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.)

Robin Hood, Prince of Sweeping, Flowing Hairstyles

A to Zed 2014, Week 5: "C" male: Kevin Costner (as Robin Hood). Back when I first watched Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, I thought the only laughable thing about Costner as Robin Hood was his pathetic and eventually abandoned attempt at a British accent. Looking at the photos again now, I realize his hair was also hilarious.

I 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.

Week 4: "B" female: Christine Baranski.

I think I just broke bad. Except I don't really know what that means.

A to Zed 2014, week 3: B male: Bryan Cranston. It seemed like just about every other caricaturist online had a caricature of this guy, so I thought I'd try him out too.

Her freakishly huge, wide-set eyes led me to believe she'd be easier to caricature!

A to Zed 2014, week 2: A female: Amanda Seyfried. I put a little more effort into the rendering on this one (though it's still far from what I would call a finished piece), but unfortunately, in all the fussing with it, I think I lost the likeness.

A 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.

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.

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.

Week 1: A male: Alan Arkin.

The 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.

Done in Sketchbook Pro.

This is a caricature sketch of Helen Mirren. I have no joke title for that.

Here's a caricature sketch I just did of Helen Mirren.

This 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.

This 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!

Okay, then here are a couple of Sketchbook Pro sketches I've done recently:

Penn and/or Teller:

and Drew Barrymore:

I thought about just using a white silhouette on a light blue background.

The latest caricature contest at E-Caricatures is Mark Zuckerberg, with the added rule that this month, we must post rough sketches only.

Here's mine.

Faces for Radio

Q104, 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.

 They had me re-draw this one many times! This was not the final, but it was the one I felt looked the most like her.

I just call him "sti" for short.

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.


Done in Sketchbook Pro.

Comments and critiques welcome.

How creepy can he really be when his first name is Bela?

Here's my caricature sketch of Bela Lugosi. He was an actor. A long time ago. Played Dracula, the most famous undead dude in history. Now he's dead.

This was for this month's E-Caricatures challenge.

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.

Rosannabannabingbong

The theme of this month's contest at E-Caricatures is Pulp Fiction. I chose to draw Rosanna Arquette, simply because I think she has a great face for caricature and I don't recall ever having seen one of her before. Now, I've never seen Pulp Fiction (Please don't say, "WHAT?! You've never seen Pulp Fiction?!" That has long since become very tired.), but I'm guessing Rosanna plays some kind of weird character.

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.

These are the fascinating stories caricaturists tell.

Just in case anyone evr looks here anymore...

I've been working on this one for some time, in little bits and pieces during short breaks from working. Finally finished it today. Let me know what you think.

Done in Flash and Sketchbook Pro.

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."

Adele.... Yeah, I have no joke title here. Just Adele.

Look, I know very little about her, despite not being able to turn on a TV, radio or computer or open a newspaper or magazine without hearing/ seeing her name. I just know that I'm not a fan, and that she's got a good face for caricature.

So.... here it is. It's Adele.

Unnamed celebrities for unnamed project

These are a bunch of caricatures I drew in Flash for an Android app I recently worked on, which I've mentioned on this not-blog before, but which I've now been asked not to mention in association with these caricatures, because apparently one of the levels of said app, for which many of these were drawn, has not actually been released yet.

I really enjoyed doing this. I had to simplify my usual style somewhat, since these appear very small on the Android screen. The best thing about it was that most of the people I was asked to draw were people I've never drawn before. Or at least, not to my satisfaction. And admittedly, there are a few I'm still not completely happy with (why can I not get Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie quite right?!)