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First another photo referenced girl. Pencil, colored pencil and paint marker on recycled paper.

And a few that were drawn from life.

I can’t imagine why… Or can I?

Edit: Revised poor Hulkster for better likeness and overall betterness.

This blog needs an update. Here’s one. It’s a caricature of yet another Stylus member, Emma.

I bought some more markers, colored ones this time around. They sure are lots of fun and handy to use.

Here’s a couple of fairly quick caricatures done with them. The first one is of the "Finnish Hasselhoff", Frederik, who’s already a sort of a caricature the way he really is. The original reference was a thumbnail sized photo in a newspaper, but the photo displayed here is a better version borrowed from his website. The man is like 63 (or something) and has a sweatband and a pierced eyebrow (edit: must not forget the mullet!) . Macho, so macho. Phew!

And the second one is of course the President of Finland, Tarja Halonen. Took less than an hour on this one. Frederik took maybe two.

Just a couple of character designs for U16’s Monster Mash activity. Go play with the Mashmaster and create a few surreal combinations.

I’ve had some syndication feed trouble since I updated to Wordpress 2.5.1. Sorry about that, I hope it works now.

Well, here’s another one of these girlie speedpaints - fairly loose one this time around. I liked the lighting and all the reflected light in the reference image.

A caricature of Charles Bukowski’s best known character - or at least the only one that I remember by name.

Or maybe it’s the author himself?

For U16’s Literary Illuminations activity.

Here are a few quick caricatures I’ve done of fellow Stylus members over the past few months. Not really funny ones, but at least couple of them have decent likenesses. But they were fun to do.

Here are the reference images…

…And the caricatures themselves.

 

Check their sites too. In order of appearance. Kiel’s, Jim’s, John’s and Dave’s.

Pencil sketches! Watercolor paintings! Photoreferenced nudists! In the order they were created!

I think I could get the hang of this watercolor stuff with some more practice. Fun, except when the results turn out bad, hahhah. Or when you’re trying to get a decent scans of them…

The rest of the calendar images are coming up shortly, but in the mean time here’s something else. I haven’t gotten any drawing done since the holidays - save for some doodles in my sketchbook - so I’m glad to be finally doing it again.

This is just another photo referenced speedpaint of a naked girl - a redhead this time. I painted it in ArtRage 2 and really wasn’t sure if it would amount to anything, as it was technically a venture into the unknown for me. But what do you know, I think it turned out quite swell and was a lot of fun to do.

Here are just a bunch of sketches I did on soviet uniforms from the WWII era. I may have done them for a reason, we’ll see. At least I got to practice using a brush again.

And here are some other sketches I scanned a while back, but didn’t post because I didn’t like them. Why there here now, I don’t know - they still don’t look any better.

Same story as with the earlier ones - it’s a photoreffed speedpaint. I didn’t do any sketching or measuring and unintentionally ended up sexing her up with considerably longer legs.