Caricature of Vincent- 1st attempt

This weeks cs3000 caricature contest is Vincent Van Gogh. I'm still playing around with ideas. This is one of the first sketches I made today. Breakin' the ice. I'll come back to this idea tomorrow and give it another shot.

Frazzled Old Man-001

Just a very quick warm up sketch. Drawing with the brush. Gouache washes on paper.

Caricature of Tom Waits - day3

Today I finished my caricature of Tom Waits... I think. There are so many things I would change. But I also feel like I've looked at this picture enough and I want to move on to other subjects.

Caricature of Tom Waits - day2

Well I still have a ways to go. I'm learning a lot. To blend and soften edges I've been scumbling with a dry brush (basically rubbing a brush over recently applied paint to diffuse the area and create a gradation or soft edge) I've also been applying glazes. (Thin areas of paint that let the paint below it show through. Glazing is a way to keep your original shapes but slightly change the color and the contrast. As you glaze the contrast decreases a bit.

Caricature of Tom Waits - day 1

Today I've been working on an acrylic painting of a caricature of Tom Waits the musician. Its for this week's contest at the cs3000 caricature challenge group. So far I have about 6 hours into it. I'll continue tomorrow.

Head Study

Okay this was supposed to be Tom Waits but there are some drawing accuracy issues so I'm callin' it "Head Study". If that camera right eye had been sketched any lower this would have been called Quasi Moto head study.

Tom Waits as Hellboy

Today I went digital for my daily sketch. I'm working on a concept for my entry to the contest at CS3000 this week. I want to do a morph between Hellboy and Tom Waits the musician and songwriter. Waits has similar facial features as Ron Pearlman, the actor who plays Hellboy in the movies. Other than that there isn't any connection at all. This is a classic brain phart. Mixing two or more ideas that little to do with each other together to make something ...different. I may have offended the fans of both Hellboy and Tom Waits. Oh well. :-)