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Audrey Hepburn Caricature Study

Dec 18, 2012

Tonight I’m posting a caricature study of I did ofAudrey Hepburn. I’ve been looking to get some practice caricaturing women because they are really a challenge to me. Ugly or funny people are the easy ones. This was just a loose quick study. I have another of her which is a profile. I think I’ll experiment with that one next and see if I can push the exaggeration a little further. Women are really hard to caricature… for me anyhow, so I need practice. With the personal portrait commissions I’ve been doing, I need to be ready if I get handed a pretty girl to caricature. Those are the hardest.

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An Ugly Caricature Study

Dec 6, 2012

This post is a fun little caricature study I just finished. I didn’t feel the need to push it to a polished state as I was just kind of playing around. I’m not exactly sure why but a couple of days ago I typed the work “ugly” into Google search and found a somewhat less than handsome man. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Not sure about that after this project. The mouth wasn’t exactly a funny ugly… it was more of a disgusting ugly, so I changed it up just a bit. This is about a 50/50 blend of photo-manipulation and digital painting so very good practice for me. Anyhow, it was fun. Sorry if you spilled your coffee on yourself. The original source image is posted below.

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Bruce Willis Caricature Study

Dec 1, 2012

Here is the finished Bruce Willis study I’ve been working on the past couple of days. I wasn’t concerned with the background as this was strictly a practice piece. I did a lot of experimenting with noise reduction and creating skin textures from scratch on this piece and learned a lot. I have a ways to go yet but I think I’m onto something with these texture experiments. So, it is what it is. The source image I worked with is posted below. No time to waste… on to the next one.

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Bruce Willis – Work In Progress (WIP)

Nov 29, 2012

Tonight I have a work in progress of Bruce Willis. I love the way he makes that little smirk and I found a picture with that smirk but it was very noisy and after removing the noise and enhancing the detail, I’m left with patches of skin with no detail at all. This is where the final stage of painting the whiskers, hair and missing skin texture comes in. This image doesn’t look that bad because it’s been shrunk down so much. It’s very noticeable in the high-res file so there will be a lot of detail painting to do on this one.

Below is the source image I’m working with and an earlier screen capture of the work in progress on my Wacom which was posted to Google+ and Facebook earlier today. I’ve started something new on Google+ called “Whats on the Wacom” to give everyone a little better look at the different stages and my work flow. You can see the difference in the screen capture and the portrait above and there will be even more changes in the final product although the basic morph is pretty close to what I want now. And of course, he will be put in another body.

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Bill Murray – The Look

Nov 20, 2012

Yet another caricature study of Bill Murray. There was a series of images taken at a Red Carpet Event of Murray and some great shots among the set, so I couldn’t resist and had to do another. I’m not sure what or who he was looking at but he was kind of giving the eye. There was nice detail in the shot so it was a fun practice piece. These are always relaxing for me and the first part of the day was pretty stressful so this helped. I’m posting the source image below as well as a work in progress (WIP) while it was on my Wacom in a slightly rougher state.