tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37554766824284241732024-03-14T09:49:44.840-07:00Chumpmonkey's Electronic CartoonatoriumCuz "blog" is a stupid word, and i refuse to lay claim to one.chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.comBlogger240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-69180965534328203122015-07-31T06:01:00.003-07:002015-07-31T06:01:55.602-07:00Elemanentarimy, Watson.My newest. E-mail me (don@caricaturesbydon.com) if you're interested in ordering prints.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-4776897680266897592015-07-13T06:08:00.000-07:002015-07-13T06:08:32.951-07:00You're gosh darned right!It's been kind of a long time since I've posted any new drawrings. Even longer since I've posted and new finished pieces. Here is one I just put the finishing touches on yesterday. Hope you like it. As always, I'll be selling prints of it. Contact me by Facebook message or e-mail (don@caricaturesbydon.com) if you're interested.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-78870188724313880882014-11-06T18:59:00.001-08:002014-11-06T18:59:56.743-08:00FaceBook!<span class="userContent">IT'S HERE!!!!! <br /> <br /> The time has finally come. I've just published a book on <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flulu.com%2F&h=IAQHIDTGj&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">lulu.com</a> of my celebrity caricature works!<br /> <br /> Titled "Look What I Did!", the book features 36 of the full-colour, portrait-style celebrity caricatures I've done over th<span class="text_exposed_show">e
last 11 years, including 5 that I've never published anywhere on the
internet! It also includes my comments on some of them, in case anyone's
interested. I'd love it if you all bought yourselves a copy or two. And
let me know what you think of it right here on the Caricatures by Don
Facebook page.<br /> <br /> You can order your copy (or copies) from <a href="http://lulu.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">lulu.com</a> at the link below:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/don-pinsent/look-what-i-did-a-collection-of-works-by-don-pinsent-of-caricatures-by-don/paperback/product-21884990.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.lulu.com/shop/don-pinsent/look-what-i-did-a-collection-of-works-by-don-pinsent-of-caricatures-by-don/paperback/product-21884990.html</a></span></span><br />
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chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-37697344573901935862014-07-19T19:12:00.000-07:002014-07-19T19:12:25.674-07:00Yeah, his forehead really is that big.It's freeing to switch rendering styles every now and then and simplify, because now, just one day after posting my last finished work, I can post ANOTHER finished work! The cast of one of my favourite sitcoms, Community!<br />I don't know how well it shows up in the scan, but it's drawn in ballpoint pen on lined paper. Or actually, to be more accurate, I wanted the look of lined, three-hole-punched paper, but wanted to stick with my usual 11" x 14" format, so I scanned a regular sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper, blew it up in photoshop and had it printed 11" x 14" to do the drawing on.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-51404537048433668872014-07-18T18:45:00.000-07:002014-07-18T18:45:22.755-07:00I think they wear the different coloured shirts so that people can tell then apart easier.Been a long time since I've posted any artwork, but today, I finally
finished my full-fledged, full-colour caricature portrait of Penn &
Teller. What do you think?<br />
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chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-55681289125933366952014-03-18T06:47:00.001-07:002014-03-18T06:47:24.930-07:00Got any french fries? 'Cause I brought the catch-up!My caricature-a-week resolution got derailed much faster than I would have expected! I got really busy over the last month and a half or so, to the point where I haven't really had any time for any just-for-fun drawing. But over the last couple of weeks, I've been doing a few sketches here and there to try to get caught up. These are obviously very quick, rough, line-only sketches, but... they're sketches. and they're done. And now I'm caught up.<br /><br />SO... by way of introduction, here are:<br />Week 6- "C" female- Carol Burnett<br />Week 7- "D" male- Don Cheadle<br />Week 8- "D" female- Zooey Deschanel<br />Week 9- "E" male- Enrico Colantoni<br />Week 10- "E female- Ellen DeGeneres<br />Week 11- "F" male- Forest Whitaker.<br /><br />(They won't necessarily appear in that order below, but you can probably figure out which is which.)<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-15387146240533752122014-01-25T11:03:00.001-08:002014-01-25T11:03:50.516-08:00I promise not all the women I draw for this project will be from that awful Mamma Mia movie.I've been waiting to post this one because I thought I might have time to go a little further with it. But I guess not. I guess we're just getting a very simple pencil outline caricature this week.<br /><br />Week 4: "B" female: Christine Baranski.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-51571933344480661442014-01-23T05:35:00.001-08:002014-01-23T05:35:49.976-08:00Mazel Tov to me!<span class="userContent">So... Back in October or November, an issue
