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.
Snoop Dogg – Increasizzle the Pizzle
Snoop Dogg – Increasizzle the Pizzle
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality, and actor. This is another variation on an older commission of Snoop Dogg. I was looking for a Snoop Dogg “izzle” phrase for the title and came up with Increasizzle the Pizzle which if I used the online izzle translator properly means Increase the Pease which is a quote of his. It sounds like something he would say. I’m sure someone will let me know if it’s incorrect. I wanted to do something with the izzle “twizzle” which means twisted and rolled but couldn’t find a fit. I just had to go with the marijuana background theme and color scheme on this one. The original caricature was a magazine commission and a version of this caricature was also featured on martijuana.com a while back and received great reviews. I’m sure he has many fans there. This image and several hundred more are available in my online store for very reasonable prices. In fact, some are free downloads so check them out here. It will be well worth your time. I offer these custom celebrity caricatures many of which can be found right here in my store but I can do the same for you if you wish. They’re a lot of fun and make really good gifts. If you’re interested in a custom image of yourself or someone, please feel free to contact me for details. I pulled an all nighter last night working on some new material for the second time in 3 days so I’m beat. I think I’ll take a little break. I’ll be back tomorrow with more new work.
Here are a few Snoop Dogg moments:
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Slash Shredded
Slash – Shredded
Slash! Todays post is another color study of an old image I created for a Photoshop contest at the site formally known as Freaking News. I’m really trying to push the limits on color which is not my nature but I’m trying to change that. I’ve been far too timid with color as long as I can remember. This has a lot to do with the reason I turned to digital art in the first place. My oil painting tended to get muddy or at least subdued as I struggled with color. It’s much easier to go back and change color and saturation in Photoshop. As I said in a previous post, I’ll be posting several of these older pieces as I experiment with color for the most part. Lots of new work on the horizon. My back is healing quickly so I’ll be able to sit behind my computer long enough to finish some new images I’ve started which are very complex. Hope you enjoy these along the way. It’s certainly fun revisiting these old images and I’m learning lots along the way. I have many ideas in my head ready to get out. I’m looking forward to putting out there just what’s going through my head. Scary stuff! 😉 Below a little taste of Slash in action with Myles Kennedy of Alterbridge.
Time Magazine Person of The Year
Time Magazine Person of The Year
Time Magazine Person of The Year 2017… If you watch the news, you’re familiar with President Donald Trump’s recent claim that Time magazine contacted him saying that he would most likely be named TIME Magazine’s “Person of The year” 2017. Trump claimed that the magazine would require him to do and extensive photo shoot and interview which he declined. Trump tweeted; “Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!” Time magazine later came forward and said that he had not been contacted. This was a total fabrication by Donald Trump. This president has done and said things on a daily basis since he became president that are baffling, absurd, controversial and down right crazy. Though this may seem trivial to some, it shows just how unstable this man is and his way of thinking. Who would make up such a story and post on twitter like he did? Did he believe the story he made up? Why would he do such a thing? Did he not think that someone with our news agencies wouldn’t check up on his story to see if it was true? I think that this is an indication of just how unstable this man is. The most powerful man on earth living in a fantasy world. So, this is my response to his false claim. Rowan Atkinson’s character Mr Bean as Natalia Beanovich, an ex-Russian spy and super model named TIME Magazine’s Person of The Year 2017. I say that my story is just as credible as that of the President of The United States. It’s all very embarrassing.
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Lil Wayne Toasted
Lil Wayne Toasted
This image of Rapper Lil Wayne (Official Wiki Page), was originally a commissioned piece for FHM magazine several years back and as many of the images I did for the magazine, it was a bit reserved. I’m not entirely sure why everything I did for them has to be so subdued. I assume so nobody got offended. Well, we all know Lil Wayne wouldn’t be Lil Wayne unless he was toasted so I spiced this one up a bit for my image archives and added the marijuana theme. I also used this one a while back for marijuana.com but the images were web based and very low resolution, so I just tweaked the old one a bit for that commission. One thing that was good with that client was that pretty much anything goes so no worries with offending anyone. I’ll be posting several of these tweaked old images in part to update my product portfolio and because they are only updates to the originals, they’re good for this time I’m still slightly out of commission with my back. I can do these fairly quickly so it works out good for now. I have many in the making though that are much more complex experimenting with color, saturation, texture and the use of patterns in the backgrounds. I’ll also be pushing the exaggeration a bit more in many of the upcoming caricature illustrations so stay tuned. If your interested in any of these images, you can check out my store or simply click the images for more details. As always if you have any commission inquiries, please feel free to email me at rodneywpike@gmail.com or fill out my contact form at the link provided. I have a few of these finished so check back tomorrow for more like this.
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