A Caricature Study of The Rolling Stones

Tonight’s project was a caricature study of The Rolling Stones. These guys are great caricature subjects. Every one of them has a load of character. They all have really interesting features begging to be exaggerated. I consider this a mild caricature. I typically exaggerate a little more and put the head on a smaller body, but since I was using the existing bodies from the source pic, I tamed it just a bit. I’ve wanted to do these guys for a long time but hesitated because I thought it would be an enormous amount of work but it wasn’t bad at all. I completed it in one evening. They were a lot of fun and I’ll have to do more of them in the future. This manipulation was inspired by Sebastian Kruger’s caricature works of the Stones. He became quite attached to the group and did numerous caricatures and paintings of them especially Keith Richards. His works range from super realism to extreme caricatures and usually on a huge scale. I can’t do justice to them like Kruger. His paintings of The Stones are amazing. Check out the quick video at the end of this post. It will give a pretty good overview of the work he did with the Stones. By the way, he hasn’t stopped.