was published of a magazine called hDL Magazine, that featured an
interview with me and a multi-page display of my artwork! I just finally
got my digital copy of the article today, and they're mai<span class="text_exposed_show">ling
me the hard copy. Here's the thing: The magazine is only published in
Hebrew, in Israel! How did it come to be, you may ask, that Don was
contacted by an Israeli magazine publisher to interview him and publish
his work?<br /> <br /> No idea!<br /> <br /> Enjoy!</span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">And </span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">here's the English translation of the interview (or rather, the English interview from which the published Hebrew version was translated):<br /> <b><br /> How and when your connection to the world of art and caricatures started?</b><br /> <br />
I’ve been drawing ever since I was old enough to hold a thing that
could make a mark on another thing! For whatever reason, it’s just
always been something I’ve loved to do. When I was about 15 years old, I
used to read Ma<span class="text_exposed_show">d Magazine a lot. I
don’t know whether you’re familiar with this magazine in Israel, but
it’s a humour magazine best known for its spoofs of popular movies and
TV shows, which are all drawn, comic book style, with caricatures of the
shows’ stars. I became absolutely fascinated with the caricatures,
especially the work of Mort Drucker and Jack Davis. So I started trying
to draw caricatures of my own, at first copying the styles of those two
artists, but eventually starting to try heavier exaggerations and to
develop my own style.<br /> <br /> <b>What attracts you doing those caricatures?</b><br /> <br />
I guess I see it as a way to combine my love of drawing, my lifelong
fascination with entertainment culture (movies, tv and music
especially), and my somewhat warped sense of humour.<br /> <br /> <b>What is your main agenda in your special art?</b><br /> <br />
I’m not sure I really have anything I’m trying to “say” as such, or any
message I’m trying to put forth with my artwork. If I do have an
“agenda”, I guess it would just be to try to get people seeing
caricature as an art form and not just as a cute novelty like they see
in amusement parks and such. It can be used as a fun distraction in that
way, of course, and I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that-- I
hire my services out for parties and events like that myself-- but
that’s not all caricature has the potential to be. There are some really
fantastic caricaturists out there proving that caricature can truly be a
valid, expressive art form, and I just want to be a part of that.<br /> <br /> <b>What is your favorite caricature?</b><br /> <br />
My favourite of my own artworks I guess would be my caricature of the
Beatles as seen on the Let It Be album cover. Partly because I’m a huge
Beatles fan, and partly because it was the first one of all my
full-colour, portrait-style caricatures I did, so it’s still very dear
to me on a personal level. But as for which ones I consider to be my
very best, I would have to say my Seinfeld, Eric Clapton, Sting, Bob
Dylan, Jack Nicholson and the cast of LOST.<br /> <br /> <b>Where do you get the inspiration? Are there any special moments that <br /> you take with you into your art?</b><br /> <br />
My inspiration doesn’t come from personal experiences, really. Mostly
just from seeing a face with a lot of great, prominent features. It’s an
automatic habit of mine now to start semi-consciously analyzing every
face I see for what its most notable features are. And when I see
someone (especially a celebrity) with a lot of them, it really makes me
want to sit down and start sketching!<br /> <br /> <b>Where are you from originally and how old are you?</b><br /> <br /> I’m 44 years old, originally from a town called North Bay, Ontario, Canada. But I currently live in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br /> <br /> <b>What are your next goals in the world of art?</b><br /> <br />
I always have, in my mind, a list of celebrities I want to caricature
whenever I find the time. Plus, I have a number of ideas for large,
collage-style group caricatures, like my LOST drawing, that I want to
do. Unfortunately, time to work on such things is limited, what with my
having a full-time job, a family and all the other usual things to take
my time up. So a lot of those ideas may be quite a long way off from
being accomplished.<br /> <br /> <b>Have you ever been in Israel before? Maybe the Middle East is a great <br /> place for ideas, potential caricatures?</b><br /> <br />
No, I’m afraid I’ve never been there. I haven’t travelled nearly as
