature

Heres Tom Waits, not a very good likeness but I at least tried to jazz it up a bit. I was going to write about Tom and what an influence his music played in my life ever since Rain Dogs was released. But I won't. I will recommend him though and just say go and listen to some. If you have a musical bone in your body and an appreciation of the rich diverse history of Real music you'll enjoy it. One from the heart.

Started with an appalling sketch as usual, I'm so impatient to get started I really just do a fast sloppy rough sketch and then start to build the face with paint and work from there. You can also see how I changed the whole pallette as I went along too, there seemed too much blue in it before. It came out ok, could try harder!

Mitt Romney Caricature

Had a go at painting a political caricature yesterday and decided on Mitt Romney, the Republican Partys official Presidential candidate. Seemed like the right thing to do and he was an interesting challenge as he doesnt get too much coverage of these election run-ups here in the UK till much later in the season.

So my excuse is I'm unfamiliar with his face. So there. Heres the process of painting him using a photo for reference, working against a dark background something like the brilliant Jason Seiler did with his Tim Burton caricature. Heres a link to a video of Jason painting: Tim Burton caricature and heres my process:



 
Overall I'm pleased with the result and am going to see about selling this image on various products over at my Zazzle store. I think I managed to exagerrate more this time and it feels more like a cartoony approach, more entertaining heolpefully.