Lost 5 - Sawyer (again)

Ok, my mum wasn't happy with the first Sawyer, so I tried again. Here's Sawyer number 2, I think it's slightly better, any opinions?

Tags: Lost, sawyer, josh holloway, drawmyface, caricature

Sketchbook pages

Hey, I've been a bit busy with various things recently, so haven't had time to finish any paintings, but here's a few pages from my sketchpad to show you what I've been working on:

1. Here's 2 pages of sketches for a Faye Wong caricature I've been meaning to do for ages. She's got really distinctive features, but I found it really hard to get a good likeness. You can see how many terrible drawings it can take before you hit on something good.

2. Here's a sketch of an ugly self-portrait I did from a black and white photo. My face looks really fat because I was looking down into the camera.

3. Here's sketches of Chinese actor Andy Lau, and Erik Per Sullivan, who plays Dewey in 'Malcolm in the Middle'. I think the Andy pic is a good likeness, I'll probably work on it later. Erik
was for a caricature forum challenge.

4. And finally, a sketch of Bruce Lee. I've already done a couple of pics of him, but never a decent caricature, I need to work some more on his facial expressions.










So there you go, a little insight into what goes on before the paint hits the canvas. More soon . . .

Tags: art, sketch, drawing, caricature, bruce lee, faye wong, andy lau, erik per sullivan, drawmyface

Caricature Video

Found this short clip of someone called Cartoon Steve doing a live caricature. It's amazing the way he draws the whole thing from top to bottom, without any initial sketching. He must have a great feel for the overall composition before he starts. Hope I can do this kind of stuff one day!

Tags: art, caricature, sketch, drawing, blog, drawmyface

Technology sucks!

Last week I dropped my portable hard drive. It broke. I lost everything on it. This includes all the photos of my paintings and drawings at various stages of completion. Of course I can still get the scaled down versions from the website, but all of the hi-res originals are gone forever, so the pictures on the site are the biggest anyone will ever see them. (Some I can photograph again, others have been sold or given away, and the inbetween stages obviously can't be recreated.)

So what have we learnt from this? Backup all your valuable data onto CD, or better yet, I've started storing images at imageshack.us - you can upload unlimited images for free, and they won't be compressed in any way. Extra insurance against the digital data fairy.

Anyway, I bought a new hard drive, and will upload some pics asap.

Tags: drawmyface, technology, imageshack, backup