much in my life as I’d like to. But hey, feel free to send me a list of
Israeli celebrities and maybe I can do up some sketches! Maybe there’s
even potential there for a follow-up article! Haha!<br /> <br /> <b>Describe me your work process</b><br /> <br />
I always start with several rough sketches. These are very loose, just
trying to get a feel for how the specific features of the face I’m
drawing fit together and relate to each other. When I have a sketch I’m
happy with, I usually use that underneath the paper on which I’m drawing
my final artwork. Most of my caricatures are done in coloured pencil on
paper, though I also have several digital paintings. The process for
those is similar, but with variations, of course. Once I start on the
final piece, though, I tend to work quite slowly, mentally planning my
next move as I go along. Especially when working in coloured pencils,
because, unlike most kinds of paints, there’s very little ability to
correct mistakes. What you draw with coloured pencil can’t very well be
covered up if you decide you don’t like it.<br /> <br /> <b>People love caricatures – why is that in your opinion?</b><br /> <br />
I’m no psychologist or anything, but I think maybe subconsciously, many
people are self-conscious about the things they see as their own
physical imperfections, and maybe it’s a comfort to them to see others,
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chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-70363869552344331402014-01-04T07:01:00.000-08:002014-01-10T14:27:52.679-08:00A to Zed 2: Zed Harder!I don't think anyone ever comes looking around here anymore, but in case anyone happens to stumble across it, I'll post these here in addition to my Facebook page, my Twitter feed, my tumblr, E-Caricatures and wittygraphy.com.<br />
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Several years ago now (I forget just how many), I did a project I called A to Zed, which meant that each week for one year, I drew a new caricature of a famous person. The first week, it was a male, at least one of whose names started with A. The second week, it was a female starting with A. Then a B male, then a B female, etc. 26 letters in the alphabet time two equals 52 weeks in a year.<br />
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Well, one of my annoyances about 2013 was that I didn't spend nearly enough time drawing just for the fun of drawing. So to make sure that doesn't happen again in 2014, I've decided to do the A to Zed project again.<br />
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Week 1: A male: Alan Arkin.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-85708636047471626952013-11-28T05:42:00.000-08:002013-11-28T05:42:38.628-08:00The only man who has ever looked better with a mustache than without.Over at E-Caricatures, our theme for this month's contest, in honour of the popular tradition known as "Movember", is Famous Mustaches. I decided to draw the first person who always comes to my mind on those numerous (in fact, near constant) occasions when I think about famous guys with mustaches... Tom Selleck.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-74472303176268118972013-09-29T10:33:00.000-07:002013-09-29T10:33:41.155-07:00If you like all books ever published, just because they're books, you'll LOVE this one!Hey, everyone! I wrote a book!<br />
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Yeah, I wrote a little humour book called Dear All of Hollywood. It's published on the self-publishing website lulu.com, and you can buy copies of it there.<br />
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It's a small collection of letters addressed to "all of Hollywood", informing filmmakers and tv people of little facts they clearly don't know.<br />
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"Dear All of Hollywood:<br />I wanted to point out that, although I've never actually attempted it myself, I really think I can state with confidence that the act of smothering a person to death with a pillow requires more than ten seconds.<br />Just thought you might find this information useful going forward.<br />Sincerely,<br />Don."<br />
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Many of these letters are illustrated by me, featuring caricatures of various Hollywood celebrity types. If you would like to see a preview, and/ or purchase a copy, you can find it on lulu.com, at the following link. I appreciate the support.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-2716670823601089312013-08-19T09:39:00.000-07:002013-08-19T09:40:40.913-07:00Yeah, that's right, more Beatles caricatures! You got a problem with that?<span class="userContent">I started these last summer, and just FINALLY
got them finished yesterday! I know, the edge of Paul's face is kinda
hard to make out, it blends into the white background. It doesn't look
like that on the original. Unfortunately, I just don't have a very good
scanner.<br /> <br /> Anyway, I'm selling prints of these! Buy any one
individually for $15, or all four for just $50! Woo-hoo! What a deal!
