Mordecai F. Smiley

I posted this here even though it's not a caricature because it definitely does not belong on the other blog.

Here's the deal: I found a jpeg of Yellow Smiley, added some resolution to the image to bring it up to 300 dpi, and just started to render in Photoshop on top of it. It's just something found myself doing one night, to play around and test drive a new batch of custom brushes I had just cooked up. What I ended up with is this guy -Mordecai F. Smiley. He's a Basil Wolverton kind of guy.

The F stands for Fuktwit.

Bill Murray

The beloved Bill Murray. I've caricatured him before, but I've put off trying him in PS until now. So here's my first Photoshop attempt...

Alec Baldwin

My wife said why don't I do Alec Baldwin and it seemed like a good idea. Here's him doing his "Oh, yeah -pal?" face...

Roman Polanski

In the news, but not for any good reason...

Albert Einstein

The obligatory Albert Einstein caricature done back in July. That's the last of the old lot. I think. Onward and upward...

Elvis

Another thing I did in July or August and never posted. Since then, I've seen a million caricatures done from that photo. I'm gonna post it regardless - here's a million and one.

Actually, the most fun I had doing this was working up the shirt.

And Elvis now officially becomes the second person I've drawn more than once for the blog -the other being Jack Palance.

Let's create a tag for that..."drawn more than once"...

Geena Davis

Another one of the reworked 10 minute marker things. One of the first actually, I just never got around to putting it up. Actually this one isn't reworked quite as much others are, is probably why. You can see the original drawing in the collected 10 minute drawings I posted a number of months ago.

The President and the First Lady

By now every caricaturist in the world has done one of him for their blog or website, so I should put this one up already, I did it back in July.

Philip K Dick

Science Fiction writer Philip K Dick, now famous for the movie adaptations of his novels, Blade Runner, Total Recall, and most recently A Scanner Darkly. I've done a painting of him before, but this is the first time I considered doing a caricature of him.

Bootsy Collins

I wanted to draw up a funk guy -like Sly Stone or Larry Graham, but then immediately realized Bootsy Collins might be more fun to draw. And indeed he was. Glory B!

Dennis Hopper

One my favorite character actors. Hard to believe he's in his 70s now...

Lee Marvin

This is yet another revamped 10 minute caricature. I had been saving this one for a good idea and Voila! one dropped like manna from heaven into my lap.

I recently participated in a contest over at Darwin Cooke's blog to "Draw Parker" - Parker being Richard Stark's brutal criminal character that appeared in several novels. The first Parker novel "The Hunter" was brought to the big screen by John Boorman as Point Blank starring Lee Marvin. Parker is turned into Walker in the development process, and actually becomes somewhat more of an abstraction -an avenging angel akin to Clint Eastwood's Stranger, in "High Plains Drifter".

This film is one of my favorite neo noir films from the late 60s/early 70s, and the image of Marvin/Walker resolutely marching down an airport terminal to a subtlety unsyncopated soundtrack of his terse footfall, is something of an iconic scene in 60s/70s cinema.

This is where I first encountered the character, it was only later I found out that Donald Westlake writer of "The Hot Rock" was also Richard Stark, and borrowed "The Hunter" from a library and read it.

If you want to see my entry for the contest and read more about it, head over to my Ice Cream's Got No Bones Blog.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Before he was a governor, before he was a movie star, he was a guy who lifted weights for 4-6 hours a day. Got to hand it to him, he took the success he had with bodybuilding, as far as it could be taken.

Going for another young take on someone, just for a change of pace...

Pam Grier

The amazing, larger than life Pam Grier.

Another photoshop reworking of a 10 minute marker sketch.

Frank Zappa

In going through the Baron Storey journals at the Society of Illustrators this past month, one finds out that Mr Storey has a real WWFZD? respect for Zappa, and talks about him a great deal. That made me revisit my own obsession with Zappa's work in the past. Still not crazy about everything post Zoot Allures and the Warner Bros stuff that was supposed to be Lather, but in general, most of the music has remained great. Hot Rats and One Size Fits All are listened to fairly often but now I've started listening a lot to Zoot Allures for the first time in years. In the final analysis, he's probably shaped the way I think about a lot of things. He certainly taught me a great deal about music.

Anyway, I just finished reading the recent Barry Miles bio and decided to render this. I put on The Yellow Shark and got to work. It's a face I know well, I've drawn it quite a bit in the past. I even had a painting of him in my portfolio to get into The School of the Visual Arts.

"For your dining and dancing pleasure..."

Jack Nicholson

Jack as Jake Gittes in Chinatown. We've seen more manic performances over the years, but you just can't beat those early Jack films. In the months after I got my first DVD player, Carnal Knowledge, The Last Detail and Chinatown had to be in the first 10 movies that I bought .

Kate Moss

Kate in a moment of modesty.

I could work on this one for another 83 years, but I'll stop now.

Another reworked 10 minute thing...

Ed Harris

Based on another 10 minute sketch. Moving right along...

William Macy

A favorite character actor.

Still another PS rendering based on a 10 minute drawing from May...

Jack Black

One more... another you can see in the collected 10 minute jobbers back in May...

Jennifer Connelly

And another...

Nico

I was listening to The Velvet Underground yesterday while working, and got the sudden impulse to draw Nico...

Rosario Dawson

Another one -see if I can get a few more in later...

Meryl Streep

Another one -there's a 10 minute of this in an older post as well ...moving along...

Tom Hanks

I'm cleaning up a bunch of the early quick caricatures for presentation and just did this one. Actually, cleaning up isn't really quite accurate, it's more like using the early sketch as a starting point for a more considered rendering.

In fact, this is based on one of the 10 minute ones ganged up in earlier posts.

On to the next one...