Rodney Pike Humorous Illustrator

About Rodney Pike

Rodney Pike is a Photoshop professional, originally from Baton Rouge Louisiana specializing in photo manipulation, caricatures, humorous illustration, portraits and political satire. He is a long time member of the ISCA & NAPP, also a Social Media enthusiast. His clients include companies such as FHM Magazine, Tennis Magazine, The Village Voice Magazine, Corbis Imaging, The Sun, Caters News Agency, The Huffington Post, Bauer Media, Bauer Excel Media, Mashable, EMagazine, Global News, Metro World News, Miller Publishing Group, WeedMaps, marijuana.com, New Coast Productions and Catchphrase Entertainment among others.

Guy Kawasaki ~ Enchantment Caricatured

Oct 7, 2011

Tonight I’m posting a manipulated caricature of Guy Kawasaki, Author, speaker, and entrepreneur (born August 30, 1954) is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, bestselling author, and Apple Fellow. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He is currently CEO of Alltop. Author of Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions and former chief evangelist of Apple. His book Enchantment is featured below and you can click the image for information on purchasing a copy. He is also a well-known blogger and a huge Google+ figure with nearly 200,000 circles, so make sure you put +Guy Kawasaki in your G+ circle and check out his profile page which has some of his most popular links.

This caricature of Guy is a mild one. I didn’t have the heart to ruin that nice smile. I chose his book as the background because I was looking for ideas and wasn’t having any luck. I emailed Guy and asked him what the significance is of the origami butterfly in his Google+ profile picture. He answered with a link to his book and the story behind the cover. After seeing the book and reading a little about Guy, the book seemed to be a perfect fit. I hope he doesn’t get too mad at me. I’ve posted the source material below as well as a video of Guy on his new book. Check it out, he’s a super nice guy and a very interesting person.

Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions

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Bouguereau’s & Raphael’s Felicia Day Spoofed

Oct 5, 2011

Raphael’s La Donna Velata Felicia Day

Bouguereau’s Work Interrupted Felicia Day

Tonight I’m posting a couple of photo-manipulations of actress and Google+ giant Felicia Day. I’m sure most of you know her for her acting and her work on The Guild Web Series. For those of you who may not, you can find her here on her Wikipedia Page. She can also be found with the other leading members of The Google+ Project by her user name +Felicia Day with 200,000+ circles. I hit a milestone myself today going over 10,000 circles of my own so don’t forget to circle +Felicia Day and +Rodney Pike while you’re there.

I like this image of Felicia with the smirk on her face so I chose it along with a couple of Bouguereau and Raphael‘s masterpiece paintings to do a couple of spoof photo-manipulations that I will tag her with on Google+ and see if I can get her attention. She’s too pretty for a caricature so I went with straightforward manipulations and a little humor added. I was nice to her because I want to get on her good side. The source images of Felicia and Bouguereau’s paintings are posted below.

Felicia Day

Raphael’s La Donna Velata

Bouguereau’s Work Interrupted

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Jerry Seinfeld ~ Onstage

Sep 29, 2011

Tonight I’m posting the finished manipulated caricature of comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Nothing fancy here, I was just going for a more natural look so it’s a fairly mild caricature. I didn’t get that crisp sharp detail that I normally shoot for each time because in the source image, his head isn’t very large. I would like to do another one of him with one of his crazy expressions. I’ll be working on a Google+ portrait for the next day or two. Below I have posted the source image as well as a little something to entertain you.

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Jerry Seinfeld ~ WIP and My Newest Feature

Sep 28, 2011

Tonight I’m posting a rough work in progress manipulated caricature of Jerry Seinfeld. Not sure why but I never did him and he seemed like a good subject. This is just a rough idea of what I’m going to do with this manipulation. The WIP is a cheesy 3D action I downloaded to see what it would do. Just playing around but I don’t think this will be part of my actions library and please don’t judge me by that or the slapped together image above. Speaking of which, I am recording some new actions with techniques I’ve been working on and experimenting with. At some point I will share these actions online.

I’m sure many of you have noticed the lack of posts recently. I’ve been really busy with several projects. One is my Google+ account. Google+ is growing at an astounding rate or at least it appears that way from my point of view. I gained approximately 2,000 circles in the past 24 hours bringing my circle count to 8,300+ to date. I’ve only been there about a month so it has been well worth my time. Not only have I gained over 8,000 new friends there, but I have picked up several jobs and made some incredible business deals. Do’t worry, I’m not abandoning my facebook friends. Between my two pages, I have 4,500+ friends there and every one of them is important to me. I promise you in the near future you’re going to see some wild new stuff. I picked up a couple of magazine covers there, a few commissions as well as more features both web and print, so there are lots of things happening. Stop by my Google+ page and put me in a circle.

I am also working on some magazine commissions as well as a load of interviews with various sites and publications; very time consuming but it’s part of what I’ve gotten myself into I guess. I’m working on a couple of deals right now with a publishing company and an imaging company about possibly getting into offering some affordable prints, maybe even posters. I was also contacted this week by the Brazilian Metal band Almah who want me to do a bunch of promotional material for their upcoming orchestrated tour. We’ve been in contact over this for about 6 months but they are ready now to proceed so that’s another really cool project coming up. On top of all of that, I was contacted a couple of days ago by a certain entertainer who wants me to do a load of work for him. This one is top secret so I can’t say who right now but he’s big and the project is going to be super cool.

Well, I’ve been feeling guilty about not getting posts up recently and I wanted to get something up for you tonight so this was a quick one. Oh, I totally forgot, I wanted to mention my latest interviewed feature which came out today on Desigg.com. There was a bit of a language barrier with this interview but I think you’ll get the idea if you read it. I’m very frank and matter of fact in this interview so you may find it interesting. Check out the text link below:

Desigg.com Interviewed Feature

Jerry Seinfeld source image below:

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Chris Pirillo ~ YouTube Powerhouse, Technology Strategist and more

Sep 22, 2011

Tonight I’m posting a very subtle manipulated caricature of Chris Pirillo, as he is already a walking caricature. Chris is a fellow Google+‘er, a multi-talented Technology guru, a YouTube giant, very prominent social networker, Technology Strategist and many other things as well as really nice guy. Most Google+ enthusiasts will recognize him right away, but for those of you who don’t know him, he is a very well circled Google+’er with 53,000+ circles, probably a lot more by now with Google+ finally going public. Be sure and look for +Chris Pirillo and circle him. You’ll also want to subscribe to his entertaining and informative YouTube channel with 7 million+ channel views…wow! where he discusses Technology and explains things in such a way that even I can understand, beside he’s funny as he!!. It’s great stuff. I watch it every day, several times a day. He stays quite busy on YouTube. You can also find Chris’s Facebook Fan Page, Blog and you can tweet him @ChrisPirillo if you’d like. He’s all over, you can’t miss him. I’m also posting a short video from his massive YouTube archive. Go check him out! Circle, follow, like, favorite, tweet, and anything else I forgot to mention. Below are the source images I used for this project. Goodnight! Oh, don’t forget to circle me at +Rodney Pike and help me grow my 6,000+ circles.