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.

Lewis Black II ~ Outraged!

Jul 11, 2011

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Tonight I’m posting my second manipulated caricature of comedian Lewis Black. I love this image of him. It really shows his personality. It wasn’t the best source image but I used a few of CS5’s tricks to bring it to life. This is the first work I’ve done on the new Cintiq and it went great. The color calibration is right on and it was a lot easier and quicker to do this and a lot of fun. This one came out pretty much like I intended it to. The Cintiq helped me to keep it loose and natural looking. This is going to help my work and my learning a bunch. As soon as I get a good feel for it, I’m going to take those lessons from Jason Seiler. Can’t wait for that. Below is the original source image as well as a little Lewis Black humor.

Lewis Black on Christmas (It’s the only clean one I could find)

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Jul 10, 2011

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Thanks to all of you who have already supported my blog, my facebook page and all of the other sites I’m involved with. For those of you who didn’t know I have a facebook page or maybe haven’t visited it yet, check it out! I’ve customized it with new pages and tabs as well as connecting most of my major social networking sites there. If you enjoy what I do, stop by and “like” it for me. I appreciate the support in advance. You can click the image below to visit my page. Thanks all!!

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Tom Hanks ~ Still waiting on that bus

Jul 9, 2011

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Tonight I’m posting the finished product from my study of Tom Hanks which was on my previous post. It’s kind of a part 2 of “A Parody” with Obama on the bench. The original file is huge. I did it large in case it needs to be printed. The open PSD is 1.41 GB in size but this iMac handled it like a champ. My Cintiq 21″ wacom came in towards the end of this manipulation so I didn’t use it much on this one. The next caricature will be done on the Cintiq for sure. It’s an awesome piece of equipment. I didn’t realize it was going to be so big and heavy. I ordered a table mounted adjustable arm for it today. That way I’ll be able to lean back and relax in my chair while I work. Well, it’s getting late. Goodnight folks!

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Tom Hanks ~ Work in Progress

Jul 5, 2011

Tom Hanks

Tonight I’m posting a work in progress of Tom Hanks. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with him yet. This was just practice and for some reason, I’m having a hard time with him. I wasn’t sure if I was going to post him, but I decided to let you see it all, good or bad. I’ve gone back and forth with the direction I’ve taken the exaggeration and still not pleased. Maybe fresh eyes in the morning will help. I’ve also posted a promotional video for one of my favorite movie’s by Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump.

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I’m going Mac and not coming back!

Jun 28, 2011

My new 27″ iMac came in today. The Wacom is still on backorder. I have one more delivery tomorrow and I’ll assemble everything after that. I hope it all goes smooth. I think I thought of everything… 🙂 I’m sure something will come up that I need. I hope to get it up and running, get all my files transferred, backed up and archived so I can get to work. It’s going to be awesome. While I’m waiting to put it together, I’m working on my movie project. This movie has turned into quite a complicated project. It’s a morph movie, but I’m trying to get creative with it and morphing not only faces but also crazy stuff happening in the background. It’s a mass of dots and triangles right mow. Gets a little frustrating at times but I think the end result is going to be something new and different and hopefully worth all the time. I’m going on 4 months with this thing. Well, just wanted to let everyone know what I’ll be doing for the next couple of days. Wish me luck. Goodnight all!

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