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.
Todays post is to announce an interviewed feature of me and some of my work by a great site to host your portfolios and connect with other artists, TalentHouse.com. I have portfolios there myself and I love this site because of the layout. It’s great for getting an overview of a body of work that may be time consuming to look through. Check it out. I think you’ll like it and take a look at my feature which includes an interview so you can maybe learn something new about me and hear me ramble on about art and my thoughts. be sure and leave comments. A big thanks to Laura from TalentHouse for arranging, scheduling and putting together this feature. I am truly honored and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks all!
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Old Buzzard – Hugh Laurie from House MD
Aug 9, 2011
Well, I ended up with something. Not sure what I think about it yet. All I could see in the image from the previous post was that big Adam’s apple and long rough neck which kept making me think of a buzzard. I couldn’t get that impression out of my head so I went with it and made him an old buzzard, which he kind of is on his show, House MD. By the way, if you didn’t recognize him, it’s Hugh Laurie. I used a small portion of a large project I’m working on for the background. It’s coming out pretty cool but I have a long way to go on it yet. I have this head caricature put aside for another project that will be a little better I think. I just had to get that buzzard out of my head.
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House MD ~ Hugh Laurie ~ WIP
Aug 8, 2011
Tonight I’m posting a caricature of Hugh Laurie from House MD I started. I decide it was time to step away from it and look at it tomorrow and maybe I’ll have a better idea what I want to do with it. I’ve been spending a little time on Google+ trying to build my network a bit and make some connections. It’s really buzzing right now so it’s a time to connect with new people. If you’re interested in joining me there, here’s my page. I’ve also been pretty busy with work. Mostly small commission but great experience. I have a few projects in the making, one is going to be probably the most complex manipulation I’ve ever done. It will a feature well known and well respected tattoo artist, Jesse smith of Loose Screw Tattoo. it’s a big project but should be a lot of fun. I’m also trying to get that morph movie completed that i stared several months ago. It’s stuck on my old PC. Well, it’s past my bedtime. Goodnight folks! Below id the source image for House MD.
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WTF Magazine Feature Story and Cover
Aug 4, 2011
Hello all! Tonight I have a surprise post for you as well as myself, in a way. I have the privilege of posting my first magazine cover commission and feature story for WTF Magazine in it’s very first issue. My caricatured manipulation, “Weekend at Conan’s” was chosen for the cover. This was suppose to be a surprise launch but there was a change in plans and this brand new magazine launch is being announced tonight. The online version of the magazine will officially launch on August 5th. The magazine will be printed in Spanish as well as English. There will be more details on that after the site launch on the 5th. This will be a bit different than most of the features I’ve been a part of in the past. In this issue, they are telling my story, which will be interesting because I have not seen a word of it. Initially, they were to do a standard interview but the editor found my story interesting and decided to tell “my story” so I sent them several interviews I had done previously to pull the information from. This will be as much a surprise for me as it will for you so I’m looking forward to it.
WTF Magazine started a brand new Facebook Page today also, so please help support them and get the news out by stopping by their page and leaving a “like” there. Also any sharing of the word would be much appreciated. The English version is posted above and the Spanish version below. Thanks so much for your support! ¡Adios Amigos!
Spanish Version:
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Barack Obama – Drummer Boy
Jul 29, 2011
Tonight I’m posting a manipulation I played around with today. I experimented with some of CS5’s new features while creating the background. I really didn’t intend this to be finished. I was just messing around and used this image to try out some new tricks and it’s always fun when I have an opportunity to flatter Obama a bit. People keep asking me if I hate Obama. I ask them if they are kidding. I love Obama. He’s my best subject and he’s helped my work get exposure on the web. I’ve been watching some tuts on CS5. It’s got some great tools and I want to learn how to use it to its fullest. I don’t want to push it too hard until I get my new machine though. Well, that’s all for tonight. Goodnight folks!
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