Rodney Pike Humorous Illustrator

A Caricature Study of Robert De Niro

Nov 10, 2010

This is a caricature study I did last night of actor Robert De Niro. I’m trying to do one study every night on top of my regular manipulations and everything else I have to get done during the day. This is the image of De Niro I started with. This was a very fast manipulation. It was not meant to be a finished piece. My intention was to keep it loose. Sometimes I tend to over do a manipulation and the caricature ends up looking stiff. It was strictly a learning experience. It could stand improvement, but I’m happy with what I took away from it.

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A caricature study of Jay Leno

Nov 8, 2010

This is a caricature fairly quick study of Jay Leno I did last night for practice. I’m experimenting with some different techniques of manipulating the photo, especially when I’m doing extreme exageration as in Jay’s chin. You tend to get stretch marks and blurring when morphing images and I’m learning how to keep that pixel blurring to a minimum when using _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . Can’t give away my secrets just yet. Of course, high resolution images help especially at the size I do most of my manipulations. I like to show lots of detail when posssible and generally the final image is 1280 pixels wide. This one ia a bit shy of that. Here is the original image of Leno.

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The Scream

Nov 5, 2010

This was an entry in a contest at Freaking News called “Modern Vermeer “. I love this shot of Hillary Clinton and have been wanting to use it in a manipulation. I always enjoy manipulating artwork. It’s one of my favorite subjects. I was experimenting with new techniques of achieving a believable cracked paint effect. I’m not quite there yet but I learned a good bit from this one. The next one will be cool. It took silver.

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Pirate Bean

Nov 4, 2010

Back by popular demand: Rowan Atkinson’s (Mr. Bean) as Pirate Bean. This is a caricatured manipulation of Mr. Bean as a pirate. It was my 30th Freak Show entry at Freaking News. Mr. Bean is by far the most favorited character, (on my Deviant Art page) I have ever manipulated. This one has lots of detail and was allot of fun to do. It took bronze.