two greatest obsessions, blah blah blah.

here's three more, but to be honest, i'm not solidly committed to any of them. all three seem a little off in likeness to me, but i can't quite seem to place why. so if anyone has any suggestions, i'm open to them.

henry ian cusick as desmond hume:


dominic monaghan as charlie pace:


emilie de ravin as claire littleton:

my two greatest obsessions... the continuing story.

i was liking my locke drawing less and less every time i looked at it, so i started over, this time scrapping the "gag" and the hack colour job and sticking instead with my usual pencil (tool) sketch style:

terry o'quinn as john locke:


and here are yunjin kim and daniel dae kim as sun and jin kwon:

my two greatest obsessions collide!

well, that drawring i did of locke got me wanting to try again on as many "lost" characters as i can. i drew a bunch of them a few years ago, and thought they were pretty good at the time. looking at them again now, i disagree with me. so i started over. here are the ones i have so far:

matthew fox as jack shephard:


evangeline lilly as kate austen:


josh holloway as james "sawyer" ford:


jorge garcia as hugo "hurley" reyes:


naveen andrews as sayid jarrah:

michael emerson as ben linus:

don't tell me who i can't re-draw!

i made some changes to my locke caricature, based on suggestions from some fellow caricaurists at the drawingboard.

DON'T TELL ME WHO I CAN'T DRAW!

for those who don't watch tv history's greatest television show, "LOST": 1. what's wrong with you? and 2. this is the brilliant terry o'quinn in his role as john locke. let me know what you think.

don't tell anyone i did a funny drawing of him.

i'm not sure it's actually legal to do a caricature of someone this massively respected. oh, well. it's what i do. i can't stop myself.

nelson mandela:

hee hee! he's got a funny name!

here's what i know about archbishop desmond tutu:

1. he's some kind of bishop. i think an arch one.

2. he's funny-looking.

that'll about do it.

streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

another month, another e-caricatures contest. this month, it's annual automatic oscar nominee meryl streep. i admittedly got kinda lazy on the hair. so sue me. except don't really.

he's a real heartbreaker.

haven't posted much lately. february got insanely busy at work. but now another layoff has officially begun (hooray for the animation industry!), so maybe i'll be slightly more productive in my caricatures for a while.

i was able to do this one up quickly, though. now, for those of you reading this who aren't artists, here's a little trick artists often use to check the accuracy of their work: flip it. that is, hold it up to a mirror, or, in the case of digital creations, all drawring programs have a "flip" function that allows you to see your drawring backwards. you'd be surprised how different it makes the artwork look. mistakes the artist hadn't previous noticed become immediately apparent...

don't do that with this drawring. i drew it very quickly (in flash), and, even though i didn't have time to fix any problems i might find, i tried flipping it anyway, out of curiosity. it looked hideous! i mean, it looked like a really, really bad caricature. it was weird. so don't do that. just look at it the way it is, because this way i'm actually rather happy with it. it's still not a great piece of work technically speaking, i guess, but i'm very pleased with the likeness.

anyway... here it is, for the e-caricatures monthly contest, tom petty:

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:

what's na'vi for "man, that indian chick is hot"?

these are my entries for two contests going this month:

wittygraphy's contest: bollywood actress aishwarya rai.


and e-caricatures' contest: pompous, self-aggrandizing film director james cameron.

evidently, "the f-word" is "forehead".

forgot i hadn't posted this here. it's my entry for december's e-caricatures contest, that loveable teddy bear, chef gordon ramsay. the kind of guy you can imagine nursing a baby bird with a broken wing back to health. then feeding it live to his cat. then eating his cat.



EDIT: so... turns out i won. cool.

it's calendarific!

k, so i'm a member of an online social networking thingy thing for caricatuists, called wittygraphy. and they took the twelve most popular caricatures of 2009 on the site, and turned them into a 2010 twelve-month calendar, published on lulu, the self-publishing website thingy thing. my amy winehouse was one of the caricatures selected. just in case anyone's interested in ordering a copy of the calendar (it's $19.95 + shipping), i thought i'd post a link to where you can do so. you can find that here. all proceeds go to Dominican Sisters Orphanage in Can Tho (Vietnam) for 17 children in great need. if that helps any to convince you. there are a lot of other really great caricatures in there too, some of them by some of my favourite caricaturists around, including ireland's niall o'loughlin and the disturbingly young william appledorn from the far-away, exotic land of the united states of the americas. i've ordered my copy! you should too! that way, you can be like me, and what could you want more than that?

other people who also ace faces

over the last five or six years, i've been a regular poster on several caricaturist message boards. some of them are now extinct, but a couple (most notably the drawing board and e-caricatures) are still going strong. one of things we often do on these boards is post our own photos so we can draw caricatures of each other. i thought i'd post on here (since i haven't had much time for new artwork lately) some of my favourites of the ones i've drawn over the years. some of these are several years old, some rather more recent; some are digital, some are pencil-on-paper; and some clearly have more time and effort put into them than others. nothing personal.

hope you like them.

alison (i don't know her last name):



ewan mactavish (sorry if i've spelled the name wrong):


chris marie (all the reference photos she posted showed her in low-cut shirts):


a guy who posts under the screen name maester:


a guy who posts under the screen name stilltoon:


william appledorn:


sagan lacey:


chris neuenschwander:


gord macdonald:


juanjo baron:


kaya (i don't know her last name either-- i thought this looked like her, but i'm not sure she agreed. maybe if i were to meet her face-to-face i'd draw her differently):


chris wahl (who drew my favourite of all the ones that have been done of me):


mike hasson:


a guy who posts (or used to) under the name neo noaide:


simon, whose last name i don't remember:


frank zieglar:

people are actually following me!

look at that, i officially have one quarter of a hundred "followers" on the cartoonatorium! woo-hoo! thanks to those who have signed up, and for those who haven't.... it's easy! go ahead, try it!

sorry there hasn't been any artwork posted in a few weeks. busy busy busy. soon, hopefully.

thanks again!

oh yeah, so...

here are the identities of the people in my previous post, for anyone who couldn't tell, and cared:

marty feldman
bruce lee
jeff probst
billy joel
nancy grace
marc singer
anthony stewart head
billy bob thornton
kristen schall
gwen stefani.

bunch of pencil (tool) sketches

hey. been back to work at an animation studio since late august, after an eight-month layoff. more than the work, what i really missed was getting my lunch breaks to do some celebrity caricatures in sketchbook pro. so i've been doing some here and there wherever i can get time. for no apparent reason, i decided with these ones to (1) do them all using only the pencil tool, and (2) hold onto them until i had a big batch i could post all at once. so here they are. they range, in terms of their degrees of fame, from pretty obscure to famous enough that they should be easily recognizable if i've done them right. so see if you can tell who they are. if anyone can guess all ten of them... well, there's no prize, but i'll be fairly impressed, i promise.

it seems she kised this girl, right? and then, uh... yeah, i guess she liked it or something.

a very quick (as i'm sure you can tell) katy perry for this month's contest at e-carictures.

sing along if you know the words: baaaarrrrrump dumpdaadump, badump, daadump, barrump dumpdaadump, badump, daadump...

alfred hitchcock, for the e-caricatures monthly contest. i was trying really hard to find different things to exaggerate than every other caricature i've seen of him... it didn't work. so i threw in the blood spatter just to try to make it different. looking at it again, though, i'm not sure i like it. it's kinda distracting. oh, well. it's just a sketch. i think i might like to take this one further one day, and if i do, i'll decide then what to do with it to separate it from the others.