Got 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.

SO... by way of introduction, here are:
Week 6- "C" female- Carol Burnett
Week 7- "D" male- Don Cheadle
Week 8- "D" female- Zooey Deschanel
Week 9- "E" male- Enrico Colantoni
Week 10- "E female- Ellen DeGeneres
Week 11- "F" male- Forest Whitaker.

(They won't necessarily appear in that order below, but you can probably figure out which is which.)

Turns 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.

She creeps me out.

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

It's Lucy! I Like Lucy!

See how HE likes it!

My caricature sketch of "Weird Al" Yankovic, for the July caricature contest at ecaricatures.proboards.com. I realized too late that I had drawn his glasses crooked. By "too late" I mean, "after I had already not cared enough to fix it."

The O'Bribarian

It's Conan!

Do we have time for this one, Paul?

Here's my David Letterman sketch I did for the latest Wittygraphy contest. It was my suggestion, so I thought I ought to participate. Unfortunately, I really didn't have time to do as much with it as I would have liked. But at least I got one done.

contestin' it up.

jerry seinfeld, for the caricaturama showdown 3000 contest:



and salma hayek, for e-caricatures:



but i'm not 100% committed to either one of them.

I'M brian fellow!

i did this tracy morgan foe caricaturama showdown 3000, but stupid facebook, for some reason, wouldn't let me upload it to the group page. stupid facebook. oh well, i wouldn't have won anyway.

and now, because you demanded it: a caricature of some guy you've never heard of!

k, so my friend (don't tell her i called her that) caroline and i have gotten back into doing our lunchtime caricature challenge thingy. we agreed to pick a different theme each week (or something) and draw caricatures of people who fit into that theme. our first theme was people who are famous pretty much in halifax only (or "halifamous", as annoying reporters around here like to say). our first subject was a local comedian named mark little, from a comedy troupe called picnicface (though his stand-up stuff is, in my opinion, much funnier than the group's sketches). it's just a rough sketch, with no shading added or anything. here it is:

sketchy types.

i haven't been posting much new work lately, because i've been very busy with commissions and this temp job i've been at to help fill time between animation contracts. but every now and then, over the last couple of months, i've been taking ten or fifteen minutes to whip up some caricature sketches. i've been trying to go for celebrities of whom i've seldom, if ever, seen caricatured. i guess mainly because they're not exactly yer a-listers. all comments welcome and appreciated.
comedian brian regan:

cat deeley:

harry connick, jr.:

howie mandel:

folk-rock singer-songwriter josh ritter. again, this guy's not hugely famous, but he's become one of my all-time favourites. i highly recommend him to anyone who likes... say, bob dylan or cat stevens:

kyra sedgwick:

and nathan fillion:

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.

wwwwwwwwwowwwwwwww! that's a lot of doubleyous!

i just couldn't decide on one "w" male. there were too many i really wanted to do. i managed to narrow it down to four. it's been a busy couple of lunch hours these last few days.

first, you probably won't be able to comment on likeness on this one unless you have small children, or possibly, if you're just australian (elliot? do you still show your face around here these days?)

it's the wiggles:


second, one of my all-time favourite comedians, steven wright. i'm not quite sure what his look is these days, so i just went with his classic appearance:



third (i think my favourite of the bunch), eagles guitarist and seriously underappreciated solo artist, joe walsh:



and finally, because my friend ian practically begged me, down on bended knee and with tears brimming in his eyes, in a pretty pathetic display of emotion and desperation (read: "casually suggested it"), tom waits (though i'm afraid i don't feel i really brought much to this one that you've never seen in any other tom waits caricature) :


all comments welcome.

"baby mama" notwithstanding...

i just think tina fey is one of the funniest people in the business these days, and so when a friend of mine suggested i draw her as my "t" female, i jumped on the idea.

two more esses here, but just the one person.

sarah silverman. contrary to a lot of the jokes she makes about herself, this girl is not easy.

heh heh. i made a little double entendre joke there. heh heh.

this is the title of this post.

"s" male.

two guys, each with one name starting with an "s".

i had in mind a composition quite similar to this (albeit with colbert on our left), then discovered, while searching for photo references, that rolling stone magazine had beaten me to it. so i just copied theirs.

jon stewart and stephen colbert:

and now for something... well, pretty much the same, really. you know, more caricatures.

in the circumstances (i.e. i've been insanely busy these last few weeks; i'm trying to get caught up to where i should be on this project; i stupidly chose a group of six guys to do for this one), please understand my posting such a quick-looking, rough sketch. i know the composition is less than perfect, and if i'd thought about that before i just started drawing individual faces, i'd have had eric idle facing the other way. if i ever get around to making a nice, finished version of this (i would like to), i'll change that, or maybe the way the faces are arranged or something....

anyway, here's the "m" male, monty python:

famous american dramatic actor, hugh laurie!

i've been going through a bit of a bad run lately, missing likenesses on a lot of my recent posts. some by a little, some by a lot. i would like to go back and touch up the last few caricatures i've posted here (gwyneth, clooney, frida, the guy on the right from flight of the conchords...), correcting likenesses as well as i can, but in the meantime, i've moved on to the "h" male. "h" can be for "hugh" or "house", whichever you prefer. hopefully, i haven't completely missed the mark on this one.

"f" is for "foo da fa fa"

"f" male(s):
flight of the conchords.

'nuff said.

that guy from "popeye"...

what? you've never seen "popeye"? okay... how about "moscow on the hudson"?
no? uhhh... "jakob the liar?"
that one either, huh?
oh, i know: "club paradise"!
"bicentennial man"?
"man of the year"?
"toys"?
"the survivors"?
"being human"?
"nine months"?
"jack"?
"rv"?
"the best of times"?
"the final cut"?

...awww, whatever.

here's robin williams.

another rough sketch

this is just another rough sketch (hence, the post title). there's something about it i'm not 100% pleased with, but i can't quite identify what it is. if anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post them. i won't be offended. though i may still be a boligerant jerk about it, just for fun.

so for now, i'll just call this a work-in-progress, despite the unlikelihood that i'll ever get around to doing anything more with it.

ladies and gentlemen, chris rock.