Woooooooo! Drop me an e-mail at don@caricaturesbydon.com if you're interested.</span><br />
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chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-48069727739839230412013-07-30T10:21:00.001-07:002013-07-30T10:21:53.064-07:00This isn't really only the second time I've posted in 2013, is it?My quick, poorly-coloured sketch of Emma Stone, American actress best known for starring in about 50% of all movies released in the last three years. Done for this month's caricature contest at the E-Caricatures forum, the theme for which is, coincidentally, Emma Stone.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-80296369383692797872013-04-17T07:00:00.000-07:002013-04-17T07:00:57.086-07:00This isn't really the first time I've posted in 2013, is it?I'm CERTAIN I must have posted SOMETHING this year, but nothing's showing up since December 2012! Weird!<br /><br />Okay, then here are a couple of Sketchbook Pro sketches I've done recently:<br /><br />Penn and/or Teller:<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-91166681398808752742012-12-27T08:20:00.001-08:002012-12-27T08:20:54.349-08:00BEST CHRISTMAS SURPRISE ANYONE HAS EVER HAD EVER!<span class="userContent">So, I got "Weird Al: The Book" (a coffee-table
book about the life and career of, obviously, "Weird Al" Yankovic) for
Christmas, only then to discover that MY CARICATURE OF AL IS USED IN THE
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artwork in a book about "Weird Al" Yankovic. I never heard back from
them, so I assumed they hadn't used it. Then, when I was flipping
through the book on Christmas Day, I spotted it there (Top right corner
of page 185, if you all want to check it out in your own copies). I
freaked out a little. The credits at the back of the book list the names
of a few other more prominently-featured artists, followed by "and
others who contributed artwork on pages..." and then a list of page
numbers. So I'm an "other".</span></span></span></span></span> </span>chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-85497950421208105942012-11-09T19:06:00.000-08:002012-11-09T19:09:43.132-08:00Faces for RadioQ104, the local rock station, and their sister station Kool FM, hired me recently to caricature all their on-air talent. These were all done 16" x 20", and will be hanging in frames on the wall in the station.<br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-26214684281449113632012-10-25T16:49:00.001-07:002012-10-25T16:49:27.524-07:00I just call him "sti" for short.<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/chumpmonkey/sting01lores.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>Here's a new finished piece. It's Sting. Started this one somewhere around a year ago, when Caricaturama Showdown 3000 had a Sting challenge. I got discouraged with it at some point, and put off finishing it for a long time. Just in the last couple of weeks, I've finally been working on it again, here and there, and finally finished it today.<br />
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Done in Sketchbook Pro.<br /><br />Comments and critiques welcome.<br />
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This was for this month's E-Caricatures challenge. <br />
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<br />chumpmonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903666017285561855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755476682428424173.post-43052703835396081042012-09-18T06:18:00.000-07:002012-09-18T06:18:16.151-07:00Turns out terrifying-clown, botched-surgery deathmasks are surprising difficult to capture.This Is Joan Rivers, sketched in Sketchbook Pro for this month's E-Caricatures challenge.<br />
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She creeps me out.<br />
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Incidentally, a couple of the reference photos I used showed her having an eyebrow piercing and no lip piercing, while others had it the other way around. I don't know if there's a reason for that, since I've never seen the movie (don't say it!), but I decided to just draw both.<br />
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These are the fascinating stories caricaturists tell.<br />
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