Elemanentarimy, Watson.

My newest.  E-mail me (don@caricaturesbydon.com) if you're interested in ordering prints.

You'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.

I 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?

Yeah, that's right, more Beatles caricatures! You got a problem with that?

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.

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.

Apparently, I'm in a funny-redheads-holding-up-their-hands-and-mugging phase with my artwork...

It's Lucy! I Like Lucy!

The O'Bribarian

It's Conan!

Don't try calling these guys when your house is being broken into. They don't think it's funny. Trust me.

I finally finished my next full-fledged piece. It's the Police.

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Haha! Look! His eye's all funny!

Wow, been a while since I've posted here. Even longer since I've posted artwork. I just haven't had time to do much leisure drawing lately. How is it that I have a harder time finding free time when I'm unemployed than I do when I have a job?

Anyway, I'm now spending my (good-weather) days at the Halifax waterfront, and am able to work on some stuff between customers (which sometimes means quite long periods of time). Here's my latest:

Pablo Picasso, expanded from the sketch I did some time last year, which you can see here.

This version is coloured pencil on paper, 11" x 14".

i can't remember whether i've ever caricatured them before...

the beatles, each from a different era of their career:

FIVE lads from liverpool? what the--?

i wanted to do a new caricature of the beatles, but i wanted to do something i hadn't seen done in a beatles caricature before. tall order. this was what i came up with. it's the silver betales. which is to say, the beatles before they were the beatles, with pete best instead of ringo, and stu sutcliffe instead of... no fifth guy.

very witty, wilde. very witty.

i noticed that i'd gotten the nose all wrong on my original sketch for this one, so i changed that in the final drawring. other than that, it's largely the same. i didn't really want the textured paper, but it was the only thing i could find at the art supply store that was the colour i wanted, so i went with it. in the end, i quite liked the effect it gave. all comments welcome.

it's oscar wilde, by the way.

here's tonight's "word": charracctuaterturre.

here's the next one: jon stewart and stephen colbert. pardon the seam. my scanner's not big enough for me to scan these in one piece, so i have to patch the halves together in photoshop, and for some reason, i couldn't get the halves to blend together on this one. i'll have to see what i can do about that. when i'm a billionaire, i'll get me one o' them big scanners, and never have problems like this again. also, i'll have my servants do the scanning for me.

warning: disturbing image. but look at it anyway.

here's another finished one: frank zappa. i originally had something much different in mind for this, but when i sat down to start it, i realized i didn't have it fully conceived in my mind, and couldn't seem to visualize exactly where i was going to go with it, so i abandoned that idea and went with this one. anyone who doesn't understand this image, check out this zappa album cover:[url]http://intergalacticfunhouse.com/Weasels_Ripped_My_Flesh.jpg[/url].

comments, as always, welcome.

weird-lookin' chick with a funny name.

Finally! another one! i was originally planning to do these in the alphabetical order i did the original sketches in, but then... i didn't.

didn't change much, if anything, from the original sketch for this one. people seemed to like the sketch. hope you like the final as well. comments welcome.

uma thurman:

some flights of some conchords

wow, this one a month idea is really not panning out, is it? over halfway through april, here, finally, is post #2: flight of the conchords.

those of you (if there are any) who remember my sketch of these guys from the a to zed thread may recall that the pose was very static and dull. i wanted the final to be something funny, what with them being comedians and all. my original thought was to draw them as the two-headed creature from mel's drawring (fans of the show will know what i'm talking about). but i couldn't find any good reference for that image, so i had to come up with another gag. this was it. people more versed in drawring the human form will doubtless find myriad inaccuracies to pick apart here, and feel free to if you wish, but just know that... well, i don't care. i didn't want to put too much time or effort into anatomical accuracy, i just wanted it to be funny. hope you like it. let me know what you think.

can you believe she's still alive?

i think i've mentioned somewhere around here that my intention for 2009 was to take 12 of my unfinished sketches from the "a to zed" project of 2008, (for newcomers to this not-blog who aren't familiar with the a to zed project, search "a to zed" in the top left corner of this page) and finish up one a month, in traditional media (mostly coloured pencil). well, i don't know that the one-a-month plan is really gonna pan out now, what with it being near the end of february and my just having finished the first one!

anyway, here it is, amy winehouse. anyone who recalls my original sketch may recognize a few changes i've made in doing this up all nicey-like. a few likeness points, such as the shapes of the nose and mouth and adding the pouchiness of her cheeks, which i somehow missed out on the first time around. but the biggest, most noticeable change is the tattoos. in my sketch, i made all her tattoos show drug- and alcohol-related images. doing up the finished version, i didn't feel good about making fun of her addictions, but i still didn't want to just copy them directly from reality. i wanted to make them funny. hope i was reasonably successful at that. anyway, here it is, and all comments and critiques are welcome and appreciated.

thanx!

man alive, would ya look at the size o' that post!

my website, www.caricaturesbydon.com , hasn't been updated in a long time, due to reasons i won't go into here. but i did a lot of stuff in between the last time i updated it and the day i started this cartoonatorium. stuff that can't be seen anywhere on the intrawebs except various message boards i post on, and there, they're all scattered around and hard to find, should one happen to be looking for them. so i thought i'd post it all here in one big ol' post. this is mostly (all?) stuff i did between customers down at the waterfront during the summer of 2006. kick back and enjoy.

jack nicholson (one of my favourite things i've ever done).



eric clapton (not the guy from "house", thank you very much).



salvador dali.



john lennon.



david bowie (got into a kind of an experimental sort of a mood).



u2 (i'm not a u2, fan but this is also one of my favourite things i've ever done).



angelina jolie (mmmmmm.... angelina jolieeeeeee....).



the cast of seinfeld (yet another of my favourite things i've ever done. it was a good summer).



jimi hendrix (uhhh... yeah. jimi hendrix).



and the rolling stones ('cuz i hated my old rolling stones caricature more every time i looked at it).

trying to make up for my slacking

k, a few things today:

first, a sketch i'm not entirely 100% devoted to of reese witherspoon. it seems to me it's almost there, but something i can't quite place just isn't right...



secondly, i've done changes on both my white stripes (again) and my iggy pop. the change to jack white in the white stripes piece is pretty obvious, and on iggy i just made his forehead wider, as i started to feel that narrowing the forehead was unnecessary, and actually hurting the likeness. it's a small change, but i like it a lot more now.





and finally, the one i'm most excited about, my latest full-colour coloured pencil piece. now, last summer, i was at the halifax waterfront with my caricature stand set up just about every day, since i was in the middle of a layoff from my animation job at the time. and between customers, i was working on these coloured pencil works. well, this summer i was actually employed, so i didn't get down to the waterfront as often as i would have preferred. as a result, where last year i finished off some nine or ten new drawrings, this summer, i was only able to get one done. what a rip.

anyway, i like it, and i hope you do too.

indiana jones: