Norwegian Wood cover sketch

Here's a quick sketch I did a few months ago from the cover of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. It's not great but I just thought I'd post it, as I haven't posted any pencil sketches for a while. Apparently the photo is by Markus Klinko & Indrani. I'm not sure which of the characters from the book the photo is meant to portray. I guess it's too young for Reiko, so I suppose it's either Naoko or Midori. Any ideas?

Happy Birthday Jimmy!

Well, it's almost a month late, but I finally got round to doing this caricature for my good friend Jimmy's birthday present. Here he is looking a little pensive and a little emo. Happy birthday mate!

Bruce Lee painting video

Here's the video of me painting my sketch of Bruce Lee. It took about half an hour so I sped it up to 4x actual speed so you won't get too bored! The music is from Enter the Dragon, Game of Death and Karate Kid (yeah, I know Bruce Lee wasn't in Karate Kid, but hey, it's a martial arts film.) Let me know what you think, and if you have any advice or requests I'm happy to hear them.

Bruce Lee colouring

I added some monochrome tone to the Bruce Lee sketch I did yesterday, and gave him a bit more cranium. I also recorded the process, inspired by Joe Bluhm's video podcasts, I'll post it once I've uploaded it.


Bruce Lee coloured in Photoshop

Bruce Lee sketch

A quick photoshop sketch of Bruce Lee (about 20 mins). I'm still planning a huge Bruce Lee caricature in acrylics, but I want to explore his face a bit more first. Bruce has a lot of classic expressions which I want to test out before I start painting.


Bruce Lee caricature

Joe Bluhm's caricature videos

I haven't posted anything for a while, although I've got a few things on the go, but after watching this amazing series of videos by Joe Bluhm I'm really inspired to get some sketching and hopefully some digital painting done this weekend. The videos show Joe digitally painting over his sketch of Tom Cruise, describing his methods as he paints. A great insight into the mind of a great caricaturist, and the whole painting process only took him just over an hour!!

Tags: Joe Bluhm, Tom Cruise