Robert Downey Jr. Caricature

Posted on May 16, 2011

Digital painting caricature of Robert Downey Jr. I may pull this one back out in the future. Lot more stuff I’d kind of like to do with it. Come back again later…

The Pitcher

Posted on May 11, 2011

Digital illustration of an old time baseball pitcher created in Photoshop.

Fred #2

Posted on May 5, 2011

This is a second Fred leBlanc caricature. Totally different style than the first one. I wanted to keep the painting style loose and rough.

Caricature of Cowboy Mouth’s Fred LeBlanc

Posted on May 5, 2011

It’s Jazz Fest in New Orleans and what better way to recognize it than with a caricature of a guy from my favorite New Orleans’ band Cowboy Mouth, Mr. Fred LeBlanc. I did several sketches of Fred in preparation for this caricature so I may eventually post another caricature in a totally different style. In the meantime you can enjoy this one and celebrate the fact that it’s great to be alive! Are you with me??

Billie Joe Caricature

Posted on Apr 30, 2011

Caricature of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.

Obama Caricatures

Posted on Apr 20, 2011

A few caricature sketches of President Barack Obama. Can’t remember what I created these for but they were fun.

Seth Timbs Caricature

Posted on Apr 20, 2011

To create a caricature of Nashville, TN musician Seth Timbs I studied quite a few photos from several angles.

Despite the fact that Seth’s hairstyle and facial hair changes frequently, I decided to create the caricature with shorter hair and no facial hair.

I came up with several sketches of Seth for the caricature but eventually settled on and developed the one on the right because I thought it looked like something from MAD Magazine, which was where I wanted to go with the style. Kind of a Mort Drucker/Tom Richmond look.

The pencil sketch of Seth features an old upright piano complete with candelabra and tip jar. With a little tightening up the sketch will be ready for inking.

All inking has now been completed, pencil lines erased and the piece is ready to be scanned and colored in Photoshop.

In Photoshop I create the background colors first. I want the background very simple to not distract from the main caricature.

Here is the final caricature of Seth Timbs. Unfortunately I saved the airbrushing layer on top of the flat color so I’m not able to show that step here but I did color the entire illustration with flat colors first and then applied the shadows and highlights later. The final result is a caricature that would look perfect on t-shirts, posters or even an album cover.

For information about the music of Seth Timbs visit the Seth Timbs Music page.